Articles by Eric Ndubi

Gikomba 101: How to avoid being ripped off by mitumba sellers

1730, January 11, 2019 (EAT)

What I hate more than being swindled by a casually dressed tour operator is being ripped off by a sweet-talking hawker. That said you might have wi...

Barely two hours before the August 18 midnight deadline, Nasa lawyers arrive at the Supreme Court ...

Nasa beats midnight deadline, files 20,000-page petition – What We Know

258, August 19, 2017 (EAT)

The National Super Alliance (Nasa) has filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging IEBC’s declaration of President Uhuru Kenyatta as winner of...

LIVE Blog: Uhuru skips #DebatesKE as Raila takes the stage

2221, July 24, 2017 (EAT)

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday, July 24, skipped the much-anticipated Presidential Debate 2017 organised by Debates Media Limited as Nasa Preside...

What Kenyan Facebook users want addressed by presidential candidates

2215, July 24, 2017 (EAT)

Facebook has released data on the top conversations Kenyans are having on the social media platform as the August 8th General Election nears. Stati...

The Grand face-off: Presidential Debate on 360 LIVE

1837, July 24, 2017 (EAT)

Happening now: Three Presidential hopefuls; Dr Ekuru Aukot (Thirdway Alliance), Prof Michael Wainaina (Independent) and Japhet Kaluyu (Independent),...

#BALLOT2017: What you should know about voting, counting, results transmission

1838, July 12, 2017 (EAT)

During the March 4, 2013, election, only 17,000 out of 33,000 polling stations managed to transmit provisional results using the then Electronic Resul...

Civil servants gifted hefty pay rise in new deal

1143, June 28, 2017 (EAT)

Civil servants are set to receive a 16-30 per cent pay increase effective July 1, 2017 in a new deal with the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Ge...

NDUBI: The huge opportunity Uhuru lost on Madaraka Day

1224, June 3, 2017 (EAT)

When President Uhuru Kenyatta took to the podium on June 1, 2017 to address the nation in the 54th Madaraka Day celebrations, Kenyans had a lot of exp...

Daily antiretroviral pill, Truvada, used for PrEP, is only for HIV-negative people who are at ...

HIV PrEP: A tale of a discordant couple’s rejuvenated love life

1730, May 26, 2017 (EAT)

The countrywide roll-out of the HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) drug has gifted discordant couples a much-needed new lease of life. According t...

On August 8, Kenyans go to the ballot to choose their leaders for the next 5 years ...

NDUBI: Will the real Independents please stand up!

1416, May 23, 2017 (EAT)

Will the real Independents please stand up? I repeat, can the truly independent candidates really stand up? We are definitely going to have a pr...

Anti-HIV pill no license to ‘sexual exploration’, warns gov’t

2039, May 20, 2017 (EAT)

The government has dismissed fears that the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug it launched this month could be abused. The National AIDS &...

Daily antiretroviral pill, PrEP, is only for HIV-negative people who are at an on-going risk ...

PrEP demystified: Is the daily HIV pill meant for you?

1744, June 15, 2017 (EAT)

The adoption of the HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) pill by Kenya earlier this month has heralded a new dawn in the fight against HIV/Aids in the ...

Five things to know about new pill for HIV-negative people

1022, May 11, 2017 (EAT)

On Thursday, May 4, Kenya became the second African country after South Africa to roll out a daily pill to protect HIV negative people from contractin...

Raila’s brother, Midiwo defeated in ODM primaries⁠⁠⁠⁠

1043, April 26, 2017 (EAT)

Nominated Member of Parliament Oburu Odinga may find himself out of elective politics this year after losing Orange Democratic Movement’s (ODM) Bond...

On Wednesday, April 26, Peter Kenneth and Mike Sonko face off in one of the most ...

NDUBI: Kenneth vs Sonko: A tale of two brothers fighting over a wife

1050, April 26, 2017 (EAT)

In 2013, a section of possibly ‘forward-thinking’ Kenyans was infatuated by the idea of a third force against the obvious two-horse race in the ho...

Why Kirinyaga Governor Ndathi did not vote for himself in Jubilee Primaries

1047, April 26, 2017 (EAT)

In an interesting turn of events, Kirinyaga Governor Joseph Ndathi has revealed that he didn’t manage to vote for himself in the ongoing party prima...

At least 23 dead, several injured in Mombasa-Nairobi highway crash

26 killed, several injured after head-on crash in Kibwezi

819, April 26, 2017 (EAT)

At least 26 people were killed and scores injured when a Mombasa-bound bus collided head-on with a tanker along Nairobi-Mombasa highway Tuesday mornin...

A fierce critic of the Uhuru Kenyatta-led government, Governor Hassan Ali Joho has not run ...

NDUBI: How President Kenyatta has built Governor Joho’s political stature

1316, March 29, 2017 (EAT)

Succès de scandale (French for "success from scandal") is a term for success credited to notoriety or a thing's scandalous nature. Largely associ...

Kenya moving from traditional predictive analogy to app-based opinion polling

1010, March 14, 2017 (EAT)

Imagine a real-time opinion polling system that aggregates sentiment and lets users compare data on one screen right from the comfort of your smartpho...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres

UN boss calls out male chauvinists as world marks Women’s Day

1332, March 9, 2017 (EAT)

To achieve gender equality throughout the world, male chauvinism must be defeated. This is according to the United Nations Secretary General, Anton...