Articles by Eric Ndubi
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02 Jun 2017 
NDUBI: The huge opportunity Uhuru lost on Madaraka Day
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 expectations. Top among them, as it has emerged, w...
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26 May 2017 
HIV PrEP: A tale of a discordant couple’s rejuvenated love life
The countrywide roll-out of the HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) drug has gifted discordant couples a much-needed new lease of life. According to the head of National Aids and STI Control Progra...
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22 May 2017 
NDUBI: Will the real Independents please stand up!
Will the real Independents please stand up? I repeat, can the truly independent candidates really stand up? We are definitely going to have a problem figuring out who they are in this election e...
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20 May 2017 
Anti-HIV pill no license to ‘sexual exploration’, warns gov’t
The government has dismissed fears that the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug it launched this month could be abused. The National AIDS & STI Control Programme (Nascop) has come out to d...
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18 May 2017 
PrEP demystified: Is the daily HIV pill meant for you?
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 country. PrEP means taking a drug before you ar...
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14 May 2017 
Gikomba 101: How to avoid being ripped off by mitumba sellers
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 without much effort guessed that I am a proud consum...
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10 May 2017 Five things to know about new pill for HIV-negative people
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 contracting the virus. The Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (abbr...
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26 Apr 2017 
Raila’s brother, Midiwo defeated in ODM primaries
Nominated Member of Parliament Oburu Odinga may find himself out of elective politics this year after losing Orange Democratic Movement’s (ODM) Bondo Constituency ticket to incumbent MP Gideon Ochan...
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NDUBI: Kenneth vs Sonko: A tale of two brothers fighting over a wife
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 hotly contested presidential election. Steering t...
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25 Apr 2017 
Why Kirinyaga Governor Ndathi did not vote for himself in Jubilee Primaries
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 primaries. Addressing journalists on Tuesday April 2...
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26 killed, several injured after head-on crash in Kibwezi
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 morning. Confirming the incident, Kibwezi police boss...
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29 Mar 2017 
NDUBI: How President Kenyatta has built Governor Joho’s political stature
Succès de scandale (French for "success from scandal") is a term for success credited to notoriety or a thing's scandalous nature. Largely associated with artistic work whose success is attribute...
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14 Mar 2017 
Kenya moving from traditional predictive analogy to app-based opinion polling
Imagine a real-time opinion polling system that aggregates sentiment and lets users compare data on one screen right from the comfort of your smartphone. Well, with the astounding failure of ‘tra...
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08 Mar 2017 
UN boss calls out male chauvinists as world marks Women’s Day
To achieve gender equality throughout the world, male chauvinism must be defeated. This is according to the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, who insists a largely patriarchal so...
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22 Feb 2017 
Jubilee accuses opposition of planning to disorganize its nominations
The Jubilee Party has defended its decision to have the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) conduct its party primaries. During a press conference on Wednesday, February 22, he...
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09 Feb 2017 
Jubilee’s Wekesa admits Uganda voter importation ongoing
Former Jubilee Party steering committee co-chairman, Noah Wekesa, has admitted claims that Ugandans are being registered as voters are indeed true. Speaking during Citizen TV’s Power Breakfast s...
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24 Jan 2017 
Opposition only talking about violence – Uhuru
President Uhuru Kenyatta has told opposition leaders to stop issuing threats of violence aimed at intimidating and blackmailing Kenyans as the country heads to the ballot. The President said Kenyan...
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11 Jan 2017 
Mass action after voter registration definite – Opposition
Opposition leaders have once again threatened to resume mass protests against the recently passed amendments to the Election Laws (Amendment) Act, 2015 that allowed for a manual backup system of vote...
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A rare show of might as opposition unite in bid to dethrone Jubilee
Five opposition parties on Wednesday resolved to rally behind one presidential candidate in a bold attempt to dethrone the ruling Jubilee Party. In what is arguably the most decisive move yet by th...
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05 Jan 2017 
TRAGIC! Death toll in grisly Nyakach accident hits 14 as 3 more die
The number of people killed following a grisly road accident along Katito-Pap Onditi road has risen to 14 after three more people died while undergoing treatment at the Nyabondo Mission Hospital in Ki...