Articles by Eric Ndubi
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13 Oct 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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19 Aug 2017 
Nasa beats midnight deadline, files 20,000-page petition – What We Know
The National Super Alliance (Nasa) has filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging IEBC’s declaration of President Uhuru Kenyatta as winner of the 2017 presidential election. After keeping ...
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24 Jul 2017 
LIVE Blog: Uhuru skips #DebatesKE as Raila takes the stage
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday, July 24, skipped the much-anticipated Presidential Debate 2017 organised by Debates Media Limited as Nasa Presidential candidate Raila Odinga took alone to the pod...
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What Kenyan Facebook users want addressed by presidential candidates
Facebook has released data on the top conversations Kenyans are having on the social media platform as the August 8th General Election nears. Statistics from the platform which according to Faceboo...
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The Grand face-off: Presidential Debate on 360 LIVE
Happening now: Three Presidential hopefuls; Dr Ekuru Aukot (Thirdway Alliance), Prof Michael Wainaina (Independent) and Japhet Kaluyu (Independent), battle it out to sell their vision for the count...
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12 Jul 2017 
#BALLOT2017: What you should know about voting, counting, results transmission
During the March 4, 2013, election, only 17,000 out of 33,000 polling stations managed to transmit provisional results using the then Electronic Results Transmission and Presentation (RTS) system. ...
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28 Jun 2017 
Civil servants gifted hefty pay rise in new deal
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 Gender Affairs. The Collective Bargaining Agreeme...
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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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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...