GE (NYSE: GE) and Africa’s leading cement producer Dangote Cement have signed an agreement to deploy GE’s Asset Performance Management (APM) digital solution to reduce unplanned downtime and enhance performance at its two cement plants in Obajana and Ibese, Nigeria. The project includes extending the current service agreement for an additional 50,000 operating hours for the seven GE LM6000PC aeroderivative gas turbines installed at the sites. GE’s total plant solutions will improve efficiency, reliability essential to continuous operations and the plants’ business strategy. “Power supply is both a key input and a major cost in our manufacturing process,” said Ravi Sood,…
Author: Nairobi Business Monthly Reporter
Bolt, the ride-hailing platform once known as Taxify, has stated plans of expanding further than the eight cosmopolitans of the country that it already operates in. According to Kenneth Micah, Bolt general manager for East Africa, the company is happy with the performance of the app in Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru, Kisumu, Eldoret, Naivasha, Kakamega and Thika and as such is looking at the possibility of moving into other towns brimming with potential. The company looks to add more towns by Christmas in order to capitalize on the festive season. “I cannot emphasize enough the importance of the Kenyan market to…
As the Chiromo Lane Medical Centre (CLMC) conducted a mental health awareness campaign last month, one message was clear – ignore family and mental health at your own peril. The hospital is ready to help families resolve every single psychological health disorder that affects one in every four people worldwide as per statistics by World Health Organization. Adrian Adagi, a digital strategist for the medical centre, said when someone is going through poor mental health, only the people closest to him or her are able to notice the quickest. Assuring that if people are going to be in charge while…
Public and private financial institutions are not responding adequately to meet global energy goals as finance, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, remains drastically below levels needed to deliver universal access according to new Energizing Finance research released mid October by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL). The Energizing Finance report series, now in its third year, has tracked finance flows across developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia with the largest energy access deficits – that together represent nearly 80% of those living without access to electricity and clean cooking. The new data shows urgent, substantial action and investment is needed to meet Sustainable…
A court has suspended the appointment of former Othaya MP Mary Wambui to the National Employment Authority following a petition by the Kenya Young Parliamentarians Association. The association of young parliamentarian had argued that Ms Wambui, designated to chair the board of the authority, does not qualify under the law, policy and best practice. Appointed through a Gazette notice of October 14, 2019, Ms Wambui, 69, sounded upbeat despite the mixed reaction her appointment caused across sections of the Kenyan society. “I got the post because I am better than those complaining. I have the qualifications and experience to run…
BY CYNTHIA WAIRIMU Everything on and in our bodies has its role, hair and nails included, dead as they may be. When it comes to hair, it has long been debated on whether or not it should be removed. Whatever reservations one holds, it is entirely a personal choice what one does with their hair. Often times, people trim or cut their hair for aesthetic reasons and also for comfort. For instance, a lady spotting facial hair along her top lip may want to shave it off so it does not look like a moustache. There are different methods of…
By Estelle Maussion Attacked from all sides by his successor, the former Angolan head of state José Eduardo dos Santos has had a hard time living through the fall of his family empire. But his heirs did not admit defeat so readily. It’s mid-June in Barcelona. On the sofa in the living room, José Eduardo dos Santos plays cards with his grandchildren. Published on Instagram by his daughter, Isabel, the photo gives an insight into the daily life of the man who ruled Angola from 1979 to 2017, before passing the reins to João Lourenço. It shows a happy and…
BY DRs. NATH ARWA AND KATU MUTUNGI At one point in your life you may have used medication. Did you stop to think whether that medicine was safe for you to use? Did you question the choice? Were you asked if you have an allergy? Were you told how to store the medication? These among other considerations are some discussion points that you should have with your pharmacist before taking any medication. It is essential to ensure medication safety, a freedom from preventable harm with medication use. It is important to involve patients in decisions about their medicines as this…
His death is no tragedy; his life, ultimately, was. BY Simon Allison “I have died many times — that’s where I have beaten Christ. Christ died once and resurrected once.” Robert Mugabe, on his 88th birthday. Almost as long as there has been an independent Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe has presided over it. Thirty-seven years in charge. It wasn’t all bad. But it was mostly bad, and the history books that he loved to read will judge him harshly. He was, from the very beginning, an enigma: a jumble of contradictions that somehow fuelled rather than felled him. He was the…
SWIFT is expanding options for customers moving to the cloud, announcing today both an initiative to smooth their migration to large public cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google Cloud, as well as the next generation of SWIFT’s own private cloud platform. SWIFT already has a proof of concept in place with Microsoft, building on work that started last year with the technology company’s treasury operations establishing a prototype SWIFT connection on Microsoft Azure and the successful testing of payment transactions. Under the new Cloud Connect initiative SWIFT will develop network architecture and automation templates for customers to ease deployment…