BY DRS SAMUEL NGUKU AND KHALID MAKHDOMI Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) PET-CT scan is the latest and most advanced scan available for the evaluation of patients with prostate cancer. It has been available for only a few years in the most advanced centres in the world. It is presently only available in a few centres in Africa, and has not been available in our region until now. Though MRI and CT scans have been available for long for study of prostate cancer by providing anatomical (structural) information, the PET-CT scan is able to provide vital additional functional or molecular…
Author: Nairobi Business Monthly Reporter
By David Wanjala There was a huge sigh of relief when Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation (KDIC) recently raised deposit insurance coverage from Sh100, 000 to Sh500, 000 in a bid to protect depositors while trying to entrench the culture of saving in financial institutions. In the past, depositors have not been able to recover their deposits in half, leave alone in full, in an event a bank collapses. From 2015 to 2016 things were not that rosy. Chase Bank, Dubai Bank and Imperial Bank are good examples of how lenders can turn things inside out and back to front. The…
BY NDUNG’U WAINAINA There is a dire need for establishment of an independent Single Treasury account for all COVID-19 funds and its governing framework to ensure financial transparency, accountability and probity in utilization of the Covid19 funds. The Single Treasury Account to be managed jointly between the National Treasury, Central Bank of Kenya and Council of Governors should ensure the office of Auditor General has full access and shall publish a daily Treasury Statement for COVID-19 funds outlining all inflows, including its source, and outflows to a properly identified level of government ministry, department and or agency (MDA). All names…
BY CYNTHIA WAIRIMU Dearies beloved! Despite the pandemic that is Covid-19, 2020 has proved that people will get creative and innovative despite the challenge to give up and crawl into a ball of fear and doubt. There is indeed a new trend, not so new if we get technical, coloured eyelashes have been around a good couple of years, but it is now just becoming trendy. Will it stay or will it fade away? That depends. I must, however, say, this one might pick for a year or two tops. As we are still on it though, let us discuss…
An account of the sacrifices that women had to make to ensure children were fed, farms tilled and the fighters taken care of in the forest. That these sacrifices are glossed over in most of the accounts of the Mau Mau period is unfortunate This book is a record of the freedom struggle in Kenya. Unlike many accounts of the freedom struggle by many writers, this one focuses more on the suffering and participation of women in the struggle. Imagine for a minute what would have become of the freedom struggle if the fighters in the forest were not facilitated…
BY JACOB OKETCH S ometimes it takes a very long journey for an alcoholic to get to sobriety. There are people out there who have been to hell and back. One thing is clear though; no matter how much one is entangled with alcoholism, there is always an opening for an escape. In some cases, an alcoholic’s experience is what sets them up with a moment of breakthrough. The story of Fanuel is so trying that one would not have expected him to get relief from alcoholism. And he was not just using alcohol. He was also smoking bhang, chewing…
BY BRENDA VIOLA Life has a way of giving us both the high and lows, a necessary balance. It took me long enough, but I finally understood it, rather, I accepted it. The word understood implies that I somewhat trusted the ‘process’. I didn’t, accepting seemed less trivial than trying to see the bigger picture. It is only natural to prefer the highs to the lows, like when my sister tied the knot to her happily ever after, or when I got to experience the adventure I had longed for since as long as I could remember. The memory of…
As we wade through the pandemic-stricken 2020 cutting through May, the month of workers and their welfare, one may wonder just how the creative, diligent, towering and legendary trade unionist, Joseph Thomas Mboya would have handled the ensuing labour anxiety BY GAD WESONGA Historical accounts captured an incident in 1951 when a European woman in then colonial Kenya walked into an office for service, found an African young man and posed: “Is there anybody here?” to which the cheeky African retorted: “Is there something wrong with your eyes?” The young African quoted above was Joseph Thomas Mboya, then a Sanitary…
According to the National Housing Corporation (NHC), the housing deficit stands at 2m and has been growing annually by approximately 200,000 units. The Government introduced ‘Provision of affordable housing’ in 2017 as one of its four key pillars for the following five years with the aim of delivering 500,000 units to alleviate the housing crisis. Three years later, it has only delivered approximately 228 housing units, an indicator that the target units might just be a pipe dream. The slow momentum is largely attributable to unavailability of financing for developers and buyers alike. To alleviate the housing issue, the Government…
Businesses will need to adjust their operations to selling less than before, or selling to larger numbers of people with lower incomes BY CLEMENT CHINAKA In Africa, reactions to the onset of Covid-19 have been varied, from full lockdowns in most of Southern Africa, regional lockdowns in some West African countries and just social distancing and nighttime curfews in some countries. Official statistics suggest that most of Africa has managed to keep infections levels relatively low, so far. As a result of the different responses, the economic impact has also been varied across the continent, but due to the impact…