BY BRENDA VIOLA I will love you forever, or, best friends forever. If you really sit and think about the weight of the words then you’d understand how it’s all a hoax. Not intentionally uttered lies but lies all the same. And so, it became the norm. They’d always come and go after figuring out how the other was better than the present. I grew accustomed to that. Growing up, I had this friend called Rita. I loved her, granted that I only interpreted love as any child would, which in essence is the purest form. Rita and I were…
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BY JACOB OKETCH Today is a Sunday and I have been thinking about the essence of service in our community. I have been thinking about the centrality of service to a recovering alcoholic. Indeed, it is humbling to see how a sense of service transforms an alcoholic into a servant whose personal interest is subservient to their vision. When you are drinking, everything you do revolve around you. You don’t care about others and every effort is geared towards achieving your one and most important goal, having fun. This, in most cases, alienates one from those close to them and…
Now that nearly three billion people around the globe are under COVID-19 lockdown, victims will be confined for longer periods of time with perpetrators, increasing the risk of harm BY DR HEATHER D. FLOWE Worldwide, one in three women suffer violence within their lifetime according to the World Health Organization. Now that nearly three billion people around the globe are under COVID-19 lockdown, victims will be confined for longer periods of time with perpetrators, increasing the risk of harm, including physical injury, emotional and verbal abuse, and even death. Social and economic inequalities magnify this vulnerability. People in low…
BY JACOB OKETCH Prof Ken Walibora was interred at his rural home in Trans Nzoia County last month after dying in the most tragic of circumstances on Nairobi’s Landhies road when he was knocked down by a speeding matatu on April 10. I have been compelled to pen a piece about him, rising from the fact that I knew him closely having been classmates at the University of Nairobi at the department of literature. I fondly remember our lecturers in those days. Our poetry classes were under the tutelage of the late Alex Okwalo Teyie. Prof. Henry Indangasi taught us…
The corporate foundation of the news and information services company has launched a virtual training, knowledge-sharing and network-building hub for journalists covering the global COVID-19 pandemic. The Hub, initially bringing together reporters from English-speaking African nations, will focus on facilitating access to accurate and trusted information through a series of online seminars and working sessions, as well as scaling professional journalism expertise through training and mentoring courses. Journalists will be equipped with the core skills and information they need to report on the global pandemic and connected with key experts and other reporters who have been covering the crisis in…
BY ANTONY MUTUNGA Social distancing and staying at home have become the new norm for most in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has not only seen hygiene take centre stage around world but has also elicited the argument on whether it is time to fully adopt a cashless society? The pandemic has seen the use of physical cash reduce especially in developed countries. As customers make the shift to rely on plastic money, businesses that had already adopted cashless transactions are soaring as compared to those whose only mode of transaction is by way of hard cash. With…
EY, SAP, and Qualtrics have announced a collaboration to provide resources to governments around the world as they battle the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic. These Qualtrics® and SAP® solutions will be implemented by EY and include tools to help governments pre-screen and route potential COVID-19 patients, support healthcare workers, and manage the flow of information and resources to their citizens. To help manage the impact of the pandemic, EY, SAP, and Qualtrics have collaborated on providing agencies with a comprehensive set of services and solutions to meet the initial urgent and critical needs of governments, globally. These offerings are helping…
BY OLUKAYODE KOLAWOLE The advent of the novel coronavirus disease, also known as COVID-19 seems to have destabilized our social norms and behaviour. Nigeria, like all other countries of the world where this pandemic has visited, has responded by both treating the people who have contracted the disease and putting some preventive measures in place to minimize the rate to which her citizens get infected. Some of the measures the government has put in place to forestall transmission of the virus include the restriction on movement, closure of schools, ordering some cadres of the employees to stay home for some…
Banking Trojans or ‘bankers’ are one of the most widespread tools for cybercriminals as they focus on stealing money In 2019, 773,943 users of Kaspersky solutions globally were attacked by banking Trojans. Of those users, a third (35.1%) were in the corporate sector. African countries were affected too: almost every hundredth user (varying from 0,9 to 1%) in South Africa, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Kenya was attacked by banking Trojans at least once during the past year, yet the share of affected corporate users varied greatly in these countries according to Kaspersky’s 2019 analysis of the financial threat landscape. Banking Trojans…
Unprecedented and highly volatile global conditions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic are driving high-net-worth individuals to reassess the concept of secure investment value and how best to safeguard their families and their wealth against future shocks. According to the latest Knigth Frank report, the investment portfolio of an ultra-high-net-worth individual comprises of 27% real estate investment, which is also the largest portion of the portfolio. Over the last decade, foreign real estate investors have abandoned further development plans in Kenya, and in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic investors are exiting altogether — causing local investors to look to European…