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Rethink storey buildings' design verification

Nairobi, Nov. 12 -- On Tuesday, I was in an auditorium at Barabara House, the headquarters of the Kenya National Highways Authority, in the company of a distinguished gathering of engineers who spent ... Read More


The real Treasury's single account shift test

Nairobi, Nov. 5 -- Hardly a public statement by President William Ruto or Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi ends without a boast that Kenya has, for the first time, implemented a Treasury Single A... Read More


Financing lessons from Talanta Sports City

Nairobi, Oct. 29 -- To focus solely on the shiny, state-of-the-art architecture of Nairobi's Talanta Sports City is to miss the far grander story unfolding behind the scenes. The real triumph of Talan... Read More


Dangote's KPC stake and the fight ahead

Nairobi, Oct. 22 -- When I met Dr Kenne Belgrade, the emerging dealmaker who closed the $300 million block transaction transferring a 24.7 percent stake in Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) to the Dangote ... Read More


Preserve Raila's Kisumu molasses dream

Nairobi, Oct. 15 -- As we honoured the late Raila Odinga on Thusday, one question kept returning to my mind: Is this the end of the road for the Kisumu Molasses plant and for his grand plan of asset r... Read More


How Kenya can protect sugar sector

Nairobi, Oct. 8 -- I attended an event in Nairobi on Thursday convened by the Kenya Sugar Board and billed as a "consultative stakeholder meeting" on the availability and use of locally refined white ... Read More


Dangote refinery puts Kenya's oil in focus

Nairobi, Oct. 1 -- Five African heads of state were on parade this week at the groundbreaking of the Lamu-based Dangote East Africa Refineries. Their presence underlined the pan-African ambition and g... Read More


Kenya's big transparency problem

Nairobi, Sept. 24 -- We are in the middle of a raging debate about the role and powers of the Office of the Controller of Budget-the gatekeeper of the public purse-following remarks by its current hol... Read More


Public participation: Beyond the tick-box

Nairobi, Sept. 17 -- There are major jitters in the market as investors continue to digest Tuesday's High Court ruling nullifying the government's sale of a 15 percent stake in Safaricom to Vodacom. ... Read More


Public participation: The policy paradox

Nairobi, Sept. 17 -- There are major jitters in the market as investors continue to digest Tuesday's High Court ruling nullifying the government's sale of a 15 percent stake in Safaricom to Vodacom. ... Read More