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Kenya must stamp out trans fats to save lives and cut healthcare costs

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of mortality worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

By Rose Nabwire 2025-04-28 13:24:39

Kenya must stamp out trans fats to save lives and cut healthcare costs

The national government would not matter much if devolution delivered

By Dennis Kabaara 2025-04-28 06:00:00

Ruto is justified to 'look West' and 'East' at the same time

So, with debt obligations falling due, coupled with diminishing revenue collections and a populace that is restless and hungry for service delivery, we must grapple with robbing Peter to pay Paul.

By Kidi Mwaga 2025-04-28 06:00:00

Strategies that can move Kenya's higher education sector forward

The factors that attract students to a given college include excellent teaching and research, good facilities, affordability of courses, career prospects, inclusivity and security.

By Billow Khalid 2025-04-28 00:00:00

Strategies that can move Kenya's higher education sector forward

Government urgently needs to ramp up disability awareness

There must be massive and intentional efforts to combat stereotypes, prejudices and harmful practices relating to persons with disabilities, including in rural and remote communities

By Elizabeth Ombati 2025-04-27 17:39:40

Government urgently needs to ramp up disability awareness

Public Service suffering a plague of integrity

Moral decay now pervades our government, as widespread as it is alarming, and it is eating away at the trust that holds our nation together.

By Mohamed Tache Dida 2025-04-27 13:37:27

Public Service suffering a plague of integrity

Why Kenya lacks initiative to push through projects

Look at any large government investment and it is bound to have the soiled fingerprints of some functionary representing interests of some people in high places.

By Mutahi Mureithi 2025-04-27 13:17:23

Why Kenya lacks initiative to push through projects

Our universities should rethink their model

For years, higher learning institutions have been so focused on offering academic programmes with little to no care about student life balance.

By Yvonne Kageha 2025-04-27 13:00:08

Our universities should rethink their model

Gachagua's history is a liability despite his political acumen

Gachagua is a political bulldozer, which enabled him defy the usual political trajectory and become Deputy President after serving only one term as MP.

By Mike Nyagwoka 2025-04-27 12:43:51

Gachagua's history is a liability despite his political acumen

Kenya's small ideas that could turn into sustainable realities

Every entrepreneurial idea we nurture has the potential to change lives.

By Isaac Kalua Green 2025-04-27 12:19:48

Kenya's small ideas that could turn into sustainable realities

When we politicise teachers' jobs we weaken pillars of governance

Today, recruitment of teachers has been hijacked by politicians who seek to use job opportunities as instruments of political reward and punishment.

By Gitobu Imanyara 2025-04-27 12:04:19

When we politicise teachers' jobs we weaken pillars of governance

Kenyans must learn to ask the hard questions to grow in justice, truth

A good question delays injustice, interrupts corruption and denies oppression the comfort of fluency. It forces systems to pause — to explain, to account, or at least to lie better.

By Edward Buri 2025-04-27 08:30:00