The world of investing has it's fair share of both success and failures,but in this context failure is be defined by the inability of an investor to meet their financial goals,especially those tied to wealth creation,mostly leading to bearing of huge losses.So what separates a good investor from one who is bound for failure?

Joining Kenya’s cashless payment modes earlier this year was Google’s Beba Card. The NFC-enabled card comes in handy at budgeting for the month, and in reducing the hustles that come with payment of fares by cash. Most of us were also secretly hoping that the card would,…

Service halls tend to be practically empty before due dates thus one gets quick services, but when the due date finally comes, mass jam service halls, queuing for hours, while complaining, as usual, of how slow the services are. Such incidents can easily be avoided if people made their payments early. But, for some reason, they never do.

It’s the colonialism of the day – rich foreign nations offer African countries huge easy “development” loans on condition that the African country pledges its natural resources, its markets or its labor. When the African country needs more money or can’t pay the debt (which they never can), more resources are pledged and so on. It’s a perpetual shafting, and that’s why the Chinese increasing presence in Kenya is unsettling.

Some PhD student puts the number in his report, some reporter picks it up and puts it in a article, some NGO picks it up and marks it up a couple of thousand in their proposal. This proposal is seen by some PhD student and voila the cycle continues. Is this really how statistics come about?

The title may throw one off a bit. Especially since root canals are never good (in terms of pain and general suffering) or really ever cheap…but these are the best deals I have. Who knows when you'll need one?

We all know the story of the three little pigs. As the fable goes, three hogs desperately needed shelter. One built his house from straw instead of looking for more reliable materials. Granted, he managed to save countless man hours in terms of construction. The second one went a…

I understand the Kenya Revenue Authority’s situation: they constantly need to collect more revenue. How that revenue is utilized is not within their mandate. The thorn in the new VAT Bill is the removal from exemption of items such as medicines, sanitary towels, baby formula, napkins,…

We can moan and shout about the whole Kenya Power inefficiency issue. It still remains that the one thing you should never do is let your watchman fix your power meter.

By June, 2011, Kenya Power had installed these meters in about 123,000 houses, mostly in Nairobi. This means that 123,000 households were now in complete control of their power spending. Or at least that's what they thought.