Category: Business Daily

The labour market showed resilience in 2025 as rebounding consumer demand lifted private sector activity, helping firms to sustain jobs and employ additional workers, but on temporary contracts.

How time flies. But as the festive season draws to a close there is one thing left to sort out: what to do with the Christmas tree? Do we recycle it or just throw it away?

The tradition of decorating Christmas trees is still going strong. Yet there is an inevitable seasonal increase in carbon dioxide emissions.

Nobody wants to be a Grinch or a Scrooge.

But, perhaps it is possible to reduce our carbon footprint by thinking about what we do with our Christmas trees afterwards.

Directors of Good Earth Group Limited, the company behind Nairobi’s popular Nyama Mama Restaurant, have lost their bid to stop Victoria Commercial Bank from recovering Sh202 million disputed loan they guaranteed the company over six years ago.

The way Roy Kinyua, the Regional Group Chef of Serena Hotels speaks about turkeys, one would be forgiven to think he grew up farming them. Forgiven but wrong.

In late November, I spent a week in South Africa immersed in conversations with technology entrepreneurs that, in many ways, mirrored debates taking place across the continent.

The questions were familiar and increasingly urgent: how do we build digital infrastructure that is not just fast, but inclusive; not just modern, but resilient; not just national, but regionally and globally relevant?

Against that backdrop, I sought to find out what the leadership of South Africa has in its plans, and the collaboration between Huawei and Broadband Infraco (BBI) stood out as one that aligns directly with the country’s national broadband strategy, SA Connect, and carries implications well beyond South Africa’s borders.

Kenya’s Internet market is entering a new phase as telecom operators, State agencies and global technology firms escalate investments in fibre infrastructure, to secure bandwidth, resilience and control over data traffic.

With just days left before a new year, the country’s fitness buzz is already warming up.

The festive season is a time when Kenyans travel more, spend more, and buy more. The season is defined by generosity and urgency in equal measure.

Yet it is also the period when counterfeit goods find their easiest entry into the market-hidden behind discounts, speed, and the pressure to deliver joy quickly.

Many Kenyans may not relate to technical concepts such as intellectual property. But everyone understands authenticity.

The local and global labour markets are experiencing rapid changes. These changes have been brought about by developments such as digitisation, globalisation, demographic changes and climate change, including the green transition.

New occupations are emerging while others are changing or becoming obsolete. In response to this, the government, in its efforts to fulfil the constitutional provisions on relevant education and employment, worked in collaboration with stakeholders to develop the National Skills Development Policy 2023.

The overall goal of this policy is to promote sustainable socio-economic development by developing a skilled workforce that is employable, productive, enterprising, innovative, adaptable and competitive.

Kenyan authorities have failed to disclose the electricity tariff that consumers will pay for the two high-voltage lines to be built at a cost of Sh40.4 billion under a public-private partnership (PPP) to ease capacity hitches on the national grid and evacuate power to western Kenya.