Pakistani-born Rashid Amin is a student of nature, whether he is on the northern side of his hometown in Pakistan, with its renown mountains and steep leeward and windward sides, or in Nairobi, with its verdant greenery and rolling plains. Nature will always be his first medium and inspiration.
Category: Business Daily
Corporates hit amid mounting data breaches
In 2025, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner put real weight behind Kenyans’ digital rights, awarding over Sh30 million to individuals whose complaints over data protection violations were upheld.
State sets Sh2bn least premium for insurers eyeing cover for foreigners
Local insurers seeking to provide medical cover to foreigners entering Kenya must have minimum gross premium collections of Sh2 billion annually, among other conditions that the state has placed for those eyeing the lucrative government tender.
City Hall goes for single contractor amid mounting piles of garbage
The Nairobi City County government now plans to streamline its waste management through a single contractor model amid pressure from increased pollution.
Hearing of public debt petition set for March
The hearing of a petition challenging the legality of more than Sh6.9 trillion loans borrowed by the government from 2014 to date has been set for March.
A bench of three judges of the High Court on January 6, 2026, said that it would determine all applications, including those seeking to strike out the case, alongside the main petition.
Sandra Ojiambo: ‘Just say yes to opportunities’
By the time she got the gig as the Assistant Secretary-General; CEO and Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, Sanda Ojiambo’s world, and in extension, the whole world had been thrown into, to appropriate a pandemic buzzword, ‘quarantine.’
Co-operatives warned over risk of losses in unregulated investments
Co-operative societies have been cautioned over the growing practice of placing members’ funds in unregulated firms, with the regulator warning that the trend is exposing savers to financial risk.
Jitters in Kenya’s sugar industry as Comesa imports gate thrown wide
The decision by the government to lift safeguards on cheap sugar imports from sugarcane-growing members of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) has rattled the traditionally troubled industry.
Dropped Adani power lines blow Sh32bn hole in PPP funding plan
The cancellation of Adani Energy Solutions Ltd’s (AESL) power transmission lines project left a Sh32.3 billion hole in the Treasury’s projections for public-private partnership (PPP) fund inflows, undermining government plans to finance infrastructure without adding to public debt.
Save Nairobi from planning law breaches
Somebody should go to jail for the deaths caused by collapse of the 14-storey building under construction in Nairobi’s South C. This was not an accident. It was a foreseeable, preventable outcome of a city where capital has outrun the law-and where planning rules have become negotiable suggestions rather than binding safeguards.