NEWS STANDARD

The statistics showing that about 1 million Kenyans are facing danger of starvation is shameful .Six years under devolution is enough time supposed to have enabled us achieve food security. Since  devolution began around Ksh. 1.6 trillion has been distributed to all the 47 counties which if well made use of could have resulted to good results. Kenya has been experiencing periodic drought crisis since the time of independence however we have learnt very little from the challenge. The high number of people that die when such a tragedy should be subject for thought . According to world vision report, about 15 million children in East Africa are normally affected by hunger when drought arises. It further indicated that they are usually at the risk of contracting diseases such as chorela and typhoid. Kenya is currently the region's economic power house which indicates that we ought to do more than what we are doing. In past few months the farmers were complaining that NCPB wa...

Cabinet Secretary for tourism and wildlife Najib Balala home raid over claims of 100million corruption allegations is sign that shows that the  body mandated to fight corruption has advanced. In the past the war against corruption used to target the people with low ranks in government and middle income earners. Investigation into an allegation whether Balala single sourcingly awarded a local company a contract during an expo at Nairobi Proves that fight against corruption has changed gear. President Uhuru promise that none will be spared in the war against graft has been actualized bearing in mind  that Balala was among the people that ensured that he clinched the presidential seat. Corruption has robbed our nation development since projects have been marred by embezzlement of funds and illegal awarding of contracts. It is devastating to see on how most roads get damaged immediately after being constructed , the poor quality of bridges and hiring of unqualified person...

Biometric cencus registration move by the government is bound to face challenge due to wide spreading misconceptions despite the various benefits such as helping in combarting crime. The united nations recomnendation  to have all countries carying out electronic cencus registration by the 2020 has greately contributed to hastening of the process of having biometric registration. With 2.4 million kenyan illetrate while 16,252,000 million only having primary education according to the  kenya burea of statistics report illetracy is set pose a serious challenge to the process. Despite major increases in enrolment in educational institutions at all levels, still more than one third of all adult Kenyans have not gone beyond primary school is a concern since the population may be easily be misled. The romours about the electronic cencus being a scheme of manupilating the 2022 presidetial elections and the government plot to obtain  people personal details for the wro...

The global trends in education have changed a great deal. The world needs a system of education which must respond to the emerging social needs, technological development and economic demands of the workplace.  The government, being aware of this, carried out reviews of the 8-4-4 system. The reviews done in 1992, 1995 and 2002 majorly addressed the curriculum content, unnecessary overlaps and other emerging issues. But they could not address fundamental issues that would transform the society into a middle income economy. The 2012 report by the Professor Douglas Odhiambo-led task force on Re-alignment of the education sector to the Kenya Vision 2030 and the Constitution of Kenya 2010, which was formed by the government, informed the development of a Sessional Paper No. 2 of 2015 on reforming education and training in Kenya.  The paper recommended a radical change of the education system to provide for the development of individual learner’s potential in a hol...

March fixing and addiction to betting are a threat to loyalty for football despite the emmence contributions that the fast growing betting industry has brought to the sport.  Die hard fans are soon fading away since most lovers of the sport are quickly shifting to being commercial spectators of the game. Addiction for gambling has shifted the attention of fans from the love the game to a focus on what they can earn from it. Geo poll research report indicated that 54% of the youth in sub saharan have ever tried to bet with Kenya leading with 74% , followed by Uganda at 57% and  Ghana came at 42%. Kenya is one of the nations that has been hit by this worst menace. The frequency of gambling in kenya high since most people bet once a month  compared to other nations like south Africa where people once a month . There is divided  loyalty for teams evidenced by arguments by fans before matches about which team  has more odds or less instead of defend...