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A common sense approach will suffice here - I don’t need you to go philosophical on me. Therefore, answers like become a billionaire fast (though precise) won’t cut it and neither will skepticism  of the probability of such occurrence happening. I will have to admit from the outset that I have come across a myriad of responses so far from posing the same question on various social media platforms and what is agreeable to almost everyone is that, with proper goals, that’s a huge amount of money capable of changing one’s life and that of the community drastically and for good. Ultimately, everything boils down to what they would do for others. Seven years down the road, the drafters of The Constitution of Kenya, 2010 did not envisage us implementing only five per cent of it (like we sometimes do with our brains) as far as governance is concerned.   I am specifically referring to Schedule IV of the Constitution that deals with devolution. The tw...

                     Every great organisation is the lengthened shadow of one man                                                                                                                                                                                           - BA Forbes          Dr. Bhim Rao Babasaheb Ambedkar (MA., Ph.D., M.Sc., D.Sc., Barrister-at-Law, L.L.D., D.Litt) It has been said before that we choose books to read, b...

Be so good at what you do that we can’t get our eyes off of you - Steve Martin, Actor Hey! Opinion shaper, My warmest New Year wishes to you and yours. From maintaining the course of Mastery in our respective crafts that we set out in 2016, to challenging ourselves to step out of our comfort zones in 2017, we are going to sustain the momentum this year by focusing on one of the most important people in our lives: The Customer This is any person whom we are fortunate enough to be of influence, and in the present context it is any person who looks up to us for more light. As you can already tell, the theme this year is on building and strengthening meaningful relationships by regularly adding value to them. The great motivational speaker Zig Ziglar once said that you can get anything you want in life if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Therefore, our aspiration this year and beyond should be to make exciting our customers our c...

The University of Nairobi’s deregistration of Meru Senator’s academic credentials after investigations by the EACC unearthed forgery in his prior entry qualifications, has yet again brought to the fore the need for a thorough audit of degree qualifications as well as the quality control and security systems of the entire university examination process. If the said audit is to be conducted by the Commission of University Education (CUE) in respect of locally acquired qualifications, then it behoves them to extend the exercise to foreign qualifications as well.  ​ This can provide an additional level of guarantee to respective stakeholders on the authenticity of foreign qualifications presented to them by such graduates in addition to CUE’s institution Recognition and Equation check currently in place. As Kenyans holding a foreign academic qualification, we find ourselves sucked in this debate, by association, our Alma Mater having been mentioned in the above-mentioned invest...