On last weeks post on Nation’s Newsplex, we featured an analytics post on the perception of women issues on social media. The link to the post can be found here: https://www.nation.co.ke/newsplex/onlinegendercampaigns/2718262-5368756-fpvkmz/index.html
On this year’s edition of the Democracy and Rights Festival, I was invited to make a presentation on data around extrajudicial killings in Kenya. Nation Media Groups data journalism segment Nation Newsplex created the Deadly Force Database , a database ...
The 2nd Annual Banking, Financial Services and Insurance Summit will take place in Nairobi on 4 – 5 February 2020. The event brings together some of the top CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, Heads of IT, ICT, Risk, Compliance, Retail Banking, Customer ...
What’s the probability that the Ethiopian flight 320 was Boeings error? https://www.nation.co.ke/newsplex/2718262-5024656-13r6oljz/index.html
The Kenya 7s rugby team has proved a worthy competitor to major rugby nations in the IRB sevens circuit. The rise of the Kenyan sevens team begins almost 7 years ago when they made upsets to top tier teams in the IRB circuit. In this post, we will rank and visualise top 7 tries that ...
If you’ve been to the Kenyan Twittersphere, you must have read quirky tweets from Muthoni Maingi. When she’s not overseeing the Enterprise and Consumer Business Unit at Safaricom, her energies are spent entertaining 16.5 k followers on Twitter under the nom de plume @NonieMG. Today, our universes collide. In her characteristic witty remarks, inquired if I ...
Laughter is the best medicine, so they said. Churchill Live Show has been dispensing the laughter pill in Kenya for the past 7 years thus emerging as the top comedy show in the country. In this line of business, the “Doctor” has to be precise with the medication, otherwise, the patients will find another “Doctor” ...
It takes on average 3 years to conclude a murder case in Kenya – that’s according to the data on kenyalaw.org. However, Prosecution Counsel Katto Wambua puts the number at 1.5 years. I decided to put Man Vs Machine Learning in understanding homicide cases in the country. To that end, I conducted an interview with ...
Let’s play a game – the game goes, where would you place the location pin for the next Java outlet in Nairobi? The restaurant chain has been on a rapid expansion in the past two years and there are no signs of stopping the momentum. This week, the company opened a new outlet at Shell ...
Following my article on shopping malls in Nairobi, I got an invitation to have a chat with the mall manager of one of the most prestigious malls in the country. We sat at a coffee shop in his mall and he went direct into what my article was missing – an understanding of the real ...
If Nairobi is experiencing a glut in shopping malls, then KAPS would the first to know. The company enjoys a near monopoly in managing parking lots for malls in the country – and with that, collect tonnes of data on mall traffic. I spent the better part of the December holiday and early this year ...
After writing the article on Dog-Race betting obsession in Nairobi, I was contacted by Samuel (not real name) from GREY2K USA – an American institution whose goal is the prohibition of dog racing worldwide. He wanted to know more on certain aspect of dog-race betting in Nairobi including; how many gambling centers there are in Nairobi? Are they all ...
After writing the article on Dog-Race betting obsession in Nairobi, I was contacted by Samuel (not real name) from GREY2K USA – an American institution whose goal is the prohibition of dog racing worldwide. He wanted to know more on certain aspect of dog-race betting in Nairobi including; how many gambling centers there are in Nairobi? Are they all ...
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Mumias Sugar Stock Hit Zero in Weeks Leading to Closure
8 weeks before the announcement on the indefinite closure of Mumias Sugar Company, the stock price of the company hit zero Kenya shillings at the NSE. The share price had a drastic drop from Kshs 1.04 to 0.00 on 22nd February 2017 surpassing the 10% daily price depreciation or appreciation limit set by the Nairobi Stock ...
By blackorwa on May 9, 2017