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THE STANDARD By Daniel Wesangula | January 1st 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Zachary Murimi, a Form Four leaver, lifts a job placard along Mombasa Road in Nairobi, on Thursday, October 01 2020 as he pleads with well-wishers to offer him any available job opportunity. [David Njaaga, Standard] While everyone else was making plans to have a great 2020, a pandemic introduced itself to the world. First, it announced its presence in the Chinese province of Wuhan before going global, touching every co...

Thousands of Passengers in Anguish as Fares Hike to Record High A file image of passengers scrambling to board a bus at Country Bus Station, Nairobi. File Thousands of passengers have been left stranded at various bus termini across the country as transport operators hike fares to a record high. The transport operators are blaming the Covid-19 Public Service Vehicles (PSV) guidelines imposed by the Ministry of Health to curb the spread of the deadly virus. Passengers are however decrying the i...

6 Lessons Learnt From Agribusiness – ‘The Farm Gang’ Cofounder Anne Mugo is the co-founder of The Farm Gang, an agribusiness firm that specialises in the organic growth of strawberry fruits, seedlings, and farming training. She shared some of her top lessons from agribusiness . Due diligence goes hand in hand with investment.  When I first got employed in the year 2009, a friend of mine convinced me to invest in a farmer who was growing rice in Mwea. My role in the project was to act lik...

THE STANDARD CENTRAL A programme aimed at educating donkey owners on proper animal care has started bearing fruit. For many years, a badly wounded donkey hauling an overloaded cart full of bags of rice was a common feature in the paddy fields of Mwea in Kirinyaga County. Such scenes are becoming rare as donkey owners have adopted new ways of treating their animals following civic education. The programme also looked into eradicating alcohol and substance abuse in the region.  “Bhang and alc...