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Microsof Eastern and Southern Africa Headquatres at the Oval Building


Kenya

You know, when it reaches at this point.Slum pictures are inevitable just for them to try and bring the debate back to equilibrium!

rvp20182:
Kenya second only to South Africa in Luxury market. Nigeria distant third (about half kenya luxury market despite the population disparity as poverty bites.

I mean,Kenya airways is one of the few approved Embraer 190 service centers in Africa and currently operates 15 Embraer E190-E1s, making it the largest Embraer jet operator in Africa.

Should I say more?

Road trips that you take far! Northern Kenya

Lights at the library!

Address the elephant in the room. Don't look at my sources!

AskiaHarem:
Oh lord your back to random Twitter post and baseless blogs as your main source of ammo again.

It's the second time he is offering the condolences.That's more like rubbing our noses in it! He's just mocking while trying to prove a point!

gallivant:


Back to the fence with you Obaboon. As predicted.

How many times are you going to offer condolences?

obaaderemi:
When a school collapsed in Lagos last year,I remember how this stupid,hateful, desperate and immature Little Indians, especially Tasha Maria laughed here, making fun of the dead.
Now that the same thing has happened in their shithole, what do the idiots have to say?

What Charles?

Village champions!

gallivant:
Good luck bro. Lol

In regards to the sports mentioned above,prove links of Nigeria getting gold or winning cups at a global level! What's that chart about?[quote author=68816419 post=82549899][/quote]

Malls,hanging joints and babes!

Where's MtisTheQubit? We got lasses here!

Architects that went to school!


FCB Mihrab!

What's scrabble?

gallivant:
Scrabble is not a sport coon, stop being desperate. Let's meet at the Olympics and we will teach you a thing or two.

Any Olympic or world gold medals/cups in javelin,long jumps,weightlifting,gymnastic,karate,cycling,tennis? Mention them

68816419:
U mean Basketball,Boxing,Wrestling, Weight-lighting, Athletics (Excluding survival sports), Tennis ,Badminton, Canoeing,Javelin ,Long Jumps, Karate,Gymnasts,Cycling....?

Zombies!

gallivant:
They don't understand nature. These clowns aren't real Africans, just savages.

It's on final touches! Very very soon!

68816419:
For how long?

You can smell some pictures!

The fresh air passing here when on a road trip!

After the hustle and bustle of the city and seeing much concrete all in the name of development,our eyes want just to see nature in its unclothedness!

gallivant:
He won't understand the bond between man and nature thanks to the oil spills and their irreconcilable appetite for flora.

Le Mac, Nairobi

You just don't cut trees! It's wrong!

Serenity!

AskiaHarem:
What does raw earth and ocean have to do with development again?

Westlands!


Get your car fog lights on!

Nairobi

Night and day

That's Waiyaki way,it's not even a complete project yet!

68816419:
Very dusty and dirty Highway, where D fck are the cleaners at?
1- Uyo
2- Enugu
3- Lagos (Highway with BRT maiden at ikorodu )
4- Lagos Highway

Watamu and Manda Bay

68816419:
This how Highways should look like not those dirty slummy roads
Pics 1-4: Abuja Highways

A cargo barge built by Kenya's SECO engineering for the Tanzania's Port Authority is almost done

-Hapa kazi tu! -

Waiyaki Way looking a bit better!

Might as well read this.
https://www.tuko.co.ke/312448-government-demolishes-police-officers-mud-houses-slums-reforms-continue.html

Acadavah:
I thought Kenya take pride on those kind of house. It is only in Kenya where a government can build mud houses for police cost million ke shillings.

Busted!

NairobiWalker:
Kazikazi...............I checked many towns in Tanzania and most of them have either only one tarmaced road or none. You are always shouting how Tanzania is uniformly developed............I think it is uniformly underdeveloped.

Tap of talent: Multinationals’ CEOs marvel at quality of kenyan workforce


In March, panic gripped kenyan academic writers after British Education Secretary Damian Hinds called on global payments firm such as PayPal to block essay writing firms which he faulted for helping Briton students cheat.

An article on Hinds’ pronouncement published by Daily Mail soon after portrayed Kenya as a hotbed of this kind of cheating, the report stated that while engaging the essay mills, British students insist on kenyan writers to do their assignments due to their proficiency in english and their ability to deliver on strict deadlines.


Last week, kenyan law students beat Harvard University students to emerge winners in the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition on World Trade Organization (WTO) Law that was held in Geneva, Switzerland.

The students from Strathmore University beat their counterparts from 90 other law schools from across the world after preparing and analyzing a fictive case and presenting their arguments both for the complainant and the respondent in front of a panel which comprises of WTO and trade law experts.

During this writer’s interactions with business leaders, one observation has stood out, that kenyan talent is rated highly, just like in the first two occurrences except that the essay writing enterprise integrity is questionable.


The CEOs and Managing Directors have often indicated that one of the reasons multinationals choose Kenya is because of the quality of talent at their disposal.

On Thursday,multinational insuarance firm Cigna opened its Africa headquarters in Nairobi.

Queried why Nairobi was an attractive proposition for the firm, Maxime Claessens, Director of Cigna’s kenyan operation said that while potential business opportunities was the major draw, quality talent in the country was a major contributing factor in the decision to set up shop in Nairobi.



“We were already operating in the country. We had done our research and one of the reasons we decided to open our continental headquarters here was because we knew that we could tap the talent we needed in Kenya, the quality of the kenyan workforce is exceptionally high,” Mr Claessens told Business Today while comparing Kenya to similar size economies.

Mr Claessens is not the only CEO to be in awe of kenyan talent, in an interview with Business Today on June 11, Knight Frank Managing Director Ben Woodhams also expressed his appreciation of kenyan talent.

“One thing that I’ve noticed is that the level of education is definitely higher and kenyan talent is quite sharp,” said Mr Woodhams who has been the real estate firm’s Managing Director in Kenya and Tanzania.



Conversely, Radisson Blu General Manager Robert Kucera, a South African who doubles up as East Africa District Manager for the hotel chain also told Business Today during an interview that even the quality of menial workers in Kenya surprises him.

“In Kenya the education level is higher, even a normal waitress in Kenya sounds educated, their level of thinking is higher,” said the hotelier who has worked in different countries across Africa. “I am just from a meeting with union leaders and in my interactions with its members gives me the feeling that Kenya is ahead of many countries in terms of the sheer quality of its workforce,” added Mr Kucera.

kikuyu1:
The sane people in here along with myself beg to differ!



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/half-of-nigerians-live-in-slums-un/

Read the link and see your own slums where 60% of you live while wanking about Kibera! Btw,he's the programme manager of UN Habitat,so obvioulsy he'd know. Also that was 2011 and you've entered a recession while oil price had fallen 60% since. As for us we're already in the first stages of what's called demographic dividend when declining fertility means the ratio of dependants to those of working age falls drastically. Already in parts of Kikuyuland pre schools and ECDE classes suffer many empty desks as for the first time ever the 0-5 cohort are less than 5-10 years.

Kenya is at the cusp of a “demographic dividend” that could change the country’s fortunes in the first half of the 21st century, [/b]but only if the country takes the right steps towards investing in its youth.



Meaning our GDP per capita should be 24,000$ by then while others joyfully ululate about brand new empty high speed SGRs,invisible electric railways and unseen multi million tonne rice harvests and peanut mountains.

Here's a reminder of the potential of our real national asset -our human capital.

Kenya is poised to produce Africa’s most productive human capital in the medium term, a World Bank survey shows, buoyed by the country’s present deep investment in healthcare and child education.

The inaugural Human Capital Index (HCI) the World Bank published recently shows that Kenya ties with Algeria in offering the best education and health in the continent — factors that would make them churn out most productive workers by 2036.

Kenya scores 0.52 to rank 94 in the world out of the 157 countries ranked in the HCI that puts Singapore on top of the world with a score of 0.88. It beats large economies in Africa such as South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt.

The report comes barely a month after Bloomberg report ranked Kenyan immigrants working in the US as the third most skilled and industrious foreigners.

In the region, Tanzania scores 0.40 in the HCI at position 128 followed by Ethiopia, Uganda and Sudan with 0.38 at position 135, 137 and 139 respectively while Rwanda scores 0.37 at position 142.


The HCI survey shows that Kenya has made efforts in building the right foundations to churn out productive workers by the age of 18. Kenya has in the past decade been implementing various reforms aimed at improving the quality of education.

Key among them is funding of the free primary and day-secondary education. In addition, the government registered more technical and vocational education training (TVET) institutions to bridge skill gaps in the labour market.

The reforms have yielded some fruit with Economic Survey 2018 showing that total enrolment in pre-primary schools rose by 2.9 per cent to 3.29 million in 2017 compared to the previous year while enrolment in primary schools increased from 10.3 million in 2016 to 10.4 million in 2017.

In addition, enrolment in secondary schools grew by 4.1 per cent to 2.83 million in 2017.

As jobs become defined by more cognitive and analytical tasks, the World Bank cites Kenyan worker as having the ability to compete well.

“In Bolivia and Kenya, more than 40 per cent of workers using computers perform complex tasks that require advanced programming,” says the report.

"Indeed, the demand is growing for transferable higher-order cognitive skills such as logic, critical thinking, complex problem-solving, and reasoning.”

In health, the report observes that Kenya has made progress in making children survive from birth to school age. It notes that the death of any child is not only a tragedy but also a loss of human capital, which is never realised.

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The World Bank study also shows that bureaucracies charged with implementing policies to build human capital often lack the capacity or the incentives to do so effectively.

Service delivery indicators survey the World Bank conducted in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya found that, on average, three in 10 fourth-grade teachers had not mastered the language curriculum they were teaching.

“On a positive note, 94 per cent of Kenyan teachers had done so,” says the report that also ranks Kenyan doctors ahead of Nigeria.

“The surveys paint an equally mixed picture for healthcare facilities: About 80 per cent of Kenyan doctors could correctly diagnose a basic condition such as neonatal asphyxia, whereas less than 50 per cent of Nigerian doctors were able to do so.

They are still incharge!

tylann:
I thought green avara had left