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Jacob Onyango

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  • Journalist, Freelance
  • Managing Editor and Head of Business Desk, Tuko
Nairobi
As seen in: Tuko, Taylor & Francis Online, International News Media Association (INMA)
Covers:  Mostly business and technology, but I also take an interest in health, education, local politics, and geopolitics.
Doesn't Cover: Relationship topics.
Accredited Newsman & Editor-in-Chief @TUKO.co.ke. All tweets are mine.
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Why African airlines are struggling to make profit

Why African airlines are struggling to make profit

LinkedIn — The challenge is bigger than Kenya Airways (KQ) alone can tackle, For the past two years, major African airlines have made losses amounting to US$1.2 billion -- about US$700 million in 2015 and US$500 million in 2016 according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) 2016 report. But this is not the most troubling news.in 2016 according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) 2016 report. But this is not the most troubling news.
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Job-seeker gives Posta fresh hope to reclaim its mojo

Job-seeker gives Posta fresh hope to reclaim its mojo

LinkedIn — How new innovation is set to revolutionise mail delivery system. Two years ago, Abdul-Aziz Omar Mohamed, founder and CEO of Taz Technologies, attended an interview for a government job. As any young Kenyan job-seek, he was thoroughly prepared for the interview -- neatly dressed and armed with answers. The suave and spunky tech prodigy charmed the interview panel and got the job. But there was a problem!
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This tycoon built Kenya's first private brand

This tycoon built Kenya's first private brand

LinkedIn — After transforming his father's store into a regionally recognised manufacturing company, Chintan Thacker, the Managing Director of Vivek Investments Limited, now wants to build Africa's next biggest brand
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Africa's Uber for motorbike taxi operators

Africa's Uber for motorbike taxi operators

LinkedIn — Just as dust settles following the stormy arrival of Uber in Kenya, another player is set to join the country's fast-paced taxi business. If you are living in Nairobi and frequently use the city's taxis, then chances are you have heard about Uber. It has been causing traditional cab drivers sleepless nights.
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We Need Paradigm Shift in Higher Education

We Need Paradigm Shift in Higher Education

LinkedIn — For how long are we going to consume Chinese products? That is the billion dollar question that Prof David Some, Chief Executive and Secretary to the Commission for University Education (CUE), the regulator of higher education in Kenya, would like the universities to ponder. In his opinion, it is not that the Chinese are smarter than Africans, and it is not that our universities cannot produce more hands-on and ready-for-market graduates. The system is largely to blame.
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Transforming legal training in Kenya

Transforming legal training in Kenya

LinkedIn — Steering the Ksh 2.2 billion transformation agenda is Prof PLO Lumumba, a widely feted African scholar and ruthless graft buster. Sitting in the director's ground floor office at the Kenya School of Law (KSL).
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Free grain to Africa: Ukraine comes to aid of African countries facing hunger

Free grain to Africa: Ukraine comes to aid of African countries facing hunger

Tuko.co.ke — Ukrainian government will provide free grain to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Federal Republic of Somalia as humanitarian aid Ministry of Foreign Affairs to engage the United Nations (UN) and other international organisations on how the relief food would be delivered to the intended destinations Africa is
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Yehor Cherniev: Ukraine is ready to resume grain exports to Africa

Yehor Cherniev: Ukraine is ready to resume grain exports to Africa

Tuko.co.ke — TUKO.co.ke speaks to Ukrainian MP Yehor Cherniev on the global food crisis, Russian blockade at the Black Sea ports fueling hunger crisis in Africa, the high-stakes grain exports deal in Turkey, and more. The world is facing a new kind of crisis - a global food crisis!
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TUKO.co.ke becomes member of UN's Sustainable Development Goals Media Compact

TUKO.co.ke becomes member of UN's Sustainable Development Goals Media Compact

Tuko.co.ke — TUKO.co.ke has made another major milestone by joining the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Media Compact and will now play a critical role in raising awareness about the SDG. TUKO.co.ke is one of the only three Kenyan media companies that were invited to join the United Nation's SDG Media Compact.
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Showmax Standard vs Showmax Pro: All you need to know

Showmax Standard vs Showmax Pro: All you need to know

Tuko.co.ke — About a month ago, Showmax launched a new video-on-demand service that comes with music, news and live sport streaming from SuperSport. This means Showmax, which has been gaining popularity in Kenya since its debut in 2015, now has two entertainment plans in the local market; Showmax Standard and Showmax Pro (both have a mobile-only version, too).
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Dr Sospeter Ngoci Njeru: Son of Chemistry teacher discovers potential TB cure

Dr Sospeter Ngoci Njeru: Son of Chemistry teacher discovers potential TB cure

Tuko.co.ke — In 2019, an estimated 10 million people fell ill with TB, and a total of 1.4 million people died of the disease, according to Word Health Organization (WHO) - However, TB is a curable and preventable disease; WHO estimates 60 million people have recovered from the disease through diagnosis and
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US election: Top 5 issues that Americans voted on

US election: Top 5 issues that Americans voted on

Tuko.co.ke — Election exit poll by Edison Research showed economy and coronavirus pandemic were some of the key issues that determined how Americans voted in 2020 presidential election - President Donald Trump, Republican Party candidate, outperformed former vice president Joe Biden, Democratic Party flag-bearer, on the issue of economy - A majority
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KwaZulu-Natal, Africa's most preferred business, leisure travel destination

KwaZulu-Natal, Africa's most preferred business, leisure travel destination

Tuko.co.ke — Tuko.co.ke News ☛ Far from the wild safari in the south coast of KZN, travellers from all walks of life are increasingly settling for Durban, South Africa's third most popular city, as their preferred meeting and leisure destination. Here is why.
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Bleak future as Kenyan companies announce mass layoffs to cut costs, stay afloat

Bleak future as Kenyan companies announce mass layoffs to cut costs, stay afloat

Tuko.co.ke — East African Portland Cement in August 2019 announced it was planning to send packing its entire workforce only to suspend decision days later - Telkom Kenya in July 2019 sacked 575 workers saying it was part of the merger agreement with Airtel Kenya - Stanbic Bank Kenya also in July 2019 announced retrenchment plans that will see more than 200 sent home At least four Kenyan companies have announced plans to sack their employees before end of 2019, a move that will render hundreds of Kenyan workers jobless.
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Cytonn's The Alma Phase One handover marks new dawn for homebuyers

Cytonn's The Alma Phase One handover marks new dawn for homebuyers

Tuko.co.ke — On Thursday, July 18, Cytonn Real Estate, affiliate of Cytonn Investments, handed over Phase One of The Alma, its comprehensive residential developments in Ruaka town, Kiambu county. The handover ce remony graced by former prime minister Raila Odinga, Kiambu governor Ferdinand Waititu and Housing and Urban Development PS Charles Hinga brought to life a multi-million project that started three years ago.
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Christine Lagarde: IMF first female chief resigns after 8 years at the helm

Christine Lagarde: IMF first female chief resigns after 8 years at the helm

Tuko.co.ke — The French national who started her career as a lawyer has been the Fund's managing director since 2011 - David Lipton was picked to serve as the Fund's managing director in an acting capacity as IMF board kicked off a process of finding Lagarde's successor International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde, also famously known as the "rock star" of international finance, has resigned.
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New online service slashes bid bond processing time from 4 days to 5 minutes

New online service slashes bid bond processing time from 4 days to 5 minutes

Tuko.co.ke — Tuko.co.ke News ☛ Over the decades, the tendering process in Kenya has been riddled with paperwork and snail-paced systems that only serve to delay transactions, lower productivity and slow down growth, but that need not to be the case anymore.
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Ethiopian: Africa's largest airline flies high with zero funding from government

Ethiopian: Africa's largest airline flies high with zero funding from government

Tuko.co.ke — Tuko.co.ke News ☛ When Tewolde GebreMariam took over as the Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines in January 2011, many people said he was overambitious and that his targets were so high they could not be achieved. They were very wrong.
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Ex-employee who invented Safaricom's Please Call Me to be paid

Ex-employee who invented Safaricom's Please Call Me to be paid

Tuko.co.ke — Former employee of South Africa's Vodacom Group Limited, which owns 35% shares in Safaricom, is set to receive a handsome compensation for his 'Please Call Me' invention after close to a decade of bruising court battle.
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China's KSh 6 trillion investment pledge to Africa raises eyebrows

China's KSh 6 trillion investment pledge to Africa raises eyebrows

Tuko.co.ke — China's president, Xi, said the money would go towards infrastructure development in the continent - He rubbished claims Beijing was overburdening African countries with debts - Xi also dismissed reports China's Belt and Road Initiative was not economically viable - Kenya owed China KSh 479 billion as of 2017 with
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Kenyan chef who built KSh 30 million hotel reveals how story on TUKO.co.ke drove customers to his...

Kenyan chef who built KSh 30 million hotel reveals how story on TUKO.co.ke drove customers to his...

Tuko.co.ke — Tuko.co.ke News ☛ When TUKO Media first met Joab Okeyo in 2017, his business was not doing very well, and so were many others.. Then he met TUKO, and the story changed from struggling to find customers to receiving calls from customers.
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