/Opinion-and-Analysis/-/539548/539548/-/2xaeuq/-/index.html http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Africa-is-finally-on-the-growth-track/-/539548/1857072/-/yn4k7rz/-/index.html I was recently at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2013 in Los Angeles and, for the first time in its 16-year existence, four panels were devoted to discuss African opportunities and challenges. 2013-05-19T11:41:48Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Land-laws-recognise-spousal-rights/-/539548/1857070/-/yv8uvn/-/index.html I was talking to some young bank officers when one of them veered into land laws and asked: “Tell us about the new land laws”. 2013-05-19T11:41:42Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Funding-plan-timely/-/539548/1857068/-/xtr8vj/-/index.html Mombasa County has hit the ground running by announcing plans to fund women and youth projects to the tune of Sh1 billion. 2013-05-19T11:40:18Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Step-up-efforts-to-make-home-ownership-a-reality/-/539548/1857066/-/11bsvh6z/-/index.html Data released by the Central Bank of Kenya showing why majority of Kenyans cannot own their own homes due to the high mortgage rates makes worrying revelations. 2013-05-19T11:40:09Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Simple-lessons-for-MPs-on-how-to-earn-more-honestly/-/539548/1857048/-/8ppgjg/-/index.html Dear most honourable, most gracious, most industrious and most illustrious Member of Parliament. I lay prostrate before you, humbled by the power you (purportedly) wield. 2013-05-19T11:22:14Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Our-legislators-are-the-face-of-greedy-Kenyans/-/539548/1854722/-/t90v6u/-/index.html Tuesday May 14th saw demonstrators pitch tent outside Parliament over MPs’ calls for higher salaries. 2013-05-16T15:30:40Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Do-not-abuse-arbitration-process/-/539548/1854720/-/3nj8f5/-/index.html I am a big supporter of commercial arbitration. Right now, the commercial courts are clogged because of election petitions. 2013-05-16T15:30:34Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Training-plan-laudable/-/539548/1854718/-/kurwu0z/-/index.html That Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA) has launched training for individuals to take up various professional positions at the Lamu Port is most welcome. 2013-05-16T15:24:09Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Wholesale-write-off-of-debts-not-the-way-to-go/-/539548/1854716/-/k4usogz/-/index.html Although the county government is not fully up and running, the herculean task ahead is growing obvious by the day. 2013-05-16T15:23:58Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/-/539548/1854660/-/qjfucp/-/index.html If history has taught us anything, it is that underdogs do make heroes. The story from grass to grace has always been romanticised. 2013-05-16T14:12:25Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Independent-body-should-vet-nominees/-/539548/1853798/-/u9gqdr/-/index.html As the recent vetting of Cabinet nominees came to a close, Speaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi criticised the public and media for being ignorant about parliamentary laws. 2013-05-15T15:29:43Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Bury-colonial-loyalists-remains-now/-/539548/1853796/-/7mc4muz/-/index.html Sometimes in 2005, I sat down with Prof David Anderson, the author of the epic Mau Mau memoir Histories of the Hanged, and he directed me to a peculiar finding. 2013-05-15T15:29:34Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Audit-varsities-urgently/-/539548/1853776/-/gd0l0/-/index.html News that 11,000 students more than last year would be admitted to the public universities by the Joint Admissions Board (JAB) is welcome. 2013-05-15T15:22:17Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Cabinet-should-get-down-to-work-quickly/-/539548/1853774/-/1el8j3z/-/index.html Kenyans are no longer willing to wait and listen to excuses...Kenyans want a positive transformation. 2013-05-15T15:21:32Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Why-Kepsa-hosted-a-special-party-in-honour-of-Kibaki/-/539548/1853760/-/xoa58uz/-/index.html Last week Kenya Private Sector Alliance (Kepsa) hosted a lunch in honour of former President Mwai Kibaki. 2013-05-15T15:16:52Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/AU-faces-many-security-challenges/-/539548/1852712/-/7glydgz/-/index.html Fifty years after its inception, the African Union (AU) reflects a significantly changed African and global environment. 2013-05-14T15:11:21Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Land-chaos-unfortunate/-/539548/1852706/-/xq72vaz/-/index.html In what is yet again a clear manifestation of the chaos that has characterised land in the past, some landowners in Kitengela are facing the dilemma of having their property destroyed. 2013-05-14T15:09:05Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Banks-cannot-continue-biting-the-hand-that-feeds-them/-/539548/1852704/-/x7m5uez/-/index.html If commercial banks ever wanted a compelling reason to lower the cost of lending, they now have it in the rising portfolio of bad loans. 2013-05-14T15:08:58Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Jubilee-alliance-on-right-track-in-addressing-cost-of-energy/-/539548/1852690/-/bo1wj3z/-/index.html Two aspects of energy costs have come up in the past two weeks. One was the announcement by Deputy President William Ruto that electricity tariff increases requested by Kenya Power could not be granted. 2013-05-14T14:59:26Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Unravelling-Kenya-and-UK-ties/-/539548/1851478/-/9cqsfbz/-/index.html Kenya and Britain enjoy cyclical relations: fight, patch up, and continue normally. 2013-05-13T17:11:37Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Vetting-a-big-letdown/-/539548/1851470/-/5qqh9vz/-/index.html We have just witnessed the first vetting of the Cabinet members by a Parliamentary committee and our verdict was that it was below average. 2013-05-13T17:05:46Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/What-Kenyans-want-is-cheaper-and-adequate-power/-/539548/1851468/-/yi9mn7z/-/index.html Deputy President William Ruto’s edict stopping Kenya Power from raising tariff has left the country in a fix. 2013-05-13T17:05:39Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Criticism-of-Supreme-Court-rulings-unfounded/-/539548/1851462/-/11564ev/-/index.html Generally, human beings are a defensive lot. Anything that seems to attack us should and is rebuffed with whatever resources at our disposal. 2013-05-13T16:57:07Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/What-Somalia-needs-most-is-peace-and-stability/-/539548/1850078/-/p5kfha/-/index.html The inauguration of the federal government of Somalia in August 2012 marked the start of the first permanent central government in the country since the collapse of Mohamed Siad Barre’s regime in 1991. 2013-05-12T12:33:27Z http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Public-and-private-partnerships-are-key-to-growth/-/539548/1850076/-/15h64ygz/-/index.html During his recent visit to the United Kingdom, President Uhuru Kenyatta appealed on Kenyans living in Great Britain to invest back home. 2013-05-12T12:32:46Z