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    • Reform fuel subsidies to cushion them from politics, achieve goals 

      Odhiambo, Joab (Business Daily, 2023-08-25)
      In a free-market system like Kenya, the forces of supply and demand ought to determine fuel prices. But fuel has been a political tool in the country, often used to woo voters during elections. Last year, for example, ...

    • Reform varsity research policies 

      Odhiambo, Joab (Nation Media Group, 2023-08-31)
      In this Artificial Intelligence (AI) era, applications like ChatGPT,SciSpace are becoming increasingly common in universities for research by students. These applications have an extraordinary range of capabilities, from ...

    • Short-time measures in taming fuel prices for the Kenyan consumer 

      Odhiambo, Joab (Business Daily, 2023-09-20)
      The cry among Kenyans over soaring fuel prices will continue getting louder unless urgent measures are taken to ease the burden on the consumer. While I empathise with them, the truth is that the global supply chain of ...

    • ‘Smoking hot’ concoctions farmers use against pests 

      Thambura, Joshua (The Standard Group PLC, 2018-09-01)
      Meru University agricultural education and extension lecturer Joshua Thambura praised the technologies for empowering farmers economically. He calls on Caritas to partner with the university to do more research on these solutions.

    • Varsity scholars innovate automatic irrigation system 

      Thambura, Joshua; Mateithia, Daniel; Kigira, Francis (The Standard Group PLC, 2023-05-18)
      Three lecturers from Meru University of Science and Technology have innovated an automatic irrigation system suitable for use when rains fail. Daniel Mateithia, Joshua Thambura and Francis Kigira are the scholars who ...

    • We need a national agency to run bursaries and scholarships 

      Odhiambo, Joab (Nation Media Group, 2024-02-07)
      Last month, the Daily Nation had an article titled, 'Bursary Scandal'. it highlighted the plight of needy and brilliant students who have been unable to enroll in secondary schools due to a lack of school fees. This ...