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Billow Khalid

Let's make Kenya beautiful and future-proof

Kenya's geographical location and size are strategic and offer competitive advantages for economic and political purposes.

By Billow Khalid 2 months ago

Let's make Kenya beautiful and future-proof

This is what we should do as a country to spur real economic growth

This is what we should do as a country to spur real economic growth

By Billow Khalid 8 months ago

Kenya needs visionary leaders to move from rhetoric to practice

Kenya needs visionary leaders to move from rhetoric to practice

By Billow Khalid 10 months ago

Here is how our universities can improve their world rankings

Here is how our universities can improve their world rankings

By Billow Khalid 1 year ago

Truths on Kenya's vision to achieve prosperity

The truth on Kenya's vision to achieve national prosperity and greatness, just like peace and freedom are indivisible.

By Billow Khalid 1 year ago

Truths on Kenya's vision to achieve prosperity

Four freedoms Kenyans are craving for now

If Kenya's history is examined in the light of day since our first dance of freedom, the scale of our achievements and challenges to date appear to balance out.

By Billow Khalid 1 year ago

Four freedoms Kenyans are craving for now

This year let us make Kenya a country of surplus

The three factors that made last year the toughest times for Kenyans are weak governance, Covid-19 and the economy.

By Billow Khalid 1 year ago

This year let us make Kenya a country of surplus

Four main challenges Kenya should surmount to achieve greatness

In the Arid and Semi-Arid lands, about 70 per cent of households experience extreme poverty. Unemployment among the country's youngest population is becoming unbearable.

By Billow Khalid 1 year ago

Four main challenges Kenya should surmount to achieve greatness

State should seize opportunity to make Kenya a nation of entrepreneurs

Nevertheless, the country has maintained peace and economic growth where the nation's budget and GDP are comparable with those of Nigeria and South Africa.

By Billow Khalid 2 years ago

State should seize opportunity to make Kenya a nation of entrepreneurs

Let poll winners start addressing challenges to our development

Kenyans are hard workers. They're generally dreamers of a better country. They are positivists, the cup is a half-full nation. That is why when the day of the elections came, they did not disappoint.

By Billow Khalid 2 years ago

Let poll winners start addressing challenges to our development

To be great, we must embrace merit and elect honest leaders

Democracy is desirable in itself. This simply means we face two fundamental issues: The matter of legitimacy in the sense that those in leadership have to govern with broad consent of the people

By Billow Khalid 2 years ago

To be great, we must embrace merit and elect honest leaders

Leadership will set us on the path to growth or ruin

The causes of our economic and political troubles arise from poor leadership, politics and economics. The Sun or climate change is also there.

By Billow Khalid 2 years ago

Leadership will set us on the path to growth or ruin

Somalia suffering now, but future can be great

Somalia is a single ethnic nation with Africa’s largest coastal belt, over 3,000km long. It has a crucial global strategic location.

By Billow Khalid 2 years ago

Somalia suffering now, but future can be great

Northern counties must use devolution to catch up

. By the time British exited Kenya in 1963, NFD was neglected, ignored economically and politically and certainly the country’s poorest.

By Billow Khalid 3 years ago

Northern counties must use devolution to catch up

We have what it takes to build a great and prosperous nation

Kenya's future will be defined by how it handles the new era of Covid-19 challenges, and how competently the nation practices constitutionalism.

By Billow Khalid 3 years ago

We have what it takes to build a great and prosperous nation

Competence in public service will win Covid-19 war

The main catalyst of such grand goals is a public service built on the practice and belief of professionalism and meritocracy.

By Billow Khalid 3 years ago

Competence in public service will win Covid-19 war

Yes, time is ripe to transform Garissa University

Over five years ago, the university college suffered a terrible attack when terrorists shot and killed 148 people and injured many others.

By Billow Khalid 3 years ago

Yes, time is ripe to transform Garissa University

How Sh81b road will transform North Eastern

Kenya has successfully negotiated from the World Bank, “Credit facility amounting to Sh81 billion ($750 million) to finance the 740km road

By Billow Khalid 4 years ago

How Sh81b road will transform North Eastern

Make State corporations and enterprises growth enablers

These State firms perform crucial functions and are found in almost all sectors.

By Billow Khalid 4 years ago

Make State corporations and enterprises growth enablers

Transform the civil service to make the nation competitive

First, weak personal and institutional values contribute to public complaints about inadequacies of public employees.

By Billow Khalid 5 years ago

Transform the civil service to make the nation competitive

Leaders must boost citizens’ well-being

World Health Organisation’s report ranked Kenyans as the sixth most depressed people in while the World Happiness Index 2019 placed Kenya at number 12

By Billow Khalid 5 years ago

Leaders must boost citizens’ well-being

It’s time for intellectuals to step forward

Any nation is in trouble when many of its high-IQ intelligentsia risk takers don’t lead in front and instead become part of the social problems.

By Billow Khalid 5 years ago

It’s time for intellectuals to step forward

Meritocratic education is the missing link in country agenda

University education is simply more than pursuit of certification.

By Billow Khalid 5 years ago

Meritocratic education is the missing link in country agenda

Leadership key to delivery of national strategic goals

The present Constitution has ignited a new spirit, of optimism in all of us.

By Billow Khalid 5 years ago

Leadership key to delivery of national strategic goals

Let varsities teach students the law and national values

As they say, a chain is as strong as its weakest link.

By Billow Khalid 5 years ago

Let varsities teach students the law and national values

Address the missing links in reforming police force

Developing and maintaining effective systems of policing is crucial. Kenyans desire to live in a united, peaceful, orderly and progressive country.

By Billow Khalid 5 years ago

Address the missing links in reforming police force

Critics missed the point on vetting of top officers

When the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) under its chairman Johnston Kavuludi embarked on police vetting, mixed reactions followed.

By By Billow Khalid 10 years ago

Critics missed the point on vetting of top officers

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