The housing market in Nakuru and Kiambu counties has experienced fluctuations in property prices over recent years, creating uncertainty for homeowners, prospective buyers, and real estate investors therefore the study ...

Background: Micro Enterprises have been regarded as to play significant roles of job creation, poverty alleviation and economic development of many countries worldwide. Given the importance of Micro Enterprise sector in ...

The paper sought to examine the effect of work scheduling on employee performance in private hospitals in Uasin-Gishu County, Kenya. A survey research design approach was adopted. The study population consisted of all ...

Correctional facilities play a crucial role in maintaining law and order within society. They serve as institutions where individuals convicted of crimes are incarcerated, rehabilitated, and ideally, reintegrated into ...

While the hospitality industry makes a great contribution to the economic development of a country, many hotels encounter organizational challenges associated with poor cost cutting. Such result, huge losses and sometimes ...

Profitability of commercial banks in Kenya have been declining since 2010 which was largely attributed to macro-economic factors, fiscal policies introduced by central bank of Kenya and market activities such as issuance ...

The Declarations of Alma Ata and Astana recognized traditional medicine as part of primary health care. About 80% of people in the world today depend on traditional medicine to meet their health needs, because they are ...

The objective of the study was to establish the maternal determinants of non-compliance. A cross-sectional study design was used targeting pregnant women aged 18 – 49 years attending antenatal clinic (ANC) in six health ...

The study sought to assess the effect of Porter’s generic strategies on firm performance of Tyre dealers within Nairobi County. The study adopted a descriptive research design. The population of the study were tyre dealers ...

The purpose of this article was to examine the relationship between understandings of God and the role of paranormal religious experiences among the Akurinu believers in Nairobi County, Kenya, as believers who share ...

There has been drastic growth in the microelectronics industry in the recent past. The performance of these materials is influenced by their structural, electrical, and optical properties among others, depending on their ...

The purpose of this article was to examine the relationship between understandings of God and the role of paranormal religious experiences among the Akurinu believers in Nairobi County, Kenya, as believers who share ...

Public participation is important because it helps to close the gap between the public, private sector and the government. However, a successful devolution process in Kenya is hampered by a lack of/inadequate ...

Microcontrollers control the actions and features of a product. They are embedded controllers inside devices. Microcontroller based devices are dedicated to a single task that run one specific program at a time. It integrates ...

This paper aims to elucidate the sustainable systems birthed from the interaction between the kayamba instrument and its commercial elements. The paper underscores the commercial elements linked to the kayamba and how ...

In recent years, the creative industry in Kenya has seen a rise in consumption of art from other countries. This is due to the influence of global and modern trends on local media and the Kenyan audience. Consequently, ...

In low-and middle-income nations, the double burden of malnutrition is a rising problem. It is unusual for an underweight child and an overweight mother to exist together in the same household because they both occupy a ...

This paper explores Skiza Tunes' impact on the music industry. In the process, the research sought answers on how Skiza Tunes disrupted the Kenyan music industry, the Skiza Tunes platform’s intermediary role, and its ...

enopause is not a medical condition or an illness but a natural component of the life cycle, yet this topic remains unspoken, especially in the workplace. The study aimed at establishing the influence of physical environment ...

This study sought to find out the discrepancies surrounding Dr David Owuor’s claims. Dr Owuor is a self-proclaimed prophet who has replaced his human history with a heavenly autobiography through an alleged supernatural ...

Introduction: Paracetamol is the most used drug for the management of pain and as an antipyretic through its mechanism of action on Cox 1,2 and 3 receptors. Paracetamol is a lipid-soluble molecule that can pass through ...

Background: The polyol pathway contributes to the development of diabetic complications but can be inhibited by plant phytochemicals. This study aimed at assessing analogs of specific flavonoids that delay onset of ...

The research objective was to determine the physical stability and concentration of amoxicillin reconstituted oral suspension (125mg/5ml) stored under room temperature of 25°C and refrigeration temperature of 2-8°C for day ...

Law on the African continent draws from both indigenous, customary sources and from the legal norms and conventions brought to the continent by outsiders, principally colonial settlers. Historically however, customary ...

Although the African human rights legal system boasts of many treaties,1 the most relevant in the context of sexual minority rights2 is the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter),3 which agreement ...

Various members of the genus Vernonia are commonly used in traditional medicine to treat fever, malaria, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis, cough, fertility inducer and as a laxative. Vernonia myrianthum (Gymnanthemum myrianthum) ...

Malaria remains one of the most fatal diseases caused by plasmodium parasites in Sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is characterized by symptoms and resemble the flu, including fever, headache, vomiting, and among others. ...

: The purpose of the study was to analyse the influence of strategic leadership capability on performance of research institutions in Kenya. Every organization has unique corporate culture that determined its core values, ...

The internet is fast emerging as an important advertising medium in Kenya. The enhanced ICT infrastructure in Kenya resulting in improved and faster internet connection along with a drop in prices for internet services ...

Transparent and conducting thin films of TiO2:Nb were prepared on glass and aluminum substrates by dual-target reactive DC magnetron sputtering in an Ar + O2 plasma. The Nb content lay between zero and 4.9 at. % as ...

Rights issues give existing shareholders the option of purchasing new shares, normally issued at a discount to the prevailing market price in order to encourage participation in the capital raised over purchasing shares ...

urundi is part of the secondary centre of diversity for the east African highland bananas (Musa AAA EA). However, Musa diversity in Burundi has declined in the past two decades due to pests, diseases and civil unrest. A ...

Objectives: This study assessed the on-farm Musa germplasm diversity across different agro-ecologies of Rwanda and the socio-economic utilization options and selection practices that create/maintain this diversity ...

A breeding scheme was carried out to introgress resistance genes to bean Pythium root rot in various commercial varieties grown in Rwanda. The achieved crosses were performed between three selected susceptible varieties ...

The banana (Musa spp.) weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is a major pest in East Africa causing yield losses of up to 14 metric tonnes per hectare annually. Laboratory and field experiments were ...

Capital markets are normally considered to be efficient when prices reflect all the available information. However, there are instances when this information takes several weeks to be incorporated into share prices. ...

Maize is the most important and staple food in Kenya. The Kenya Maize varieties comprise of white semi-dent grains and have been bred and selected for a wide range of climatic conditions and altitudes above sea level. ...

Family businesses contribute significantly to the growth of any nation. Many multinational corporations started as family businesses and so there is need to ensure family businesses continue to grow. The continued ...

F r e q u e n t r e p o r t s o f f r a u d s i n t h e f i n a n c i a l s e c t o r i n K e n y a e s p e c i a l l y w i t h i n t h e B a n k i n g s e c t o r h a v e b e e n r e p o r t e d o v e r t h e l a s t s ...

Over the past five years, development in Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) has assumed high preposition in Kenya. The trend could be attributed to: their renewed provision of products and services that banks ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of school culture on leading strategic change in public secondary schools especially in Nakuru Sub-County. The specific objectives were to examine the effect of ...

The International Labour Organization estimates that, globally, about 2.2 million people die annually from occupational accidents and diseases another 270 million suffer from serious non-fatal injuries while 160 million ...

The study sought to assess the influence of Family constellations on psychosocial adjustments of regular third year undergraduate Students in Nakuru County, Kenya. The specific objective was to determine the influence ...

Corporations split their shares in order to make them more affordable to the retail investors. Theoretically, increased buying of the stock post split by retail investors should be experienced. Existing literature on ...

Laboratory errors are a major burden in health care systems. To decrease laboratory error and increase laboratory quality international health organizations such as the World Health Organization developed laboratory ...

Since December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on te totel industry leading to deep losses among industry players and forcing some to shut down altogether. For those that would survive the ...

The study sought to assess the influence of Family constellations on psychosocial adjustments of regular third year undergraduate Students in Nakuru County, Kenya. The specific objective was to determine the influence ...

This study aimed to explore organisational culture's role in achieving competitive advantage in Telkom Kenya. The fact that Telkom was the first Telecom Company in Kenya and yet its performance is low instead of being ...

Since 2015 some manufacturing firms in Kenya closed their business due to poor performance while others have been forced to relocate their manufacturing plants to other countries. Some companies have also scaled down ...

The Auditor General plays a critical role in the audit of public finances including the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG CDF). Public Finance Management Act, 2012 requires that at the end of each ...

The study aimed at finding out the relationship between implementation of Safety Standards and Guidelines for Physical Infrastructure in public mixed boarding secondary schools in Nakuru County, Kenya. The study was guided ...

The recently concluded voter registration exercise in Kenya, in tandem with what has become the norm in every electoral process in the country, was not without complaint. Complaints ranged from delay in issuance of ...

The striking out of parliamentary Acts in Ken y a on grounds of being unconstitutional has become a norm only second in rank to the apparent lethargy on the part of the Parliament of the Republic of Kenya to enact any ...

The above sentiment was a defence lawyer ' s response to a press interview upon winning a sensational murder case in which a Permanent Secretary had been found brutally killed in a fire inferno. His wife was charged ...

We have received the news of the re­ vival of the East African Law Journal with a lot of excitement. This is a wel­ come development in the legal and academic circles in the East African region. This journal traces ...

Burgers’ equation is a fundamental partial differential equation from fluid mechanics. It occurs in various areas of applied mathematics, such as modeling of fluid dynamics and traffic flow. It relates to the Navier-Stokes ...

A family business can be defined as a business that will be passed on for next generation to manage and control OR a business run by at least one family member OR founder operated business with anticipation of passing the ...

Water quality changes associated with livestock production include changes in nutrients loads, (nitrogen and phosphorus), microorganisms (e.g. bacteria, faecal coliforms, Cryptosporidium, Giardia) and organic material such ...

The government through the Ministry of Education has come up with the fees guidelines which are aimed at making secondaryThe government through the Ministry of Education has come up with the fees guidelines which are ...

There seem to be growing interest in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education all over the world. The concept of entrepreneurship has attracted policy makers, academics, industrialists, economists, university ...

• Effects of postmodernism is on the rise • Characterized by opposition to authority • Relativism • Pluralism • Objectivity • Research contacted among selected Churches in Nairobi

This study was undertaken to find out secondary school teachers’ level of job satisfaction in Transmara West District, Kenya. This research adopted a Cross- sectional design with stratified random sampling technique to ...

Marital conflict is a part of everyday life and how couples handle conflict in their relationship affects the strength and type of relationship a couple may have. Conflict may have the power to destroy or to build a ...

This paper explores adoption of web-based marketing services in Nakuru Municipality, Kenya. The technology adoption model, theory of planned behavior and diffusion of innovation were used to support the study. An explanatory ...

In this article an attempt is made to examine the encounter between the Agĩkũyũ and Christian eschatological hope. With the emergence of HIV and AIDS in Kenya, many communities have confronted reality of the pandemic not ...

In all cultures of the world, the subject of sex is a major concern in life and is likely to elicit embarrassment. Sexual language is subject to censoring and a potent source of euphemisms for people from all walks of ...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has in the recent past become a vital component of our society. It is one among the developing kind of technologies in Kenya and has influenced how many organisations carry ...

Islamic Banking is one of the rapidly developing areas of finance in Kenya and the world at large. This study aimed to fill the gap in knowledge of the factors that enhance profitability of Islamic banking and especially ...

Risk based supervision (RBS) is a structured approach that concentrates on the identification of potential risks faced by firms and the assessment of the financial and operational factors in place to minimize and mitigate ...

Many organizations are able to generate innovative strategic plans, but few are able to successfully implement these plans. NCPB has a five year strategic plan that runs through the year 2009 to 2013. East Africa Grain ...

The rationale of this study was to examine the factors that influence the adoption of Information Technology outsourcing by insurance companies in Kenya, with specific interest in four key factors; Establish how Financial ...

Following the adoption of the new constitution by the Kenyan Government in the year 2010, the Judiciary undertook a transformation process which was necessitated by the demand by the people of Kenya though the constitution. ...

A Sacco society is defined as a user-owed, user-controlled business that distributes benefits based on patronage. Direct government regulation of Saccos came about through legislation enacted by the Kenyan parliament, ...

Venture capital financing continues to play a major economic role in Kenya especially towards the attainment of the vision 2030 which aims at making Kenya a middle-income country. It is a type of financing that involves ...

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of occupational stress on job performance among public primary school teachers in Kuresoi Sub County of Nakuru County. A survey research design was employed and responses ...

Over the past ten years, economic planners have realized the importance of the small enterprise sector in achieving national economic development goals. However, more often than not lack of capacity to tackle the challenges ...

Despite the fact that recent statistics confirm that women’s economic activities play a crucial role in the growth of many world economies in the recent year, empirical studies have not looked at the specific effects of ...

Internal control systems play a very critical role in the attainment of organizations goals and objectives. Introduction and implementation of such internal controls in all areas of an organization may only be beneficial ...

The Kenya Government has tried to facilitate decentralization through initiatives like LATF, DFRD, CDF and ESP. The biggest challenge remains in the constitutional framework in tackling those inherent problems stemming ...

Capital structure is the mix of securities used to finance the operations of a firm. This is through a combination of debt and equity. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of capital structure decisions ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of workplace environment on the performance of Bank employees in Nakuru Town. More specifically, the study sought to establish the extent to which physical workplace ...

ABSTRACT Oral literature genres stimulate intellectual growth however appears a poorly performed genre in Kenya’s secondary school English syllabus. The poor performance is attributed to the inappropriate and ineffective ...