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Kenyatta university has expelled eights students from the university for being guilty of gross misconduct relating to inciting students, organizing and participating in the disturbances which led to destruction of University property”. The university had last year closed indefinitely following students unrest within the university.The unrest was caused after leader Kebaso Morara was disqualified from vying in the election and had moved to court to contest the disqualification. Read:Daystar University Students Boycott Classes Over Poor Services, Fee Hike The unrest led to the destruction of property within the university as the students set fire on the administration block. Here is…

A probe into Makerere University has discovered about 16000 ghost students present in the university. The committee appointed by President Museveni discovered that the students had record online but did not exist physically. According to the committee report, the university management presented student nominal rolls containing 46,128 names for verification categorized as “continuing, newly admitted and graduate students”. However, only 29,889 students (65 per cent) were verified during the committee’s headcount exercise as of February, 2017. The management also presented a payroll comprising 3,174 staff but upon headcount verification, the committee found only 2,523 employees as of February 2017, leaving…

Ababu Namwamba celebrated his birthday in style. He was seemingly drunk as he danced to the famous Nigerian Music. He boasted of drinking the worlds best tasting and branded beer referring to Heineken. Read:Mombasa NASA Supporters Celebrate Raila’s ‘Swearing In’ Despite Cancelled Fete (Video) Nominated Member of county assembly for Busia Eunice Catherine Nyongesa said that Ababu Namwamba had been the reason behind her success. She gifted the former Budalangi MP with a phone Ababu Namwamba said that the MCA was a pillar in his party. He said that she was sophisticated enough to be involved in the transformation of…

The interns employed under the Tuskys Supermarket internship programme are an angry lot after the graduates were forced to jobs below their qualifications. The advertisement for the internship allude that the interns would be given hand on experience at the retailer. Graduates who applied hoped that they would get experience in their specific area of study but instead they were reduced to shelf cleaners off loaders. During the festive season when the supermarkets are the busiest the interns were forced to stand for 12 Hours without breaks to attend to the influx in customers. The interns main complain is that…

The ministry of health is considering making shisha smoking, importation and advertising illegal in Kenya. The Ministry is in the final stages of tabling the Public Health (control of Shisha smoking) rules 2017. Read:Blame Game; CS Wamalwa, Mudavadi Fault Each Other For The Vihiga Heckling Incident Under the rules no one shall be allowed to sell or advertise the smoking of the product in Kenya. Section 3 of the rules state that: ”No person shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, use, advertise, promote or distribute Shisha in Kenya.” The rules also prohibits anyone from promoting, facilitating and encouraging smoking of…

Kenyans on twitter have joined NASA on a bandwagon pressuring Education CS Matiang’i to resign over the poor Kenya certificate of secondary Education K.C.S.E results. The results that saw only 10% of the students who sat for the exam qualifying to get a spot to pursue higher learning were released last week, just three weeks after the completion of the said exam. Kenyans on twitter have expressed that the exams were poorly marked due to the pressure by the CS to release the exams early. the examiners also complained of the deplorable state and long working hours while marking the…

Musalia Mudavadi through his spokesperson Kibisu Kabatesi has accused CS Wamalwa of organizing the heckling incident in Vihiga. He claimed that the CS orchestrated the heckling in order to gain sympathy from the Jubilee government in order to maintain his position as a cabinet secretary since there are speculations that he would be left out. Read: Orengo, Muthama, Musalia Bringing Raila Down So As To Take Over From Him – Moses Kuria On his part Eugene Wamalwa blamed Musalia Mudavadi for the violence he experienced during the Vihiga festival, he said the NASA leader allowed the crowd to continue heckling…

Nairobi woman representative Esther Passaris visited the Kenyatta National Hospital and revealed a number of patients that are forced to sleep on the floor as they have been detained at the hospital for failure to pay the bills. https://twitter.com/EstherPassaris/status/944796812086521856 She noted that the patients were mostly survivors of road carnage and lacked insurance and their families could not afford their bills https://twitter.com/EstherPassaris/status/944805685119868928 Esther Passaris called upon the president to call off the New year party at state house and instead direct those funds to clear bills for the patients at Kenyatta National Hospital. Read: KNH Rubbishes Claims 14 Babies Died…

Controversial Member of parliament, Moses Kuria has said that ‘they’ will now use live bullets to counter stones thrown by NASA supporters. He took to his Facebook account to accuse the media of downplaying the the gunshots and saying that only stones were hurled at the cabinet minister. Read: ODM’s Supremacy Threatens To Tear NASA He has accused Musalia Mudavadi of being responsible for the gun shots that were heard during the Vihiga Cultural festival. The gun shots were allegedly aimed at water cabinet secretary Eugene Wamalwa. He said that the NASA principal hired the goons behind the shooting that…

The Bunge la mwananchi has sworn in their people’s president Henry Shikanda at the Jevanjee gardens The group that is known from discussing political issues informally claim that the NASA coalition stole their idea on the people’s assembly. The inauguration happens just a day after Raila Odinga declared that his swearing in is still on course and that he was not committing any crime by being sworn in as the people’s president. Henry Shikanda was sworn in alongside his cabinet by a commissioner of oaths. Mr Skinda said that there will be no other people’s president. He said that Bunge…

Journalist Larry Madowo, who is currently on holiday in Europe had a rare opportunity to attend one of the biggest football match up in the English Premier league. He took to social media to show his ticket to the Arsenal vs. Liverpool game. No one would have expected the journalist who lives life over the top to have done nothing less than purchased the costly ticket. CEO of betting company SportPesa saw the ticket being posted on social media and told Larry Madowo that he should also have shared that he was attending the game courtesy of the sport betting…

Seven people are feared dead and several others injured after an accident occurred in Sultan Hamud along the Mombasa Nairobi highway. The accident involved a hearse and a lorry. . https://twitter.com/RoadAlertsKE/status/944484004333604865 In a separate accident on the same road one person was killed after a pick up rammed into a truck. More than 150 people have died from road accidents in the month of December. Motorists have been advised to exercise extra caution especially as the festive season approaches. Read: Patient Shoots Dead Nurse Attending To Him At Nairobi’s Chiromo Lane Medical Cent Under the twitter hashtag ‘Barabara safe,’ Kenyans…

Jubilee nominated member of parliament (MP) David ole Sankok took to the streets to celebrate daughter’s KCSE results. Rosemary Sankok managed to get a grade A- from Kipsigis Girls High school. He took to Facebook to ask friends to help him in congratulating his daughter after she passed the national exams. Sankok could not hide his jubilation as he drove around the village with his daughter and residents to celebrate. The results were released with only 10% of the students qualifying to get admission into public universities. The MP’s daughter was lucky enough to be among the percentage that will…

Flying Squad officers and administration police in Kisumu clashed over illicit brew that was allegedly being transported to the city. The administration police were trailing a car that that was allegedly transporting the liquor from Uganda. During the chase the car rammed into a guard rail but the driver escaped unhurt. As the Administration Police tried to secure the car ferrying the illicit brew the officer from the flying squad denied them access to an extent of even drawing guns at the administration police. “AP tried to secure the vehicle but the Flying Squad guys that were in another car,…

Uchumi Supermarket has reopened and is fully stocked in readiness for the festive season. The retailer which has been on its knees received a financial boosts from the government. The fully stocked outlets have a array of offers for consumers during this festive season and will trickle down to the back to school season that comes just after the new year. https://twitter.com/UchumiKenya/status/944074638044393474 The services in the retailer have also been revamped. Uchumi supermarket has been facing financial woes leading to closure of most of their major outlets around the country. Though covered in debt the supermarket has said that they…