Multimedia University students on Monday took to the streets over the recent hit and run of one of the comrades. The students are barricading the busy Magadi Road after a first year student was killed by a matatu last week. https://twitter.com/KenyanTraffic/status/1170947525873979393 Police are trying to disperse the irate students who in have been throwing stones in retaliation. Read: Six Usenge High School Students Locked-up After Being Found In Posession Of Petrol The protesting students also claim Ongataline Matatu sacco crew has been ripping them off. One student told a local blog that they have been paying double the price to…
Author: Eva Nyambura
Tanzanian star Harmonize formerly of Wasafi Records is ready to walk down the aisle with Italian fiancee, Sarah. The two have been together for a little over three years now. Harmonize popped the question while on a trip to Italy in April. The crooner went on one knee in front of Sarah’s family and close friends. It is however not clear when the lovebirds will exchange vows but it should be soon. Even with the impending nuptials theirs has not been a walk in the park, not entirely at least. His former boss, Diamond Platnumz in a song revealed that…
Before Quincy Timberlake showed up in Esther Arunga’s life there was Wilson Malaba, an interior designer and events organizer. But that was all in the past, Malaba has since moved on and got married to his best friend. They had two children. But that also changed two weeks ago when they lost their daughter, Ella. “Baby Ella you were such an instantaneous inspiration…We loved you but God loved you more. Shine on sweetheart,” the bereaved father wrote on Instagram. “I know heaven must be beautiful right now, because it has you in it,” he added. Just like Malaba, Arunga lost…
Tanzanian star Ali Kiba says his marriage is rock solid despite reports stating otherwise. Word had it that the crooner was at odds with his Mombasa-born wife Amina Khalef for his disrespectful ways. So dire were things that Amina was allegedly seeking counselling from Kiba’s parents. The disrespect, online sources stated arose after Amina, a USIU alumnus, discovered that he has another child that she was not aware of. But according to Kiba who has been promoting his new hit “Bembea”, his family is intact and those peddling the lies to mind their own business. “Ali hivi kwanza tuliskia stori…
A Mombasa principal magistrate Edgar Kagoni and four other court officials have been arrested for reckless handling of 10 kilograms of heroin worth more than Sh30 million. Kagoni was apprehended by DCI detectives alongside;Abdalla Awadh Abubakar (Executive Assistant, Mombasa Law Courts), Lawrence Thoya Bayan (Support staff Mombasa Law Courts) and Onesmus Miinda Momanyi (Court Assistant, Ruiru Law courts). “The magistrate and the three other court officials are all in lawful custody awaiting to be charged on Monday,” said DCI boss George Kinoti. Read: Police Open Fire At High Court Judge’s Car After Wife Raised Alarm Over Possible Carjack Apart from…
1,774 graduate police constables are seeking to have National Police Service Commission (NPSC) chairperson, Eliud Kinuthia and Inspector General of Police, Hilary Mutyambai jailed for contempt of court. In their petition, the officers, said Mutyambai and Kinuthia disobeyed a court order directing them to revise their salaries to match that of an inspector of police and and chief inspectors in Job Group J. In May, Judge Byram Ongaya noted that paying graduate officers a salary scale below job group J amounts to denial, violation, infringement and or threat to their fundamental rights. Read: Former IG Joseph Boinnet Sworn In As…
A Kenyan man living in the US is facing charges of domestic assault, battery, rape and kidnapping before an Oklahoma court. Erick Wanjiku is said to have strangled and raped his then girlfriend whose identity remains concealed after she refused to give in to his sexual demands. A police report indicates that the victim tried to escape severally but Wanjiku prevailed over her. Read: Kenyan, Jacob Muriithi, Arrested in USA After Threatening to Behead Colleague When she again tried to escape, the suspect is said to have dragged her upstairs and caused injuries to her body and most especially her…
Security personnel allegedly attached to former prime minister Raila Odinga were on Thursday involved in a car chase with police officers along Nakuru-Nairobi highway. The officers manning a roadblock at the Eveready junction had reportedly received information about a heavily tinted white SUV and on board armed individuals. The driver of the car did however decline to stop prompting the police to chase them into Nakuru town. Read: Police Nab Bhang Worth KSh3 Million At Emali, Makueni County With the help of boda boda riders, the officers managed to stop the car. They deflated the tyres and ordered the suspects…
Sauti Sol’s Bien Aime Baraza and his fiance Chiki Kuruka on Wednesday excited netizens after sharing a steamy lap dance video on Instagram. The video starts with Bien dancing for his girlfriend who is seated with a book in hand. As they get into the dance, Chiki sets the book aside and takes out Sh1000 notes which she tucks in Bien’s sweat pants. A few seconds into the dance, they reverse the roles. Chiki also performs a lap dance for the one quarter of the boy band. Read: Citizen TV’s Lillian Muli Finally Introduces Baby Liam Francis To Netizens (Photo)…
Meru senator Mithika Linturi’s estranged wife Marianne Kitany on Wednesday denied luring him to Sopa Lounge in Naivasha on the same day he was supposed to table an impeachment motion against then Devolution CS Anne Waiguru. During cross examination by her lawyer Dunstan Omari before Magistrate George Gesora, Ms Kitany described the scenario as one of a “willing buyer, willing seller.” “I didn’t lure him to Sopa Lodge. I confirm that we went there on our own terms. Kindly permit me, if I may, to use the words willing buyer and willing seller,” she said. Read: Governor Sonko Weighs In…
Elani’s Maureen Kunga is no longer a single lady. The scrumptious band member got hitched at a private wedding ceremony on the shores of Lake Naivasha. According to a local blog, Ms Kunga exchanged nuptials with her now husband towards the end of August in an event attended by close friends and family only. The lawyer cum singer wore a white lace gown that accentuated her waist, while her maids showed off in green dresses but each made to one’s liking. In December 2018, she and her lover held a dowry payment ceremony at her home in Meru. Then, Ms…
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko’s daughter Saumu Mbuvi can not stop talking about her lover and Lamu Senator Anwar Loitiptip. In a recent interview with Radio Jambo’s Massawe Jappani, Saumu said that she and the legislator met before the news of their attack surfaced. “He was my best friend for a while and encouraged me on my projects. He was more of a friend and all that time, he advised me in politics. Anwar was the first person I could tell about my problem,” she said. Read: Saumu Mbuvi Goes Off On Fans Accusing Her Of “Jumping From One Man To…
Nigerian songstress Tiwa Savage has cancelled her South African performance over the recent wave of violence by South Africans towards other Africans. In a tweet, the crooner said that her decision was influenced by “the barbaric butchering of my people in SA.” The DSTV delicious Festival was scheduled to start on September 21 in Johannesburg which has been hugely affected by the xenophobic attacks. “I refuse to watch the barbaric butchering of my people in SA. This is SICK. For this reason I will NOT be performing at the upcoming DSTV delicious Festival in Johannesburg on the 21st of September.…
Malik Obama, US President Barack Obama’s half brother is not new to controversy especially when it comes to throwing jabs at the latter. While their differences date back to the 1990s, the most recent feud was sparked by Malik’s support for Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump. Asked why he settled for a Trump presidency, the older Obama said, “Hillary Clinton is a liar and totally corrupt. What is her Clinton Foundation doing for Kenya if she loves Obama so much? Mr Trump is a successful businessman he will make America great again. He is not heartless. I will not be humiliated…
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) equipment at Embu Level 5 Hospital have disappeared. The medical supplies from the only two functional ICUs in the hospital are said to have been stolen weeks ago but the matter kept a secret. This we understand has led to the closure of the units. Read: KRA Set To Auction Uncleared Gov’t, Private Investors’ Goods In 750 Containers According to Citizen, chairman of the Health Select Committee at the Embu County Assembly Sammy Muturi, the equipment went missing weeks ago but an undisclosed number of people have since been apprehended. Investigations into the matter are ongoing…
