Author: Eva Nyambura

Simba Cement Company is on the spot for violating the subsidiary to the Regulations of Wages and Conditions of  Employment Act that stipulates 8 working hours during weekdays. The staff will be required to clock in their time of arrival and departure and will only get paid for hours worked. ”All factory workers under Heritage contract will be paid for actual hours worked as per clocking machine punching time. If any worker worked for less than 12 hours then payment will be calculated accordingly based on actual clocking hours duly confirmed and signed by the respective head of department,” read…

There was drama in Homa Bay High Court after Governor Cyprian Awiti’s supporters and those of former Kasipul MP Oyugi Magwanga clashed outside the courtroom. The hearing challenging Awiti’s re-election was adjourned for close to thirty minutes by Judge Joseph Karanja. ”I’m likely to move this court if you cannot control your supporters. We are all straining to hear what is being said because of unnecessary noise,” the judge warned. Youths fought outside the premises, accusing the other of blocking their way into the courtroom. “You can’t block us from getting into the court because this is a public institution.…

Hot 96 morning show co-host, Felix Oduor alias Jalang’o has been receiving threats from a woman claiming to have had his child from ten years ago. The woman, a former girlfriend, Jalang’o says left him before the money and fame. He was living in Mwiki, Kasarani before the unnamed ‘lover’ upped and left. She, according to the comedian left him only to return after he landed a job at Kiss 100, co-hosting alongside Caroline Mutoko. “When she came visiting me in Mwiki she realized that it isn’t all glitter and glam. She visited me twice in my place and after…

A private school was on Monday morning deregistered following exam malpractices that occurred ‘on or about 9 and 10 November, 2017.’ St Theresa Girls Senior School’s head was served with a deregistration notice from Education PS Dr Belio Kipsang, that will be effective 1 December, 2017. ”It has been decided that the registration of your school as provided for in the basic Education act, 2013, be revoked with effect from 1st December 2017,” the letter read. The school was asked to immediately handover its current certificate to the County Education Board secretary. Read: Young Man Behind ‘Easy Coach’ Mini Model…

NASA will on Thursday hold a ‘dress rehearsal rally for the grand welcome on Friday,’ opposition leaders have said. Johnston Muthama, James Orengo and Boni Khalwale have invited ‘millions of patriots’ for the Kamukunji rally that will happen on the eve of Raila Odinga’s return from his US, UK trips. ”NASA plans a grand and befitting welcome for this indomitable and indefatigable leader. To this effect, the organisers of the grand welcome invite supporters to a major rally at the Kamukunji grounds in Kamukunji constituency in Nairobi on Thursday, November 16, 2017. The rally will be dress rehearsal for the…

The clergy will on Monday conduct a cleansing ceremony right before Nyeri county’s Deputy Governor, Mutahi Kahiga takes oath of office. Mr Kahiga’s swearing in ceremony was put off indefinitely on Thursday following the untimely death of Governor Wahome Gakuru. Dr Gakuru died on Tuesday along the Murang’a-Thika road where his car hit a ‘killer guardrail.’ He died at the Thika Level 5 hospital. Before him was Governor Nderitu Gachagua, who just like him died in office. Gachagua passed on in February after losing a two year battle to pancreatic cancer while undergoing treatment in London. Kahiga, a former teacher…

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) will on Thursday ‘take over Nairobi’ led by the general, Miguna Miguna. The international lawyer invited the NRM supporters to walk to Jomo Kenyatta Airport (JKIA) where they will receive the ‘peoples President,’ Raila Odinga. https://twitter.com/MigunaMiguna/status/929700926239145984 The ‘millions of patriots fighting against the despots’ will on 16 November march to the JKIA at an unspecified time. According to Boni Khalwale, James Orengo, the former prime minister will receive a ‘grand reception that has never been seen before.’ There will be four cars only; for Moses Wetangula, Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi and Odinga, they told their…

Is Amina Abdi set to take over NTV’s The Trend after her two year stint at K24 Alfajiri? Word has it that she will be taking over from Larry Madowo who quit the show because he ‘could not compete with his students anymore.’ Larry felt like every Friday night show was trying to copy The Trend and felt it was time to let others take over. Taking over was Njambi Koikai, Anita Nderu and sometimes Ciru Muriuki who over the weekend left the show. Ms Abdi, also the Turn Up show host alongside DJ Joe Mfalme on her last day…

Actor Nick Mutuma is a man under siege after he was accused of forcing himself on women. This was after a number of screenshots leaked online, Twitter to be precise. Mutuma is said to have during Ameru Festival 2016, tried forcing himself on an unidentified woman. He allegedly followed her to the parking lot where he tried getting physical. Read: Divers Suggest Traditional Rituals As Exercise To Find Missing Bodies From Helicopter Crash Turn Futile https://twitter.com/KoomeGitobu/status/928864651844161537 https://twitter.com/KoomeGitobu/status/928883302714564608 https://twitter.com/KoomeGitobu/status/928883754545885184 https://twitter.com/KoomeGitobu/status/928884117927874560 Do you have a story you want told? Do you know of a sensitive story you would like us to get…

Ministry of Holiness and Repentance members led by Prophet David Owuor in Kaptabuk have had their homes set on fire by angry locals. The village elders want the church members to vacate because they ‘do not associate with the community they don’t contribute to harambees, they hold crusades without informing village elders and their children don’t go to school because their parents spend most of the time in church without taking care of their families.’ Close to 15 homes have been razed down forcing families to flee for their lives. Bishop Zachary Kasipoi came to his church’s defence saying that…

Nyeri teachers will on Friday take to the streets should Deputy governor, Mutahi Kahiga not take oath of office before noon. The teachers, led by area KNUT chair, Patrick Karinga felt like Mutahi’s swearing in was taking too long a time. The Deputy Governor was set to take oath of office on Thursday but was postponed indefinitely following Dr Wahome Gakuru’s death on Tuesday. Gakuru lost his life at the Thika Level 5 hospital after his care hit what has been said to have been a ‘killer guardrail.’ According to executive secretary Zachary Mathenge, the delay in swearing in Kahiga…

The eye witness present at Nyeri Governor, Wahome Gakuru and the Nakuru chopper crash accidents, Dennis Muigai Ngengi has been apprehended by the police. He was arrested in Naivasha on Thursday night by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and taken to Nairobi for questioning. Dennis who has denied being at the nakuru crash said, caught the people’s attention after he gave an account of the late Dr Gakuru’s, Kabati accident. The professional eye witness as many have referred to him, while speaking to Citizen Digital said that the Nakuru crash witness must have been ‘a close relative.’ He…

University of Nairobi (UoN) Vice Chancellor Prof Peter Mbithi is a morally inept megalomaniac, hell bent on running the institution to the ground. Kahawa Tungu had exclusively ran a story on how the sex pest defiled his niece Teresia Ndunge before giving her a job at the Institution thus stirring a family feud. While his poor management skills are not disputable, the man has taken it a notch higher and is now running UoN like his private business. A probe has exposed how Mbithi is using cronies to bar the University Governing Council legally constituted under the Education and gazetted…

Leader of Majority and Elgeyo Marakwet Senator, Kipchumba Murkomen despite him being a Jubilee party member and DP William Ruto’s close ally, is still a big fan of former Premiere, Raila Odinga. He divulged the information after a picture of himself back in the University of Nairobi with Odinga went viral on Social Media. https://twitter.com/kipmurkomen/status/928531937429524481 Kenyans on Twitter had this to say: Read: NASA Forms People’s Assembly To Restore Democracy, Maintains October Poll Results Were Predetermined https://twitter.com/SaddiqueShaban/status/928532669876654080 https://twitter.com/AOgolla/status/928552562659381248 https://twitter.com/YesKeller1/status/928549582820163584 https://twitter.com/sylvesterokumu/status/928549466176503808 Do you have a story you want told? Do you know of a sensitive story you would like us to…

National Super Alliance (NASA) will on Friday resume their demonstrations in Nairobi. The coalition, through Lawyer Edwin Sifuna has written to Nairobi Police Commander Japheth Koome notifying him of the peaceful protests meant to push for electoral reforms. “Our clients intend to hold peaceful processions/ demonstrations on Friday November 10, 2017 within Nairobi County as part of its quest for electoral justice and an end to electoral impunity in Kenya.” “You are hereby notified of the same and requested to provide security during the said procession/ demonstration to ensure criminal elements do not take advantage to harm protesters, the public…