Author: Francis Muli

Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o is among the most dangerous celebrities on the internet in 2019, a new report by cybersecurity firm McAfee has indicated. McAfee lists Lupita among the top 10 most dangerous celebrities, whose names could land you into a website with malware when searched on the internet. Gilmore Girls actor Alexis Bledel, who also featured in Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants was ranked first. Read: Size 8 Flaunts Baby Bump In Stunning Maternity Shoot Months After Suffering Miscarriage [Photo] Late Late Show host James Corden was ranked second while Sophie Turner from Game of Thrones was ranked third ahead…

Former deputy Auditor-General Stephen Kinuthia was today arraigned in court over the irregular procurement of Ksh100 million audit software. He was charged alongside 13 others including his two sons, Desmond Kinuthia and Nelson Kinuthia. Other members of his family charged alongside him include Florence Waithira Kinuthia, Jane Wangui Kinuthia and Charmine Kinuthia. Charles Njuguna, an advocate of the High Court, was also charged alongside Kinuthia for the loss of Ksh64 million taxpayers money in an inflated procurement. Others include Annette Mwangi, Patrick Shem Kamau Kairu, Ephantus Kairu Kahwae, Sylvester Kiptoo Kiplagat, Charles Githinji Gichobi, Charles Karisa Mwaduni, Edward Mulewa Mwachinga…

Lawyer and ICT practitioner Adrian Kamotho has taken to court Kenya’s three mobile service providers Safaricom, Airtel and Telkom over the expiry of data bundles. Also sued is the industry regulator, the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) in the case filed at the Communications and Multimedia Appeals Tribunal. “That an order directing the respondents (Safaricom, Airtel, Telkom) to enable active subscribers to roll over used data at all times,” Kamotho says in the petition. The lawyer also wants the telcos to allow subscribers to transfer unused data to other users on the same network. This comes few days after the…

Police in Tagare village in Kuria West, Migori County are holding a 30-year-old woman accused of beating to death a KCPE candidate whom she was taking care of for coming home late. Media reports indicate that the 17-year-old candidate at Tagare Primary School came home at 2am from unknown place, triggering a thorough beating from her guardian, Linet Biyaki. Neighbours say that the woman used a rod to instill discipline on the minor, inflicting serious injuries that led to her death. Read: Mystery Woman In Fidel Property Wrangle Comes Out, Terms Ida’s Petition Malicious The girl was rushed by neighbours…

Kenyans are upset with reports that the proposed construction of the JKIA-Westlands expressway will cut through the iconic Uhuru Park. The road which is being constructed by the China Roads and Bridge Company (CRBC) is set to start operations in 2023, under the management of the Chinese. The road will be handed over to the Kenyan government in 2049, after China has minted a cool Ksh102 billion through toll charges. Saloon cars will pay a fee of Ksh6 per kilometre to use the road, which would translate to Ksh162 while trucks with four or more axles will pay Ksh30 per…

A man suspected to have brutally murdered Catholic priest Michael Kyengo now claims that he was in a homosexual relationship with the man of the cloth, further complicating investigations. According to reports by the Star, sleuths looking into the matter found romantic messages exchanged between the priest and the suspect in their phones. The suspect, 25-year-old Michael Muthini, is a trained nursery school teacher. Kyengo was killed on October 5 and his body recovered on October 16 from a shallow grave in a riverbed at Mbeere South, Embu County. Read: Murdered Meru Catholic Priest Was In The Company Of Lover…

Finlays Kenya Limited has announced that it is closing two flower firms in Chemirei and Tarakwet, following a difficult operating environment in Kenya. This is set to render at least 1,100 workers jobless, as the firm contemplates closing the firms by December this year, a year earlier that it had been communicated. In a letter dated October 19, Stephen Scott, the Finlays Flowers General Manager stated that the company’s directors had decided to shut down flower farming operations in Chemirei and Tarakwet a year earlier than it had earlier communicated to the workers. The firm had announced the closure dates…

Proprietors of Mathai Supermarket in Murang’a are counting losses following a night fire that gutted the supermarket. The fire is reported to have started at around midnight, and the only available fire engine in the town was unable to contain the fire, which reduced to ashes property worth millions. “Only one vehicle arrived to put out the fire and this contributed to it spreading fast,” a witness said as quoted by the Nation. The fire started in the first floor of the building that houses the supermarket, and spread to other floors. Read: Pilots Suspend Talks With KQ Over “Dishonesty…

A black couple was this weekend evicted from the De Wet Road guest house in Cape Town for being black in a suspected case of discrimination. In a series of tweets, Kumkanikazi using the twitter handle @NyamsieM explained how they were booked to the hotel by Rennies Travel, but ware sent packing immediately the management noted that they are black. “We have just been evicted from a guest house booked by our traveling agent the minute he notice we black at Camps bay Capetown, our Uber driver just said welcome to capetown,” she tweeted on Friday last week. One of…

The battle for the late Fidel Odinga’s property has taken a new twist after it emerged that Lwam, Fidels widow, was trying to conceal part of Fidel’s property according to Ida Odinga. According to Idaand her daughter Winnie Odinga, Lwam had omitted several properties in the inventory of her late husband’s estate. Ida also accused Lwam of withdrawing her grandson from fomal education soon after the death of Fidel in 2015, and also vacated their matrimonial home. “It is not in dispute that Ms.Bekele was the legally married wife to the late Fidel (sic) but we are worried that the…

Just days after Citizen TV news anchor and political affairs host Hussein Mohamed announced his exit from the Royal Media-owned station a section of Kenyans seem to have his replacement already, at least in their minds. With only a few days to Hussein’s official exit, the name of Abubakar Abdullahi of recently launched TV47, has popped up on the interwebs with tweeps suggesting that he is best placed to replace Hussein at the Samuel Macharia-owned media. The video of the young man anchoring news was first shared by a tweep, Ahmed Mohammed, on October 4 when Hussein announced his resignation.…

State House Chief of Staff Nzioka Waita has threatened to sue the Standard newspaper over a story that alleged that he had fallen out with the executive. According to the article published on its daily edition of October 11, Mr Waita is fighting to save his job, following a vicious power struggle involving State House insiders which has seen him take a “sabbatical”. “The entire content of the impugned article contains extremely false, deeply untrue and recklessly libellous information. It appears that your newspaper’s sole intention of publishing the article is to damage the reputation of our client in the…

The turbulence at Kenya Airways (KQ) is yet to phase out, as pilots have slammed the door on collective bargaining agreement (CBA) talks. According to the Kenya Airline Pilots Association (Kalpa), the parties differed on the mode to be used to address pilot shortage at KQ, as Kalpa accused KQ of dishonesty. “The association hereby suspends participation in CBA negotiations due to gross violations of the CBA and the lack of goodwill thereof from management,” said Kalpa General-Secretary Captain Murithi Nyagah in a letter to KQ. Following the suspension, Kalpa filed a suit in court, seeking to declare a trade…

The Football Kenya Federation (FKF) is now struggling to explain how an Outside Broadcasting Van (OB Van) purchased at a tune of Ksh135 million vanished, with reports indicating that the van was repossessed by Supersport. The van was bought between 2016 and 2017, a time the federation hoped to fill the gap left by Supersport in sports coverage, which had left the country. FKF received funds from Fifa and contracted WTS Global to procure the an, which was bought from Supersport. However, according to reports, WTS never paid the amount in full, forcing Supersport to repossess the van early this…

A major fallout is being witnessed in Likoni, as the multi-agency teams in the retrieval operations of a car that plunged into the ocean two weeks ago accuse the Kenyan Navy of taking credit alone. On Wednesday, the South African divers left the country after they spotted the car, after an alleged disagreement with the commanders of the Kenya Navy who are manning the operation. According to media reports, the private divers were displeased by a statement on Wednesday that declared the recovery effort an exclusive Kenya Navy affair without acknowledging the role by the South Africans. Yesterday, the rescuers…