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Majid Al Futtaim has opened its third Carrefour store in Kenya at the former Nakumatt space in Thika Road Mall “TRM”. The new store will operate with partial area and product range as major refurbishment work gets underway in the 5,000 square metre selling area. The rush to open the store was to cash on the upcoming holiday shopping around the Christmas season. The store will open fully around June 2018. Franck Moreau, Country Manager, at Majid Al Futtaim – Retail Kenya said, “We are pleased and honoured to be bringing our services closer to the residents of Roysambu and…

Dar-es-salaam High Court has sentenced Elizabeth Michael alias Lulu to 2-years in jail for causing the death of Bongo movies star Steven Kanumba. Delivering the judgement at Kisutu, Judge Sam Rumanyika avered that though Lulu was only 17 years old when the death occurred 5 years ago, he played a part his death which happened after a domestic fight. READ: Esther Arunga Arrested in Australia ‘for Being an Accessory to Son’s Murder’ According to the judge, the circumstantial evidence delivered to the court served as the sole basis for convicting the accused who chose to hide some information from the court.…

Jubilee Party has pulled some crude manoeuvres which have now ensured that President Uhuru’s contested win is protected from Chief Justice Maraga and Deputy Chief Justice Mwilu. While the party strongly opposed and voiced concerns after the Supreme Court nullified the win of President Uhuru terming some actions by IEBC illegal and irregular, the ruling party has upped the game this time reaching out to key judges, isolating the CJ and DCJ while at the same time intimidating some of those believed to be threatening the Presidency of Uhuru. Judiciary chief of Staff Duncan Okello and the Registrar Esther Nyaikaki…

KahawaTungu can exclusively reveal that Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore was recently diagnosed with Leukemia and is scheduled to undergo rigorous medical procedures in London. While we wish Bob well as he seek treatment, the timing of the announcement of his departure has raised questions on why it had to be done concurrent to the announcement of presidential results. The embattled CEO who has recently faced accusations of corruption, illegal data sharing and adultery involving women who are married, some who are working at Safaricom, was shocked to find out from his doctor that he has the cancer of the blood.…

Lupita Nyong’o is the daughter of Prof. Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, now the governor of Lakeside County of Kisumu. He is building a Lupita Nyong’o themed arts centre. It seems like the governor’s immediate plans are to have his daughter Lupita Nyong’o inspire the generations in the county by giving back in a way. The county government is planning to build a theatre and arts centre which will help nurture the talents and encourage the creativity of young people who now lack space as every open space is being filled with apartments and buildings. Artistic impression of the Kisumu Arts Centre;…

A top ODM and NASA supporter Nicholas Owino is appealing the coalition leadership to come to his aide as he is in deep pain. He was admitted at Kenyatta Hospital after getting run over by a police vehicle durign the NASA demonstrations. Nicholas Owino aka Owino Mawe who has been a strong ODM supporter since 2004 has been admitted at the KNH with multiple fractures sustained during the latest NASA demonstrations which were meant to force IEBC to halt the repeat elections. Owino was taken to hospital by Esther Passaris who only paid Ksh 1,500 and was later visited by…

Social media accounts of opposition coalition – NASA – bloggers have been hacked and most of the content deleted, actions which is now being suspected to be implemented by Jubilee. According to the bloggers, the Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts of Dikembe Disembe, Phil Wesonga, Abdullahi Musa and Lee Makwiny have all been taken over in the recent times with the hackers mostly striking at night to edit or delete content posted on the pages. Just this morning, Abdullahi Musa has found out that he lost control of his social media accounts after waking up and finding that he can’t…

Questions are being asked over the incident which has seen Rachel Shebesh’s husband, Frank Shebesh, hospitalised with a bullet lodged on his leg. Sources close to the former legislator’s family have indicated that there is more to the shooting than is being revealed. The trajectory of the bullet lodged on the leg is a sign that Frank Shebesh was probably shot by someone else and not shot while cleaning his gun in the bedroom. The bullet entered Frank’s body at almost 90 degrees making it hard to re-imagine that he shot himself while cleaning the gun, unless he was sitting with…

NASA supreme Raila Odinga has gotten access to deep data from the OT-Morpho team, giving him a glimpse of how people voted in the last general election held on 26th October. According to sources which are outside the country, the NASA leader got insider informations including the push and pull at IEBC and the deep analytics and raw voting data from the kits which have been printed out and handed over to him. Raila is expected to give out this information to the public and announce his cause of action with the data he has. READ: Moses Kuria Issues Stern Warning…

A leaked memo has exposed the intricate working networks of data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica which has been been responsible for Jubilee’s emotional manipulation. According to the memo the firms New York office. the firm revealed it’s strategy of making NASA supporters appear violent by hiring violent thugs to infiltrate the demos and attack those not protesting and loot from traders and shops. The firm also used the first family to manipulate the emotions of others who are easily swayed by Mama Margaret Kenyatta and her children going down to campaign for the President. This is achieved by highly publicising…

IEBC has given updates indicating that around 48% of the 19 million registered voters in Kenya voted in the repeat elections. That means that President Uhuru needs only around 4.5 million more votes to be declared as duly elected. In the update, IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati also indicated that voting occurred in 87% of the polling stations meaning that NASA’s poll boycott call was not so effective in having most parts of the country stay away from the polling centers. The update has been disputed by most NASA leaders active online with them claiming that Chebukati is sexing up the…

The bodyguards of Jubilee MPs have thoroughly beaten Mathare MP Anthony Oluoch forcing Nairobi Senator to step in and protect the MP from further beatings. In the melee at Panafric Hotel in Nairobi, the NASA aligned Mathare MP booked the press conference venue and issued a statement indicating that less than 10% of Kenyans have voted in the repeat polls. Immediately after the NASA MPs finished addressing the press conference, Jubilee aligned MPs led by Senator Kipchumba Murkomen stormed the venue and announced that only Luos boycotted the polls and its is Raila who lost and not all Kenyans. The…

Senate Speaker Ken Lusaka has expressed optimism that today’s voting will be a successful exercise. Speaking to the press just after voting at Kamukuywa ACK Primary School in Kimilili Constituency, Bungoma County, Mr Lusaka said he was impressed by the turnout of the people who sought to exercise their democratic right. “I am glad the exercise is running peacefully. I applaud the people of Bungoma and Kenya at large for upholding the tenets of our constitution. To those who wouldn’t want to vote, it is their democratic right, too, and we must respect it,” he said. According to the Speaker,…

Nairobi County government has indicated that NASA has not booked the historic Uhuru Park for their rally today. They have said that all procedures must be followed to book the park for their rally. According to the County Secretary, the coalition doesn’t have any prior bookings of the venue. The county government is asking the police to seal off the venue and not allow anyone into Uhuru park. The move is a drawback to NASA which was expected to make a “historic announcement” at the venue on this eve of tomorrow’s election. NASA has indicated that they are boycotting the…

EU and Commonwealth have withdrawn their observers from the Kenyan election with saying that there are credible threats to its staff. In a statement, the two international observer missions have indicated that there are threats against its staff in the field as a good number of Kenyans are against the election and the principal challenger of President Uhuru, Raila Odinga, has withdrawn from the race. And the link to the statement is here > https://t.co/ugWmNoqqZs https://t.co/97Vn2Cj8MY — Marietje Schaake (@MarietjeSchaake) October 24, 2017 However, EU is maintaining a small group of staff who are more of like in holiday than…