Author: Cyrus

The host of Networking in Heels event, Violett Nduku Wambua is tonight spending her night at Central Police station after detectives stormed Nairobi Safari Club and arrested her tonight for owing some of his clients more than Ksh 500,000. Violett was just about to host the event tonight when cops called her aside and asked her to accompany them to the Central Police station. She was arrested after failing to pay The Norfolk around Ksh 210,000 and Sarova Stanley Ksh 315,000. Knowing that she owes the two hotels, Violett decided to host the event at another hotel without paying what…

Two senior Nairobi County officials have been accused of running a corruption cartel. The two, Stephen Osiro (acting Treasury Chief) and Lilian Ndegwa (the county Secretary) have been accused of being behind the plunder of the county resources. According to insiders, Osiro and Ndegwa insist on receiving 10% from every contractor or supplier paid by the county. The two would send their emissaries to collect the payments so as not to attract attention. The two are said to have more than 50% of the suppliers loyal to them while Chief of Staff Wainaina has the remaining 50%. The two are…

NTV is reportedly planning to switch back on tomorrow (Tuesday) after desperately trying even to use the Aga Khan to get the government to suspend to digital migration and allow them to broadcast on the analogue platform. President Uhuru Evades Top Media Bosses Waiting for Him at State House The President flatly refused to allow even former President Moi or the Aga Khan to convince him that he needed to allow analogue transmission any more. With the Aga Khan having unsuccessfully tried to convince the President, the majority shareholder at Nation Media Group implored NMG CEO to embrace technology. Jeff Koinange,…

The true story of the role of Franklin Bett played in the 2013 general elections can be revealed today. The sly former Roads minister Franklin Bett, who acted as the ODM National Elections Board Chairman and also later as the CORD national coordinating committee co-chair during the 2013 campaign cut a secret deal with the Jubilee coalition to facilitate vote tampering via the deliberate national failure of IEBC’s electronic voting equipment that would leave ODM and CORD leaders seething with anger after the results were announced. Three months before the March 2013 electoral fraud, Bett met with senior Jubilee coalition…

Key NTV, KTN and Citizen TV presenters and hosts are planning to migrate to other platforms as the digital migration stalemate extends. According to sources close to Jeff Koinange, Churchill and Citizen TV’s Janet Mbugua, the three met some rivals to their current bosses and they might be planning a migration as they depend on shows and so they might not be able to sustain themselves if the stalemate continues. Churchill (Churchill Live and Churchill Raw), Jeff Koinange (JKL), Janet Mbugua (Citizen TV presenter/host) and Dennis Okari (still confused with no strong brand) met an undisclosed location and voiced their…

KBC decided to revamp its popular court room drama, Vioja Mahakamani. According to a teaser uploaded on YouTube, the series new cast consist of young actors like Aliwa (Gospel singer), Ayimba, Dr Ofweneke, Nice Githinji, Maasai and others. New Vioja Mahakamani teaser The change in cast came about after KBC informed the Ondiek Nyuka Akwota Oloba Man Giddy, ALbert Makacha bin Makoha and Alexander Josephat that they will need to change the look of the show and bring in new actors. The team refused and insisted that they were good the way they were and so were not willing to…

US Police in the city of Los Angelese have confirmed to TMZ that they are looking for the thief who stole Lupita Nyong’o’s pearl dress after the Oscars on Sunday evening. The white dress designed by Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein and contains more than 6,000 pearls, is said to be worth around Ksh 13 million or $150,000. The police reportedly received official report about the theft on Wednesday evening from a member of Lupita’s team. The thief didn’t steal anything but the dress. There are currently no suspects but the police is reviewing the hotel’s CCTV to see if the…

Players of top Kenya Premier League side Sofapaka are tonight stranded in Nairobi after failing to raise $24,000 in airfare to Harare Zimbabwe. The players were scheduled to depart Nairobi this evening but this has not been possible as sources close to the players indicate that the club owes the tour agent more than $10,000 in unpaid dues. The players and club officials scheduled to travel to Zimbabwe are listed in the official mail below The club is the country’s representative in the CAF Confederation cup where they will play Zimbabwe’s FC Platinum. The club President, Elly Kelekwa is said…

A serious disagreement has erupted between the ruling Jubilee coalition parties over alleged backstabbing and dishonesty by the president’s TNA party. Sources say a fierce behind-the-scene disagreement has arisen between higher level cadre of URP and TNA with accusations and counter accusations from both sides. When Uhuru Kenyatta posted a facebook status update indicating that he had visited his research and media monitoring team at their new offices at KICC, Nairobi in the company of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the news came as a crushing thunderbolt to their coalition partners URP who had all along been making preparations…

A Kisumu based advocate has been accused by her clients based in South Africa of conning them money and giving them bouncing date. The advocate, Margaret Aloo Ochanji-Opondo, who was representing the South Africa based women group, Nyinam Investment Group, took Ksh 4.952million from the group but did not submit the payment in time for the purchase of the property intended. Margaret was then asked to refund the payment but fearing being exposed, she went to court demanding that the court rule that the group should have paid her a total of over one million shillings as costs to the…

Key Office of the President officials based at Harambee House and State House are on the spot as the Students Organisation of Nairobi University election nears. The State House officials are seeking to sponsor students from the GEMA community to remove others from the leadership of SONU. The officials close to President Uhuru Kenyatta are led by former SONU chairman, Dann Mwangi, who is a senior political advisor of the President. Dann Mwangi is said to be providing monetary and other resources to key students in University of Nairobi to vie for SONU leadership. While meeting the students he wants to…

After failing to agree with the government over the Digital Migration, KTN, Citizen Tv and NTV have all been begging Kenyans to view their TVs online and support them in the propaganda war with the government. The three TV stations have all prepared short web casts where they allow viewers to sample some of their offerings through the internet. So KTN took to Facebook to promote its online shows and the comments would make you fall off the plastic chair you are sitting on. Post by KTN Kenya. Getting commenters who talk favourably about the three stations, even on their…

President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday kept the media bosses of NTV, KTN and Citizen TV waiting at State House as he was busy attending to fellow Presidents at the EAC summit at KICC. The President alegedly invited the media bosses at State House, but he was angered by the manner in which the Media Owners and the CEOs of the three TV stations were handling the digital migration debacle. After inviting the bosses, the President was informed that the media owners were still peddling lies and speaking a lot of untruths about the migration so meeting them would have been like…

An investigative piece on Aljazeera’s People and Power has detailed how international football frauds bribe players, referees and national federation officials to rig international qualifiers matches for money. In the piece shown on February 19th, up to 3 Harambee Stars players were offered close to $100,000 to loose the match to Nigeria so that the West African nation would qualify for the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The names and faces of the players who met the Singaporean behind the deal at Safari Park in November 2009, are blacked out but it will not take time before the names…

M-Net has announced that it will close the Maisha Magic DSTV channel by end of March 2015 after the channel failed to perform to the expectations of the company. Now the viewers have one month to sample the offerings before the channel is permanently closed. M-Net revealed this yesterday saying that the channel will be closed after review of the rankings and popularity of the channels. The CEO of M-Net Sub-Saharan Africa, Patricia Van Rooyen said; Unfortunately, Maisha Magic has not performed and grown as per our expectations. Overall, the channel was unable to achieve the ratings consistency we needed to sustain…