Author: Cyrus

CORD luminary Senator Moses Wetangula is now admitted at Agha Khan hospital after collapsing at the Kisumu International Airport last evening. The senator who was just from Morocco and had not rested well, collapsed due to exhaustion according to sources inside the hospital. The Senator is currently being attended to and will be out of hospital soon.

Chinese pay television services operator StarTimes has been barred by a South African court from broadcasting indecent videos. StarTimes through its affiliate StarSat and its parent company have been slapped with the ban after an organisation called Justice Alliance of SA (JASA) and Justice and Doctors for Life went to court to block the move by South Africa’s communications regulator, Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA), to issue StarSat with the license to broadcast adult content. The Chinese owned broadcaster was issued with the license in April 2014, allowing it to air hard-core adult videos on dedicated channels. Church pastors from…

Kenya is the 109th most prosperous country in the world, according to the Legatum Institute’s prosperity index, a position up from 116nth in 2013. The Legatum Prosperity Index analyses and ranks 142 countries across the globe, measuring around 89 variables namely a country’s: Economy; Level of entrepreneurship and opportunity; Governance; Education; Health; Safety and security; Personal freedom; and Social capital. Legatum says its index is the only global measurement of prosperity based on both income and well-being. Norway is the most prosperous country with strong economy and high satisfaction by the citizens. While sub-Saharan Africa showed the biggest positive regional changes in the world, it…

The Headmaster of Got Kokech Primary School in Homa Bay County (Charles Nyamwaya) is a heartless man. The school head has reportedly sent away a young boy because he is not able to afford Ksh 280 fee to feed invigilators supervising the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education ( KCPE) exams in the school. Now the headmaster has forced the candidate to miss several papers because he was not able to deliver the fee in time. Erick Otieno Asila missed two papers on Tuesday and another on Wednesday after he was sent home by the head teacher. The head teacher ordered a Mr Douglas…

ODM has finally appointed an acting Executive Director to replace the embattled Magerer Langat. The decision was made by the party’s Secretary General Prof. Anyang Nyong’o after meeting all Orange House staff. The SG later held a brief meeting with all directors after which he announced his decision. The move comes a day after Wafula Buke announced himself as the replacement to Magerer a decision which was opposed by the Secretary General in a statement released last evening. Magerer Langat was ejected from the headquarters of the leading political party after he was reported in a section of the media…

After KTN’s exposé on Prophet Kanyari, a lady who was invited to the Daughters of Zion meeting where she left completely unimpressed. Read her testimony below; I was introduced to DOZ by a friend. The first saturday, I got there pretty late, the church was in Ngara then. It was the end of a powerful preaching and she insisted on everyone picking an envelope, putting in a an amount. The crowd had already been excited so this was easy. I didn’t want to miss out so I think I put in some KES. The week went by as usual, as…

Early this year, Gor Mahia was looking for a sponsor after Tuzo ended their sponsorship. Tuzo ended the sponsorship not because of any problem with Gor Mahia but because they wanted to consolidate all sports sponsorships under the Brookside brand. So Gor approached other corporates, one of them being the New KCC. The marketing team did a proposal with samples. The company was interested in having the Gor Mahia brand push the Taifa Fresh brand which, according to KCC, was suppose to be the “fighter brand” as the Fresh Milk and others sit pretty. The Taifa Fresh brand was suppose…

By Gabriel Oguda President Uhuru Kenyatta can ride on anything he wants. Isn’t Kenya his house and us his children, and all our property his own? Whether he rode on a broomstick to the KICC to launch a project he has no knowledge about is not the subject matter here. If you were to ask a forsaken Nairobi commuter to list his demands in order of priority, the mode of paying commuter fees will rank lowest in his checklist. In March 2014, Governor Evans Kidero promised Nairobians that by July 2014, Nairobi City County will have its own metro buses…

Inspector General of the Kenya Police Service has now ordered all police flags be flown at half-mast. This is Kimaiyo’s way of saving face after having left the police officers die like dogs in one of the worst massacres of young police officers. The IG sent out a signal to all police stations in the country ordering that the flags be flown that way to honour the 21 officers killed in the Kapedo Massacre. Meanwhile, details have emerged how the 21 officers called for helicopter reinforcement for 30 hours without success. They were eventually outnumbered and butchered like chicken by…

A gang of 4 armed robbers killed a watchman at the popular Mama Oliech’s restaurant along Marcus Garvey road in Kilimani estate. The gang which was armed with pangas, knives and a pistol raided the restaurant around 3am where they found the gates not locked. The restaurant is guarded with 2 watchmen. They ordered one to lie down before trying to break the main door to the restaurant. They then found a second guard who had then started making noise to alert neighbours. A member of the gang ordered his colleague to stab the noise making guard to “nyamazisha” him. Guards…

One thing you will notice among the Kenyans on Twitter recently is the emergence of a group of trolls only known for empty viral following. They run followership campaigns hoping to gain followers or reward the very foolish with non-existent followers. Leading this band is Cyprian Nyakundi, Victor Mochere and xtiandela. They are not popular in any way in Kenya for anything but they have so many followers on Twitter. So you ask yourself how they got so many followers. They bought them!!! There are many ways of buying Twitter followers. Their first trick was to lure you into some viral…

Passengers travelling to Lagos, Nigeria on Kenya Airways flight KQ532 have been ordered out after a passenger going to Lubumbashi, DRC boarded the flight by mistake. The flight to Lagos Nigeria was supposed to depart at 9AM. The mistake was discovered on routine cabin crew check when the plane was already taxiing and all passengers were seated. The flight crew managed to have the flight stopped and recalled because of the mistake. The passenger was suppose to be on KQ584 which goes through Ndola and Lubumbashi. KQ has been forced to change the whole flight crew after the mistake. Now all…

It seems that the rage of athlete Ezekiel Kemboi knows no boundaries. The 3000 steeplechase Olympics and World Champion was on Saturday involved in an altercation which led to the athlete brandishing a gun and his lady companion ouring some weird liquid on a lady motorist who was just asking that the athlete be patient as the lady motorist was parking. It was at a night club called Platinum 7D Lounge next to the Tuskys Supermarket along Nakuru – Nairobi highway when the lady named Charity Wachira was looking for parking as she wanted to enter the club when she saw a…

A Kenya Navy soldier was this morning killed when armed attacked tried to raid the heavily guarded 17 Kenya Rifles barracks in Nyali, Mombasa. It is not clear whether the soldier was killed with a panga or shot dead but after the attack, 7 of the attackers were shot dead. Security around the heavily guarded facility has been raised with vehicles passing around the barracks now screened and motorists asked for identity cards before being allowed to pass.

Kisumu’s Central Police station has issued an arrest warrant for popular Luo Benga musician John Junior after he and 2 of his aides tried to assault a woman in Kisumu on Thursday morning. The woman who is daughter to a leading journalist is now traumatised and scared after the ordeal. The musician who was just from performing at Club Signature (Benga show sponsored by Radio Maisha) was accompanied by one bodyguard and one of his friend when he and his two colleagues tried to sexually assault the woman in a car around Aga Khan mosque in Kisumu. The woman fought…