Author: Cyrus

20TH JUNE, 2014 TO: ​H.E UHURU MUIGAI KENYATTA, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA, STATE HOUSE, NAIROBI. Dear Mr. President RE: OPEN LETTER TO YOU ON MISMANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Yes, Mr. President, the Country is evidently besieged by several problems and threats, and the general public is apprehensive and needs guidance. In this regard, the issues affecting the people include high cost of living beyond the reach of ordinary citizens, run-away inflation, widespread and destructive state of insecurity, debilitating corruption in high corridors of power leading to wastage of public funds and resources, unemployment and entrenched ethnicity in recruitment…

Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o has sent out his congratulatory messages to Fiona Mercy Jepleting, a Kenyan student studying Aerospace Engineering in the UK, for achieving an outstanding First Class honours degree. Fiona is the first woman from Terik community from Rift Valley to study in the United Kingdom. She could not hide her joy after receiving the news of her good performance. Jepleting, who studies at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, said “I was expecting a First Class pass and the news of an outstanding first class is the best news of my life ever,”  The world-renowned writer said: “I would like…

The Board of Directors at Mumias Sugar Company has SACKED the firms Chief Executive officer Peter Kebati and Commercial Director Paul Murgor. The announcement was made after a short board meeting on Monday 9th June. The two were suspended in April over the importation of Sugar then branding it with Mumias packages and also mismanaging the firm. The replacement of the two have not been announcement but during their suspension Coutts Ottolo acted as the CEO while Pamela Lutt was temporarily tasked to be the firms Commercial Director. More to follow…….

I wish I never stopped blogging tech and concentrated on other things because I regret it each and every day. First I lost a friend we used to have a banter with. I lost Idd Salim and I just heard that Idd was gone through Twitter. Idd died in September 2013 after a short illness. He was a friend who needed to talk to me. A new manager was joining the iHub and Idd wanted the manager asked 5 specific questions. Idd called me and I told him that I would call him back as I was busy doing many…

Troubled telecoms solutions provider Orange recently launched and e-care app in the Kenyan market. The myOrange app offers Orange mobile subscribers a personalised account management experience, allowing them to check their credit balance, recharge their account and manage their subscription of Orange services. The GPS enabled app comes with a feature map that will enable customers to locate Orange and partner shops across the country. The app that is designed for Android phones, will also keep users updated on the latest promotions, offers and services from Orange. Customers will also be able to monitor their usage and subscribe to Orange’s products and services much faster.…

There’s this overzealous and desperate TNA defender that has gone rogue. He was one time on the Standard’s Sat pull-out ‘Madd Madd World’ of November 23rd 2013. Paying lump sums to accompany the president,despite his broke company and self. Rogue! The same party and ideologies that he helped craft, are the same ones he’s strongly been fighting. Why? His appointment in any government position isn’t foreseeable as he hoped. And this is making hime try desperately to catch the attention of the President with all manner of claims and conspiracy theories he spins. Moses Kuria was once rumoured to be taking…

Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru wanted to have sex with former Youth Fund boss Evans Gor Semelango. According to senior OP officials, Anne Waiguru was so jealous of Evans Gor Semelang’o’s closeness to Citizen TV’s Janet Mbugua that she once told Evans at a private meeting that she thinks that “it is unethical for Civil Servants” to sleep with media professionals. Gor did not make sense of her statement but the views of Madam Waiguru were reinforced by one senior OP official who sent an SMS to Gor informing him in Luo, “nyakoni dwaro ni mondo iliet okonge. Obiro riembi…

Nation Media is not good at innovation. It is very good at copying and it doesn’t end up well sometime. First they tried to respond to the then Nairobi Star with The Daily Metro. That didn’t end well forcing them to confess that the model didn’t work out. It seems that the same fate has befallen Nairobi News. The media house has just informed all its staff that it will be closing the tabloid which was to target the Nairobi residents as it is affecting the company’s bottom-line without any prospects of it making an impact in the gossip market…

Dr Anne Waiguru is making all changes she wants in the govt and she claims that she need not consult anyone including the President. The god lady who is known to be close to President Uhuru and even said to have kids looking like the President, sacked Jasper Kiplimo Rugut and replaced him with Dr Nelson Githinji who is a former State House comptroller. Sources close to Kiplimo Rugut reveal that the former PC was sent an SMS directing him to stay away from the NYS HQs as he has been replaced. The change means that now the top 3…

A gang attacked former Mungiki boss Maina Njenga’s church in Nakuru on Sunday 4th May. Maina was having an interview with some journalists when one of his minders whispered on his ears then he took off without uttering a word. The journalist who was taken to the former Mungiki boss was left confused before being told by the Helicopter Ministries boss Bishop Thomas Wahome that Maina had been kidnapped by Mungiki adherents. Bishop Wahome asked the journalist to leave the premises before things get bad. It was later reported that 3 members of the church were killed by panga wielding gangs…

Former Naivasha MP and current NACADA chairman, John Mututho, owns an FM station called Mururi FM which broadcasts in Kikuyu on 107.3FM. The station covers Nyandarua, Murang’a, Nyeri, Laikipia and Kirinyaga. The station is currently going through a lot with the employees not having been paid since September 2013. Most of the employees have run away but around 10 – 3 presenters, 3 interns, an HR person, an IT person and 2 security guys – are the only remaining employees. The station which is managed by Mututho’s son Njenga is currently operating on backup after its main transmission in Nairobi…

We once tweeted that Alice Odera who was then a TV host at Citizen TV never went to New York University or any other university nor did all those things she claimed that she did. She was a fraud who Royal Media HR couldn’t do due diligence on. Well, KQ has today discovered that Alice Odera was a stripper in New York and was deported from USA after the authorities discovered some ugly things she was doing. After working for Citizen TV, Alice got a job at KQ without any papers. She always promised to deliver the papers which she claimed…

Tigo Tanzania has announced that it is partnering with Facebook to allow its customers to get free access to Facebook services in English and a new Kiswahili version through their mobile handsets. The strategic partnership is part of Facebook’s recent Internet.org initiative launched by the company’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It is the first time that Facebook will be free on any mobile network in East Africa, according to TigoGeneral Manager Diego Gutierrez. Gutierrez said: “What this partnership means is that Tigo customers can, for the first time, access Facebook through their handsets without incurring any data charges and connect with the social media network’s two millions of users in Tanzania…

“Before you are taken as either an intern or full employee, you are asked a million and one questions. But among all these, I was asked if am a virgin. Even though I won’t tell you my answer because it is either YES/NO, I found it to be beyond minimum qualifications. “These are the exact words of June, (not her real name), an intern at ATG (Around The Globe Radio). Whilst it is true that a gospel radio station should be a pacesetter in moral standards among its staff, virginity cannot and should not used to gauge one’s qualifications.  How is…

There is seem to be a problem at the renowned Kenya Institute of Mass Communication, (KIMC) located in Nairobi’s South B. As things are, the standards of the government-owned institute, which has dominated media training in the country for decades could be headed into the first/lower percentile or quartile for those who’ve been to a basic statistics class. Here, getting results transcripts takes ages, and now some former students (who graduated in November last year), are finding it hard to secure jobs because employers are asking for transcripts, which are nowhere. “I have been coming here since January, but I…