Author: Cyrus

Claims have emerged through close friends of Deputy President William Ruto and Citizen TV political affairs reporter, Jacqui Maribe, that she is pregnant with the DP’s child. According to close friends of the two, the DP and Jacqui have been known to be close, a fact which might have made her score the EXCLUSIVE of the century, Interview with President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House. Jacqui formerly dated The Star journalist, Oliver Mathenge who is also very close to the powers that be. She might gained her footing through the relationship with Oliver. She is currently heavily pregnant. DP Ruto…

Standard Group CEO sacked its Editorial Director Chacha Mwita and then had him escorted by watchmen out of the building. It was extreme humiliation for Chacha Mwita when he was even forced to endure being escorted by the building watchmen out of the premises. Chacha Mwita, Mark Kapchanga and Kipkoech Tanui were being blamed for portraying State House in bad light in the Ksh 100 million story. The story revealed how the President’s austerity talk was all empty talk as the cabinet wasted Ksh 100 million on a retreat while the government has all the facilities in Nairobi to accommodate…

We EXCLUSIVELY revealed to you here that Teacher Wanjiku was moving to Citizen TV with her husband Victor Ber as the new director for her show Wanjiku the Teacher. The show was pulled off the air after failing to impress anyone at Royal Media. I wonder how anyone would have allowed such a show on air. The biggest surprise is that Teacher Wanjiku was never formally informed of the decision to withdraw the show from Citizen TV but it was communicated to her through a blog post. The greatest let down to Teacher Wanjiku is Victor Ber. He thinks that…

Radio Africa is reported to be in serious talks to buy Ghafla. Already, the Group CEO Patrick Quarcoo has offered Ksh 5 million for 90% stake in Ghafla. This offer was like an insult to the Ghafla founder and his 88mph investors according to people close to Ghafla. Ghafla founders and investors demanded nothing less than Ksh 100 million. This came immediately after RAL bought 60% stake in digital media agency TRINC Media for a paltry Ksh 3 million. According to documents in our possession including quartely reports, PQ bought 20% for himself and had RAL pump in money to…

Citizen TV and the entire Royal Media Services group were said to be so much against State House that no one would have that that what was witnessed could have actually happened so soon. In fact the government embarked on getting all “illegally acquired” frequencies from Royal Media as Pressident Uhuru Kenyatta’s own media group, Mediamax poached over 32 employees from RMS including many key technical staff. Things have changed and RMS seems to be the smarted media house here. Citizen TV has maintained and even improved its rating that the KTN, K24 and NTV trio combined would never match.…

Uganda’s Gaetano Kagwa, best known for nothing more than having sex on LIVE TV was set to be the Head of TV at Radio Africa. He has reportedly declined the position giving no more reason than just that it is too much for his inexperienced self. Gaetano was set to replace Makari Kituyi who is currently serving his resignation notice and is set to go into private business. The down-to-earth but very hardworking Makari Kituyi is the elder son of the UNCTAD boss and former Minister Mukhisa Kituyi. When Gaetano Kagwa was announced as his replacement, most staff at Radio…

President Uhuru was talking to police boss David KImaiyo and Deputy President William Ruto when he was taking his flight to Brussels, Belgium for the EU-Africa Summit. The President was caught on camera giving the two specific instructions but the most interesting was when he warned Ruto not to allow his wife to “mangamanga” (roam around). Watch below from 1:08 minutes;

PIC A group of Kenyan entertainers are not happy with the government. The group which is composed of musicians and other key entertainers performed at the Kenya@50 celebration event at Kasarani in 2013 but have not been paid close to 4 months later. They believe that the President might not be well ceased of the matter and any attempt to contact the President through the official channels have been blocked by the Kenya@50 secretariat, Sports, Culture and Arts Ministry and some OP mandarins. The artists have reached out to the Kenya@50 secretariat but were told that there were no funds…

Radio Africa Group owners have offloaded 49% of their stake to South Africa’s leading media group, Times Media Group (TMG). This gives the SA media giant a good entry point into Kenya’s bustling media sector. TMG was founded by Tokyo Sexwale and was formerly known as Johnnic Communications, then Avusa which means “to rouse feelings, to revive and evokes action.” The deal was inked on Thursday according to RAL insiders with shareholders of RAL each letting fo of equal ratio of shares to meet the TMG 49% stake requirement. The means that RAL is still majorly owned by the previous owners. RAL…

Ian Fernandes is expected to take up a new position as the new CEO of Mediamax Group replacing the non performing Paul Wanyangah who was previously with the Standard Group. Ian is the third CEO after Granton Samboja and Paul Wanyangah to take up the assignment and try take Mediamax to the mass market. Granton and Paul have both failed and Ian might never make the turnaround as he is more technical and extreme elitist to listen and speak to the mass market. According to the latest market analytics by a local research firm, Royal Media’s Citizen TV command the market…

CCK and the competition authority have finally given a nod to the sale of yuMobile to Airtel and Safaricom. A day after the 3 operators used the media to give pressure to the regulator, CCK decided that the sale should go ahead with Safaricom and Airtel all in agreement with the deal. Safaricom has offered $80 million (Ksh6.8 billion) for infrastructure while Airtel Kenya is set to pay $37.2 (Ksh 3.1 billion) million for the residual infrastructure, numbering prefix and subscribers (2.7 million). It is not clear how the assets and liabilities of ETKL or yuMobile will be handled but…

Bharti Airtel  has today decided to replace its very non performing CEO in Kenya . Mr Shivan Bhargava who looked like he was in holiday from the day he arrived in Kenya is being replaced by Mr. Adil El Youssefi. Mr Bhargava and the new Seychelles MD will assume office in April. Amadou Dina is the new Managing Director for Seychelles. Adil Youssefi joins Airtel from the Millicom group in Ghana where he was the General Manager since June 2012. He joined the Millicom Group in 2008 as Senior Advisor to the Chief Officer Asia in Sri Lanka.  He holds an MBA from…

AMREF Flying Doctors has finally airlifted Baby Cyprian Osinya to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) for specialised treatment. The baby who has a bullet lodged in his brain after the Likoni Church attack will be operated on my specialists at Kenyatta National Hospital. National Disaster Operation Centre claimed in a tweet that the government was flying neurosurgeons to Mombasa last night. That didn’t happen. When they were called out, they then started claiming through the State House and NDOC accounts that the government will foot the bills but the Health Cabinet Secretary James Macharia has indicated that he is not aware…

The biggest and richest hip hop name has also joined the Lupita Nyong’o praise bandwagon as Jay Electronica featured him in the remix of the ‘We Made It’ track. In the track Jay-Z aka Hov raps; I’m on my Lupita Nyong’o Stuntin’ on stage, got the 12 Years A Slave This Ace of Spades look like an Oscar Black tux, look like a mobster Don’t make me RRRRAA yah, nigga watch your tone Hov also dissed Drake while rapping; Sorry mister Drizzy for so much art talk Silly me rappin’ ’bout shit that I really bought Why these rappers rap…

Two former Capital FM producers, Kent and Vincent Ochieng’, are set to join Easy FM after quitting the Chris Kirubi owned station. Kent who used to produce Capital FM’s breakfast show will join Easy FM as a producer of two shows one being Your Call which is getting a new presenter in the name of Lorna Irungu while Vinie who used to Produce “The Jam” at Capital FM will be joining Angela Agwenyi and Manwa Magoma as the Breakfast show SOTN producer. Vinnie quit Capital FM after disagreeing with Cess Mutungi over the manner in which he treated former co-host…