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Development bank owned  by the government is on the spot over serious mismanagement and misappropriation. The mismanagement and misappropriation is allegedly engineered by two top managers; the Finance Manger Johnson Kiniti and CEO Victor Kidiwa. The bank has one branch in Ngong Road’s Brew bistro building which has very few customers prompting the Finance Manger to come up with the idea of leasing office space in nature for the purpose of expansion. “It has never taken place, not even a single desk is there. We pay 1million per quarter yet no one knows what on earth for,” the source revealed.…

Property of unknown value has been gutted down by a 5.30 am fire that broke at a store at the Department of Defence (DoD) headquarters in Hurlingham,Nairobi. The Monday morning incident is said to have been caused by electric fault, no one was reported injured. READ: Second Body Found In Governor Sonko’s Casuarina Night Club Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) spokesman Colonel David Obonyo confirmed the incident, saying the fire has been contained. Do you have a story you want told? Do you know of a sensitive story you would like us to get our hands on? Email your News tips…

Doctors at Thika Level Five hospital have removed 13 sewing needles from the body of a10-month-old baby. The baby had been admitted at the hospital for pneumonia and her mother while applying jelly on the baby was pricked by a needle lodged inside the baby. She then alerted the doctors and an X-ray revealed the hoard of needles inside the baby’s body prompting an operation which has been largely successful. The urgent surgery saw the doctors remove 13 needles, but left one that they say had penetrated to the hip bone and needed specialized attention. READ: ‘Chungwa Man’ Neglected at…

Controversial entrepreneur singer and self-professed ‘international baby mama’ Akothe has elevated her baby daddies saying they are not “average men.” Finally putting to rest arguments over how many they are, she said she has five children with three baby daddies. “My three girls were born of same man called Jared Okello, well learned accountant, Ojwang’s father is Swizz while Oyoo’s Father was a French Ambassador to Kenya. I do not give birth with men who are “hivi hivi,” she said adding that “I deal with diplomats”, READ: Duale is psychotic but loves me devastatingly, Nazlin Umar. Akothe revealed she was…

The National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga is at his Opoda farm home in Bondo, Siaya County to ‘strategize his next move which includes a possible swearing in on 12 December’, according to sources close to the Premier. Odinga landed in Kisumu for the first time yesterday evening since the boycotted October 26 repeat Presidential elections amidst tight security and to a rousing heroic welcome with a multitude of residents who had thronged the airport on learning of his presence  demanding to swear him in right there. Leaders who received him at the Kisumu International Airport were by Governor…

The recent annulment of Mithika Linturi’s Law degree by the University of Nairobi is a very interesting move by an academic institution. Knowing how the balls play, Linturi just did not know how to be Kenyan enough. His case brings afore sentiments that clearly he goofed by going to UON. Mheshimiwa should have chosen to study at a university where if a man of his caliber and stature is caught in such a demeaning web, then the whole Senate, Council and Minister comes to their defense and such Institutions are sprouted all over the Country. An embarrassing number of Universities…

Neighbours of former NTV presenter are curious if the former CEO of the group, Linus Gitahi is dating screen siren, Sheilah Mwanyigha. Linus is regularly spotted trying to sneak into Sheila’s residence along Parklands road at odd hours. Linus is a regular at the place, sneaking in at midday and leaving at around 6 or 7pm. On a few occasions, he has been spotted leaving the place in the morning. If the two are lovers, it might have originated from the time Linus Gitahi was at NTV and he might have given her the job knowing that he was dating…

A guardian of a 15-year-old girl who was defiled in Homa Bay County by a boda boda rider shocked residents and the police when she chose to forgiven the culprit. Ms Pamela Olengo,a Public Health Officer said she did not want the rider to suffer in jail citing that “I am a christian.” Medical reports revealed that Ben Orage, 30, had defiled the minor, a standard seven Pupil from Siaya County who had gone to stay with her aunt (Ms Olengo) over the holidays  as her house-hep had left without notice. READ: 15 Turbo Students To Sit Final KCSE Paper…

A Moi University graduate from Nyeri county identified as Muriithi has left ‘Netizens’ bewildered and in stitches. But not more stunned than the police who arrested him for cultivating and use of marijuana who he blantly told that there was nothing wrong with consuming the drug. “Sasa unajua napanda mimea,unaona huku kuna cassava,kuna mahindi na viazi lakini kwa sababu mimi natumia mpaka bhangi ndio maana imepatikana kwa ile shamba mimi nalima” the obviolsy high Muriithi said. He bravely fefneded his use of the illegal drug saying that it has a lot of benefits which most people do not know about.…

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni once again has shown his detest for imbibing and alcohol. Museveni took to twitter to explain the reason for his life longevity attributing it to being a teetotaler. “I have managed to make it to 73 years of age because I do not drink alcohol. I have been here for the last 30 years and all this time you have never heard that Museveni is sick and is hospitalized. I do not have time for sickness,” he wrote. https://twitter.com/KagutaMuseveni/status/936563578223644673 Few weeks ago, he took twitter by storm when he cautioned newly recruited military soldiers in his…

Emmerson Mnangagwa famed for taking over power from Robert Mugabe in a ‘bloodless coup’ has made Sibusiso Moyo, the general who appeared on state TV after the recent military takeover, the new foreign minister. Maj-Gen Sibusiso Moyo, the face of the military takeover and until then a relatively unknown figure, is the foreign affairs and international trade minister. He holds a PhD in international relations and at one point was the leader of the elite green berets squad. The head of Zimbabwe’s air force, Perence Shiri, has been named the minister of agriculture and land affairs in a list that…

Nairobi MCAs are not amused by the rise of commercial sex being peddled in the City and have tabled a motion in that regard seeking to have offenders  punished as provided for in the law. Woodley Kenyatta Golf course MCA tabled tabled a motion seeking to ban commercial sex in the city citing that the oldest trade has been on the rise in Nairobi over the years. The County legislators are backed by Constitution Chapter 63 section 153 & 154 of the Penal Code which prohibits men and women from living wholly or partly on earnings or from soliciting money…

Migori county government loses Sh800million annually, which is more than entire county health department budget due to poor sanitation in the county. The major cause of the loss is diseases caused by lack of proper toilets in homesteads and untreated water supply to the residents, experts have said. Tom Odhon’g, the county Deputy Public Health Officer said 36 percent of Migori residents still defecate openly. “Improving sanitation and hygiene not only generates considerable economic benefits, but makes  better living environment,” Odhon’g said. READ: President Uhuru Kenyatta Promises A Hundred Percent Universal Health Cove Migori county government and stakeholders have…

Approximately 9,545 adolescents got infected by HIV/AIDs in the four lake region Counties in the year 2015 while 771 from the same counties died of AIDs related complications. This is according to a report by National Aids Control Council (NACC) in conjunction with United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF). The four counties, that is Migori, Homabay, Kisumu and Siaya contributed to 53percent of the total national new infections amongst adolescents aged 10-19 years in the same year. The report revealed that 8 adolescents contract HIV every single day in Homabay a county that has a higher prevalence rate at…

Comedian Obinna Ike Igwe is said to have received a whooping 1 million Kenyan shillings for shaving his dreadlocks. Obinna who is one of the most celebrated comedians in Kenya is said to have been dared by his friend, Richie, to cut his locks for Ksh500,000. The comedian, is said to have jokingly asked his friend to top it to Sh1 million, something that Richie gladly obliged to. “Richie are you serious? Richie are you serious if I go with this money you will not call me?” Obinna jokes. Richie then replies, “I am serious.” Read:I Lost Touch with a…