Education, transport the biggest spenders
The Jubilee government yesterday unveiled its 2013/14 budget. The Teachers Service Commission, Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and Ministry of Education, Science and Technology are the biggest...
View ArticleGroove Awards nominations for tuesday
This year's Groove Awards nominees will be unveiled next Tuesday, at an invite-only red carpet gala at the National Museum, Nairobi. The eighth edition of the annual gospel awards ceremony sponsored by...
View ArticleSpotted
Spotted: Former legislator Koigi Wa Wamwere, dressed in his signature African outfits, outside the Equity Bank on Kenyatta Avenue in Nairobi on Tuesday afternoon.Read more about SpottedComments
View Article5 Minute Interview: I hate seeing young people go astray
I’m good at…………Listening to people and empowering people on sex abuse prevention. I’m very bad at…… memorizing numbers The last book l enjoyed was……….. Think Big by Ben Carson The most surprising thing...
View ArticleVoters query Wajir election
TWO voters want a scrutiny of votes cast in Wajir East constituency during the March 4 polls. Ahmed Abdullahi Amin and Mohamedkher Adam said that the declaration of Abbass Sheikh Mohamed as the MP is...
View Article270,000 pedestrians die annually
MORE than 270,000 pedestrians lose their lives on the world’s roads annually, a UN Road Safety Collaboration report has said. The report said that globally, pedestrians constitute 22 per cent of all...
View ArticleThe Sarova Panafric's Ladies Cookout
They say that the way to a man's heart is through the stomach. Several professional ladies took this saying to heart by taking cooking lessons last Saturday at the Panafric Hotel on Valley Road in...
View ArticleSet benchmarks to compensate detainees
VETERAN political activist Koigi wa Wamwere is back in court over his detention by the Moi government in Nyayo House. Koigi was detained three times for a total of nine years by the Kenyatta and Moi...
View ArticleGibe III Dam Benefits All In The Region
We have noted the publication of an article on your daily issue of Tuesday, April 23 2013, (KENYA WILL BE HARMED BY Ethiopia’s Gibe III Dam by Alex Awiti) which purports that Ethiopia is deliberately...
View ArticleOrgasm after Female Genital Mutilation?
We have been discussing female orgasms in the last few weeks and last week I asked you to share your sexual experiences if you have been circumcised, or been with a woman who has been circumcised. I...
View ArticleTJRC fails to present report
THE Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission failed to present its final report to President Uhuru yesterday. The commission had sent out alerts that it will hand over the report ahead of today’s...
View ArticleKendra Fashion House Dazzles at Michael Joseph Centre
Last Saturday afternoon Kendra Fashion House hosted an exclusive fashion show dubbed “On the runway”. The fashion house is an new label that promises to revolutionise the African fashion industry with...
View ArticleWhy Is Our Parliament So Haunted By Death?
Kenya’s 11th Parliament has lived to its reputation. It has claimed its first victim in Senator Mutula Kilonzo of Makueni early in the first month of its existence. This tradition of losing elected...
View ArticleKenyan Authorities In The Dock Over Hate Speech
Was enough done to counter incitement and threats that spread online during the recent elections? After ensuring that the March 4 general election went off peacefully, the authorities in Kenya have...
View ArticleDoes Our Violent Past Reflect The Future
OF COURSE human beings have always fought wars. OF COURSE a quarter of the adult males in the typical primitive society died violently, in wars and in fights. (I’m using the banned word “primitive”...
View ArticleICC ignores CJ's 'poison letter'
ICC judges have faulted the procedure by which the February 13 letter threatening Chief Justice Willy Mutunga ended up at the court. The letter together with Mutunga’s February 20 statement on judge’s...
View ArticleGideon Moi trounces Kiraitu in Senate poll
Baringo Central MP Gideon Moi yesterday beat Meru senator Kiraitu Murungi to the chairmanship of the powerful Energy, Roads and Transportation senate committee. Kiraitu has campaigned for the position...
View ArticleI will respect media freedom, says President
The Jubilee government will support media freedom, fairness and responsibility, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said. He said the government will entrench the independence, safety and protection of the...
View ArticleIEBC to rule on county rep nominees tomorrow
The Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has postponed the delivery of rulings it was to make concerning disputes arising from a gazetted list of parties nominees to county assembly seats...
View ArticleKENYA AND UK STRIKE DEAL AFTER UHURU WIN
Britain denies envoy to be called THE United Kingdom and Uhuru Kenyatta government appear to have finally struck a deal to work together again. President Kenyatta has agreed to attend the Somalia donor...
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