America has lost soul and its best days are over
There are two stark sides of America. One is the charm offensive side, represented by Hollywood and the entertainment industry, the evangelical churches, and the elite universities such as Harvard,...
View ArticleTurn your house into a man trap
When you are single, you want to make sure that when you are ready to entertain at home, your gentleman caller will be walking into a place that is inviting, warm and shows your ability to be the woman...
View ArticleIt's 'madame speaker' for the Kisumu assembly
THIRTY five Kisumu County representatives yesterday elected a woman as the first assembly speaker. The County Representatives embanked on the election of the speaker immediately they were sworn in....
View ArticleLeading runners in Poland set to rake in the money
A total of Sh20.2 million will be be paid out by the International Association of Athletic Federations to the leading runners in the two senior races at the 40th edition of the IAAF world cross country...
View ArticleAll set for pitch battles
Kenya’s Muriuki and Ethiopia’s Ayalew start favourites for the senior womens eight kilometre race in Bydgoszcz, Poland tomorrow Kenya’s Margaret Wangare Muriuki and Ethiopia ‘s Hiwot Ayalew are the...
View ArticleRaila has a democratic right to challenge uhuru's election in court
Is Raila such a monster that his democratic right to go to court to challenge Uhuru’s victory should be absolutely opposed; yet he said “Kibaki tosha” and his father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga said:...
View ArticleGuys you should dump
I will be the first to admit that good men are hard to find. But that does not mean you should cling to a man just because he is a man. There has to be more than just the calming effect of knowing that...
View ArticleJapan unveils a single-passenger robot car... and this one can drive itself
When Jeremy Clarskon showed off his personally-designed robotic car on a recent episode of Top Gear it was described as the world's smallest. But inventors in Japan have gone one better - developing a...
View ArticleNairobi Park Diary: The Rare Cheetah
As I reached the end of the long straight section of dirt road coming from the Ivory Burning site, I looked over the plains. In the distance, over one kilometre away, near the fenceline, a herd of...
View ArticleTechnician wins the Mombasa speaker seat
Thaddeus Rajwayi, an engineering technician at the Technical University of Mombasa, beat Mohamed Faki Mwinyihaji, a lawyer, to become the first speaker of Mombasa County Assembly. Rajwayi, a close ally...
View ArticleJendayi Frazier lacks moral authority
Some of you will remember that in the 2007 (like it had in 2002 and in the 2005 referendum) the International Republican Institute conducted Election Day exit polls, with funding from the US Agency for...
View ArticleSummary of Uhuru's affidavit
1.I have actively participated in all aspects of the electoral process either directly or through agents of the Jubilee Coalition and TNA. I can unequivocally state that in my view the 1st Respondent...
View ArticleRaila can win round 2 without kalenjin vote
One can still almost touch the sense of collective holding of the breath as we await the outcome of the petition the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy has filed challenging the results announced by...
View ArticleIs ICC a check on impunity or just a judicial bully?
‘Learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations. Then stand aside and let public opinion hang them.’ The author Robert Greene prescribes this law of power in his book, and...
View ArticleHating the pretty girl will not make you look good
We all get insecure about our looks at one point or another. If it is not about our bodies, it’s our dressing and there’s always someone out there who has a better body or is better dressed or is both....
View ArticleExtracts from Africog petition
PARTICULARS Upon the close of voter registration, the 2 nd Respondent published a Provisional Register as at 18 th December 2012. In accordance with section 6 (as amended) of the Elections Act, after...
View ArticleSummary of the Cord petition
What the petitioner (Raila Odinga) wants the court to do Set aside the results of the Presidential election as announced by IEBC on 9March 2013, and the declaration of Uhuru Kenyatta as President-elect...
View ArticleMeru elders to fete Muthaura
FORMER Cabinet Secretary Francis Muthaura will today be hosted the Meru council of elders for a thanksgiving ceremony following the withdrawal of the crimes against humanity charges by the ICC. The...
View ArticleChinua Achebe is dead
Kenyan academics and lovers of African literature yesterday paid tribute to 'father of African literature' 82-year old Chinua Achebe who died on Thursday night at a Boston hospital in the US. In a...
View ArticleSTRANGE HISTORY OF KENYAN PRESIDENTIAL PETITIONS
Shortly after the amendment of the contentious section 2A of the Kenya constitution to introduce multi-party democracy, Kenyans went to polls in 1992. Retired President Moi's party, Kanu and the then...
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