Uncle Moody Asking For Your Money Former Vice President Moody Awori has lost a brother, Joshua Ayienga Awori. The late Awori was a retired personnel manager of Caltex Kenya Ltd, and a commissioner of the Anglican Church of Kenya. He will be buried tomorrow, 1st September, at his Funyula home in Busia county.  What is surprising however, is that...

“Ngilu Brought Men To Abduct Kirima” Teresia Water minister Charity Ngilu has found her name mentioned by the Kirimas in their never ending legal drama. The wife of the late Gerishon Kirima, Teresia Wairimu accused Ngilu of kidnapping Kirima from his home a few days before he died.  Testifying before the milimani law courts, Teresia...

Jetlink Tries To Silence Blogger Blogger Dennis Itumbi was once again on the wrong side of the law after he was charged of intercepting Jetlink’s confidential emails and publishing them on his personal blog without consent of the authors. The charge sheet reads that the blogger titled the ‘leaked’ emails as  ‘JETLINK: The...

This video was taken a few minutes after Mombasa cleric Aboud Rogo was shot dead. His little child can be seen crying in the backseat as his father is left speechless in the front passenger seat. Speaking in Swahili, some people in the crowd express sincere shock as soon as they realize the murdered man is Aboud Rogo. Here is the video. If video...

University Girls Take Prostitution To Facebook Campus Divas For Rich Men is a Facebook page that has elicited lots of interest especially after receiving special airtime during Kiss 100’s rush hour with Kalekye and Shaffie and this morning from Caroline Mutoko. The page is dedicated to hooking up University girls under 26 with rich men of any...

“If Michelle Morgan says Kenya Power rates will go up by 16% next month, ni sawa ..” If you missed Michelle Morgan for the second day running, you can only blame yourself, not after all the hype she generated on Monday night and the whole day Tuesday. Citizen TV’s newest presenter is making business news irresistible.  When it...

So Much More Exploitation For a long time now, people have been suffering in the hands of the biggest Pay TV provider in Kenya, DSTV. Taking advantage of their exclusive rights to air English Premier League games, Multichoice has continued to charge very high fees. A few years back, it was thought that whatever DSTV was charging was the industry...

Why Everyone Is Now Watching Business News Michelle Morgan (looks better on TV) Citizen TV pulled a surprise last night by adding a new face to our screens without prior promo and fanfare, like was witnessed with the likes Janet Mbugua and Lilian Muli.  Her name is Michelle K. Morgan, and immediately she was introduced, she was on everyone’s...

Raila Comes In Second With Kalonzo Following Closely The much hyped political campaigns have now proved to be more expensive than was expected it can now be revealed.  With only less than 7 months just before the country goes into the much awaited general elections under the new constitutional dispensation, political parties have resorted to...

Several People Were Heard Telling Him “Karibu Nyumbani” Former adviser to the Prime Minister, Miguna Miguna yesterday took his book promotion tour to Nyeri and unlike other towns, he was given a hero’s welcome. Coming straight from a hostile Mombasa tour where he suffered the wrath of a hooligan clad in a ‘DESTROYER’...

George ‘Blackberry’ Odhiambo Fired For The Second Time When George ‘Blackberry’ Odhiambo left Gor Mahia some years back, it looked like his football career was about to take off. He was signed by Denmark second tier side, Randers on a four and a half year deal. He had been the named player of the year (2010) and sure enough...

For some time now, a new trend is catching fire in Nairobi. Fake journalists have been gate crushing functions, especially those hosted in big hotels. The fake reporters come equipped with fake IDs bearing names of media houses. They are said to at times demand for ‘handouts’ before they promise to report on the event.  The trend is...

Should Miss Karun Study More Than She Sings?? Celebrities are known to gaffe world over especially on twitter. Most American musicians and actors have at least several times deleted a tweet, after realizing it was a dumb decision tweeting it in the first place. Chris Brown has mastered this act. Now, the wave is catching up with our local celebs....

Kemboi Campaigns For Raila Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s campaign received a major boost after Olympic Gold Medalist Ezekiel Kemboi joined his Rift Valley tour on Sunday. The athlete was quite comfortable amongst the ODM team and even showed them some of his famous dance moves. When he was given a chance to address the crowd, he did not forget...

One Of The Best Artiste You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Kagwe Mungai is probably one of the best artistes around, but funnily one of the least documented. The 21 year old music graduate combines a variety of genres including: house, hip hop and jazz; and he calls his style afro funky. Mungai has loved music all his life and took up singing...

Jalang’o, Otoyo and Mshamba Get Court Order Barring KTN From Using Their Images A Nairobi court has barred KTN from using images of Jalang’o, Otoyo and Mshamba to promote a comedy show they will be launching soon. The three comedians obtained a court order from Lady Justice Mary Ang’awa on Wednesday. Together with Kenya Kona Group...

Marende Wants MPs Pay Rise The speaker of the National Assembly, Kenneth Marende has started what can be termed as early campaigns to retain his seat. The speaker rekindled the unpleasant memories of MP pay rises by claiming that they are underpaid and deserve a pay rise like yesterday.  Speaking at the state officers’ job evaluation by the...

This week like every other week, social media was on fire. The greatest news was the failure by Manchester United signing Van Persie to make an impact during their Monday night shocking loss to Everton. The Dutch was the undisputed king of memes this week. Here are some of the most interesting pics this week.  © nairobiwire.com ...

Singer And Presenter Seen Kissing Gospel artiste Holy Dave and One Fm presenter Tina Kagia are said to be dating. The two are reported to have been spotted together more than a few times. During Prezzo’s homecoming, Ghafla is reporting that the two were together and it was clear they had another agenda other than welcoming Kenya’s Big...

Today, Standard Group became the latest casualty of cyber attack. Their recently revamped website, standardmedia.co.ke was briefly inaccessible. For a short period, visitors to the site were welcomed with the following message. “you have been hacked by sl3nd3rI am a grey hatI am just having fun with you todaytomorrow august, 23 2012 I will post...