Ken on 27th Jan

A youth ice hockey team in Slovakia had a close escape after the roof of the building collapsed. No one was hurt as players fled as soon as it started crumbling. ...

Ken on 27th Jan

The life of an unlucky snake came to an abrupt end when its head was chewed by a fearless toddler. 13 months old Imad Aleeyan, has just grown his 6th teeth and is surely putting them into practice. “I was making his milk and I looked over and saw he had a snake in his mouth,” said his mother. “I started to scream. I couldn’t believe my eyes,”...

Ken on 27th Jan

Two bags containing 16 kilograms of cocaine were sent to the United Nation’s headquarters in New york. The bags which had UN logos printed on them were shipped from Mexico to New York through DHL. With no address or return to sender information on them, DHL saw it wise to deliver the bags to UN headquarters. “It is my understanding that...

Ken on 27th Jan

Nairobi Girls Chorale, finalist on Kiss TV’s reality show, Kwaya will reportedly be performing at Old Trafford ( Manchester united home stadium) this April during half time of an unspecified match. The girls choir group has been one of the impressive choirs in the show that airs on Sunday. Apparently, the group’s director is a huge fan of...

Ken on 26th Jan

After the aftermath of Arsenal’s 2-1 loss to Manchester United, coming in the same season when Arsenal lost to the same Manchester United 8-2, its coach Arsene Wenger has received an unlikely critic. Rwandan president Paul Kagame has voiced his opinion stating that Arsenal would be much better without Arsene Wenger. He took his disapproval of...

Ken on 26th Jan

Kenya is now ranked the second most tweeting country in Africa. The research titled How Africa Tweets, carried out by Portland ( an IT research firm), shows that South Africa comes first with twice as many tweets as Kenya, which is number 2. More than half of the tweets are through mobile phones. How Africa Tweets found that: South Africa is the continent’s...

Ken on 25th Jan

President Mwai Kibaki was awarded an honorary doctorate by Makerere University during its 62nd graduation ceremony. The ceremony was graced by among others, President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni. Kibaki was a student and later lecturer at the university. He graduated with a first class honors in Bachelor arts in  economics, History and Political Science....

Ken on 24th Jan

After what befell Megaupload, its competitor filesonic has disabled its file sharing service. The air of uncertainty over where the authorities will strike next may be the main motivating factor behind the new development. FileSonic, which describes itself as the “Unlimited Storage Company,” said in a statement posted on its website that it would...

Ken on 23rd Jan

When megaupload was taken down, hackers went on a spree and have now claimed responsibility for the take down of several websites. They had previously targeted several US government websites and a few private ones. They briefly brought down Universal Music Group website as reported by nairobi wire. They then hacked into Universal Music Group again...

Ken on 23rd Jan

Janusz Palikot, the leader of a party in Poland launched a drive to legalize marijuana in the country, and what better way to show he means it than smoking it. “This is the weed,” he told reporters in his office in the lower house of parliament, while lighting up what he termed as the legal quantity. This did not come without warning though. On...

Ken on 23rd Jan

The international criminal court has confirmed charges against 4 of the 6 Kenyans suspected of been masterminds of the 2007/2008 post election violence. The four who have had their cases confirmed include: Uhuru Kenyatta,, William Ruto, Joshua Sang and Francis Muthaura. Hussein Ali and Henry Kosgey’s cases were not confirmed with the judges citing...

Ken on 22nd Jan

We invite them to your TV screes, some of us religiously. This are a few of the Kenyan TV beauty queens alias looks wizards some of us love to have on our screens. TANYA TANYA Awards won: Chaguo La Teeniez Best Actress gong twice in 2010 and 2011. Roles played: Tanya in Tahidi High, which airs on Citizen TV. Laura in Saints, a local medical...

Ken on 22nd Jan

A coffin maker in Molo town is said to have hidden inside one of his creations to avoid his landlord.The man in his late 30s has been playing hide and seek with the landlord and is said to have made a habit of arriving home past midnight and leaving before 5.00 am. On the fateful day, the carpenter left home early as usual, and the landlord having had...

Ken on 22nd Jan

Taliban has released a video showing 15 Pakistani soldiers been lined up, blindfolded and then shot on the head by their firing squad. In what the Taliban termed as a retaliatory attack, it abducted the soldiers on 23rd December. ...

Ken on 21st Jan

By now you have probably heard that the amazingly popular file sharing site Megaupload was shut down by US authorities. Shortly after the shutting down and arrest of several workers, faceless hacktivist group ‘Anonymous’ went on a hacking spree, in the process bringing down websites of U.S. Department of Justice, world’s biggest...

Ken on 20th Jan

Lovy and Christian, better known as the Longombas are said to be working on a collabo with Jamaican artist Mr Vegas. Longombas, known for their hits including ‘vuta pumz’ have featured Mr Vegas on the remix of their latest song What You Like. They are reported to have met Mr Vegas during a convert in the US last year where they decided...

Ken on 19th Jan

Eldoret North MP William Ruto has become the first presidential candidate to shade light on his personal wealth. Declaring ones wealth is one area of Kenyan politics that usually smacks more of a PR stunt than an actual desire to inform the voting citizenry of the politician’s personal wealth. But William Ruto has done it with such earnestness...

Ken on 19th Jan

A 34-year-old man in China has not been able to close his mouth for 21 years because of the size of his tongue. Wang Youping’s tongue is 25 cm long, 10 cm wide and 7 cm thick. The huge size of this critical organ has disoriented his teeth and caused facial deformity. Mr Youping was born with swollen lips, but from the age of six, the swelling of...

Ken on 18th Jan

 Orange Kenya has launched new unlimited internet bundles.  For SH 249, you will enjoy unlimited mobile internet for one week. With SH 990, you will enjoy unlimited mobile interenet for one month. With your modem, you can enjoy unlimited internet for SH 990 and SH 2990 for one week and one month respectively. You can buy the mobile bundles by dialing...

Ken on 18th Jan

103 government of Kenya websites were hacked yesterday by an Indonesian hacktivist. The  Kenya police website is not new to this but this time it had several companions. The question is not how they were hacked but why they are all hosted on the same servers. Here is the list of all the government and municipal councils websites that were hacked. http://www.administrationpolice.go.ke/index.html http://www.aideffectiveness.go.ke/index.html http://www.bungomacounty.go.ke/index.html http://www.businesslicense.go.ke/index.html http://www.cak.go.ke/index.html http://www.commstaskforce.go.ke/index.html http://www.cooperative.go.ke/index.html http://www.crd.go.ke/index.html http://www.crisisrcentre.go.ke/index.html http://www.ditkenya.go.ke/index.html http://www.doshs.go.ke/index.html http://www.economicstimulus.go.ke/index.html http://www.eldoretmunicipal.go.ke/index.html http://www.emu.go.ke/index.html http://www.education.go.ke/index.html http://www.environment.go.ke/index.html http://www.filmservices.go.ke/index.html http://www.fisheries.go.ke/index.html http://www.forestryandwildlife.go.ke/index.html http://www.gender.go.ke/index.html http://www.governmentpress.go.ke/index.html http://www.greenenergy.go.ke/index.html http://www.housing.go.ke/index.html http://www.ifmis.go.ke/index.html http://www.immigration.go.ke/index.html http://www.industrialization.go.ke/index.html http://www.isc.go.ke/index.html http://www.iprs.go.ke/index.html http://www.itentambachtowncouncil.go.ke/index.html http://www.itmis.go.ke/index.html http://www.kenao.go.ke/index.html http://www.kapsabetmunicipal.go.ke/index.html http://www.kenyayearbook.go.ke/index.html http://www.kerugoyakutusmunicipal.go.ke/index.html http://www.kesi.go.ke/index.html http://www.kipi.go.ke/index.html http://www.kisumucountycouncil.go.ke/index.html http://www.kirinyagacountycouncil.go.ke/index.html http://www.kitalemunicipal.go.ke/index.html http://www.kituimunicipal.go.ke/index.html http://www.kkv.go.ke/index.html http://www.knfparms.go.ke/index.html http://www.knsdi.go.ke/index.html http://www.kntc.go.ke/index.html http://www.laikipiacountycouncil.go.ke/index.html http://www.lands.go.ke/index.html http://www.leatherdevelopmentcouncil.go.ke/index.html http://www.limurumunicipal.go.ke/index.html http://www.livestock.go.ke/index.html http://www.lodwarmunicipal.go.ke/index.html http://www.maraguacountycouncil.go.ke/index.html http://www.mariakanitown.go.ke/index.html http://www.maurestoration.go.ke/index.html http://www.migoricountycouncil.go.ke/index.html http://www.minesgeology.go.ke/index.html http://www.mirp.go.ke/index.html http://www.monitoring.go.ke/index.html http://www.moyalecountycouncil.go.ke/index.html http://www.murangacounty.go.ke/index.html http://www.murangamunicipal.go.ke/index.html http://www.nairobicity.go.ke/index.html http://www.naivashamunicipal.go.ke/index.html http://www.nakurucounty.go.ke/index.html http://www.nationaldisaster.go.ke/index.html http://www.nationalheritage.go.ke/index.html http://www.nccs.go.ke/index.html http://www.nec.go.ke/index.html http://www.northernkenya.go.ke/index.html http://www.nyandaruacountycouncil.go.ke/index.html http://www.othayatowncouncil.go.ke/index.html http://www.pec.go.ke/index.html http://www.pfmr.go.ke/index.html http://www.pghnyeri.go.ke/index.html http://www.pharmacy.go.ke/index.html http://www.prisons.go.ke/index.html http://www.psrpc.go.ke/index.html http://www.publichealth.go.ke/index.html http://www.publicservice.go.ke/index.html http://www.publicworks.go.ke/index.html http://www.reformskenya.go.ke/index.html http://www.refugees.go.ke/index.html http://www.regional-dev.go.ke/index.html http://www.roads.go.ke/index.html http://www.rprlgsp.go.ke/index.html http://www.scat.go.ke/index.html http://www.scienceandtechnology.go.ke/index.html http://www.singlewindow.go.ke/index.html http://www.sprogrammes.go.ke/index.html http://www.tabakatown.go.ke/index.html http://www.tanathi.go.ke/index.html http://www.tfdg.go.ke/index.html http://www.technologycentre.ac.ke/index.html http://www.theenergytribunal.go.ke/index.html http://www.thekenyawewant.go.ke/index.html http://www.thikamunicipal.go.ke/index.html http://www.transformingkenya.go.ke/index.html http://www.treasury.go.ke/index.html http://www.ugunjatown.go.ke/index.html http://www.ukwalatown.go.ke/index.html http://www.westernkenya.go.ke/index.html http://www.vihigamunicipal.go.ke/index.html http://www.works.go.ke/index.html http://www.youthaffairs.go.ke/index.html  ...