Ken on 28th Mar

“niaje mtu nguyaz. Siku mob jo, I hope hakuna beef. Btw my learned friend, hiyo number ya Kethi niaje?” *Oraro and 65 others like this* Kutuny Comments: manze sonko jo! Umeamua round hii ni wasomi. Unadaisha kumvutia nangos? Wazi wazi, alafu mi pia unikumbuke. SONKO: kutuny we nawe na sheng zingine za stone age! Ebu toa ufala na ushamba...

Ken on 28th Mar

After the alleged vote manipulation at Kenyatta University, some student or students at the campus were not convinced by the explanation given by IEBC and the school administration. They have started defacing signage at their campus. Here’s one. [Image||Sir-me Master] © nairobiwire.com ...

Ken on 28th Mar

EQUITY Bank chief executive will take home close to Sh225 million as dividend from the institution. This means the chief executive was making an average return of Sh18.75 million from the bank every month last year.  The bank’s annual report released at the annual general meeting yesterday showed Mwangi has a 4.88 per cent direct and...

Ken on 28th Mar

Oyaore Jakom. Ichieo? I have chosen to address you thus because I am made to understand that there is only one Jakom and if there is any other, they are pretenders to the throne. You may not recall me but we have interacted many times in the course of your career as a reformist and mine as a member of the so-called distinguished Fourth Estate....

Ken on 28th Mar

Honda Motor Co. said Wednesday it will start producing motorcycles at a new plant in Kenya later this year amid expectations of growth in local demand. Honda has set up Honda Motorcycle Kenya Ltd. for sales and production of motorcycles in Nairobi, becoming the company’s third local subsidiary in Africa, following one each in South Africa and...

Ken on 28th Mar

Bringing home the bling indeed. Sean “P. Diddy” Combs has topped this year’s Forbes Five, its list of the wealthiest hip hop artists.With an estimated net worth of US$580-M, the bulk of the 43-year-old rapper’s wealth comes from non-musical ventures like his deal with drinking company Diageo’s vodka brand Ciroc. The Bad Boy Records founder...

Ken on 28th Mar

President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta has apologised for a remark he made on Wednesday that referred to Supreme Court Judges as “some six people”. Mr Kenyatta, while addressing a retreat of elected Members of Parliament, women representatives and Senators allied to the Jubilee Coalition, had said: “I...

Ken on 27th Mar

Last week at the height of #SomeoneTellNigeria and #SomeoneTellKenya, Nigerian comedian Klint the Drunk was singled out by Kenyans for his hard hitting comments.This was mostly because he is a regular in Nairobi, where he often attends the Night of a Thousand Laughs, the event that brings together Africa’s biggest comedians.  This was what...

Ken on 27th Mar

First, it was banned by the NARC government in 2003, for offering substandard education to Kenyans. Then last year, the grand coalition government struck. KIU was taken to task by the Commission of Higher Education after it emerged that they were offering too many courses, yet only two were approved. These included PhDs programmes. CHE ordered KIU...

Ken on 27th Mar

The heavyweights in the Supreme Court room, some of whom are the age of her father and others her former lecturers, does not seem to deter her resolve to represent her client in the historic case. Ms Kethi Kilonzo has won the hearts of Kenyans on the social media and is now the talk of...

Ken on 27th Mar

She has continued to mesmerize Kenyans with her grasp of everything legal. The fact that she’s a daughter to Mutula Kilonzo has further fueled this.  Almost everyone is in agreement that Kethi Kilonzo has been the most outstanding lawyer in the ongoing election petition hearing at the Supreme Court of Kenya. However, there are some dissenting...

Ken on 27th Mar

Molo Milk is Kenya’s most preferred milk brand ahead of Brookside and New KCC products. A consumer study carried out in December 2012 shows that Molo Milk, manufactured by Buzeki Dairy, commands 18 per cent of the processed milk market followed by Brookside Dairy’s Tuzo and Ilara brands with 15 per cent each. Three Brookside Dairy brands...

Ken on 27th Mar

Yesterday evening a tweet appearing to be from pregnant reality TV star Kim Kardashian‘s offcial twitter account which called Nigeria disgusting & compared Nigerian women to apes went viral & immediately caused an uproar. The tweet which said ‘Nigeria is such a disgusting country. I couldn’t wait to leave. lol Scott said their women...

Ken on 27th Mar

Facebook has announced that it is rolling out an updated commenting system that it says will “improve conversations”. Beginning today, the social network says that users will not only be able to reply directly to comments left on someone’s Page content, but also start threaded conversations. The release of threaded conversations has been...

Ken on 27th Mar

March 27, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – “It was shocking news to me when I woke up one morning to learn that millions in cash money which was stored in the President’s office had gone missing,” a senior aide close to South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has revealed to the Sudan Tribune.Rumors have been circulating for days among ordinary...

Ken on 26th Mar

Larry Madowo is making a name for himself, and was particularly successful during the reporting of the just concluded elections. On elections day, NTV chattered a light aircraft for the talkative journalist, and literally made him omnipresent. One minute he was in Wajir, the other in Tana River. He stole the show that day. When the results started trickling...

Ken on 26th Mar

Some of the best selling novels by the most recognized writers are about 700 pages. Then, CORD comes up with a 900 page document. True that some people read those novels in a day or two, but 5 days would be a fair amount of time. The judges were expected to read the 900 pages in less than a week then write a looooong judgement within the same period....

Ken on 26th Mar

Even before the court decides, some people have already spotted this business opportunity and are in the process making good money from it. I don’t know what will happen if the courts rule that there be fresh presidential elections.Here’s a hawker selling a Uhuru Kenyatta presidential portraits.  © nairobiwire.com ...

Ken on 26th Mar

Such pictures are hard to come by. This is Hilton Hotel under construction in the year 1968. Just wow. © nairobiwire.com ...

Ken on 26th Mar

This is the creation of the brains at XYZ, the weekly political satire show that airs on NTV every Sunday, and watching it of late, you’ll attest to the fact that just like wine, it’s getting better with age. © nairobiwire.com ...