Ken on 21st Apr

This weekend, Kenya received a high profile visitor, who went largely unnoticed. Nigerian billionaire pastor Dr David Oyedepo. Dr Oyedepo was in town to officially open Winners’ Chapel Likoni road, which is East and Central Africa’s largest church auditorium. Deputy President William Ruto was the chief guest at the Saturday event.  The...

Ken on 21st Apr

Tim Bergling, professionally known as Avicii, has dropped a hint that he may be coming to Kenya soon. On his Facebook page, the Super DJ wrote.  Hey KENYA! What do YOU think about the new album songs? I would love to hear YOUR thoughts specifically! https://soundcloud.com/aviciiofficial/avicii-promotional-mix-2013 Hope to see you soon! The last...

Ken on 21st Apr

Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday officially opened Winners’ Chapel’s newest branch, and now East Africa’s biggest Church auditorium. The church, which has its roots in Nigeria, is located on Likoni Road, off Mombasa Road, behind Parkside Towers. This particular auditorium can sit 15,000 people, roughly the size of a small...

Ken on 21st Apr

On Friday, popular Facebook page ‘Nairobi Exposed!!!’ posted claims by an unidentified individual, alleging that comedian Fred Omondi impregnated her and refused to take responsibility, and also gave her HIV. According to the ‘whisle blower’, Omondi kicked her out of his house, when she confronted him. This was the entire...

Ken on 21st Apr

Boniface Mwalii is no stranger to looking for faults. A few weeks ago, he attacked K24’s news anchors for wearing mitumba shoes, and its management for failing to poach a graphics guy as it poached everyone else.  Read: Sunday Nation Disses K24’s Poached News Anchors For Wearing “Mitumba High heel Shoes” On Sunday, the writer...

Ken on 21st Apr

On Saturday, Uganda president Yoweri Museveni surprised everyone by delivering his monetary donation to some youth group in Busoga in a sack.  Very good thinking of the president. What better way to carry the over 8 million Kenya shillings.   © nairobiwire.com ...

Ken on 21st Apr

A LETTER FROM A NYANDO MAN TO THE PRESIDENT…  Dear President Ohuru,  His Excellency, EGH CBS GHC KICC UHURU PARK JKUAT KU K24 254 STRONG HOLD THARAKA NITHI KIAMBU JICHO PEVU MOHA LAPTOP KENCALL ONYANGO OLOO TNA SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUS DECISION TUJU OSWAGO IEBC TJRC EKATRINA Rais Ohuru Kinyatta, I have accepted the results and moved on, congratulations...

Ken on 21st Apr

Kenyan photographer Barbara Minishi is to be featured in Al Jazeera’s 6 part series The New African Photography. The series premieres today (Monday 22nd April) on Al Jazeera’s Artscape. It looks at a fast changing Africa through the eyes of its most acute observers: its photographers.The six episodes are as follows.1. Invisible Borders (22...

Ken on 21st Apr

This picture was taken during the burial of KNUT Secretary General David Okuta. Uhuru Kenyatta was just been showed in by KNUT chairman wilson Sossion, and its clear the presidential jet comes with added advantages, like not getting into contact with dust. Pay particular attention to the shoes. © nairobiwire.com ...

Ken on 21st Apr

My friend, Mr Mithika Linturi… Greetings…I hope you are enjoying your evening after sweating your greedy self all day filing motions and calling little press conferences to whine and grumble like a divorcee… So You have finally decided to put the greed to action? And,shamelessly,gone ahead to file a motion seeking to disband the...

Ken on 18th Apr

Igembe South MP Mithika Linturi is the honourable member leading efforts to increase MPs salaries through the disbandment of the Salaries and Enumeration Commission. Last night, the MP made probably what was one of his biggest mistake yet, by agreeing to be interviewed by Larry Madowo, knowing too well he has little case, inadequate facts and generally...

Ken on 18th Apr

The two men at the forefront of fighting for members of parliament’s pay rise, Mithika Linturi and Jimmy Agwenyi, have vowed not to be intimidated by public pressure. Mithika Linturi was hosted on NTV last night by Larry Madowo, where he tried to explain why the salaries and enumeration commission should be disbanded. The Igembe south legislator...

Ken on 18th Apr

WHY YOU SHOULD NOT MARRY A NAIROBI WOMAN 1. She believes she is a doll 2. When she is single her net pay is ksh.20,000 but her rent is 15,000,Transport.5000,clothing 5000 and food 10,000.You will probably marry a whore. 3. She’s never happy without wealth. 4.  Equality dominates her thinking. 5. She only says “thank you” when she...

Ken on 18th Apr

If you have a smart phone, then you can easily put a face on the person who will steal your phone, should it come to that. Several applications available on android market (Google Play) and iTunes, provide recovery solutions in case you report a phone as stolen. Some apps use the phone GPS to calculate its location and send the details to a provided...

Ken on 18th Apr

This week has not been very good for this man who learned the hard way that not even a Range Rover can float on water, at least not the old models. This was the result when he tried to drive on water. © nairobiwire.com ...

Ken on 18th Apr

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for 1000 each. The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at 1000 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced...

Ken on 18th Apr

Yesterday, State House released a list of the 18 ministries the new government is set to be composed of. This is down from the former government’s 44. It is also 4 short of the constitutionally allowed maximum of 22. Here’s the list of the new ministries. 1. Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government.2. Ministry...

Ken on 18th Apr

From Facebook BEWARE OF THIS NEW MPESA PRANK… After transaction if a customer decides or asks to pay you via mpesa, either don’t accept & go with him to an mpesa dealer & withdraw himself & pay you in cash, or if you accept withdraw right away….the conman is buying something especially expensive, pay you with mpesa,...

Ken on 18th Apr

The whole of Europe was transfixed when Real Madrid went up against Manchester United in the Champions League last month.Real came out winners of that encounter, comfortably outplaying United – and now the Spanish giants have picked up another major victory over their Mancunian rivals. That’s because Real have now stolen Manchester United’s...

Ken on 17th Apr

East or west, home is best. Not even the magnificent twin towers along Kimathi Street would stop NTV news anchor Maurice Mugisha from going back to his country Uganda.  Maurice will return home this Saturday, to his old station NTV Uganda. Yesterday, the news anchor was bombarded with tens of goodbye messages, from colleagues and fans. Here are some. “@jhqueenbee:...