Google has joined Kenya in the celebration of Jamhuri day by putting up a doodle with the Kenyan colours and coat of arms on google.co.ke. Google is known to put up hundreds of doodles during birthdays of people who left a mark in the world. They have also been putting up doodles during national celebrations of specific countries. The doodle is well...
Samuel Kamau Macharia , better known as SK. Macharia has become a household name ever since he started dominating the airwaves. Chairman and owner of Royal Media Services which owns the dominant TV station in Kenya and several Geo-dominant radio stations, SK. Macharia has not had it smooth though. During the times of former president Moi, Citizen...
A weird Ugandan is determined to be in space by the year 2020. Chris Nsamba, a freelance aeronautics engineer and founder of the African Space Research Program has been building the spacecraft in his backyard. He has even been interviewed by the BBC and he showed optimism that he would be finishing his project within 4 to 6 years. Spacecrafts are...
Facebook list of the most popular terms in 2011 is out and the same culprits are still on top. From football stars, to entertainment and movie stars, to osama bin Laden. The list is long and here are the top. Actors and TV Personalities 1. Megan Fox 2. Vin Diesel 3. Adam Sandler 4. Selena Gomez 5. Will Smith 6. Taylor...
TOKYO (AP) — An outing of luxury sportscar enthusiasts in Japan ended in an expensive freeway pileup — smashing a stunning eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini and two Mercedes likely worth more than $1 million together.Police say they believe the accident Sunday was touched off when the driver of one of the Ferraris tried to change lanes and hit the...
Britain’s best selling tabloid, News of The World is been shut down. This follows a scandal involving phone hacking. The tabloid well loved in Britain is known to go that extra mile to find stories that will astonish and keep everyone talking. Chief executive of the paper was widely expected to tender her resignation in front of the paper’s...
click this image to see his twitter account Kenya’s new chief justice with a stud and swag just joined twitter and facebook. Willy Mutunga has joined the list of growing government officials to join the two popular social networking sites. In just one day, Mutunga had accumulated over 1500 followers on twitter and an almost similar likes...
The activists camping outside Jogoo house in Nairobi were yesterday treated to some fresh human waste by street boys who were apparently sent to intimidate them. They were all busy shouting ‘Ongeri must go’ when out of nowhere some ‘chokoras’ came and attacked them with the vividly fresh faeces. It landed on their suits, shoes...
Education minister Sam Ongeri is on the spotlight again and not for any good. For the second time in his career as education minister, he has been accused of high level corruption. The first time, the prime minister ‘fired’ him but the president overturned that decision. This time round, it is yet to be seen if the president will save...
Mps on Wednesday night approved the names of Willy Mutunga,Nancy Baraza and Keriako Tobiko for the posts of Chief Justice, Deputy chief justice and Director of public prosecutions. However more optimism among Kenyans lies with the appointment of Mutunga as Chief Justice. the few times he has appeared on TV, he has struck a no nonsense figure who will...
Alleged king of drug peddling who also doubles as Kilome mp, Harun Mwau has sought an assurance over his security over what he claims as possible assassination attempts by the US government.Mwau has reported the observation of suspicious characters, both white and black around his office and home. This follows his mention by Us president Barack Obama...
Supersport has decided, with effect immediately not to air Gor Mahia’s matches. This follows the behavior of its fans during its KPL top 8 match with Ulinzi at nyayo stadium. The match had to be abandoned and as if not enough, the fans made sure no glass stood including those belonging to the Ulinzi bus. Gor’s fans have a history of unruly...
On June 13 2011, Twitter acquired the name they had grown fond of, retweet through the acquisition of re-tweet.com. This may still be half the deal since they still have no rights to retweet.com without the hyphen. Apparently twitter acquired the domain from a David Quinlan who had bought it several months back for only $150. It is however not clear...
The late Kimani Maruge, made his mark as the oldest first grader in the world. For that he made international headlines and travelled all over the world including adressing a UN conference. A movie has been made in his honour and it stars Oliver Litondo, better remembered for his time at KTN in the 90’s. Other notable cast include John Sibi-Okumu,...
During the celebration of Les Paul 96th birthday, google dsigned its best doodle ever and the reception was WOW!. googlers around the world tried their ‘electric guitar prowess’ by recording themselves playing the guitar. The guitar which may have passed some people as any other doodle was alive. That I had mentioned here. Google was overwhelmed...
If you are a user of google,(which you are) then you will have noticed the google guitar doodle. Internet surfers were today, 9th June, treated to the best google doodle ever made. It has been designed to mark Les Paul’s 96th birthday. Les Paul is one of the world renowned pioneer electric guitarists. Unfortunately he is not alive to see his...