MUTITU MP Kiema Kilonzo has declared he will not support Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka’s presidential bid though they hail from the same county. Kiema said the VP is an ungrateful and selfish leader who does not appreciate any support accorded him. He recalled that he gave his all to manage Kalonzo’s 2007 presidential campaign but the...
Image by Thikaroadblog.net Just when Thika Road is about to be completed, some people have already embarked on an operation to deface it. With flyovers never again seen in East Africa, Thika road should be a marvel to the eye, but not anymore. The flyover at Githurai is the arguably ugliest place in the whole of Nairobi. A few months after...
In perhaps their biggest loss this year, NTV has lost Robert Nagila to entrant CCTV. The self styled reporter has settled quite well at his new place and has already done a feature on a sunk Chinese ship. CCTV has poached the Kenyan media stations massively with high profile names like Beatrice Marshall and Terryanne Chebet heading for it. The exit...
The Star newspaper reported today that members of parliament were bribed to save the governor of the central bank of Kenya, Njuguna Ndung’u. He was under investigation for the drastic loss of value of the Kenyan shilling late last year. Several mp’s told the Star that Kikuyu mp Lewis Nguyai had handed several brown envelops to several...
Despite all the problems associated with albinism, one Indian family is all smiles after setting the record of the world’s biggest albino family. The family of 10 has had to endure years of prejudice and short sightedness but finally they have something to cheer them up as Guinness Book of World Records is about to include them in their list....
Osama Bin Laden’s body was not buried at sea according to confidential emails, published by Wikileaks. US officials said that the former Al Qaeda leader had been buried at an undisclosed location at the Arabian sea, but according to leaked emails his corpse was actually flown to a morgue in the US. On the day of Osama’s killing, Wikileaks...
Retired president Daniel arap Moi has denied endorsing Uhuru Kenyatta for president during Njenga Karume’s burial on Saturday.The former president refuted the claims by Sunday Nation that he had endorsed his former project, saying he was quoted out of context. In a statement released by Moi’s press secretary Lee Njiru, he said, “During...
This is a list of top 50 District schools in KCSE 2011 as released by Prof Ongeri on 29 th Feb. 2012 1 KAGWE GIRLS SECONDARY SCHOOL 103 B 9.16102 KARENGER BOYS SECONDARY SCHOOL 37 B 9.10023 MAYORI 59 B 8.99104 NGUVIU BOYS HIGH SCHOOL 184 B 8.96445 LONGISA HIGH SCHOOL 250 B 8.80796 ELBURGON SECONDARY SCHOOL 140 B 8.68727 AMABUKO SECONDARY SCHOOL 154...
The top 100 county schoools in 2011 KCSE released by Prof Ongeri on 29th feb 2012 are below. KNEC will once again be blamed for improper ranking since some schools with very high mean grades were undeservedly left out of the top 50 schools. UPDATE: TOP 100 SCHOOLS KCSE 2012 (Released 2013) 1 MARANDA HIGH SCHOOL 261 A- 11.28712 MOLO ACADEMY 55 A- 10.92893...
The national broadcaster KBC has seen its employees down their tools. Hundreds of staff went on strike demanding various reforms in the station including the sacking of managing director Waithaka Waihenya. They presented a petition to several mp’s led by Bonny Khalwale. The communication department of KBC was however mostly working. All its station...
2012 KCSE results are finally out and despite the top positions changing regularly, the one thing that remains constant is the failure of KNEC’s website and sms system to perform. The official website to check your results is always down year after year and 2012 is no different. The SMS platform seems to deteriorate every year. One joke that...
The late njenga karume Veteran politician Njenga Karume has finally succumbed to cancer. The politician was just recently rumoured to be dead but that was just a false alarm, but on Friday, he died at the Karen hospital. Njenga Karume was a self made billionaire and has served in various ministries. He was a very close friend to Kibaki and...
Image by Thikaroadblog.net Thika road is a about to be turned to an 8 lane highway, ( not sure its a superhighway), and one of the major sections whose end has been eagerly anticipated is the Muthaiga to Pangani stretch. This is the part that will revolutionize road transport in East Africa. With a series of underground tunnels and flyovers,...
Flight comparison website Skyscanner.net asked 100 passengers to rate the food served on 19 different national carriers. Arabian airlines show their might here with 2 of them ranking top 5. As you might want to guess, Emirates is on the list at number 5. Here is the list. 10. Air France – Definitely not the first place you would want to test...
East African largest media house, Nation Media Group, has launched a radio station in Kigali, Rwanda. The new station, 98.7 KFM, is targeting the middle to low income earners of Rwanda with a major on the youth. It will broadcast in mainly Kinyarwanda, with a little of English.Rwandan Minister in-charge of Cabinet Affairs, Mr Protais Musoni, lauded...
After the embarrassing claims of Njenga Karume’s death by NTV, it has been rumoured that the man behind the Facebook and Twitter update has been fired. Albert Gachiri is reported by Jackal News to have faced the sack for updating an incorrect ‘status’. NTV quickly retracted the report of Njenga Karume’s death, but since it’s...
Njenga Karume is not dead. The ‘most trusted’ news source, Nation, today fell for rumours that veteran politician Njenga Karume had died. On their facebook page, they broke the news of his death, but were quick to retract that by posting, “Earlier today, NTV reported on Twitter and Facebook that politician and businessman Njenga Karume...
Around, 2 months ago, Nairobi wire was launched. It was intended to be a blog breaking down national and global news in a manner depicting ease in understanding. Stories that have appeared on Nairobi wire for the last 2 months are carefully selected for the Nairobi and Kenyan market. Unlike other blogs, filler stories or what you may call junk is...
7 years ago, a painter got a day’s job. Graffiti artist, David Choe was given the job of painting, Facebook’s headquarters and given the option of either getting paid in cash or in stock. Though Choe did not believe in the then young Facebook, he decided to accept stock. That was in 2005 and 7 years later, the stocks which were then a...