Jesse Were on the verge of Bidvest move
Tusker striker Jesse Were, who currently top the Kenyan Premier League scorers’ chart, is in South Africa to negotiate for a move to the Premier Soccer League side Bidvest Wits. Were, who has 19 goals...
View ArticleCoach Tim Bryett quits Thika United
After a spate of poor results that has seen his team drop second to 11th position in the 2015 Kenyan Premier League table, Thika United coach Tim Bryett has quit his job. Thika has recorded seven...
View ArticleAl Shabaab preach to Lamu villagers in raid
About 100 suspected Al Shabaab militants on Saturday morning ambushed Basuba Village in Lamu East and preached to the residents for one hour. According to a witness, who requested not be named, the...
View ArticleSmartphone-charging jeans are here
It sounds like something from the future – a pair of skinny jeans that will charge your smartphone, simply by slipping the device into a sleek side pocket. But that day is here. Joe’s Jeans, a...
View ArticleKenya Power moves to reduce blackouts in Karen
Kenya Power has begun replacing bare electricity conductors with insulated ones to minimise power interruptions in Nairobi’s leafy suburbs. The Company’s Regional Manager for Nairobi West, Mr Peter...
View ArticleKidero loses grip on cartels, turns to traders to end graft
Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has given up on the fight to rein on corruption within City Hall and is now looking outwards to the public for help. City Hall has been the centre of criticism over poor...
View ArticleJadudi arrives in India for life-saving brain surgery
University of Nairobi student Emmanuel Otieno, popularly known as Jadudi, has been admitted at Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India, and is scheduled for a surgery to remove a brain tumor this week. This...
View ArticleCJ Mutunga busts multi-million scam at traffic courts during visit
Chief Justice Willy Mutunga has uncovered a massive corruption web at the traffic courts section of the judiciary where police officers and brokers have set up parallel courts to fleece the government...
View ArticleLovebirds Emmy Kosgei and husband to mark wedding anniversary in Kenya
Kenyan gospel songbird Emmy Kosgei is set to visit Kenya with her Nigerian husband Pastor Anselm Madubuko to celebrate their second wedding anniversary. The couple will visit Masai Mara to watch the...
View ArticleAvril gets born again, promises a collabo with Christina Shusho
Kenyan musician Judith Nyambura aka Avril on Saturday repeated the sinner’s prayer during a campus event at the Catholic University of East Africa. The ‘Nikimuona’ hitmaker was attending the national...
View Article71 people arrested for stepping on Kidero Grass
Seventy one people were on Monday arrested at the city centre for stepping on grass and littering. The offenders were arrested by the county’s Environmental Monitoring and Enforcement team and charged...
View ArticleMwamba RFC elects new officials
George Mbaye has been elected Mwamba RFC chairman during the club’s Annual General Meeting that was held on Saturday afternoon at Railways Club, Nairobi. Mr Mbaye, a former Kenya Sevens international...
View ArticleAllan Wanga set to join Gor Mahia training camp
Allan Wanga will train with Gor Mahia for seven days starting next Monday, Nairobi News understands. This is after Wanga’s parent club Azam FC requested the Kenyan Premier League champions to allow the...
View ArticleMeet Ugandan man who has 12 wives, some of them sisters
When I visited Mr Patrick Oburu’s home in Buswikira village, Mpungwe Sub-county, Mayuge District, I discovered that even children as young as seven years knew him. As I tried to trace his home, I...
View ArticleMalkia strikers lose second friendly ahead of world cup
The national women volleyball team collapsed to 3-1 defeat against V- league side Hitachi Rivale in a build up match played at the Hitachi Rivale gymnasium here in Japan. Overall, the African Queens...
View ArticleIT expert denies stealing Sh21m from two banks
An Information Technology specialist has been charged with stealing over Sh21 million from two banks. Mr Hiram Kiragu Mbuthia, who is also a director Gama Solutions Enterprises Limited, denied four...
View ArticleKisumu rapist handed 130-year jail term for infecting victim with HIV
A Kisumu court has sentenced a man to 130 years in jail for raping and infecting a girl with HIV in a judgement that has been criticised as unlawful by lawyers. Resident Magistrate Samwel Aswani Opande...
View ArticleKidero fights to stop Sh1bn account freeze over Mumias sugar saga
Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero wants the High Court to reject an application seeking to freeze his accounts holding about Sh1 billion. Businessman Jacob Juma has asked the court to put the accounts on...
View ArticleFormer Kenyan Big Brother star survives rape attempt
Former Kenyan representative to Big Brother Africa (BBA); The Chase, Annabel Mbaru, says she almost got raped by a taxi driver on Sunday morning. Annabel, who appeared on the BBA show the same year as...
View ArticleSh500 fine awaits you for stepping on Kidero grass
Twelve people were Monday fined Sh500 each for walking on the grass that has been grown in a drive to beautify Nairobi. The offenders had been arrested in the morning by members of the county...
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