By Salline via Facebook Haki woi si nimecheka yangu yote!? This was in luo language and i hope to translate the joke; Nairobi west sitting near this frustrated jaluo man – then his phone rings and since I can hear the caller (am very close)…it is obvious the caller is owed money by my neighbor […]

A worrying beauty trend has emerged in Kenya for illegal ‘skin-bleaching’ injections which dramatically lighten the skin’s pigment. Popular among the Kenyan elite and costing around $70 a pop, the process involves injecting mercury-containing creams which are intended to be applied topically, allegedly because they work much faster to lighten the skin that way. ‘Nairobi […]

By Shem Mukalo Members of the public were earlier today treated to an adrenaline pumping and heart-fluttering drama along Racecourse road in Nairobi. A young woman who had arrived in Nairobberry, sorry I meant Nairobi, probably in her mid-twenties, caused quite a stir along the busy road after falling victim to the antics of some […]

Now, the government is indeed idle, a contingent of police was dispatched to university of Nairobi, vandalized the university library and arrested more than 100 students who were busy studying in the guise of stopping riots. The most unfortunate thing is that most of those arrested were Uhuru Kenyatta supporters who had decided NOT to […]

Heavy police presence in major cities as university students strike picks on. Several teargas canisters have been picked by students accusing the police of brutality. A number of student leaders, including SONU Chairman Babu Owino, is alleged to have been arrested.

By Dikembe Disembe Failed diplomacy? The Jubilee Alliance government over the weekend came under sharp scrutiny of our development partners. Ambassadors from 18 leading missions stationed in Nairobi, including the United States, Britain and Japan all appealed to the government to end rampant corruption. “At the moment when Kenya is restructuring government through the devolution […]

Over the last 2 years Kenya has been one of the few countries successful in its military engagement with Al-Shabaab – expelling the Al-Qaeda affiliate from Kismayo, Somalia’s third largest city. However, the Kenyan government has also been tolerating the presence of a young Somali-Kenyan radical cleric by the name of Hassan Mahad Omar AKA […]

By Cyrus Ombati At least six people were Monday night killed and ten others wounded in twin blasts in California area in Eastleigh, Nairobi. The blasts happened when terrorists hurled explosives into a food kiosk and a bus stop, which were about 50 meters apart hitting crowds that were there, police said. Witnesses said they […]

The student of the university of Nairobi whose body was found lifeless in the swimming at the institution’s main campus had all his clothes on, including the shoes. Students at the institution now claim their colleague may have been killed elsewhere and body dumped at the not-serviced swimming pool. When the body of the student, […]

A fourth year economics student at the University of Nairobi was yesterday found dead in unclear circumstances at the institution’s swimming pool located in Main Campus. The lifeless body of the student, identified as Denis Maina, has been retrieved and the swimming pool is currently out of bonds for the students. There were mixed reports […]