Magufuli sacks corrupt port officials as Uhuru packs bags for next trip abroad
Tanzania’s newly elected President John Pombe Magufuli has sacked almost the entire top brass at the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA). President Magufuli sacked the authority’s director general Awadhi...
View ArticleUS Presidential candidate with Turkana ancestry to visit Kenya
Kenya is set to host another high profile visitor –the Republican presidential contender Ben Carson. Mr Carson said on Monday that he will make a week-long trip to Africa at the end of December,...
View ArticleHow Jubilee lost the social media plot
Kenya’s digital space has returned to haunt the Jubilee administration, barely three years after the coalition used it as a springboard to ascend to power in 2013. In a case of instant poetic justice,...
View ArticleUhuru’s cabinet nominee working before vetting
Cabinet secretary nominee in the Public Service and Youth Affairs ministry Sicily Kariuki on Tuesday presided over a function in her proposed docket before being vetted in Parliament. Ms Kariuki is...
View ArticleMagufuli takes to cleaning up Dar streets on Independence Day
By DAVID KWALIMWA Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli on Wednesday snubbed the country’s Independence Day celebrations and instead led a clean up exercise in the capital Dar es Salaam. The East...
View ArticleHere is Darwesh’s final word on love and marriage
By NAIROBI NEWS REPORTER In what turned out to be his swansong article, fallen news anchor Ahmed Darwesh advised Kenyan women to take matters of their husbands’ diet with the seriousness it deserves....
View ArticleREVEALED: The gift Kibaki turned down
By NAIROBI NEWS REPORTER Retired President Mwai Kibaki turned down a gift of a petrol station offered to him as part of retirement goodies by the National Oil Corporation, Nairobi News has learnt....
View ArticlePastor: How my adulterous sister-in-law drove my brother to his death
By HILARY KIMUYU A man whose brother took his life by hanging himself last week has sensationally accused his sister-in-law of driving his brother to suicide. The deceased (name withheld), who...
View ArticleTwo shot dead by gangsters in Njiru estate
By KNA A man and a woman were murdered in cold blood when armed gangsters raided a mobile money transfer agency on Tuesday night in Njiru, Nairobi. While confirming the incident, Deputy Police...
View ArticleEXPLAINED: Why cars are burning on Thika Superhighway
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI If you have been wondering why cars are going up in flames lately, wonder no more as according to experts, you can prevent it from happening to your car. Nairobi News sought an...
View ArticleUoN seeking professors for top jobs
By OUMA WANZALA The University of Nairobi is looking to hire two deputy vice-chancellors and two college principals. Deputy vice-chancellor in charge of students’ affairs Prof Isaac Mbeche and deputy...
View ArticleGlimmer of hope in Magu family murder case
By ERIC WAINAINA @EWainaina Twenty witnesses have been lined up to testify against a lady pastor accused of having a hand in the murder of city lawyer Paul Magu, his wife and their three children....
View ArticleBirth control pill ‘with adverse side affects’ still on sale in Nairobi
By JACQUELINE KUBANIA A day after Bayer Pharmaceuticals was sued in Germany for adverse effects caused by its contraceptive pill, Yasminelle, the drug is still on sale in chemists in Nairobi. A spot...
View ArticleThe gods are to blame as Koroga Festival is postponed
By THOMAS RAJULA The Koroga Festival’s 10th edition, which was scheduled for this Sunday, December 20, 2015, has been postponed. The concert festival which was to have Uganda’s musical don Jose...
View ArticleRape doctor among top searches in 2015
By NAIROBI NEWS REPORTER Google Kenya has released top searches in 2015 with the US President Barack Obama and Pope Francis’s visits topping the list. On personalities, Former Prime Minister’s son...
View ArticleSex workers, gays march to demand their rights
By HILARY KIMUYU Commercial sex workers and homosexuals took to the streets of Nairobi on Thursday morning to mark this year’s International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. The commemoration...
View ArticleMeru leaders rubbish research findings on miraa and sexual performance
By IRENE MURITHI, @irene_murithi The Meru county assembly has refuted claims by Moi University researchers that miraa consumption affects sexual performance. Meru county assembly Speaker Joseph Kaberia...
View ArticleWomen leaders speak out against gender-based violence
By HILARY KIMUYU Nominated Senator Beatrice Elachi has raised the alarm over a trend where women are increasingly being harassed while using matatus across the country. Ms Elachi, who spoke during the...
View ArticleGerman missionary accused of sodomising Kenyan boys acquitted after 8 years
By RICHARD MUNGUTI, @RichardMunguti A missionary who has been in custody for eight years for the offence of sexually molesting underage boys walked to freedom on Thursday after he was acquitted. Mr...
View ArticleCatholic allied groups demand return of controversial anti-condom billboard
By BONIFACE MWANGI Six NGOs affiliated to the Catholic Church have given the Aids Control Council 14 days to return a controversial anti-condom use billboard it has confiscated. On Thursday members of...
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