A man claiming to be the long-lost son of Dr. Sam Thenya, the founder of Nairobi Women’s Hospital, has allegedly emerged with a single demand: that the prominent medic undergo a DNA test to establish whether they are biologically related. According to claims circulating online and amplified on Tuesday by blogger Edgar Obare, the unidentified […]
It is done. On June 30, 2026, the last working day of a month in which courts, petitioners, and a watching public fought to slow the clock, South Africa’s Vodacom Group completed the purchase of a 15 percent stake in Safaricom Plc, executing the largest single transaction in the history of the Nairobi Securities Exchange. […]
It is done. On June 30, 2026, the last working day of a month in which courts, petitioners, and a watching public fought to slow the clock, South Africa’s Vodacom Group completed the purchase of a 15 percent stake in Safaricom Plc, executing the largest single transaction in the history of the Nairobi Securities Exchange. […]
Beneath the polished marketing renders and five-star branding language now circulating for “Diani Beach Residences by CityBlue,” a far less glamorous paper trail tells the real story. It is a beachfront mega-project that appears to have entered Kenya’s regulatory system carrying one set of numbers while being sold to the international investment market under another, […]
A motorist who paid a KSh 10,000 speeding fine through what he believed was NTSA’s official channel found his money deposited into a KCB account bearing a private individual’s name. Lawyer Donald Kipkorir’s public challenge has reopened questions a Nairobi court was already asking about the same payment architecture.
In the antiseptic corridors of Absa Bank Kenya’s headquarters, the end came without ceremony. On or around June 28, 2026, Abdi Mohamed, the veteran Managing Director and CEO who had spent more than three decades rising through the Barclays-to-Absa ranks from a Garissa branch teller to the corner office, placed the call to Johannesburg. The […]
A road agency that has paid out billions for its own contractual sins, run for seven months by a man the High Court had just convicted of contempt, handed a Sh3 billion tarmac contract to an outfit with no comparable highway pedigree on the strength of a Chinese contractor’s name it stole and a stamp it forged. The whistleblower told them in March. They waited until a judge was watching in May.
Charles Korgoren Kerich, for nearly a decade the most indispensable technocrat at Nairobi City Hall, is now a convicted contempt fugitive cooling his heels in America while Kenyan courts have issued an arrest warrant, a German investor suffered alleged death threats and a Sh52,000 credit card fraud linked to his business associates, and Sh65.3 million in cash was unearthed from under the nose of his departmental colleague. His story is Kenya’s impunity problem distilled into one man’s spectacular flight from accountability.
Forty-one buildings illegally piercing Wilson Airport’s protected airspace. A regulator whose officers were threatened at gunpoint. A city planning chief now facing criminal charges. And a government so captured by developer interests that it would rather reroute aircraft over a national park than flatten a single illegal floor. This is not an aviation story. It is a corruption story. And the crash it is building towards will be Kenya’s fault.
For years, warning signs have accumulated over the management of South Sudan’s oil revenues. Resources that should have sustained a population enduring one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises have instead disappeared through opaque networks linked to a small circle of senior officials and their intermediaries. Neither the authorities in Juba nor the international […]
For three years Zipporah Tabu Obura has lived with the brutal reality that her son Kennedy Olilo Obura was found dead in a bathroom at a villa in Mvindeni, Diani, blood on the walls and floor, injuries to his chest and elbow. What was meant to be a routine trip to serve as best man […]
An investigation into the decade-long governance paralysis, the CEO carousel, the humiliating rights issue failure, the Mansa-X rescue, and the staggering ex-gratia payments that were the financial lubricant needed to finally move Kenya’s most founder-captured bank from private legacy to public liability. The listing on June 23, 2026 was not a triumph of vision. It was the completion of a transaction. And new shareholders are the ones who bought it.
Kenyan operators and industry associations strongly criticized the draft Gambling Control Act, calling the proposed payments and requirements “unprecedented and punitive.” In the view of market participants, the new rules could deal a serious blow to the legal sector, pushing business into the grey market. The comments were made at public forums held by the […]
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has announced that Kenya’s next General Election will be held on August 10, 2027, while unveiling a roadmap of critical electoral timelines. During the launch of the Election Operations Plan 2025–2027, IEBC Commissioner Ann Nderitu stated that public officers intending to contest elective seats must resign by February […]
NAIROBI, Kenya — In a rare and fiery social media broadside, President William Ruto on Tuesday accused former Baringo Senator and KANU Chairman Gideon Moi of orchestrating a sustained campaign of “extortionist propaganda” through The Standard Media Group’s newspapers and KTN television stations. “GMoi, your STANDARD media’s 5 days a week EXTORTIONIST propaganda HEADLINES on […]
When a county is spending more than half its income on payroll, there is almost nothing left for the roads, the medicines, the dispensary equipment and the development projects that feature so prominently in press releases.
He has presented himself as an oversight warrior, a defender of the small developer against a predatory executive, a champion of due process. The documented record tells a far different story
A payment dispute linked to the 2025 Piny Luo Festival is now threatening to escalate into a wider legal and public accountability battle after a Nairobi-based branding firm accused Migori County of failing to settle KSh3,814,380.76 for services rendered during the event. At the centre of the dispute is BrandPulse Experience, trading as Lokhart SIPE […]
The High Court has cleared Equity Bank to auction at least sixty-five properties across Nairobi and Mombasa after the four companies that borrowed Sh1.37 billion in 2021 failed to halt enforcement. Njuca Consolidated Company Limited, Wakuga Holdings Limited, Cochem Services Limited and Paric Hardware Products Limited lost their bid to stop the sale, with the […]
Explosive claims by Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi surface as Hassan Sheikh Mohamud makes an unannounced visit to Kenya amid a fierce legitimacy crisis back home.
A storm is gathering over Busia County’s Treasury, and at its eye stands Ahmed Adan Hefow, the Chief Officer for Accounting Services who now controls critical levers of the county’s financial machinery. Fresh insider allegations portray him not as a reformer steadying a troubled department, but as Governor Paul Otuoma’s most trusted operative for handling […]
KAMPALA — Kenyan Senior Counsel Martha Karua was detained at Entebbe International Airport on Monday after Ugandan authorities denied her entry into the country, setting off a diplomatic and legal storm just hours before a closely watched court ruling involving Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago and the wider prosecution of opposition figures linked to veteran […]
A businessman has been charged with forging court stamps, titles deeds, certificate of grant among others. Anthony Mwangi Ndegwa is accused of forging judicial stamps on 24th October 2025 at Homeland, along the Thika Super Highway, Nairobi. Ndegwa is said to have been in possession of instruments purported to be the Thika Chief Magistrate Commercial […]
Prominent Makueni businessman Stephen Ngei Musyoka, founder of Makindu Motors Limited and a key complainant in the Sh180 million fake government laptop tender scandal, has died alongside his wife, Giannaphina Mumbua Ngei, following a fatal road accident on the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway. The couple died on Saturday after the pickup truck Ngei was driving collided head-on […]
A Sh311 million payout to a single advocate is the latest receipt in a decade-long pattern where Nairobi County’s legal department turns ordinary lawsuits into billion-shilling paydays, then asks taxpayers to foot the bill while officials allegedly pocket a cut on the side.
Billionaire businessman Eric Muli has sparked a heated national debate after sharply disagreeing with Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi’s remarks suggesting that Kenya’s capital city status cannot be moved from Nairobi. Muli argued that the discussion about relocating the seat of government should not be dismissed, citing Machakos County’s historical significance and growing economic potential […]
Old Mutual’s 2025 disclosures show that the company recorded fraud-related losses amounting to Sh106.4 million during the year.
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