Nairobi residents risk arrest if caught purchasing goods from street hawkers operating outside designated areas, the county government has warned in a major enforcement shift that now targets buyers alongside sellers. Geoffrey Mosiria, Nairobi’s Chief Officer for Environment, announced the new crackdown on Friday, stating that customers will be treated as accomplices in illegal hawking […]
Last Friday marked an exciting addition to Nairobi’s cultural and entertainment landscape with the grand opening of the Museum of Illusions. Situated in Parklands at the Laxoncourt Plaza, the museum offers a unique blend of education and entertainment, inviting visitors to experience a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Speaking at the official […]
For starters, over seven years ago, the government announced that they have discovered aquifer water in Turkana County. The county has now partnered with Almar Water— a Saudi Arabia-based firm— to erect a desalination plant. The UK-based Guardian newspaper quoted Tito Ochieng, the director of water services in Turkana, stating that the county has contracted […]
I will not reveal the personal details of those involved in this story because it’s illegal to publicly disclose one’s health conditions. Hi Edward, I’ve been seing your articles on a Facebook group we happen to be in together and one of it that was talking about that Mathare kid with HIV and Aids […]
More than 2000 members from Mombasa and Nairobi had filed a suit before the Mombasa High Court Justice PJ Otieno seeking orders to debar trustees of the Kenya Ports Authority Pension Scheme (KPAPS) from transferring management of its multimillion assets worth to Private Real Estate Agents and the planned backdoor sale of KPAPS houses. Reprieve […]
Kenya has topped yet another wrong list as the latest interpol and European Union-backed report on global crime trends listed her amongst top countries with the worst organised crime problems globally. The Enact Organised Crime Index Africa 2019 that was launched on September 24 on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New […]
Earlier this year, Kenyan media headlines were flooded with news and reports of a marriage gone sour between a controversial Nigerian Anthony Chinedu and his ex-wife Joyce Akinyi that led to one of the most gruesome deportations ever to be witnessed in Kenya’s number one airport JKIA. And when Tob Cohen was viciously murdered in […]
Ever heard of the phrase, Infected by the Hospital? Well, that’s more like it. A medical audit report submitted before the Nairobi County Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has laid an accusing finger on the County government Health department for threatening the lives of millions of Nairobians by allowing County hospitals to stock expired drugs […]
Drug addiction and unprotected sex under the influence has hit its rise in Nairobi’s University and Colleges. Cocaine, marijuana, crack and blue tabs have high consumers in schools. A lot of comrades are active drug users and addicts. We have received information from our sources about the increased cases of illegal drug use and prostitution […]
Scientists have tested money and phones from 395 food handlers in 15 different types of outlets in Nairobi County and confirmed the two items to be highly-tainted with disease-causing germs. The researchers collected money from the food handlers in every denomination of the Kenya’s currency. The money underwent through a thorough test for eight types […]
Everyone is going through something right now. Relationship issues. Financial issues. Healthy issues. Spiritual issues and many more. This week, Nairobi governor Mike Sonko took that chance to issue a relationship advice to his fans and fiends. Sonko shared pics of his past in a Facebook post celebrating their hustle from shreds to now the […]
Kenya has been rolling deep down into public debt in the name of development. Government handlers have been on the frying pot for advising the government of projects that are not profit generating at the expense of the tax payers. Recently a Chinese loan worth Ksh.374 billion for the extension of the SGR from Naivasha […]
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