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.
According to COFEK, more than 15 million Kenyans who participate in betting and gaming could be affected if questions surrounding the leadership of the regulator are left unresolved.
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 […]
NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga has dropped a bombshell in what is shocking yet not really unexpected making allegations that the military has been entangled into the land’s politics by being trained in the barracks as rigging agents in the coming election. Raila attributed the rigging dating back to since ehen the High Court ruled […]
Walter Menya was having a regular medical checkup at Metropolitan Hospital, BuruBuru when a man identified to him as Korros posing as a source of a juicy story called him for a meeting to pass over details of his dossier. Since he couldn’t make it to town where the fake source had suggested, they agreed […]
The President will today launch one of the biggest if not the biggest infrastructural project completed under jubilee, the completion of the first phase of SGR that is Mombasa- Kisumu that was built at a cost of 400B. The project has been marred by controversy from inception with procurement scandals, project overquoting amongst the many […]
With 8/8 fast approaching and politicians going on campaign overdrive, the civil society who gives the watchdog value for the community is not sleeping either. A campaign dubbed #RedCardKE is already creating enough havoc, this is a citizen’s driven 90-day campaign created to #RedCard all corrupt and unethical political aspirants, raise voter awareness and empower […]
“To honour my mum I got a bunch of celebrities from Kenya and South Africa to share messages of hope around breast cancer.” NAIROBI, October 17, 2016 – Top radio presenter and social activist Adelle Onyango has roped in celebrities from Kenya and South Africa for a social media campaign on breast cancer. Adelle says […]
The Ombudsman has written to the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education Dr Fred Matiang’i on the above-captioned subject. In the letter, the Commission raises concerns over the directive by the Cabinet Secretary requiring the University of Nairobi Kenya Science Campus to vacate its premises on Ngong’ Road by 1st December 2016 to pave the way […]
The national carrier that has turned from a pride of Africa to being a shame continue to get hammered despite their PR exercise to sanitize the filthy profile. Genuine worries that Kenya Airways is at the brink of total collapse given massive losses they continue to make. An audit report conducted by Deloitte reveals from […]
“The deadline to close the world’s largest refugee camp must be lifted,” said Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). A new report released today by NRC criticizes the returns process from Dadaab camp in Kenya to Somalia, as no longer being voluntary, safe or dignified. The report, titled Dadaab’s Broken Promise, […]
“…So the emotions just rolled down her face. It was so humbling. A reminder that, what I’m doing and my story, is influencing and inspiring so many people!” – Adelle Onyango NAIROBI, September 10, 2016: Over the weekend, radio queen and social activist Adelle Onyango joined three other top female personalities in a mentorship event […]
The most anticipated performance of the year in Kenya finally came to reality when the international RnB star Chris Brown finally touched in in his private jet for one of the most expensive concerts in the recent times. As he was making his way out of the airport to his waiting car, like he has […]
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