Kenyan celebs share social media experience
Google organised an open forum with local artistes and producers from across Kenya’s music industry on Friday to discuss how the firm’s digital strategies and tools such as Google+ Hangout can boost...
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A formally clad Nairobi governor aspirant Dr Evans Kidero at the Choma Zone eatery on Thika Road last Friday evening.Read more about SpottedComments
View ArticleThe Mercury Lounge's Mixology competition
Mixology is the art of mixing various alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages to come up with cocktails that will titillate the senses. It is still a new art in Kenya which has a long history of patrons...
View ArticleCiroc Vodka rocks Nairobi
Ciroc Vodka is no stranger to the Kenyan market. The Ciroc brand of vodka is produced and distributed by drinks company Diageo. In Kenya, it is distributed by East Africa Breweries. It made its debut...
View ArticleSK Blue to launch SMS service
Tomorrow, Gospel singer SK Blue will launch an SMS service for his company, Sakata Media. Dubbed Sakata Mobi, it is working as a premium rate service provider that provides recorded information for...
View ArticleHoney Singh rocks Nairobians
He is young, stylish and has one of the largest fan followings online. This is the artist known as “Yo!Yo! Honey Singh” and he was performing for the first time in Kenya last Saturday at the Carnivore...
View ArticleMinister not bound to obey parastatal board
Dr. Anne Kinyua v Nyayo Tea Zone Developmnet Corporation & 2 others (2012)eKLR. Industrial Court, at Nairobi Cause Number 1065 of 2012 JO Abuodha J. October 18, 2012. The brief facts of this case...
View ArticleGender identity: The other sex
The Transgender day of Rememberance is marked annually on November 20. It is a day to memorialise those who have been killed as a result oftransphobia-which is the hatred or fear of transgender and...
View ArticleAids-Free Africa Can Be Realised
An estimated 34.2 million people around the world are infected with the virus that causes AIDS, H.I.V. The scary part, what is disconcerting is that 23.5 million or 70% of those suffering from AIDS...
View ArticleMursi should follow the Turkish model
LAST week Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi granted himself sweeping powers and decreed that the courts could not challenge any decision taken by the president. The immediate suspicion was that the...
View ArticleThe Collective Countenance
Joseph Cartoon and his Multicoloured, Universal Faces “Tribalism is a ruthless devil,” says Kenyan artist Joseph Cartoon. “The faces I paint are similar to other faces from contemporary African art...
View ArticleFour killed in lorry accident, 16 injured
FOUR people were killed and sixteen others injured when a lorry transporting sugarcane to West Kenya weighbridge at Tanagkona lost control and met an accident at Otimong on Sunday evening. There were...
View ArticleTNA official appeals to Eugene to remain in G7
Justice minister Eugene Wamalwa has been urged to rethink his decision and stick with the G7 alliance. Speaking to the Star yesterday, TNA’s Bungoma county coordinator Philip Wanyonyi told Wamalwa that...
View ArticleObure asks Ongeri to ditch TNA for ODM
Public Works minister Chris Obure has asked his Foreign Affairs counterpart Sam Ongeri to join ODM. Obure, who will vie against Ongeri for Kisii senator, said the Nyaribari Masaba MP risks being left...
View ArticleEseli, locals turn down Sh1.4 billion dam
Kimilili MP Eseli Simiyu has opposed the government’s plan to build a multibillion shilling dam in the constituency. Speaking at a funeral of former education officer for Tongaren division Erastus...
View ArticleRustlers shoot dead herder, steal 60 animals
A man was shot dead and 60 cattle stolen by rustlers at the Ng’enda Lel village on the Trans Mara West and Kuria East district border on Sunday night. Joel Maritim was grazing the animals when he was...
View ArticleNewly-wed Suguta valley victim buried in Rongo
ONE of the officers killed in the bandit attack at Suguta Valley was buried at Rongo in Migori at the weekend. Dan Odhiambo Omollo, 26, burial at Sigiria village was attended by Public Service minister...
View ArticleODM rejects Vihiga power sharing deal
ODM officials in Vihiga have rejected a proposal to share elective seats endorsed by UDF presidential hopeful Musalia Mudavadi a week ago. Led by county co-ordinator George Muyera, they said the deal...
View ArticleOkemo helps needy families
NAMBALE MP Chris Okemo was yesterday moved to tears when he visited two Teso families and found them living miserable lives, unable to fend for themselves. Okemo first visited Joseph Isokata at his...
View ArticleOjaamong blasted on TV
LABOUR Assistant minister Sospeter Ojaamong was yesterday forced to defend his track record in a live TV debate. Fellow governor aspirant, Vincent Sidai, accused Ojamong of sidelining Teso...
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