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Nimeskia mjadala leo asubuhi kwenye redio (classic FM-Kenya) kuhusu wanaume wa Kenya. Je mwanaume anaweza itiwa kazi na mwanamke hivi na akatae? Please click to the link usikie hiyo conversation kwenye simu. FULL VERSION Nicole and Muturi at La Mujer De Mi Vida by Bwana K on SoundCloud -...

Lawyers are free to appear in the Supreme Court wearing studs or dreadlocks, Chief Justice Willy Mutunga says. And judges will not wear “colonial wigs and robes” and suggestions would be sought from the public on a simple robe that...

South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya are Africa’s best investment destinations for 2011, according to the Dutch-based organisation Africa Business Panel. The three countries came out tops in a survey among 800 professionals currently involved in the continent. The top ten countries are, in order...

Nairobi — The Brookings Institution in Washington has been playing host to a top-level conference effectively celebrating Kenya. Governors of central banks, top executives from The World Bank, State Department, US Treasury, White House, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and leading...

South Africa leads the Africa patents table…by far. Followed by Kenya in a distant second, then Egypt, Zimbabwe, Morocco. Outside of these five countries, no other African country registered any international patents from 2007. Patents are a crude measure of a country’s innovativeness. Crude...

Kenya Railways Corporation has begun construction of the Syokimau Railway Station - the first railway under the Sh24 billion Nairobi Commuter Rail Project - that will see electric-powered commuter trains debuted on the route as part of efforts to decongest Nairobi City. The station will be...

There is an influx of beggars from Tanzania into the streets of Nakuru town. Residents have raised fears the influx poses a security threat in the town. Most of the beggars are disabled and residents suspect that they could have been brought in by a cartel engaged in human trafficking...

Defence assistant minister David Musila said on Thursday the Armed Forces were ready to defend the country from foreign aggression. However, he said, the orders could only be issued by the President, who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. “The international norms on military...

Although the dust of the ouster of former South African President, Thabo Mbeki has already settled, the nation is at crossroads. The African strategic nation was not ready for Mbeki’s exit despite swearing in a new caretaker president, Kgalema Mothlanthe. Will Jacob Zuma, become a uniter or a...

Policemen were on Wednesday caught on camera executing three men in cold blood on a busy Nairobi street. Image Gallery A motorist who happened upon the confrontation between plainclothes policemen and alleged criminals in the morning traffic pulled out his...

Nairobi — Detectives investigating last week's theft of Sh80 million from the Co-operative Bank have arrested five more suspects, including an Administration Police officer, and recovered a box containing Sh10.5 million. This brings the total amount of money recovered by police from the robbery...

By Cyrus Ombati Thugs disguised as G4S personnel walked into a commercial bank in the city centre and seized Sh80 million. The five men, who included two in police uniforms, seemed to have prior information that the money was to be collected from Co-operative Bank headquarters and later fed to...

By Alex Kiprotich Has it ever occurred to you that your behaviour, however polished, is not ‘normal’? Last week brought a learning experience, which was simply puzzling. A group of journalists, past and present David Astor winners with the trust’s Executive Director Jim Meyer, met in Nairobi to...

In 2009, the government spent close to Sh500 million to purchase the 1800cc Volkswagen Passats for ministers, assistant ministers and permanent secretaries. Photo/FILE By WACHIRA KANG’ARU wkangaru@ke.nationmedia.com Posted Thursday, September 16 2010 at 22:43 The...

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 31 – The population of Kenya has hit 38.6 million according to the much awaited results of the Population and Housing Census conducted in August last year. This compares with about 30 million Kenyans in 1999, when the last census was carried out. Planning Minister...

Two more members of a Kenyan fraud ring have been sentenced to prison in the United States for trying to steal more than $3 million from state governments. Michael Ochenge, 33, received a four-year term, and Albert Gunga, 31, was given 10 months on Friday by a federal judge in the state of...

Two years after Kenya sunk to her lowest point and was being mentioned alongside failed states like Somalia and Sudan, international community has expressed its faith in the country. Kenya has been ranked among the best 100 countries by an internationally reputed magazine, Newsweek. It was...

An aunt of President Barack Obama was allowed to stay in the United States on the shocking grounds that she would be persecuted by Kenyan leaders if she was forced to return to the country. And on Wednesday, the government reacted angrily to the US Immigration court’s apparent...

Parliament has put the alcohol industry under the boot of regulation through a sweeping law that seeks to tame alcohol abuse. The Bill passed by Parliament last week, if signed into law by President Kibaki, will radically change the manufacture, consumption, advertising, bar licensing...

Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Mr Mustafa Mkulo, displays his budget briefcase before presenting the 2010/2011 budget at the parliamentary ground in Dodoma Tanzania. Photo/LEONARD MAGOMBA By THE CITIZEN Team Tanzania's 2010/2011 budget is too ambitious, experts said on Sunday...