President William Ruto stood before hundreds of freshly trained General Service Unit recruits at the National Police College in Embakasi on Friday and delivered a warning that cut straight to the heart of Kenya’s political rot: stop using the police…
Picture this: a 19-18 loss. One basket. One moment. That’s the margin by which Kenya’s Under-23 men’s 3×3 basketball team were eliminated from their opening game at the FIBA 3×3 U23 World Cup in Wuhan, China. Algeria edged them in…
Here is something the financial headlines won’t tell you plainly: Kenya’s Central Bank just walked away from Sh31.2 billion — real money, sitting on the table — because the investors offering it wanted too much in return. That decision, made…
Here is the truth that most young Kenyans refuse to sit with: the 2027 General Election will be decided not just by who votes, but by who registered early enough to vote. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has…
A Farm Wiped Out Overnight Peter Gitonga Kimani had 156 pigs. He had a plan. He was holding his stock until mid-term, waiting for the market price to peak, calculating the kind of return that takes years of grinding work…
A Shanzu court has ruled that six Iranian nationals have a case to answer in one of the largest drug trafficking prosecutions Kenya has ever seen — over 1,036 kilograms of methamphetamine valued at Sh8.2 billion, seized from a vessel…
There is something almost theatrical about Kenyan politics — the way alliances shift like sand, loyalties evaporate overnight, and yesterday’s enemy becomes today’s running mate. So when Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi stood before a crowd in Tharaka Nithi County…
If you’ve ever tried to book a flight from Nairobi to Lagos, or Accra to Addis Ababa, you already know the painful truth: flying within Africa is absurdly expensive, and in many cases, it forces you to transit through London…
Kenya’s Parliament is tightening its grip on public spending. The Budget and Appropriations Committee convened this week to interrogate Controller of Budget Dr. Margaret Nyakang’o on the state of the FY 2025/26 national budget — and what emerged was a…
The Fire the Government Undercounted Mount Kenya has been on fire since September 1. Not a small, contained brush fire — a roaring, spreading crisis that has consumed 8,700 hectares of irreplaceable moorland, according to conservation organisation Rhino Ark. That…
