Editor’s Choice

Lawyer Willie Kimani murder: Inside the double snake life of police informers

Police informers could be the sleepy shopkeeper, the gas delivery dude…your boda boda  guy like Peter Ngugi who handed Kimani to his killers By Pascal MJ Owade Contributing Editor That shoe shiner with cracked lips and unpolished shoes could be a police informer. So could the roaster fanning maize cobs at the bus stop. Count […]

Sports News

Eliud Kipchoge: Berlin Marathon was like sprinting from Sarit Centre… to Sabina Joy in 5 minutes!

Berlin Marathon was his fifth victory, the most by any athlete while his Tokyo win was the fastest marathon time on Japanese soil and the fourth fastest in history By Idris ‘Shoes’ Lule Roving Editor Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge won the 2023 Berlin Marathon in 2:02:42, which was two seconds slower than the time he won […]

Editor’s Choice Obituary

John S Mbiti: ‘I am because we are, and because we are, therefore I am’

Mbiti slaved to challenge the missionary mindset which perceived Traditional African Religion as demonic and anti-Christian By Undercover Reporter He was Kenya’s foremost theological scholar on African religion. John S Mbiti, who coined the famous phrase ‘I am because we are and because we are, therefore I am” died in Switzerland, his home away from […]

Off-the-Pitch

Berlin Marathon: Why Kipchoge was banned from ‘seeing his wife for three months’

Kenyan footballers are also discouraged from any intimacies three days to a match — or greeting women before crucial matches By Idris ‘Shoes’ Lule Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge made history when he ran a marathon in under two hours in October 2019, the first for any human in five million years. To achieve that, Kipchoge had […]

Pang’ang’a

Soccer Soko: Most expensive Kenyan footballer can fetch Sh1.7 billion…the lowest- Lawrence Olum- Sh22 million!

Arnold Origi, the only goalkeeper to make the list, was once valued at Sh68 million–when he was younger By Idris ‘Shoes’ Lule Roving Editor There are less than 40 Kenyan professional soccer players plying their trade outside the country. From Albania to Algeria, England to Egypt, Georgia to Greece, Sweden to Spain. It is one […]

Lifestyle Live Wire

The Screaming Room: ‘Umekuja kuzaa na underwear?’… and other choice maternity insults

Cruelty in Kenyan delivery wards includes vaginal examination in public and being left naked after giving birth By Camy Achieng’- Gecaga Contributing Editor Kenyan mothers-especially first time maternity screamers-go through hell at the hands of midwives during deliveries in public hospitals. Besides poor quality  services, lack of medical supplies, high costs, thin staffing, long distance […]