Use of military language- words like battle, settle old scores, do or die-incites fans to violence, hooliganism By Idris ‘Shoes’ Lule Roving Editor Soccer is the only sport known to have caused a bloody war between two countries. It is also the only sport in which opposing fans pick the results on the pitch and […]
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Life in exile is worse than a Kenyan jail- Miguna Miguna
Fiery lawyer Miguna Miguna is still the only Kenyan political deportee. He told Nyambega Gisesa how Baba betrayed him and that President Uhuru Kenyatta has no known training, ideology, vision or plan, but a dictatorship President Uhuru bought Raila Odinga for 30 pieces of silver Learned friend, how is Canada? As you are aware, I […]
Ali Zaidi: Clever devil, last of the old school editors
He was an incubator of great ideas, man of profound intellect By Wambua Sammy His was a dying breed of the old school newspaper and magazine editors whose idea of sartorial elegance left the conventional types with permanent frowns. Faded denims or khakis, in his case untucked checked shirts under multi-pocketed jackets, from where his […]
PART I: The 20 ways Kenyans become millionaires
Majority of those who scale the financial uplands do it in the easiest ways known: Solving human problems and charging for it By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large There must be someone who was not brighter than you in high school but is now so loaded, exporting matchboxes to Rwanda, you will never catch up even with […]
Crooks who made us laugh ourselves to death
Doing wrong the right way: Why do crooks steal millions then hide in Shags or Mombasa where cops will look for them first? By Undercover Reporter It is not easy being a criminal in 21st century Kenya. Just check the recent arrests of crooks be it in robberies, gold scams, pyramid schemes, tax evasion, corruption scandals, […]
The rich widow: Inside Sarah Wairimu-Cohen’s inheritance battle
Cohen was a rich man. He was a very sharp man with money- former Gatundu North MP Patrick Muiruri By Undercover Reporter Slain Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen had an eye for the unusual in business which made him a multimillionaire in real coin. “Cohen was a rich man. He was a very sharp man with […]
Why Senator dumped ‘Slimpossible’ lover he met on Facebook for Governor’s daughter
When Mhesh began chatting the comely yellow-yellow on Facebook, he was searching for a wife By Undercover Reporter Lamu Senator Anwar Loitiptip is now married to Nairobi Governor’s daughter, but before Saumu was another woman he had met on social media while shopping for a wife. They celebrated with hard drinks and music. He also later […]