Tabloids hold power to account, teaches important life lessons while ensuring we laugh ourselves to death By Shifa Mwihaki Resident Essayist Political scientist Mutahi Ngunyi started the 5th Estate as a You Tube channel to ventilate his weekly, contrarian political views. He seems to have taken a Sabbatical, but the channel has morphed to include Media Police Post, a […]
One wife confessed to Pastor JJ Gitahi how she hired hit men to use a railway hammer on her rich husband By Undercover Reporter There is a Cemetery Club in Kenya. Membership is reserved for widows. To join, it is advisable if you personally plotted the death of your husband who must be rich. The […]
When he was accused of impregnating his half-sister, Mathai left the matrimonial home for residency at the Hilton Hotel By Undercover Reporter Whenever Mwangi Mathai chanced on a business idea, he did not hesitate to cash in on it. Sizing up the near virgin market for bar soaps in Kenya, he was shortly on a […]
Political scientist Mutahi Ngunyi gave his future wife the landline number of a telephone booth in Eastlands when they met at a wedding By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist When Paul Mwirigi, Kenya’s youngest MP, went hunting for votes on foot during the 2017 election campaigns for the Igembe South seat, little did he know he […]
Baba Jimmy is said to be formal, mean and aloof while Baba Gideon was open, generous and still was ‘professor of politics’ By Undercover Reporter President Uhuru Kenyatta rarely visited the late President Mwai Kibaki, Kenya’s best Head of State ever. Uhuru often visited the late President Daniel arap Moi, the worst ever. Other politicians […]
She attracts men not only for her cash liquid purses but also for the undulating dashboard and swirling behind which can tempt Pope Francis By Pascal Owade Contributing editor/Crime Spy queen Jane Mugo has been in the news over that laughable BBC documentary on her secret world as a private eye. But her love life […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 If you often spend sleepless nights wondering, scheming, planning, plotting, musing and dreaming how to become Mr or Miss Moneybags, you’re not alone. But just know that 20 percent […]