Adam Macharia given daddy’s Sh382 million life insurance and pension…and Sh900 million family fortune is also up for grabs By Mbatia wa Njambi Contributing Editor/Visiting Thinker At only 19 years, media mogul SK Macharia’s grandson could become a certified billionaire in real coin. SK was last year sued by his grandson, Adam Kamau Macharia, after […]
Acid-tempered spares parts dealer Jonathan Mukundi had made up his mind. Both he and estranged wife Philomena Njeri were going to die that Monday night By Shifaa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist Friends and family say spare parts dealer Jonathan Mukundi and wife Philomena Njeri were star-crossed lovers, ill fated for each other despite open displays […]
Gun holder Jonathan Mukundi was furious wife Philomena Njeri was pregnant, had opened spare parts shop for lover. But an autopsy revealed she was not paged By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @UndercoverKe Cute Philomena Njeri, who was recently shot thrice by her hubby before turning the Glock pistol on himself, desired the finer things in […]
The mastermind of the August 1, 1982 coup attempt hailed from a village of coup plotters in Luo Nyanza By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @UndercoverKe He was just 26 when Kenyan men are drinking low-life spirits, placing soccer bets. But at that age, Hezekiah Ochuka, a Senior Private in the Kenya Air Force, the second lowest […]
Fiona Farha Kirubi, his mpango wa kando’s daughter from Dubai, won’t be forgotten By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist The easiest way to wealth is via inheritance-you gladly receive. And the two children of the late billionaire industrialist Chris Kirubi are in for a dizzying financial bonanza. Kirubi once said “my major talent is making money…. […]
His office resembled one in downtown Beirut in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing By Undercover Reporter Even in his 80s, he walked almost every lunch hour from Upper hill to the Central Business District, his tall lithe frame sauntering as if being pushed from behind by some invisible hand. He hated lifts, but loved […]
Keep emotions out of business, save that only for your wife By Undercover Reporter He made the most money of any Kenyan in the shortest time since independence: Sh2 billion in two hours, the stuff of fables. With no background in agriculture, he bought a multibillion agricultural company from a stranger-without seeing it- during a […]
‘That house is like being in a dream’, said William Bellamy, US Ambassador to Kenya By April Mbalu Contributing Editor/Lifestyle The priceless African Heritage House, Kenya’s most famous private home and ‘the most photographed house in Africa’ has a price tag after all. For Sh300 million you can own this scenic pad in Mlolongo, Machakos […]
This mid-year celebration has lost relevance, should be merged with Jamhuri Day! By Sekou Toure Otondi PhD Political Science Candidate, UoN Kenya’s national holidays have gone through interesting twists and turns since the country attained its independence in 1963, and became a republic in 1964. For a long time there was very little clarity about […]
Nicknamed ‘Father Abraham’, rugby legend was blessed with a ‘promiscuous gene variant’ By Undercover Reporter He lived under one roof with his four breathing wives. That is quite a domestic tackle, but Kenya’s best rugby tackler-the late Benjamin Ayimba-was up to the scrum. The ragger legend, nicknamed ‘Father Abraham’ succumbed to cerebral malaria at the […]
