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Here are some exciting business ideas for you to hit the ground running right away:   1.Brick Making Business (Estimated Budget:Ksh100,000) The real estate market is booming and people are looking for ways to build cheaper homes. Bricks are relatively cheap to produce and provide a cheaper building option to stones. Requirements: Brick making machine, enough sub-soil, a bit of...

The newly opened store has been making headlines for its fair prices and is said to be a hub for everything from electronics to clothing.   The store gained attention for creating a versatile shopping centre that some social media users claimed was challenging the dominance of Eastleigh, Kamukunji, and Dubois Road in the Nairobi Central Business District.   CS Kuria...

Pedestrians will continue chancing their lives on the busy roads as the multimillion-shilling footbridges are anything but safe. Hawkers, street families and motorcycle taxi (boda boda) operators have taken over. Today, one is just as likely to get knocked down on footbridges as the pedestrian crossing the road below. And if they are lucky to make it from one end to the other unscathed, they’ll have...

Salma Hussein, the wife of the well-known rapper and producer George Mugai, also known as Madtraxx, has recently come forward with disturbing allegations of domestic abuse against her husband of five years. She bravely took to Instagram to share her harrowing experience, posting photos that revealed bruises and a doctor’s report from 2021 detailing the severity of the alleged abuse. The medical report...

During the 1988 desert locust plague, swarms crossed the Atlantic from Mauritania to the Caribbean, flying 5 000 kilometres in 10 days. Scientists were stumped because migrating swarms normally come down to rest every night. But locusts can’t swim, so how could it be? It turned out that the swarms were coming down at sea – on any ships they could find, but also in the water itself. The first ones...

You can get married in Kenya if: You are 18+ years You are in an opposite sex relationship  Are not married or in a civil partnership with someone else Are capable of understanding what marriage means Are capable of consenting to marriage    The Marriage Act recognizes five (5) systems of Marriage, namely: Civil Marriages Christian Marriages Hindu...

  Dozens of families in Athi River will spend Christmas in the cold after a court cleared a private developer to pull down their multimillion-shilling homes. The evictions were effected on disputed land LR. NO 12867/511 Mavoko after the Galot Industries Limited won the land dispute against residents at the Environment and Land court in Machakos.  The land, according to court documents, was...

President Uhuru Kenyatta spoke for the first time of an alleged plan by his deputy, William Ruto, to engineer his ouster through impeachment and sabotage.  Kenyatta, who was addressing Gìkùyù elders who visited him at State House, Nairobi said Ruto had an insatiable appetite for power and was keen on fomenting dissent from within the Jubilee party, to elbow his boss. The...

  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.    The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. Just as landing on the Moon allowed scientists to understand how it was formed, touching the very stuff the Sun is made of will help...

HOW TO LOG IN(if you are not registered already see(How to sign up)   Step 1: Open the NTSA TIMS portal using this link https://tims.ntsa.go.ke/ click on Sign In on the upper right corner to view the registration and login interface as show in the image below. Click on the Login Method to choose one whether to login using Username, ID No. or Certificate of Incorporation.   Step 2:...

Along with advantages come a few disadvantages of ceramic flooring tiles.   Hard underfoot Ceramic flooring is extremely hard. While this makes it easier to clean and maintain, it can also make it uncomfortable to stand on. This material, unlike resilient floors, can’t be softened using padded underlayments, which means it might not be a suitable choice for some. However, the hardness of...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1369232168128503810 Breaking The Law: Police caught on CCTV stealing from a bar; owner says he has lost KSh. 122,000 from the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey_b6Ed7JQw The residents full of anger were driving out an elephant out of their farm before it began charging back at them. They ran for some distance before turning back and began attacking the animal that was now hostile. Men came out in their numbers armed with all manners of weapons and began attacking the elephant which left at a helter skelter speed. They threw...

Abandoned construction sites and excavations posed a safety hazard to the public. "Developers with abandoned construction sites and deep excavations shall present to the Authority a structural integrity report from a structural engineer within 30 days from the date of the notice and a plan to proceed with works.   "In absence of this report, the Authority will recommend necessary remedial action...

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are still piecing up evidence to solve the puzzling abduction and murder of four men who went missing after sharing lunch in Kitengela a fortnight ago.  The bodies of Elijah Obuong, 35, and Benjamin Imbayi were both retrieved by police from different locations on Thursday, 29 April and identified by family at two morgues.  Obuong’s...

A fire broke out at Malik Heights building on Ngong Road in Nairobi on Monday night destroying properties of unknown value. According to security guards in the area, the building, which hosts a car bazaar, restaurant and offices, went up in flames a few minutes before 9pm. Explosions could be heard from inside the building as efforts to salvage vehicles parked in the basement continued. There were...

Details have emerged on the agreement signed between Babu Owino and DJ Evolve that lead to the Tuesday case withdrawal.   The document revealed that at the time of signing Babu Owino had already paid Sh9 million owed to Nairobi Hospital as cost of treatment.   “The offeror is the one who has catered for the bill at Nairobi Hospital and undertakes to ensure that he pays...

Detectives are investigating the possibility of a family dispute or a deal gone sour in the gruesome murder of senior National Land Commissions (NLC) Deputy Director of Communication Jennifer Wambua. NLC Chairman Gershom Otachi has mourned Ms Wambua, saying: “On behalf of the commission, I wish to send our heartfelt condolences to the husband, children, family and friends of the late Jenniffer...

A woman from Kibra has been charged with offensive conduct after she threatened to stab her landlady.   Ms. Caroline Nyang’au, 25, appeared at the Kibera law courts where she was accused of hurling insults at Ms. Bilha Momanyi and threatening to stab her when she went to collect house rent within Raila slums in Lang’ata Sub County on October 10.   Police said the accused did the same with...

A third year student was on Friday, November 12 charged with stealing a phone worth Ksh143,000, passport valued at Ksh262,440 and cash from a man he had met three days earlier.   Veronica Njeri, 23, who is a student at a local private University was charged of stealing a wallet which had over Ksh800,000 in US dollars and Ksh30,000.   The money and items were stolen from Kabba Ibrahim...