For many taxi drivers in Nairobi their greatest fear is either being carjacked or killed while on duty. However, they are now faced with a bigger threat. Female clients now prefer to pay for cab services in kind.

They demand that taxi drivers have sex with them to ‘clear the bill’

Jeff, a taxi operator in Upper Hill, recently fell into the trap.

He drove a female customer from Westlands to her home in Umoja and what transpired later baffled him.

The Catholic Church has distanced itself from advertisements that promote condom use and reaffirmed its stand against such contraception methods.

Chairman of the Kenya Episcopal Conference John Cardinal Njue said those behind the “Catholics for Choice” advertisements are not Catholics and urged that they be disregarded.

Cases have been reported of sly women who ensnare flashy-looking male revelers by charming them with killer smiles, before posing as fair game and just when victims think they have landed an easy lay, they wake up the following morning robbed proper, writes The Standard's Sila Nyanchwani.

Twice, Dennis Nzioka has lost valuable electronics from his house under circumstances that generated more laughter than pity from his peers. He regularly picks pretty women from clubs and takes them home after a long night of partying.

If you have studied or are currently pursuing studies in Western countries, you have probably experienced some dim view about Africa, thanks largely to western media.

A Kenyan student studying at the Washington and Lee University in the American state of Virginia sought to establish from her fellow students whether the apprehension that ‘Western’ media deliberately portrays Africa in a negative light goes beyond Kenyans on Twitter.

Strathmore University girls were left looking flushed at a lavish hotel in Westlands after they were slapped with a huge bill.

The Strathmore University students had accompanied their friend for her date with a mzungu.

Standard's correspondent at the university said the young mzungu refused to pay for their food and drinks costing Sh11,600 after dinner with his date.

He only paid his and the girl’s Sh6, 000 bill leaving her friends humiliated.

Everline Aboka, a Kenyan model based in Canada, won the Top Model Worldwide title in a stiff competition, beating contestants from more than 47 countries.

Everline also received the Model Award due to her kind support to the models during the competition, a spirit that is never present in contestants competing for the same title in any competition.

Public university students admit­ted to prestigious faculties like engi­neering, law and medicine have be­come the target of wealthy women who want to bear children with the ‘right’ genes, multiple sources have told The Nairobian.

The young men, considered to be the sharpest brains to come out of the Kenyan education system, are paid at least Sh50,000 to sleep with older women in no-strings-attached arrangements, whose sole aim is to ensure the woman conceives. Hav­ing desirable physical attributes is usually an added advantage.

Kenyan fashion photographer Barbara Minishi is featured in Al Jazeera English's upcoming six-part series, The New African Photography. Premiering April 22nd on Al Jazeera English, The New African Photography looks at the fast-changing African continent through the eyes of its most acute observers: its photographers.
 
Few regions remain as photographically misrepresented as Africa, but this six-part series profiles the continent¹s latest generation of photographers, who are taking back control of their image with a more nuanced portrayal.
 

CNN hero 2010 finalist Evans Wadongo is in the United States for a three day exhibition this coming week that will help raise funds for his solar lamp project.

The exhibition will feature 1,000 specially designed one of a kind lamps put together with help from Reed Krakoff, the man who crafted US First Lady Michelle Obama’s inauguration ball.

Reed is known not only for clothes but other luxury items such as jewellery and a range of accessories.

A priest has quit the Catholic Church in protest against celibacy saying he cannot do without sex. Father John Karimi, now married with three children, had served the church for 15 years.

He felt that celibacy was not practical in the mainstream church and opted out rather than continue cheating God and his flock.

"I made up my mind to walk out of the Church and have a wife of my own whom I cherish instead of living a hypocritical life and finally go to hell," he told the Nation in an exclusive interview.