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Deputy President William Ruto has promised to put up a chapel at State House if he clinches the presidency after the August 9th general elections. Speaking on Sunday during a mass at Joy in Christ Fellowship Church in Juja, Kiambu County, Ruto said he will build a bigger chapel than the one he put…

‘Nyama Choma’ is among some of the most common Kenyan words and phrases that have been incorporated in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Nyama Choma, defined as “meat that is cooked over fire”, is one of 200 new and revised entries from East African English in the latest…

Pastor James Ng'ang'a of Neno Evangelism has castigated Roots Party presidential candidate George Wajackoyah over his plan to legalize marijuana if he clinches the presidency in the August 9th elections. Terming Kenya a Christian nation, Apostle Ng'ang'a told Wajackoyah that his manifesto is…

It has emerged that the tablets promised to Class One pupils by the Jubilee administration in 2013 are being sold cheaply in Uganda. A hawk-eyed Kenyan recently shared a Facebook page advertising and selling the tablets branded with the Government of Kenya (GOK) and the Digital Literacy Program…

A 23-year-old medical student has been arrested in Nairobi for staging his own kidnapping to milk money from his parents. Edwin Kamau, a student at Makindu Medical Training College, ‘disappeared’ last Sunday before blocking his father and phoned his mother, claiming to have been abducted by people…

Popular Kenyan singer and businesswoman Esther Akoth, alias Akothee, has announced plans to give birth to her sixth child. Through Instagram on Thursday, Akothee said she will go for artificial insemination in France given that she is currently single and wants a baby “free of drama.” Artificial…

American TV presenter Emily Rose Compagno has angered Kenyans on Twitter (KOT) after claiming that pregnant women in Kenya do not have voting rights. Compagno made the comment while giving her views about women’s voting rights on the “Outnumbered” show on FOX News TV which she co-hosts.  She…

Police in Nigeria’s state of Ondo have rescued 77 worshipers from a church where they were confined for weeks waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ. The group is said to have gone to the Whole Bible Believers Church in Ondo Town in April this year after being told to expect the second…

Police have launched an investigation into an incident where a child was videotaped smoking what is suspected to be marijuana.  In a statement on Thursday, the National Police Service (NPS) said the video that has since gone viral depicted “an underage child seated comfortably smoking what may…

The National Police Service (NPS) has lauded a waitress who warned a male reveler to be wary of a man who sat next to him at a drinking joint within Nairobi’s Madaraka estate. The reveler was enjoying drinks in the company of strangers when the kind-hearted waitress scribbled a little note and…