Career public servant Mary Wanjira Kimonye, who was swornin last Friday, has joined the league of super-rich principal secretaries in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Administration. Ms Kimonye, who took over the Public Service and Gender docket,…
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The late president Daniel Moi was fondly referred to as ‘professor of politics’ by his admirers given his genius and sometimes ruthless methods of neutralising the opposition, and his unpredictability. But away from that larger…
Ms Cecilia Mbugua sat pensively in the Ombudsman’s office. Her flashy pink suit portrayed a woman of means but her facial expressions betrayed her inner feelings. Ordinarily, many would think that after a triumph over…
The raging drama over the appointment of a vice-chancellor at the University of Nairobi worsened yesterday after the courts reversed a directive annulling the installation of Prof Stephen Kiama even as Education Cabinet Secretary George…
President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga have been invited to a conference in the US to deliver a talk on the Handshake. This comes after Raila received a similar invite from Togo last…
Of all contemporary politicians in the second tier of leadership in Central Kenya after President Kenyatta, former Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri is the man to watch. The man has chutzpah and an audacity that…
As President Uhuru Kenyatta was reshuffling the Cabinet on Tuesday, Deputy President William Ruto was flying to Sudan, reportedly on a private business mission. The Daily Nation has learnt that the DP left Wilson Airport…
The ceremony in which Ken Lusaka was sworn in as Speaker of the Senate is just a hazy memory to him. It was just too surreal. “I don’t even remember where I was sitting,” he…
This is from your loving wife Eunice. It is now 5 years since you left us to join your Maker, yet it looks like only yesterday. Your favourite seat in our sitting room makes me…
ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi says he helped Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa secure a ministerial job after showing “increased distress in the cold”. Mr Mudavadi claims in his memoirs, published this week, that he held…
Busia Senator Amos Wako now wants the United States to make public full particulars of the corruption allegations that have led to his being barred from traveling to the country. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday,…
Even before Bernard Imran Okoth threw his hat into the race to replace his late brother Ken Okoth as Kibra MP, he had won the hearts of residents with his involvement in their lives, directly…
Former Kakaemga Senator Dr Boni Khalwale on found himself on the received end Thursday evening during the Kibera by-elections forcing him to pick stones and protect himself. He became the butt of online jokes after…
The widow of former Kibra MP Ken Okoth has voted in the ongoing by-election at the Old Kibera Primary polling station. Monica Okoth hit national headlines over a paternity row involving the late legislator’s family….
Chief Justice David Maraga has threatened not to attend some state functions unless the government starts treating him and the Judiciary with respect. Speaking to journalists on Monday at the Supreme Court, Maraga documented mistreatment…
