Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his photographer wife Michele got found dead at their Brentwood mansion under circumstances that cops are treating as a double homicide. The guy behind When Harry Met Sally, Stand By Me, and A Few Good Men was 78, while Michele was 68 when authorities showed up after getting a call for medical help. Nobody has been arrested, and police are not looking for any suspects right now.
Reiner made his name acting in All in The Family before switching to directing and pumping out classic movies through the 80s and 90s. His latest project was the Spinal Tap sequel that dropped a few months back. Michele ran a photography agency while raising three kids with her husband after they got married back in 1989...
A first-year med student at Aga Khan University went underwater during a pool session with classmates and never came back up. Ian Gikonyo was 18 when his body got pulled from the campus swimming spot after nobody noticed him missing until it was way too late. Cops showed up and moved him to the morgue while launching an investigation into how things went sideways.
Meanwhile at the University of Nairobi, some girl got stabbed in the neck by her boyfriend inside a tunnel connecting dorms to campus and barely crawled to security before passing out. The 20-year-old freshman is fighting for her life while the guy who attacked her bounced before anyone could grab him.
Across town in Muthurwa, a 71-year-old named Habert Ambani turned up dead...
Kenya's president is about to green-light a massive infrastructure fund worth roughly $38 billion that pools government money with private investor cash to build roads, power plants, and irrigation systems without piling on more debt. William Ruto wants to use money from selling off state assets as seed capital to get pension funds and insurance companies interested in backing long-term projects that actually generate revenue from tolls and utility fees.
The government is basically copying what India, Canada, and the UK already did with similar setups that bring professional money managers into the picture instead of relying on slow bureaucratic processes. The whole thing works by having the public sector absorb early risks while...
Kenya's government is calling out citizens for basically not caring about security anymore, and officials say that people ignoring safety rules at events and protests keep making everything worse. Internal Security boss Raymond Omollo told the private sector alliance KEPSA that small businesses, especially, get hammered when things go sideways, and the country needs folks to actually share intel with security agencies instead of being passive.
The government wants to formalize partnerships with private companies to handle stuff like police reforms and cybersecurity after recording over 842 million cyber attack attempts recently. KEPSA chair Annette Kimitei mentioned that young people storming stadiums without tickets during events has...
Minnesota officials are still dealing with a massive food program scam where dozens of Somali-American defendants allegedly stole hundreds of millions meant for hungry kids during the pandemic. Prosecutors say the Feeding Our Future nonprofit and connected vendors claimed they served 91 million meals at over 250 locations, but most sites were fake, or the paperwork was completely fabricated with pet photos and copied attendance lists.
The feds busted 78 people after finding luxury cars, mansions, and international property purchases linked to the stolen cash. One guy got 10 years for funneling $47 million through his restaurant without serving any actual food. Court records show defendants wiring money overseas to buy villas and...
Kenyan lawmaker Babu Owino is doing damage control after blogger Maverick Aoko went after the Odinga family online, and he wants everyone to know he had nothing to do with it. The Embakasi East representative put out a statement saying Aoko posts whatever she wants without his input, even though people assume he feeds her content since they're friends and she backs his political moves.
Owino stressed that attacking the Odingas makes zero sense for him because he's tight with basically the whole clan, especially Mama Ida Odinga, who treats him like family and feeds him when he swings by. He pointed out that going after someone's mom would be completely unhinged when that person has been nothing but kind to you for years.
The politician...
Kenya's exam board is basically telling schools to knock it off with the bogus report cards circulating after junior high assessment results dropped. Institutions have been pushing out fake analyses with aggregate scores and school rankings, even though the competency-based system literally does not work that way, and the testing authority said this whole charade needs to stop because it goes against everything the new curriculum is trying to do.
The assessment checks each subject separately using performance levels instead of cramming everything into one score, which means the concept of school averages does not even exist under this setup. Over 1.1 million kids sat for the exam, and officials are urging parents to ignore the...
Wizkid and Asake are dropping a joint EP called Real Vol. 1 before the year ends, and the announcement came through during an Apple Music session where both artists confirmed the project. The two have a history working together on tracks like MMS from Asake's Lungu Boy album, which landed a Grammy nomination, and they've been building what Asake describes as a genuine friendship beyond just making music.
The pair recently shared a stage when Wizkid showed up unannounced at Asake's sold-out Red Bull Symphonic show at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, where Asake performed with a 33-piece orchestra alongside guests like Central Cee and Gunna. Fans are hyped because the chemistry between the two Afrobeats heavyweights has already proven itself...
Kenya kept fuel prices flat for another month after the energy regulator said gas stations can keep charging what they've been charging since mid-November. Nairobi drivers are still paying 184.52 shillings per liter for super petrol, 171.47 for diesel, and 154.78 for kerosene through mid-January, while Mombasa and other cities have their own slightly different caps.
The government pricing agency mentioned that import costs for regular gas actually dropped over 4% between October and November, but diesel and kerosene both got more expensive to bring in. Global oil markets have been cooling off because OPEC ramped up production by 137,000 barrels daily, and inventories are sitting pretty high right now.
All the listed prices already...
