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A Kenyan woman got roasted by her mom after wiring home 5,000 shillings, and the whole thing blew up online when someone posted the audio. The mother basically told her daughter to reverse the transfer because it was useless, and she even said to stop calling home entirely. The daughter had...

National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula joined other political figures at Mazeras High School in Kwale County to honor former legislator Denar Joseph Hamisi Tui at his burial. Senate Speaker Amason Kingi praised the deceased as someone who fought for integrity and land rights, while Deputy...

The Climax Coach driver told investigators he had no choice but to take the head-on collision with Cyrus Jirongo's Mercedes after the politician pulled out from a gas station on the Nakuru-Naivasha Highway without yielding. Kamau Githinji was hauling 65 passengers from Nairobi toward Busia when...

Education CS Julius Migos dropped the 2025 Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment scores and told everyone they can grab results through the ministry portal at selection.education.go.ke/my-selections or text the assessment number to 22263 for 30 shillings. Students need to punch in their...

President Ruto posted about losing his friend, former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo, who died after his car slammed into a bus at 3 a.m. along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway in Karai near Naivasha while he was driving alone. The president called him a relentless businessman and politician who never backed...

ODM secretary general Edwin Sifuna dropped a statement mourning former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo after the politician died in a head-on collision with a bus while driving solo back to his rural home around 3 a.m. along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway near Karai in Naivasha. The party called him an...

Kenyan cops grabbed the guy they think strangled Seth Nyakio Njeri after tracking him down to a cereal shop near the Uganda border, where he was hiding out. The 23-year-old daughter of a Kirinyaga politician turned up dead at a Thika estate back in October after her family lost contact with her...

Kenya's Social Health Authority just hired 82 new principal officers to beef up operations while the country rolls out its social insurance program after running a competitive recruitment process that kicked off mid-year. The biggest chunk went to county-level registration, compliance, and...

WTO boss Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala hit Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women list for the eighth time, landing at number 92 while repping as the first female and first African leading the organization since her appointment back in 2021. She posted about the recognition on X and said the role means pushing...

Heineken dropped its festive season lineup at the Nigerian Breweries press event, with three major activations hitting Abuja and Lagos. The beer brand locked in sponsorship deals for Detty Dec Fest running through the end of the month, Davido's 5ive Alive Tour at Eagle Square in Abuja, and...

Omoni Oboli snagged YouTube Nigeria's Content Creator of the Year award for 2025, and she posted about getting the call from the platform telling her the algorithms proved she captured hearts. The actress thanked her partner Tomi Adeoye, plus her team and fans she calls besties, for pushing her...

University of Benin Vice-Chancellor Edoba Omoregie announced that former VC Adamu Baikie died at 94, and the school sent condolences to his family while calling him a distinguished educator who shaped academic institutions across Africa. The guy ran UNIBEN from 1978 through 1986 and became the...

Atiku Abubakar and the African Democratic Congress went off on the EFCC for supposedly turning corruption investigations into political hit jobs after the agency yanked former Attorney General Abubakar Malami's bail. The ex-VP claims anti-graft operations abandoned their mission and morphed into...

Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago dropped a budget proposal worth over N1.031 trillion at the state House of Assembly through his press secretary, Bologi Ibrahim. The spending plan splits more than N270 billion toward recurrent costs while throwing over N761 billion at capital projects...

Riley Moore led a US delegation to Nigeria, checking out Christian genocide claims, and he went on Fox News saying America's about to lock in a strategic security deal to handle the chaos. The guy met women who watched their entire families get slaughtered by radical Fulani Muslims and Boko...

Arise TV anchor Rufai Oseni called out the federal government for lying about releasing Nigerian Air Force crew members stuck in Burkina Faso since their Lockheed C-130 Hercules had to make an emergency landing while heading to Portugal. Seven officers and four airmen are still being held...

Emir Ismaila Ahmed Gadaka from Gudi in Yobe State went around personally checking schools in his territory and told everyone he's done playing games with teachers who ghost their jobs and parents who skip sending kids to class. The royal decided to do walkthrough inspections after seeing...

EFCC spokesman Dele Oyewale shut down former Attorney General Abubakar Malami's story about getting his bail yanked because he showed up at some political event in Kebbi State. The anti-graft agency says the guy just never followed through on the five conditions they attached to his provisional...

ATBU's management came out swinging after some people claiming to be alumni crashed a Senate hearing about changing the school from a tech-focused university to a regular one. Senator Shehu Buba from Bauchi South pushed the amendment bill that sparked the whole mess. Director of Information...

Tinubu went on X to gas up his FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, for his birthday, calling him an audacious top performer who actually gets stuff done despite roadblocks. The president pointed out how Wike finally got the Apo-Karshi road moving after 14 years of it sitting there doing nothing. The...