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Award-winning Kenyan rapper Khaligraph Jones on Friday released his much-anticipated Gospel project dubbed ‘Sifu Bwana’ featuring fellow industry heavyweight Nyashinski. The pair has run laps throughout the hip-hop circle in Kenya, now combining forces in their newly dropped banger that is a powerful song inspired by an old school gospel tune that loosely translates to 'Praise God'. Earlier this week, Khaligraph teased his fans as he shared a snippet on his Instagram in preparation to release the track produced by his record label Blu Ink Corp. This is the duo’s first joint song despite appearing together in a past project dubbed ‘Chukua Selfie’ alongside fellow stars Fena Gitu, Jua Cali and Naiboi. Having being raised from a Christian background, Khaligraph Jones revealed that his mother is a preacher up to date, and supports his art. As the rapper launched his critically acclaimed album ‘Testimony 1990’ in 2018, he divulged how close he is to his mother in a video he shared o...

A Citizen TV pick-up truck was on Sunday pelted with stones by rowdy youth while covering Deputy President William Ruto’s rally in Jacaranda Grounds in Pipeline, Nairobi. According to reporters who were aboard the truck, the vehicle was among several others that bore the brunt of Sunday's rally mayhem as it snaked its way from the chaos.  The chaotic rally was momentarily halted after a rival group opposed to the gathering raided the venue and started pelting attendees with stones. Several videos showed police officers lobbing teargas to disperse the crowd that had gathered at the venue as scores of people in the audience fled from the dais where the second in command was.  Amid the disarray, DP Ruto said if elected president, his government would do away with the culture of throwing stones.  The situation appeared to have been contained until the DP finished speaking and it was time to leave the grounds. The rowdy youth are said to have resumed pelting stones as the...

Kenya Power says the power outages which have been witnessed across the country are due to the collapse of key towers at the Kiambere-Embakasi transmission line. The electricity utility company, in a statement on Tuesday, said the power line was disrupted on Tuesday morning. “We have lost power supply due to collapsed towers on the Kiambere - Embakasi high voltage transmission power line at 10.45 am this morning,” said Kenya Power.  The company further stated that it is working to restore supply. “Our engineers are working to restore electricity supply as the repairs are being undertaken. An update on the restoration progress will be issued in due course,” added the statement.

Goh Miah, CEO of the world’s largest condom maker Karex has revealed that condom sales have declined in the past two years due to Covid-19 restrictions. Speaking in an interview with Nikkei Asia, Goh Miah said condom sales have decreased by as much as 40 percent since the start of the pandemic, in 2020. Karex is the largest condom manufacturer worldwide with a production record of 5.5 billion condoms annually while operating in 140 countries and its only competitor Thai Nippon Rubber produces 2 billion. According to Goh, the pandemic, which led to the closure of many secluded places such as restaurants, hotels and motels, contributed to a decline in intimacy. Goh further believes that the governments has also contributed to the decline of condom use because of its suspension of condom handouts due to covid restrictions in most countries.

Homa Bay Woman Representative Gladys Wanga has dismissed the United Democratic Alliance’s (UDA) rebuke of Meru Senator Mithika Linturi’s contentious remarks at Saturday’s rally as half-hearted and superficial. Wanga claims that the Deputy President William Ruto-led camp does not really regret Linturi’s utterances, terming their Monday apology as a weak attempt to save face following uproar from Kenyans. “After uproar from Kenyans, (UDA) have come to apologize for what Senator Linturi said, yet they were seated at the very same rally. Nobody, after Linturi spoke, bothered to come up and say what Linturi said is not in line we believe in, the rally went on,” Wanga told Citizen TV on Tuesday during the Day Break show. She has called out what she terms as complicity by the DP due to failure to condemn Linturi’s remarks at the Eldoret rally, arguing that it might well be interpreted as an agreement to what the senator said. “When Linturi finished speaking, he went ahead to hug the Deputy Pr...