Author: John Kamau

Charlotte Komugisha, a tiktok queen in Kampala now aged 48 years old, first met her man in 2003 and they started having sex there and then. She has been cohabiting with the boyfriend since that time. They got three children together who are now aged between 12 and 19 years. In 2018 sharp disagreements erupted after the boyfriend accused her of cheating with other men. She went to live with her grandmother in Bunga from where she returned last May, saying she had reformed and was now ready to be a good person. The boyfriend reluctantly allowed her back because…

Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was killed in US-Israeli strikes, has been chosen as his successor. Unlike his father, the 56-year-old has largely kept a low profile. He has never held government office, nor given public speeches or interviews, and only a limited number of photos and videos of him have ever been published. But for years there have been rumours that he held considerable influence behind the scenes in Iran. US diplomatic cables, which were published by WikiLeaks in the late 2000s, described him as “the power behind the robes” who was widely regarded…

Chief Justice Martha Koome has gazetted new Court of Appeal stations and additional Small Claims Courts across the country in a move aimed at expanding access to justice and reducing case backlogs. In a press statement, the Chief Justice announced the establishment of two new Court of Appeal stations at Kakamega Law Courts and Nkubu Law Courts, increasing the total number of appellate stations nationwide to eight. Additionally, a Court of Appeal sub-registry has been set up at Embu Law Courts, bringing the number of sub-registries to five. Other Court of Appeal stations are located in Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru, Nyeri,…

NAIROBI: Police officers have intercepted a vehicle transporting 181 kilograms of suspected narcotics along the Webuye–Kitale Highway in an operation targeting drug trafficking networks, the National Police Service (NPS) confirmed. NPS officers flagged down the vehicle during the operation, but the driver defied an order to stop and sped away, triggering a high-speed pursuit. The chase ended at Malaha Junction when the vehicle developed mechanical problems, forcing the driver to abandon it and flee on foot. “A thorough search of the vehicle revealed that it was transporting substances suspected to be bhang, carefully packed in multiple bales,” the NPS said…

Bloggers, journalists, and digital rights activists have secured a major victory after the Court of Appeal in Nairobi struck down key sections of Kenya’s Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act, 2018, that criminalized the publication of false information online. In a judgment delivered on Friday, a three-judge bench comprising Justices Asike-Makhandia Kiage, Aggrey Muchelule, and Weldon Korir partially allowed an appeal filed by the Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE), Article 19 Eastern Africa, and other petitioners who had challenged the constitutionality of several provisions of the law. The court declared Section 22 (False Publications) and Section 23 (Publication of False Information)…

Over 18 bodies have been retrieved from vehicles along Kirinyaga Road in Nairobi following the devastating floods that struck the city on Friday, March 6, 2026. Residents continue retrieving bodies of flood victims and bringing them near Shell on Kirinyaga Road, as locals protest what they claim is the county government’s slow response. pic.twitter.com/1xvPH7i6DI — The Standard Digital (@StandardKenya) March 7, 2026 Recovery efforts are still underway after many victims were swept away by fast-rising floodwaters, with some dying while inside vehicles that were carried away by the raging currents. This is devastatinng🥹 pic.twitter.com/yxMMuxYEfA — lizah mutuku (@l_lizah) March 7, 2026 Nairobi Police Commander…

Last Monday, a Kampala lawyer called Leila Katusiime and also a commissioner of oath was led into presiding over a secretive swearing in ceremony at a hotel in Kololo. Unknown to her, the swearing in of a few fearless Uganda national drug authority board members, she presided over as Hajjat Anifa Ssengendo, wife to MP Latif Ssebaggala witnessed, had been halted by the inspector general of government, the IGG of Uganda. This is why chief magistrate judge Gladys Kamasanyu had boycotted the event. Even many board members boycotted fearing arrest by the IGG. Now some of the board members who…

A Kampala corporate slay queen has caused sleepless nights for one of the board members at Uganda national drug authority and his wife. The slay queen’s insistence not to stop being the board member’s side dish has got to the nerves of his diehard Christian wife who has reported the matter to one of church of Uganda bishops upcountry. The board member is active in his church back home in the village and the wife wants the bishop to sit him down and convince him to let the slay queen go. The slay queen is a muganda and returned from…

Refugees from Burundi are being forcibly evicted from camps as Tanzania destroys their homes and churches, pushing them to return, often after years in exile. Burundi’s Interior Minister Leonidas Ndaruzaniye said this week that more than 100,000 of its citizens would be repatriated by June under a deal with Tanzania, according to local media. There were an estimated 142,000 Burundians in two camps as of late 2025, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), having fled years of civil war, political repression and entrenched poverty in their small country in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Refugees have told AFP…

Uganda national drug authority (UNDA) has continued to get embroiled in scandals and the latest one being reported today is sex-related. Information reaching us shows that one of the board members has been feasting on workmates inside the UNDA secretariat and the mother ministry too. Sources say that this particular board member is very coordinated when it comes to weaponizing sex. He uses sex as a tool to manipulate and subjugate especially female staff in return for their loyalty to support his selfish schemes and intrigue against fellow insiders. Not very long ago, this board member’s wife got concerned and…