The Standard Group Plc is a
multi-media organization with investments in media platforms spanning newspaper
print operations, television, radio broadcasting, digital and online services. The
Standard Group is recognized as a leading multi-media house in Kenya with a key
influence in matters of national and international interest.
Ufundi Co-op House caved inward after the blast, trapping scores of people under the massive rubble. [File, Standard]
On August 7, 1998, I found myself in a rare unfamiliar territory of being idle at Nation Centre's 3rd-floor newsroom without a major crime story or an exclusive investigative story I was chasing or piecing together.
A few minutes past 10.25am, I picked up the desk telephone and called a police contact trying my luck on a tip-off for a crime story.
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