Peter Kimani - The Standard

×

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.

Standard Group Plc HQ Office,
The Standard Group Center,Mombasa Road.
P.O Box 30080-00100,Nairobi, Kenya.
Telephone number: 0203222111, 0719012111
Email: [email protected]

NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS

Digital News

.

Peter Kimani

Sakaja's city plan is a fanciful flight some 25 floors above us all

I think Sakaja is right to order the arrest of anyone caught filming his army of workers, Kanjo, as Nairobians call them, as they go about their business which entails skiving work.

By Peter Kimani 11 days ago

Sakaja's city plan is a fanciful flight some 25 floors above us all

The political economy of heckling and why the show must go on

The political economy of heckling and why the show must go on

By Peter Kimani 25 days ago

Kuria needs help to understand there are limits to his power in public appointments

Kuria needs help to understand there are limits to his power in public appointments

By Peter Kimani 1 month ago

Police deployment to Haiti to proceed on 'by hook or crook'

Police deployment to Haiti to proceed on 'by hook or crook'

By Peter Kimani 1 month ago

In PS Hinga's universe, demolishing is part of the building process

The planned demolition that Hinga announced this month, without a doubt, will leave hundreds of families out in the cold.

By Peter Kimani 1 month ago

In PS Hinga's universe, demolishing is part of the building process

Our Haiti mission remains on course, but let's consider one-man state for Prezzo Henry

Since Prezzo is determined to send our troops to Haiti, I am inclined to propose that he dispatches the navy, who might be able to navigate the Caribbean better on water.

By Peter Kimani 1 month ago

Our Haiti mission remains on course, but let's consider one-man state for Prezzo Henry

M7-mediated handshake stuns Riggy G into rare silence, imminent eclipse

Either way, it's an unexpected development on several counts: Firstly, it's something he promised would never happen under his watch, and even swore by the gods of Kirinyaga.

By Peter Kimani 1 month ago

M7-mediated handshake stuns Riggy G into rare silence, imminent eclipse

Something's brewing as prohibitions are lifted on sale and distribution of 'muratina'

Muratina brewing went underground and one needed a special permit to brew it occasionally, when cultural rituals and family gatherings permitted it.

By Peter Kimani 1 month ago

Something's brewing as prohibitions are lifted on sale and distribution of 'muratina'

Baba's Bondo retirement that never was, and the prospects of new gig as AU boss in Addis

We were promised that opposition leader Raila Odinga aka Baba would be deposited somewhere in Bondo for his much-anticipated retirement.

By Peter Kimani 2 months ago

Baba's Bondo retirement that never was, and the prospects of new gig as AU boss in Addis

King'ori Mwangi stood guard in a newsroom as his son lay dying in a hospital ward

King'ori appeared tranced most of that evening, as TV cameras shone light on his sleep-deprived eyes and, now we know, the grief from an imminent death in his family.

By Peter Kimani 2 months ago

King'ori Mwangi stood guard in a newsroom as his son lay dying in a hospital ward

Hustler Number One becomes King, Riggy G cannot remain calm

Mfalme is king, so the man they had helped install to the throne only eighteen months ago, riding in a barrow, had crossed ranks to sit with the dynasts.

By Peter Kimani 2 months ago

Hustler Number One becomes King, Riggy G cannot remain calm

The Nairobi miracle of transforming overnight chaos to tranquil order

I was particularly buoyed by Sakaja's edict turning city pavements into an open-air market every nightfall.

By Peter Kimani 2 months ago

The Nairobi miracle of transforming overnight chaos to tranquil order

The Ruiru lands registry works with clock-like precision when gangs of brokers scatter

I watched the registrar attend to a dozen or two of wananchi shielding under a shed, appending signatures, and dispensing advice, as he did to us.

By Peter Kimani 2 months ago

The Ruiru lands registry works with clock-like precision when gangs of brokers scatter

Things are elephant when tots talk about inflation, and can't wait to leave school

When nine-year-olds organise business meetings, you know things are elephant.

By Peter Kimani 2 months ago

Things are elephant when tots talk about inflation, and can't wait to leave school

Ruto's democracy by exclamation and a brief housing history

Prezzo Ruto aspires to have a kitty of unlimited funds that will be used to build houses for Kenyans to purchase at undefined rates, using their own sources.

By Peter Kimani 2 months ago

Ruto's democracy by exclamation and a brief housing history

The wondrous joy of small Eastleigh hospital that's doing better than blue chip companies

Joy Nursing Home offers a teachable moment for the nation: Rather than expend energies to probe what they could have done to make so much money, I'd like to focus on the positive.

By Peter Kimani 2 months ago

The wondrous joy of small Eastleigh hospital that's doing better than blue chip companies

Politics of gender and how Madam Koome is providing statecraft

But the State House meeting this week did not involve any stripping, so far as we can tell, and if there was eating of any kind, we're not privy to those details.

By Peter Kimani 2 months ago

Politics of gender and how Madam Koome is providing statecraft

From barrows to tractors, and the merits of starting early to finish race even earlier

Prezzo Ruto campaigned for four straight years, so there is merit in politicking around the five-year cycle, and his template appears to have paid off.

By Peter Kimani 2 months ago

From barrows to tractors, and the merits of starting early to finish race even earlier

Dagoretti MP KJ returns to stage with engaging sketch containing echoes of Kamotho

A generation ago, KJ was part of the Reddykulus trio that used satire to puncture politicians' rhetoric and expose their hypocrisy.

By Peter Kimani 2 months ago

Dagoretti MP KJ returns to stage with engaging sketch containing echoes of Kamotho

Ghosts of State House are alive and well, let's rebuild from bottom up

I understand Jomo never stayed at State House, Nairobi, opting instead to commute daily to his home in Ichaweri.

By Peter Kimani 2 months ago

Ghosts of State House are alive and well, let's rebuild from bottom up

Baba's supporters opt to eat cake now that price of 'unga' is up

After lamenting about the rising price of unga for most of the year, Raila Odinga decided to do something about it. He splashed cakes all around the country.

By Peter Kimani 3 months ago

Baba's supporters opt to eat cake now that price of 'unga' is up

The outrage of shopping with nothing but your phone, on a day of M-Pesa outage

I hope Safaricom will learn to upgrade their systems at night time, not daytime, and spare us such pecuniary embarrassment.

By Peter Kimani 3 months ago

The outrage of shopping with nothing but your phone, on a day of M-Pesa outage

Of little gentlemen serving as groundsmen, and Patricia, math geek who fell by wayside

Patricia's father was a teacher in a nearby school and being the daughter of a teacher, she carried herself with a certain dignity.

By Peter Kimani 3 months ago

Of little gentlemen serving as groundsmen, and Patricia, math geek who fell by wayside

Murkomen displays mathematical prowess, even though his numbers simply don't add up

Kipchumba Murkomen was irritated by the inaccuracies demonstrated by Kenyans lamenting about the increased rates for use of the Nairobi Expressway.

By Peter Kimani 3 months ago

Murkomen displays mathematical prowess, even though his numbers simply don't add up

Roots of rage and the relief of schools reopening next week, after a long break

While I'm happy to be rid of such menace, I'm still at a loss over how to raise children away from such online games that elicit episodic raging.

By Peter Kimani 3 months ago

Roots of rage and the relief of schools reopening next week, after a long break

In revisiting Judiciary, Prezzo Ruto must not sound or look helpless

I recall hearing a rumour that Prezzo Ruto runs the Cabinet single-handedly because he claims all his appointees are incompetent. Now, I'm starting to have my doubts.

By Peter Kimani 3 months ago

In revisiting Judiciary, Prezzo Ruto must not sound or look helpless

No money for development as eating county chiefs gobble up just about everything

County governments have been turned into employment bureaus and those with any levers of power are using them to create jobs for their kith and kin.

By Peter Kimani 3 months ago

No money for development as eating county chiefs gobble up just about everything

Why Christmas comes early with gifts from strangers in Uganda, the pearl of Africa

And in keeping with the spirit of the season, I will share the generosity of strangers that prologued my Christmas cheer.

By Peter Kimani 3 months ago

Why Christmas comes early with gifts from strangers in Uganda, the pearl of Africa

Express development: Why Mombasa road will be a gamechanger

Now they say Mombasa needs an expressway. The project was first mooted in 2018, while the Nairobi-Mombasa Special Gauge Rail was in the offing.

By Peter Kimani 3 months ago

Express development: Why Mombasa road will be a gamechanger

Season of blackouts in the week that marks our nationhood signal gradual but sure decline

One might say that it's Kenyans who suffer a disturbance to their lives when Kenya Power interrupts electricity supply.

By Peter Kimani 4 months ago

Season of blackouts in the week that marks our nationhood signal gradual but sure decline

Rutonomics 101: Why opening our borders is an idea whose time has come

Ruto declared Kenya a visa-free zone for all the peoples of the world who may wish to reconnect with the land where humans traces their roots.

By Peter Kimani 4 months ago

Rutonomics 101: Why opening our borders is an idea whose time has come

Tanzania's quest for new names for old places, and untapping 'arrested' development

Songwe was, until seven years ago, part of Mbeya and Mbeya was the headquarters of districts that now make up Songwe. Where is the difference?

By Peter Kimani 4 months ago

Tanzania's quest for new names for old places, and untapping 'arrested' development

Venturing Tanzania's land of brave, home of the Maji Maji war

Kinjeketile produced a concoction that he said would transform German bullets into water. And many of his followers believed it, and the resistance flourished for two years.

By Peter Kimani 4 months ago

Venturing Tanzania's land of brave, home of the Maji Maji war

Diligent acts from these Kenyans making a huge difference, even in their small ways

I was pleasantly surprised to find the Officer in Charge of Land Fraud at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, some chap called Kimutai, still signing documents close to 6pm.

By Peter Kimani 4 months ago

Diligent acts from these Kenyans making a huge difference, even in their small ways

Lost and found: A tale of torn boxers, leaking roofs and overzealous taxmen at the airport

Nairobi traffic jam is horrendous when it rains, and it must be particularly bad at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport where roofs have been leaking, while power is intermittent

By Peter Kimani 4 months ago

Lost and found: A tale of torn boxers, leaking roofs and overzealous taxmen at the airport

Nearly 50 years in the making, now Dodoma finally coming of age

When one is in Tanzania, the wheels of life grind excruciatingly slowly. Dodoma was designated as the national capital in 1974 and it's still in the making, nearly half a century on.

By Peter Kimani 5 months ago

Nearly 50 years in the making, now Dodoma finally coming of age

Presidential decree allowing logging was to pave way for the planting of seedlings

The loggers are simply cutting trees to pave the way for the new seedlings.

By Peter Kimani 5 months ago

Presidential decree allowing logging was to pave way for the planting of seedlings

Ugandan men and the folly of asking questions whose truthful answer they can't stand

Mid this year, a married woman, in the heat of an argument, let it slip that her husband was not the father of some of her six children. She later apologised and said she had said in jest.

By Peter Kimani 5 months ago

Ugandan men and the folly of asking questions whose truthful answer they can't stand

Journey from source of the Nile to the enchanting vistas on foot of Mt Elgon

Uganda, a land of beauty, superstition, and illegality.

By Peter Kimani 5 months ago

Journey from source of the Nile to the enchanting vistas on foot of Mt Elgon

Two visions of Uganda frame a future blighted by unmet past promise

Is there anything going right in Uganda?

By Peter Kimani 5 months ago

Two visions of Uganda frame a future blighted by unmet past promise

Why Kenyan men are working hard to an early grave, so women will outlive them

What does culture mean to men? Probably eating and drinking their fill with regularity, growing beer bellies and nursing hangover through weekends.

By Peter Kimani 5 months ago

Why Kenyan men are working hard to an early grave, so women will outlive them

State of our nation: Now we have hit rock bottom only place left to go is up

As for farmers who have been planting in anticipation of the El-Nino rains, word on the street is that it was a hoax intended to access public funds under false pretenses.

By Peter Kimani 5 months ago

State of our nation: Now we have hit rock bottom only place left to go is up

Biotech firms: Why Kenyans risk weeping with one eye while the other tightly shut

Folks, listen and listen good; when these chaps are done with us, we shall weep with one eye, and the other tightly shut.

By Peter Kimani 6 months ago

Biotech firms: Why Kenyans risk weeping with one eye while the other tightly shut

Darkness at noon as my leading light has now dimmed forever

Baaba was a slight man with a soft voice and, for the most part, treated everyone softly, rarely raising his voice even when most upset.

By Peter Kimani 6 months ago

Darkness at noon as my leading light has now dimmed forever

.

Latest Stories

Which way for Opposition as Raila exits local political stage

Which way for Opposition as Raila exits local political stage

Opinion

By Githieya Kimari

2 hrs ago

TikTok bans, fines not answer to emerging data privacy concerns

TikTok bans, fines not answer to emerging data privacy concerns

Opinion

By Gabin Omanga

2 hrs ago

How education sector can ride on AI for enhanced learning

How education sector can ride on AI for enhanced learning

Opinion

By Mellany Mariri

2 hrs ago

Kihika assents to Bill in renewed fight against alcoholism

Kihika assents to Bill in renewed fight against alcoholism

Rift Valley

By Julius Chepkwony

2 hrs ago

Muturi lines up top lawyers to defend Ruto's housing levy

Premium Muturi lines up top lawyers to defend Ruto's housing levy

National

By Kamau Muthoni

2 hrs ago

Intrigues behind Mueke's replacement as EAC secretary general

Premium Intrigues behind Mueke's replacement as EAC secretary general

National

By Ndung’u Gachane

2 hrs ago

MPs want Nakhumicha sacked over Linda Mama programme

MPs want Nakhumicha sacked over Linda Mama programme

Health & Science

By Josphat Thiong'o

2 hrs ago

Governors say doctor's pay will affect civil servants

Governors say doctor's pay will affect civil servants

Health & Science

By Maryann Muganda

2 hrs ago