×
App Icon
The Standard e-Paper
Fearless, Trusted News
★★★★ - on Play Store
Download App
Fancy car wins the girl
As I was telling you last week, dwelling on memories is a pastime I find largely agreeably nowadays, except for a subject that lingers somewhere in the back of the mind like a malignant tumour – my relations with the opposite sex.
By By Benson Riungu 12 years ago
Fancy car wins the girl
Nutty friends and neigbours make my retirement exciting
I do not know if people in other parts of the country are blessed – or cursed – with the kind of neighbours and relatives I am surrounded with in my Uturine Village.
By BY BENSON RIUNGU 12 years ago
 Nutty friends and neigbours make my retirement exciting
My attempt at farming flops terribly
Everyone knows that when Kenyans retire they go to the village to farm as they await the call to join their ancestors upstairs.
By BY BENSON RIUNGU 12 years ago
My attempt at farming flops terribly
Meru men who chop others with little provocation
Last week we had a clan gathering that was attended by relatives from across the country and even the diaspora. It was one of those rare occasions when old salts like myself can show off the clan’s achievements in human development.
By BY BENSON RIUNGU 12 years ago
Meru men who chop others with little provocation
Fake curricature sends gay reader running after me
Let’s finish off with Brian Tetley quickly before we begin on the unfolding story of a retired journalist trying to reintegrate into a rural community he left for the ‘city of many lights’ many years ago.
By By BENSON RIUNGU 12 years ago
Fake curricature sends gay  reader running after me
Ruto to Gachagua: You wasted five years in Parliament
Politics
By James Omoro
18 mins ago
Inside Kioni-Gachagua 'conciliation' plot
Politics
By Gakuu Mathenge
18 mins ago
Kericho's secret mass grave horror
Crime and Justice
By Nikko Tanui
18 mins ago
Linda Mwananchi's Narok rally marred by teargas, heavy rains
Politics
By George Sayagie
18 mins ago
Iran war a blessing in disguise for Lamu Port
Shipping & Logistics
By Benard Sanga
18 mins ago
Public schools pushed to breaking point with Sh66b funding gap
Education
By Mike Kihaki
18 mins ago