Nzau Musau - 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

.

Nzau Musau

Unapologetic man who oversaw the infamous Wagalla massacre

The man who sanctioned the infamous Wagalla massacre of Wajir where hundreds of Degodia clan members died earlier this week aged 91.

Unapologetic man who oversaw the infamous Wagalla massacre

NIS boss Haji, CDF Kahariri reveal emerging threats to stability

NIS boss Haji, CDF Kahariri reveal emerging threats to stability

Stop 'Ruto must go' chants, NIS and KDF warn

Stop 'Ruto must go' chants, NIS and KDF warn

'SANY demolitions': Taxpayers to cough Sh2 billion for Nakumatt Ukay compensation

'SANY demolitions': Taxpayers to cough Sh2 billion for Nakumatt Ukay compensation

We refuse to be victims: Book by Ugandan poet launched in Kenya

Sam Mugumya captures the vanity of power in its ephemeral element. Mugumya is an ex-political prisoner who braved eight years in a DRC prison.

We refuse to be victims: Book by Ugandan poet launched in Kenya

ICC targets Sudan war enablers amid Kenyan links to militia gold

The eyes of the international community are turning towards the enablers of Sudan civil war, days after the country’s militias formed a parallel government in Nairobi.

By 2 months ago

ICC targets Sudan war enablers amid Kenyan links to militia gold

Why "Kenya coalition" featured in German election

A coalition dubbed by pundits as the “Kenya coalition” features the CDU/CSU whose colors are black, SPD (red) and the Greens, with the combined semblance to the Kenyan flag.

By 2 months ago

Why "Kenya coalition" featured in German election

Wafula Chebukati: The man who stoked controversy with praise and condemnation in equal measure

In six years, he ran three presidential elections, stoking controversy at each turn. In the wake of each, it was praise and condemnation in equal measure.

By 2 months ago

Wafula Chebukati: The man who stoked controversy with praise and condemnation in equal measure

Riggy-G picked on Media and Raila, failed to see where his waterloo would come from

Like Karanja before him, Rigathi Gachagua neither knew the day nor the hour the political thuggery and vindictiveness he practiced on others, would be deployed on him.

By 4 months ago

Riggy-G picked on Media and Raila, failed to see where his waterloo would come from

Disgrace of national honours handed out using opaque criteria

Many deserving Kenyans have been snubbed as leaders with questionable credentials are honoured.‘Githeri man’ was recognised ahead of many distinguished Kenyans.

By 4 months ago

Disgrace of national honours handed out using opaque criteria

Defending Kibaki's win and how string of betrayals led to bitter fallout

In her spirited defence of President Mwai Kibaki’s votes in 2007, Martha Karua fired on all cylinders.

By 4 months ago

Defending Kibaki's win and how string of betrayals led to bitter fallout

How Orange vs Banana referendum, deep divisions led to implosion of Narc dream

In 2002, the Rainbow Coalition was handed a blank cheque to birth a new republic in the manner of the vision they had expounded for years.

By 4 months ago

How Orange vs Banana referendum, deep divisions led to implosion of Narc dream

Karua: Day angel of death swooped on us

Among the lessons life has thrown her way is the necessity of listening to the inner voice that is always guiding, and firing us up from within.

By 4 months ago

Karua: Day angel of death swooped on us

Why I walked out on Moi, declined Kibaki's appointment as shadow minister

By the time Martha Karua sat for her O-Levels, she had switched schools severally. In all instances, she’d stood up for her rights as a student and questioned unjust conventions condoned by students.

By 4 months ago

Why I walked out on Moi, declined Kibaki's appointment as shadow minister

Karua: How I took on a Kanu behemoth, navigated gender wars and won

If Geoffrey Kariithi, former head of civil service in Kenyatta and Moi governments was a big tree, Martha Karua was the small axe that fell him.

By 4 months ago

Karua: How I took on a Kanu behemoth, navigated gender wars and won

Against the tide: How 'Okoa LSK' 1989 edition thrust Karua to national political scene

At the turn of age 30, Narc Kenya party leader Martha Karua quit the comfort of the Judiciary as a senior resident magistrate after serving six years to set up a law firm in Nairobi.

By 4 months ago

Against the tide: How 'Okoa LSK' 1989 edition thrust Karua to national political scene

Millie Odhiambo: 'Bad girl's' lessons in politics, shock of being assigned many boyfriends

There was a time when a super-rich male colleague tried to hit on me by telling me that I needed to have a socio-political financier in order to survive in politics.

By 6 months ago

Millie Odhiambo: 'Bad girl's' lessons in politics, shock of being assigned many boyfriends

Millie Odhiambo's pain of hair loss

I had a little wound on my head, courtesy of a bad chemical used on it a while earlier at a salon in Rwanda. Because of the pressure, the wound spread and my head started producing puss.

By 6 months ago

Millie Odhiambo's pain of hair loss

Millie Odhiambo: The night call that made me bag 2007 ODM nomination

Millie Odhiambo says she was invited to one of debates that focused on women’s issues in the Constitution. The debates often had political heavyweights on both sides.

By 6 months ago

Millie Odhiambo: The night call that made me bag 2007 ODM nomination

Higher energy cost puts Kenya on losing edge in manufacturing

Lobby says increased investments in renewable sources have not cured the problem forcing manufacturers to relocate to other regional economies.

By 6 months ago

Higher energy cost puts Kenya on losing edge in manufacturing

From witness to advocate: Inside Millie Odhiambo's political awakening

Even though I often engaged in training others on leadership skills, including political leadership skills, I never considered myself as a politician. In fact, I had even grown to hate politics.

By 6 months ago

From witness to advocate: Inside Millie Odhiambo's political awakening

We refuse to be victims: Book by Ugandan poet launched in Kenya

Sam Mugumya captures the vanity of power in its ephemeral element. Mugumya is an ex-political prisoner who braved eight years in a DRC prison.

We refuse to be victims: Book by Ugandan poet launched in Kenya

ICC targets Sudan war enablers amid Kenyan links to militia gold

The eyes of the international community are turning towards the enablers of Sudan civil war, days after the country’s militias formed a parallel government in Nairobi.

By 2 months ago

ICC targets Sudan war enablers amid Kenyan links to militia gold

Why "Kenya coalition" featured in German election

A coalition dubbed by pundits as the “Kenya coalition” features the CDU/CSU whose colors are black, SPD (red) and the Greens, with the combined semblance to the Kenyan flag.

By 2 months ago

Why "Kenya coalition" featured in German election

Wafula Chebukati: The man who stoked controversy with praise and condemnation in equal measure

In six years, he ran three presidential elections, stoking controversy at each turn. In the wake of each, it was praise and condemnation in equal measure.

By 2 months ago

Wafula Chebukati: The man who stoked controversy with praise and condemnation in equal measure

Riggy-G picked on Media and Raila, failed to see where his waterloo would come from

Like Karanja before him, Rigathi Gachagua neither knew the day nor the hour the political thuggery and vindictiveness he practiced on others, would be deployed on him.

By 4 months ago

Riggy-G picked on Media and Raila, failed to see where his waterloo would come from

Disgrace of national honours handed out using opaque criteria

Many deserving Kenyans have been snubbed as leaders with questionable credentials are honoured.‘Githeri man’ was recognised ahead of many distinguished Kenyans.

By 4 months ago

Disgrace of national honours handed out using opaque criteria

Defending Kibaki's win and how string of betrayals led to bitter fallout

In her spirited defence of President Mwai Kibaki’s votes in 2007, Martha Karua fired on all cylinders.

By 4 months ago

Defending Kibaki's win and how string of betrayals led to bitter fallout

How Orange vs Banana referendum, deep divisions led to implosion of Narc dream

In 2002, the Rainbow Coalition was handed a blank cheque to birth a new republic in the manner of the vision they had expounded for years.

By 4 months ago

How Orange vs Banana referendum, deep divisions led to implosion of Narc dream

Karua: Day angel of death swooped on us

Among the lessons life has thrown her way is the necessity of listening to the inner voice that is always guiding, and firing us up from within.

By 4 months ago

Karua: Day angel of death swooped on us

Why I walked out on Moi, declined Kibaki's appointment as shadow minister

By the time Martha Karua sat for her O-Levels, she had switched schools severally. In all instances, she’d stood up for her rights as a student and questioned unjust conventions condoned by students.

By 4 months ago

Why I walked out on Moi, declined Kibaki's appointment as shadow minister

Karua: How I took on a Kanu behemoth, navigated gender wars and won

If Geoffrey Kariithi, former head of civil service in Kenyatta and Moi governments was a big tree, Martha Karua was the small axe that fell him.

By 4 months ago

Karua: How I took on a Kanu behemoth, navigated gender wars and won

Against the tide: How 'Okoa LSK' 1989 edition thrust Karua to national political scene

At the turn of age 30, Narc Kenya party leader Martha Karua quit the comfort of the Judiciary as a senior resident magistrate after serving six years to set up a law firm in Nairobi.

By 4 months ago

Against the tide: How 'Okoa LSK' 1989 edition thrust Karua to national political scene

Millie Odhiambo: 'Bad girl's' lessons in politics, shock of being assigned many boyfriends

There was a time when a super-rich male colleague tried to hit on me by telling me that I needed to have a socio-political financier in order to survive in politics.

By 6 months ago

Millie Odhiambo: 'Bad girl's' lessons in politics, shock of being assigned many boyfriends

Millie Odhiambo's pain of hair loss

I had a little wound on my head, courtesy of a bad chemical used on it a while earlier at a salon in Rwanda. Because of the pressure, the wound spread and my head started producing puss.

By 6 months ago

Millie Odhiambo's pain of hair loss

Millie Odhiambo: The night call that made me bag 2007 ODM nomination

Millie Odhiambo says she was invited to one of debates that focused on women’s issues in the Constitution. The debates often had political heavyweights on both sides.

By 6 months ago

Millie Odhiambo: The night call that made me bag 2007 ODM nomination

Higher energy cost puts Kenya on losing edge in manufacturing

Lobby says increased investments in renewable sources have not cured the problem forcing manufacturers to relocate to other regional economies.

By 6 months ago

Higher energy cost puts Kenya on losing edge in manufacturing

From witness to advocate: Inside Millie Odhiambo's political awakening

Even though I often engaged in training others on leadership skills, including political leadership skills, I never considered myself as a politician. In fact, I had even grown to hate politics.

By 6 months ago

From witness to advocate: Inside Millie Odhiambo's political awakening

We refuse to be victims: Book by Ugandan poet launched in Kenya

Sam Mugumya captures the vanity of power in its ephemeral element. Mugumya is an ex-political prisoner who braved eight years in a DRC prison.

We refuse to be victims: Book by Ugandan poet launched in Kenya

ICC targets Sudan war enablers amid Kenyan links to militia gold

The eyes of the international community are turning towards the enablers of Sudan civil war, days after the country’s militias formed a parallel government in Nairobi.

By 2 months ago

ICC targets Sudan war enablers amid Kenyan links to militia gold

Why "Kenya coalition" featured in German election

A coalition dubbed by pundits as the “Kenya coalition” features the CDU/CSU whose colors are black, SPD (red) and the Greens, with the combined semblance to the Kenyan flag.

By 2 months ago

Why "Kenya coalition" featured in German election

Wafula Chebukati: The man who stoked controversy with praise and condemnation in equal measure

In six years, he ran three presidential elections, stoking controversy at each turn. In the wake of each, it was praise and condemnation in equal measure.

By 2 months ago

Wafula Chebukati: The man who stoked controversy with praise and condemnation in equal measure

Riggy-G picked on Media and Raila, failed to see where his waterloo would come from

Like Karanja before him, Rigathi Gachagua neither knew the day nor the hour the political thuggery and vindictiveness he practiced on others, would be deployed on him.

By 4 months ago

Riggy-G picked on Media and Raila, failed to see where his waterloo would come from

Disgrace of national honours handed out using opaque criteria

Many deserving Kenyans have been snubbed as leaders with questionable credentials are honoured.‘Githeri man’ was recognised ahead of many distinguished Kenyans.

By 4 months ago

Disgrace of national honours handed out using opaque criteria

.

Latest Stories

Donnarumma key to PSG in race to final

Donnarumma key to PSG in race to final

Football

By AFP

1 hr ago

President Ruto forgives man who threw a shoe at him in Migori

President Ruto forgives man who threw a shoe at him in Migori

National

By Mate Tongola

1 hr ago

DPP: Eight senior officers made witnesses in Baby Pendo case

DPP: Eight senior officers made witnesses in Baby Pendo case

National

By Nancy Gitonga

2 hrs ago

Kalonzo, Wamalwa warn Ruto against partisan IEBC appointments

Kalonzo, Wamalwa warn Ruto against partisan IEBC appointments

Politics

By David Njaaga

3 hrs ago

Refugees in Garissa's Dadaab complex decry USAID funding cuts

Refugees in Garissa's Dadaab complex decry USAID funding cuts

North Eastern

By Abdimalik Hajir

3 hrs ago

AU, IGAD pledge full support for South Sudan's peace deal after high-level talks

AU, IGAD pledge full support for South Sudan's peace deal after high-level talks

Africa

By David Njaaga

3 hrs ago

Siaya police arrest 12 officers after six robbery suspects escape court custody

Siaya police arrest 12 officers after six robbery suspects escape court custody

Nyanza

By Isaiah Gwengi

4 hrs ago

Tahmeed driver, four others arrested after explosives found in bus

Tahmeed driver, four others arrested after explosives found in bus

Central

By Fred Kagonye

4 hrs ago