Bigfoot Toyota Prado Spotted along Mombasa Road, Ulalaaah

Unlike any other time in our
history, many Kenyans can now
afford big and expensive cars.
We’ve seen luxury vehicles that
cost upwards of Sh50 million on
our streets, and more keep coming.
Yesterday, this big foot Toyota
Prado was spotted along Mombasa
road.
Definitely a pleasant surprise for
motorists.
The owner has gone further and
gotten it a customized number
plate..’Mr Karanja’.YOLO!

Read more

Airlines crisis looms over jet fuel shortage

The aviation industry in Kenya and
Uganda is staring at a crisis that
could cost the two countries
millions of shillings due to a
looming jet fuel shortage.
The Nation has established that
Kencor, the oil marketing company
awarded the tender to deliver jet
fuel known as Jet A1 between
June 12 and 14, has failed to do
so.
This was after it encountered
problems at the port of loading.
The bad news was broken to oil
firms last Tuesday, during an oil
industry vessel scheduling
committee meeting.
This has angered players in the
industry and they are demanding
answers from the Ministry of
Energy. The oil marketers said jet
fuel stocks in the country are
critically low and can only last
until June 23.
By last Tuesday, they noted, the
Kencor vessel that was to deliver
jet fuel before the end of the week
had not completed loading. The
company has been forced to seek
alternative supply from another
vessel.
The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC)
has warned that airports in Kenya
and Uganda face a crisis unless
they receive jet fuel by Wednesday
— five days before the anticipated
run out date.
Energy and Petroleum Principal
Secretary Joseph Njoroge
confirmed the delay but noted that
alternative plans had been put in
place.
“We ordered for another tender
and the fresh consignment of Jet
A1 aviation fuel will arrive
between June 18-20. We have
brought the situation under
control, no need to panic,” he said.
He said there was 10 days fuel
stock in Nairobi and 18 days at the
Moi International Airport in
Mombasa.
Oil marketers have now proposed
mandatory execution of a
performance bond for any bidder
to provide security for the
importers and act as a deterrence
against negligence.

Read more

Radio Africa Offers to Buy Ghafla for Ksh 5 Million after Buying into TRINC for Ksh 3 Million

Radio Africa is reported to be in
serious talks to buy Ghafla. Already,
the Group CEO Patrick Quarcoo has
offered Ksh 5 million for 90% stake
in Ghafla. This offer was like an
insult to the Ghafla founder and his
88mph investors according to people
close to Ghafla.
Ghafla founders and investors
demanded nothing less than Ksh
100 million. This came immediately
after RAL bought 60% stake in
digital media agency TRINC Media
for a paltry Ksh 3 million.
According to documents in our
possession including quartely
reports, PQ bought 20% for himself
and had RAL pump in money to buy
40% of TRINC Media. Sebastian
Wafula maintains the other 40%,
some in trust for an unnamed
investor.
Radio Africa is very desperate to
make an entry dominate the web
and digital TV as they plan to still
be the group which is youth friendly.
They have ditched plans to start
their own Ghafla clone
www.shambamba.com but this plan
might not be off the table as the
group is also contemplating
poaching all Ghafla bloggers and
leaving Samuel Majani to start from
scratch. Many bloggers at Ghafla are
already getting more favours and
leads from Radio Africa that they are
really suspicious that the PQ
employees are up to something.
Caroline Mutoko has tried to show
Ghafla owners and writers favours
through show invitation and lunch
meetings. Others like Shaffie and
Maina Kageni are also giving Ghafla
all kinds of favours.

MAJANI

Read more

Bugatti in kenya: MC C_Bisha aka cbisha-sibisha

If you thought flossing and
stunting were two unrelated
words, one meaning to clean one’s
teeth with a string, while the
other referring to jumping
through a window made of sugar,
the English language slang says
no!
Flossing and stunting is what
“ballers and gangsters” do, and it
basically means to show off one's
opulent material possessions, and
really make sure everybody has
seen you, so that you make
insecure less financially fortunate
people feel uneasy.
Musician Flo Rida can now be
added to that category with ease,
and while his previous rides were
always head turning (and not
necessarily in a positive way, may
I add), his most recently acquired
vehicle beats them all. It’s a gold
chrome-wrapped Bugatti Veyron,
which stands out, a lot, like you
can’t not look at it when it passes
by, in all its flossin’ glory.
If you ask Toboa siri or cbisha, Flo Rida is a kind
of middle-of-the-pack artist in the
music industry, and his only way
to stand out is not through the
quality of his musical works, but
the wit with which he can spend
his millions. A faux-gold Veyron
definitely seems legit, given the
current situation, because he is
living his "You can have whatever
you like" song, which I’ve posted
below, for your amusement, and
to get the right mood for this
piece going nicely.
The Ride cost a whooping $1.7m.

Read more

Uhuru Kenyatta welcomes Jaguar to State house again!!! shinekenya

With over 500 guests among them
diplomatic guests and prominent
people who had been invited to
State House for a meet and greet
this Monday, it was indeed a
surprise as President Uhuru Kenyatta
singled out the singer Jaguar.
Uncharacteristically, the Kioo hit
maker was wearing a suit on this
occasion and had the chance of
talking to the President and Deputy
President on a one on one level for
over ten minutes in front of other
guests.
However, one can only speculate
their topic of conversation, as
attempts to get him for a comment
bore no fruit with him only
promising “big things”. Gospel
singer, Ringtone, also attended the
State function.

Read more

Samsung Galaxy 5, Flagship Done- Sales Have Gone Worldwide

The latest version of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy smartphone series went on sale worldwide Friday, days after the electronics giant announced it was facing a second consecutive quarter of profit decline.
The Galaxy S5 has a lot riding on it to steer the South Korean firm’s profit-making machine back on track as growth in smartphone sales slows, with mature markets like North America and Europe near saturation.
Reviews of the S5 have mostly concluded that it is one of the best high-end smartphones on the market, but there is also a general consensus that it lacks the “wow” factor to differentiate it from its predecessors and competitors
“It can swim, but it won’t make any waves,” was the verdict of the Wall Street Journal, referring to one innovation in the S5′s waterproof covering.

Samsung’s mobile unit has been the driving force behind the record profits of recent years, and it needs the S5 to perform well as a retort to the doom-mongers who say the company lacks a clear strategy to flourish in an increasingly competitive, saturated market.
Samsung made more than 30 percent of all smartphones sold in the world last year, nearly twice the share of its arch-rival Apple. But on Tuesday, the company estimated its first quarter operating profit at 8.4 trillion won ($7.96 billion), marking a second straight year-on-year decline.
In a sign of the challenge the company faces, the S5 was priced lower at its commercial launch Friday than the previous S4 model.
Research firm IDC estimated the average selling price of smartphones will fall to $265 globally by 2017 from $337 in 2013 and $387 in 2012.

Read more

Libya is dying, and black Africans don’t give a damn

Terrible things are happening in the Arab North, and the rest of Africa south of the Sahara desert, aka sub-Saharan Africa, doesn’t seem to be interested or bothered.

The biggest mess is happening in Libya.

To begin with, it is no longer clear who is in charge in Libya. In a chaotic session, the interim parliament, the General National Congress, a few days ago elected businessman Ahmed Miitig as the new prime minister. The dozens of militias in Libya have rejected Miitig.

Then the other day gunmen attacked his home. He escaped unhurt.

The old premier, Abdullah al-Thani, who at first looked like he would leave and allow Miitig to rule, has now changed his mind and decided to linger as PM.

Enter rogue former general Khalif Haftar. He has raised a formidable army and is launching attacks on Islamists groups all over the country, most intensely in Benghazi. He even has a private air force.

The place is falling apart. There are probably more weapons and bombs in Libya than people, in the inevitable crisis that has followed the grim end of Muammar Gaddafi’s rule two years ago.

Hundreds of people have been killed. The country is broke, and things are getting worse by the day. The US has cut and run, telling its citizens to leave.

In neighbouring, more peaceful Tunisia, there is reason to be nervous. A few days ago, four Tunisian police officers were killed in what authorities called a “terrorist” attack on the home of Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou.

Since late 2012, security forces have been battling dozens of militants hiding out in the remote Mount Chaambi region. Authorities say the militants are linked to Al Qaeda.

We know Egypt and the Egyptians better. They drink our water from the Nile. We play football with them, and their elections are similar to ours. At the start the week, they held a presidential election.

Former military chief Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi won it handily. Remember, last July, Sisi overthrew the democratically elected president of Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsy.

He jailed him, and the worst political violence in recent Egyptian history followed. Anyway, Sisi put the election machinery together, retired from the army, stood and won the vote.

That is very familiar in the rest of Africa. We understand that.

If Libya, or pre-Sisi Egypt, were elsewhere in Africa, we would have pressured the African Union to send a peacekeeping force there. So why don’t we?

Read more