Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts

16 January, 2015

Health Milestone: Cure for AIDS Discovered!!

Health Milestone: Cure for AIDS Discovered!!

AIDS patient The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been the hardest thing to treat because it inserts it’s genome into the hosts DNA making it difficult to eradicate using conventional treatment approaches. For a long time, antiretroval therapy has been widely used to stop the virus from replicating...

08 January, 2015

Did Paul Kobia Kill Fidel Odinga?

Did Paul Kobia Kill Fidel Odinga?

News doing rounds in social media circles allege that Paul Kobia, a controversial city businessman who was named in the UN report on the DRC gold smuggling syndicate and who was  last September involved in gun drama with bodyguards of the Former Premier Raila Odinga, is behind the...

05 January, 2015

3 People Confirmed Dead, 40 Rescued, one Row almost cleared in Huruma Building Collapse

3 People Confirmed Dead, 40 Rescued, one Row almost cleared in Huruma Building Collapse

A survivor being transferred to an Ambulance As of now, up to 40 people have been rescued so far, 3 confirmed dead, including a woman and one day old infant. According witness accounts, the building came down at 8pm, Sunday. It is said that huge cracks begun to...

04 January, 2015

2 Dead, 40 Rescued, Dozens still trapped in Huruma building Collapse.

2 Dead, 40 Rescued, Dozens still trapped in Huruma building Collapse.

BREAKING NEWS: News just coming in indicates that a 7 storey building has collapsed in Huruma’s Casanova area, Nairobi. The residential building was still under construction and 5 floors had already been occupied.  The building collapsed at around 7pm, Sunday night, at time when most residents were at home. ...
Rather than Affect Your Health, the Chlorovirus ATCV-1 Makes you Stupid

Rather than Affect Your Health, the Chlorovirus ATCV-1 Makes you Stupid

Green Algae. Image Credit: Financetwitter.com Health -- Late last year, scientists discovered that a virus that all along has been known to attack green algae in rivers and lakes can also infect the human brain and make one stupid.  The Virus, Cholovirus ATCV-1 belonging to the Phycodnavirdae family was...
Plan Crash Lands at JKIA, No one is hurt

Plan Crash Lands at JKIA, No one is hurt

Kenya News --- A Fokker 50, arriving at the Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) was forced to crash-land after its landing gear failed to drop. The plane was arriving from Wajir, Northern Kenya, with 6 passengers. No one was injured in the late morning incident. The runway...
Raila Odinga’s Son, Fidel Odinga, has passed on

Raila Odinga’s Son, Fidel Odinga, has passed on

Fidel Odinga, Wife and Son. Photo: Elvis Ogina BREAKING NEWS--- Kenya is in shock following the devastating news that Fidel Odinga has died. Fidel was the eldest son of Kenya’s former Prime Minister and leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), Raila Odinga. Fidel Odinga was found dead...
 Iran's Elite Guards have foiled Mossad’s Assassination attempt against a Nuclear Scientist

Iran's Elite Guards have foiled Mossad’s Assassination attempt against a Nuclear Scientist

An Iranian Elite Guard. Photo Credit: telegraph.co.uk World News --- On Saturday, a senior Iranian security official reported that the Country’s Elite Revolutionary Guards Corps saved one of its nuclear scientist from a Mossad assassination attempt. Col. Ya’qoub Baqeri, the deputy chief liaison officer of the Flight Guards...

27 December, 2014

Cyber-security Experts Humiliate the FBI for its claim that North Korea Hacked Sony Pictures

Cyber-security Experts Humiliate the FBI for its claim that North Korea Hacked Sony Pictures

World News -- Last week, the FBI announced that it had gathered conclusive evidence to prove that the Government of North Korea had orchestrated the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures. This was followed by a verbal attack by president Obama who promised a “proportional response”.  In an almost immediate...
Court Authorizes Life Support to be Taken off a Pregnant Brain Dead Irish Woman

Court Authorizes Life Support to be Taken off a Pregnant Brain Dead Irish Woman

Word News -- A young pregnant woman who has been clinically dead for three weeks now will be taken off life support after a three-judge bench found that there was no chance of giving birth to a live baby. The brain dead woman has been deteriorating fast and,...

23 December, 2014

North Korea went offline in a Suspected U.S Payback for Sony Attack

North Korea went offline in a Suspected U.S Payback for Sony Attack

World News – According to the New York Times, North Korea lost it’s already struggling internet connection.  While this could be as a result of a normal failure – or Pyongyang’s preemptive measure to forestall an impeding attack – there are chances that this was U.S sponsored DDOS attack.  The...

22 December, 2014

President Zuma ‘off the hook’ for Lavish Spending on Home Security Upgrades

President Zuma ‘off the hook’ for Lavish Spending on Home Security Upgrades

President Jacob Zuma: File/photo Africa News – South African President, Jacob Zuma, says he has been cleared from accusations blaming him for the lavish R250 million (about $22 Million) in security upgrades at his Nkandla homestead.  The escalation of costs in Zuma’s home security upgrades have turned into...
Unidentified Drone Seen Flying over Nuclear Facilities in Belgium

Unidentified Drone Seen Flying over Nuclear Facilities in Belgium

Doel Nuclear Plant. Photo Credit: Woodwalker Via Wikimedia World  News --The Belga news agency reported on unexplained drone that was spotted flying over Belgium’s nuclear facility, one day after the facility was restored after being shut for four months. The mysterious unmanned aircraft appeared on Saturday, and resembles...

21 December, 2014

Shock as the shooting of NYPD police officers is praised on Social Media

Shock as the shooting of NYPD police officers is praised on Social Media

Crime scene World News -- Two NYPD officers dressed in civilian clothes were shot dead on Saturday afternoon as they sat in a police car along a Brooklyn street corner. Investigations allege that the shooter was avenging the shootings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The two killed...
ISIS Executes 100 Foreign Fighters Who Tried To Quit

ISIS Executes 100 Foreign Fighters Who Tried To Quit

Foreign ISIS fighter: AP Photo World News -- According to the British Financial Times Newspaper, ISIS executed 100 of foreign fighters who tried to leave the group’s headquarters in Raqqa, Syria.  An activist opposed to ISIS and the Assad regime confirmed the executions of foreign fighters trying to escape...

20 December, 2014

According to UAC, Russia has surged ahead of the U.S in the production of new military planes

According to UAC, Russia has surged ahead of the U.S in the production of new military planes

World News -- Reports running in the Russian media indicates that Russia might have surpassed the U.S in the production of new combat planes. During an interview with Ekho Moskvy Radio, Vladislav Goncharenko, a deputy in the department of military aviation programs at the United Aircraft-Building Corporation (UAC), stated...

19 December, 2014

How Kenyans Misused Google in 2014

How Kenyans Misused Google in 2014

The report on how Kenyans faired on Google in 2014 is out and guess what, it’s the usual suspects who are topping google searches – Vera Sidika, English Premier League (EPL) and, “Panda Mbegu” mastermind, Pastor Kanyari. Vera Sidika Kenya News -- While Kenya has witnessed a tremendous...

18 December, 2014

Heavy Police Presence as Chaos Break out in Parliament due to Security Bill

Heavy Police Presence as Chaos Break out in Parliament due to Security Bill

Police patrol outside parliament. Photo: Nation Media  Kenya News -- Hundreds of police officers were deployed outside parliament and nearby streets following fears that protests could occur in a bid to stop the debate on the controversial security bill. The intimidating police officers in full riot gear were...
Nigerian Soldiers to be executed for refusing to fight Boko Haram

Nigerian Soldiers to be executed for refusing to fight Boko Haram

Africa News --54 Nigerian soldiers were sentenced to death by a court martial for refusing to fight and help in the recapture of towns that had been overrun by Boko Haram militants in August.  The lawyer representing the 54 accused of mutiny said they will be executed by...
14 Year-old Murder Convict Exonerated 70 Years after Execution

14 Year-old Murder Convict Exonerated 70 Years after Execution

World News -- How late can justice come? Really! A circuit court judge threw out the case, 70 years after a South Carolina court found a 14 year-old boy guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. It is said that the boy was so small that a...

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