The dreams of Kenyan youth for much-sought- after careers in the Police Service have been thwarted by the sins of omission and commission by corrupt senior recruitment officers. This follows the cancellation of by the National Police Service Commission of the appointments of 1,215 recruits carried out in 36 centres across Kenya recently. To make assurance double sure the Independent Police Oversight Authority has moved to court to seek cancellation of the recruitment. This is sequel to growing disquiet at the General Service Unit (GSU) of the National Police with serving and former officers alleging rampant victimisation, corruption and harassment…
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Inmates of Ebola quarantine centres in Mafori Chiefdom in Port Loko District of Sierra Leone are now thanking their stars for saving them from hunger. This follows the donation of food items and cooking essentials to them by a non-governmental organization, Development Initiative Programme. The Chief Executive Officer of the organization, Mrs Hawa Saffa, said the donation was to keep those in the quarantined homes happy until the end of their three-week isolation and that about 100 quarantined inmates in Port Loko would benefit from the largesse. Among the items distributed were coal pots, bags of charcoal and provisions that…
A young girl, Kimeera Rajbunsi, is now with her maker because her jealous boyfriend read an entry in her carelessly-kept private dairy which made him momentarily mad, losing all control. Knocking her down with a frying pan, the demented boyfriend, Sholin Bissoon, 21, stabbed her several times in the chest with a sharp kitchen instrument at her home in Forestwood Gardens, Phoenix. He then dumped her lifeless body in a pond in a secluded area near Mount Edgecombe in Durban, South Africa. Bissoon had fallen deeply in love with Kimeera, 17, during their school days at Woodview Secondary in 2010,…
TAKEN 3 St. Liam Neeson Second sequel to Taken is set to rule 2015! With a $48 million USD budget, this Liam Neeson action packed movie is set to lead 2015’s box office figures at an estimated $30 million USD weekend figure, though TAKEN 2 kicked off at $49 million USD, this has not taken anything away from 3. Who was taken this time? Don’t just wait to hear/read how it’ll all act out, because it’s an action movie you would not want to miss. And if you think TAKEN 1 and 2 were both the best that could happen,…
LAUGH QUOTE “I am going to call my kids Ctrl, Alt and Delete. Then if they muck up I will just hit them all at once.” – Author Unknown Knock! Knock! Knock, knock. Who’s there? Justin. Justin who? Justin time for dinner. WISE GUYS ANSWER TO STUPID QUESTION QUESTION: Why did the belt get locked up? WISE GUY: He held up a pair of pants. TEACHER AND STUDENT MY FATHER Teacher: “If you had two hundred naira and you asked your father for another, how many naira would you have?” Student: “Two hundred naira.” Teacher: “You don’t know your arithmetic.”…
Chanel, Business plans are a road map for any bank, investor or funding body to see how much you understand your business and how focused you are on your revenue streams but it doesn’t always show your skills, talent or business character, which is essentially what any investor wants to see. They invest in people, not businesses. Here are some keys factor to ensure that you are in with the best chance of retaining some startup capital to get your venture of the ground: Show off your market knowledge or expertise: Investors want to believe in someone who knows the…
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has, over the years, adamantly refused to choose a successor, notoriously playing ambitious lieutenants against each other to his advantage by seeming to encourage one faction and then brutally putting them down for misreading his intentions. But insiders suggest Zimbabwe’s Machiavellian leader is finally moving to resolve the age-old question, hence the current commotion in his Zanu PF party which has seen the merciless destruction of a faction aligned to former Vice President Joice Mujuru. Analysts claim Mugabe’s hand has been forced by the three key issues; the fact that he is 90 years-old, the term limitation…
Parents and pupils in Ghana have been reminded of their obligations to create a conducive, enabling environment to enable their children focus exclusively on their education. Ashanti Regional Minister Samuel Sarpong who gave the reminder, urged pupils “not to ruin their academic careers” through acts of indiscipline and other social vices. On an official tour of basic schools in the Ejisu-Juaben municipality to welcome kids enrolled into the mainstream school system for the first time, Sarpong advised the pupils to “stay focused and work hard on their books” to assure themselves of a fulfilling future. “Beware of absenteeism, truancy, drug…
The STEELE siblings of South Africa – Clive and Susan – are literally hopping mad as a court order has stopped an auction sale that would have earned them at least R100,000. The court order was sequel to an “urgent application” filed by late Steve Biko’s son, Nkosinathi, that the document that the Steeles had offered for auction was not theirs to sell. The document is the autopsy report on Steve Biko which the duo had found among their mother’s papers after her death. Their mum, Maureen Steele had come by the Biko autopsy report when she worked as personal…
Remember Nkandla? It is South African President Jacob Zuma’s private home which last year underwent alleged irregular multi-million rand upgrades and became a source of controversy which culminated in the SA Police raiding Parliament to sack an opposition MP. It is still tending, but it appears to have assumed a more sinister, and dark aspect. Supposed armed robbers have gruesomely murdered two close family members of two contractors who handled some aspects of the hugely profitable upgrading, one after the other within 40 days. Two close family members of high-profile people linked to the allegedly irregular multimillion-rand upgrades to President…