A Friend and Wife, A Mother, A Lawyer, An Activist, A Human Rights Defender and finally, A Believer in Jesus Christ.
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Joy Mdivo retweeted
Congratulations to Prof Okowa! PS @SingoeiAKorir and his team did a good job.
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The High Court has given Mosop MP Abraham Kirwa and the Speaker of the National Assembly another opportunity to defend themselves in a case seeking to have the legislator’s seat declared vacant over his prolonged absence from Parliament.
Petitioner Timothy Tororey argued that the MP has remained outside the country and missed sittings for over two years.
Read more: zurl.co/AMKaM
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Powering Kenya Power’s Future: Kenya Power Board Visit to IESR
The future of Kenya’s energy sector is being shaped through innovation, skills development and practical solutions to emerging challenges.
Yesterday, the Kenya Power Board of Directors, accompanied by the Managing Director and CEO, Dr. (Eng.) Joseph Siror FIEK and members of the Executive Committee, visited the Institute of Energy Studies and Research (IESR) to learn about its achievements, ongoing projects and future plans.
Led by the Director, IESR, Dr. Jeremiah Kiplagat, the visit highlighted the Institute’s contribution to developing a skilled workforce, advancing energy innovation and supporting Kenya Power’s long-term goals. 1/2
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SGR Gravy Train
The World Bank says Kenya overpaid up to 117 billion shillings for the construction of the Mombasa-Naivasha Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), compared with similar projects by peers like Tanzania, partly because of fraud in land compensation and an uncompetitive contract award.
#NTVTonight @DannMwangi
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A heartbreaking message from Jesus Owono following the tragic incident on the pitch. 💔
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Congratulations to Phoebe Okowa on your election as a Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), after securing the requisite majority votes at both the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council.
Your election is a moment of great pride for Kenya and a powerful affirmation of the depth of legal expertise, integrity and excellence that our country continues to contribute to the international community.
As you take up this distinguished responsibility, we wish you great success in discharging your mandate with diligence and in advancing the ICJ’s mission of upholding international law and promoting the peaceful resolution of disputes among nations.
Kenya is proud of you.
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Erin Andrews was filmed naked through the peephole of her hotel room by a stalker. The hotel had given him the room next door. Then he put the video online and nearly 17 million people watched it. Then people said she staged it. Then a jury put a price on it: $55 million.
It was 2008. She was 30 and one of the best known faces at ESPN, working the sidelines of college football. Michael David Barrett, a man she had never met, followed her to 3 cities.
In Nashville he called the Marriott at Vanderbilt University, confirmed she was staying there and asked for the room next to hers. He got it. Nobody called her to ask. He tampered with the peephole on her door, waited until the shower was turned off and filmed her for about 4 and a half minutes. He filmed her through a peephole in Columbus, Ohio too.
In 2009 the video hit the internet. Before anyone knew who shot it, people online said she had set it up herself for attention. Barrett was caught, pleaded guilty and got 30 months in prison.
In 2016 she sued him and the hotel's owner and operator for $75 million. She took the stand and broke down in front of the jury. The hotel's lawyers argued that her career had taken off since the video, and went through her endorsements one by one, Diet Mountain Dew included. That same week, comments on her Instagram still said she staged it.
On March 7, 2016 the jury gave her $55 million. Barrett was found 51% at fault. The hotel side was found 49% at fault. She says copies of the video are still being posted.
A stranger asked for the room next to a famous woman and the hotel handed it over. She says 1 phone call to her would have stopped all of it.
Was the hotel guilty for handing a stalker the room next door, or should 1 man have paid for all of it?
Joy Mdivo retweeted
GOLD FOR THE RAISING LIONESSES! 🤯🇰🇪
STOP EVERYTHING! KENYA, WE HAVE MADE HISTORY! 🔥🏆
The Raising Lionesses have done it! Bringing home GOLD and securing the FIRST EVER MEDAL FOR #TEAMKENYA IN A TEAM SPORT! 🇰🇪❤️
Not just a medal, but GOLD! A historic moment, a proud nation
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WE’RE BRINGING BACK KAHAWA NA GOWI! ☕🎙️
You know those conversations you’ve always wanted to have with your pastor but never quite found the space for?
Well, this is that space. 👀😂
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Rest in peace champ ❤️❤️
The Football world moans your exit ❤️❤️🙏🙏
We will never forget you ❤️❤️🙏🙏
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Spanish police have opened an investigation into possible involuntary manslaughter following the death of Tenerife forward Jesús de Miguel, who suffered a fatal collision with the FC Andorra goalkeeper during a match yesterday.
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Is something MEDICALLY wrong with Camilla...has she been drinking? There is no end to her BIZARRE behaviours.
First, she shakes this woman’s hand and doesn’t even bother to look in her direction. APPALLING.
Then, she discards her SHOES? Where does she think she is? Everyone there is capable of walking on sand. Her heel is barely 1” off the ground. Could she not have worn flats?
She starts to STARE OFF into space. Then doesn’t know what to do with her silly umbrella.
She’s supposed to be representing Britain and she’s behaving like she’s on holiday.
Very welcome news! Congratulations Judge Okowa, serve diligently for God and Humanity. All the best! 👏 👏 👏
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For the last 9-months, my wife, Brooklyn has been pregnant with a very sick baby boy. Three or four months ago, we learned that the baby had severe hydrocephalus. Back in the old days, hydrocephalus was called, 'water on the brain' - too much brain fluid. Ultimately, we were referred to Cincinnati Children's Hospital, where we were told by several of the most highly regarded fetal specialists in the country that his condition was dire. The baby's condition was 'off the charts bad'. It was so extreme that the specialists stopped measuring and monitoring his fluid level because, at that point, it didn't really matter. The MRI's were sickening to look at.
We were told, pointblank, that there was over a 90% chance that the baby would either die shortly after birth or have such severe cognitive impairments that any quality of life would be hard to imagine. We had a meeting with palliative care regarding the use of life sustaining measures and had detailed, awful, and emotional discussions about the ethics of when we might need to remove or cease such measures - which would result in the baby 'passing away peacefully'.
Brooklyn relocated to Cincinnati and lived in a hotel close to the hospital - in case she went into labor. I commuted back and forth. On July 8th, Brooklyn did indeed go into labor. Literally, 15 minutes before they wheeled her back to start the C-section, we had another meeting with doctors regarding the use of a breathing tube and at what point we might need to remove that tube and let the baby go to Heaven. Guess what? The baby came out crying - which was the sweetest sound I ever heard.
In a nutshell, Charlie Schnarr stayed in infant intensive care until yesterday - when we all came home. He seems to be a normal, beautiful baby doing all the things that babies do. He has mild ventricular enlargement, but we can deal with that with checkups.
How did this happen?!
The doctors said, 'We do not have and cannot come up with a medical explanation for what we've witnessed here'. Somehow his brain found a way to naturally clear the blockage or re-route the fluid that was causing the oppressive back up of brain fluid. During the last week, I heard the words, 'divine intervention' and 'miracle' more times than I could count. Nurses with decades of experience and esteemed, nationally admired doctors were flabbergasted but jubilant. Because of the domino effect of friends, family, clients, colleagues and even strangers praying and asking others to pray for us, I do not doubt that there were thousands of people praying for us.
I'm a practical person that certainly believes in science and medical technology, but I absolutely know, from the bottom of my heart, that God was involved in this. I give ALL of the credit and glory to Him. Prayer is positively powerful. God is real, and He still performs miracles."
📷: Nick Schnarr
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At 7 years old Tweaky Dave was selling heroin for his father. At 9 his father shot him in the stomach and walked away. At 10 he was doing prostitution on Hollywood streets to survive. By 19 he was a heroin addict dying of leukemia and refusing treatment. He died shortly after this interview. Twenty years later his jacket became the center of a fashion controversy involving Kanye West.
He sat on the Jerry Springer Show and told this story like it happened to someone else.
In the video below, Dave walks through a childhood that most people couldn't survive a single week of - and Jerry Springer sits across from him visibly struggling to process what he's hearing.
Dave said he started selling dope for his dad at 7. Said it was the family business. Said he didn't see anything wrong with it at the time.
Then at 9 he kicked open the wrong door. His father was bagging dope with customers in the room. Next thing Dave knew he was on the floor bleeding. His father walked away.
The hooker next door called an ambulance.
Dave ran to Hollywood to become a rock star. Was 9 years old.
The system put him in placements. He ran. They locked him up. He ran again. Trusted nobody. Said cops treated runaways like criminals. Started prostitution at 10 because it was the only way to eat.
Stopped at 16 after watching two friends die of AIDS.
Found a dismembered body in a Beverly Hills dumpster one night. Said it happens all the time.
Asked what keeps him going he said: the 8-year-olds he meets on the street. He doesn't want them to go through ten years of what he went through.
He didn't get much longer to help them.
Is Tweaky Dave a cautionary tale about what happens when every system fails a child, or proof that some people find a reason to keep going no matter what?