Throw Back Thursday

When I was about eight or nine, my mom burnt some toast.
One night that stood out in my mind is when she had made dinner for us after a very long and rough day at work, She placed a plate of jam and extremely burned toast in front of my dad. Not slightly burnt but completely blackened toast.
I was just waiting to see if anyone noticed the burnt toast and would say anything. But Dad just ate his toast and asked me if I did my homework and how my day was. I don’t remember what I told him that night, but I do remember hearing my mom apologizing to dad for burning the toast. And I’ll never forget what he said:
“Sweetie, I love burned toast.”

Big mistakes campus lovers make that cause their deaths

Suicide cases among youths have skyrocketed posing a big question on how all these horrific incidences are going to be eradicated. Hardly does a day elapse without hearing of a youth stabbing another here and one shooting the other there. This is worrying and becomes a question of who will die next, where and how?

Mumias mills grind to a halt as farmers deliver cane to rivals

Sugar miller Mumias has temporarily stopped operations due to lack of raw material.
Its chairman Dan Ameyo Tuesday said the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) listed firm has stopped producing because it cannot get enough cane from its catchment area.
Mr Ameyo said most farmers signed by the company to supply cane had reneged on their contracts and were delivering to rivals.

BACK IN THE DAYS AS AN AFRICAN VILLAGE BOY.

To celebrate an African Child in me is one comical story. From the days in village when as young boys of class four we would trail Chinese construction lorries and tractors constructing the only tarmac road that passes by my homestead the whole day to stealing fruits like guavas from neighbors’ farms. You may approve this kleptomaniac habit if you have never been to my village. I forgive you. But draw your stool near I ignite you (as my people would say when about to pour out juicy gossip).
Every homestead in my village has its own guava trees. These trees are never planted, I mean no one takes seedlings and plants, water and protect them. No. They are propagated by consumers of the seedy fruit involuntary. If you happen to eat a sweet guava somewhere you ensure your stool starting five hours from the time of consumption is offloaded at the far bushy corner of the farm. Just like that. Or rely on unexpected passerby who by chance of urgency or just notoriety decides to offload the seedy stuff on your fence. Either way, every home has a couple if not a bush of guava trees.

Maasai Mara: Vet Doctors Perform Life Saving Surgery On Lioness

Kenyan lioness given second lease on life after open air surgery
  A lioness received life saving surgery after being wounded in what was believed to be hunting gone wrong in the Maasai Mara

The animal had a quarter of its left side flunked ripped out and its insides exposed

Vets later released the lioness to go back to its cubs

UASU-MOI UNIVERSITY CHAPTER WRITES TO EACC OVER GRAFT CLAIMS

The universities academic staff union has now written to the EACC asking for investigations into claims of Sh5billion graft at Moi University. UASU secretary general Jack Abok on Saturday said they have presented a seven-page document detailing areas they want to be investigated.

Vihiga man throws wife out for eating his fried termites

Wife beaten and divorced for eating husband’s termites in Vihiga
– A man has shocked Munoywa village residents in Vihiga after he sent his wife home for eating his termites popularly known as kumbekumbe in Western Kenya

Shock as beauty queen shuns flight for road transport

After defeating 44 other contestants to clinch the Miss Tourism Kenya 2016 pageant, Rabella Wendy Omollo shocked many when she declined to board a flight from Kisumu to Nairobi instead preferring to travel by road alongside her colleagues.
Describing her personality as down-to-earth, Rabella, who holds the Miss Tourism Homa Bay crown, said “On Monday, I was supposed to fly to Nairobi from Kisumu, but I rejected the offer. I wanted to be with my fellow models. We were driven in a bus from Vihiga to Nairobi. There is a way I bonded with the ladies and that made it special to me.”
“Not everybody is happy with my win, but I know for a fact that majority are happy for me. The contestants knew I won fairly.”Recounting her experience at the Miss Tourism Academy in Vihiga, Rabella told the online entertainment portal she bonded with her colleagues.

Surviving first year at varsity

NO ONE is better placed to give advice to students going to university for the first time than the people who did it last year.

I talked to a few students who are currently in 3rd year and this is what they had to say about their experience, their advice to new students and above all, what normally happens behind the scenes.