NMG staffers Ken Otwenyo and Mark Ndome with Leah at Mweka Gate after she completed the seven-day hike on Mt Kilmanjaro. Leah was in the group from Nation Media Group that took part in the 'Kiliclimb-Bridge the Gap' campaign against hunger. 
Posted 22/10/2011

"Remarkable" Leah scales Mt Kilimanjaro

In the wee hours of Mashujaa Day, Leah Kyalo, 51, became Nation Media Group’s oldest employee to scale Africa’s tallest mountain....

Alphonce Shiundu | NATION Ms Leah Chalo, 51, descends from Mt Kilimanjaro, followed by her guide, Mr Hosea Massoud, on October 21, 2011
Posted 21/10/2011

51-year-old defies age to tackle Mt Kilimanjaro

In the wee hours of Mashujaa Day, Ms Leah Chalo, 51, became Nation Media Group’s oldest employee to scale Africa’s tallest mountain....

President Kibaki presents the Best Shot LMG trophy to Alice Ngii Sila from the Chui Division during the Army recruits  passing-out parade at the Recruits Training School in Eldoret. He ordered the military to intensify security patrols along Kenyan borders in the wake of an attack from a neighbouring country May 20, 2011. PPS
Posted 19/10/2011

Kenya at war, but Kibaki goes MIA

A recurring criticism of President Kibaki has been that he sits on the fence too much; that he is a leader that rarely sticks his neck out or takes...

Daily Nation's Anniel Njoka signs in at the the Kilimanjaro National Park, Machame Gate October 15, 2011. LAWRENCE OKAYO
Posted 18/10/2011

NMG hikers eye final stretch

The excursion by 42 Nation Media Group employees to scale Mt Kilimanjaro entered the final and hardest stretch Tuesday morning. ...

Posted 26/9/2011

OUTSIDE THE BOX: Readers remember Maathai quotes

Nobel laureate and renowned environmentalist Wangari Maathai died in Nairobi on Sunday, September 25, 2011. ...

Posted 21/9/2011

MUTIGA: Hague choice as ICC seat inspired

The choice of The Hague as the home of the International Criminal Court was an inspired one. The place is grey, soulless, occasionally rainy and...

Posted 3/9/2011

SHIMOLI: Hague notebook

In April when the Ocampo Six made their initial appearance before the ICC, they were escorted by 40 MPs, but not this time round....

File | NATION Riot police tackle a mob after a number of cars were set alight in Hackney, north London last Monday. The riots broke out in the north London district of Tottenham on August 6, following a protest against the death of a local man in a police shooting.
Posted 10/8/2011

Are UK riots the work of criminals?

The vandalism, looting and arson that has gripped London and spread to other cities has taken the British public by surprise....

Posted 3/8/2011

Is Kenya facing emergency food shortage or famine?

The World Food Programme reckons that Kenya is not experiencing famine....

Posted 3/8/2011

Mubarak: From war hero to zero

Admittedly, dictators belong to the very cruel of the human species....

Posted 8/7/2011

BLOG: MPs should be courteous

I am tired of lies and time wasting that MPs are so accustomed to. On Thursday at a press conference...

Barcelona's players celebrate next to Manchester United's English forward Wayne Rooney at the end of the UEFA Champions League final football match FC Barcelona vs. Manchester United, on May 28, 2011 at Wembley stadium in London.Barcelona won 3 to 1. AFP PHOTO
Posted 1/6/2011

Why Wembley was a fitting finale

Barcelona's humiliation of Manchester United at Wembley during the Champions League final was just the revenge I had been waiting for. ...

Posted 23/3/2011

BLOG: House got it wrong on "special sitting"

Call it by any other name, but Tuesday’s ceremony at Parliament had all the elements of a State Opening as inherited from the English Parliament....

Posted 17/3/2011

BLOG: A business journalist's take on Musa Juma

Musa Juma's music once made former Nation business journalist WASHINGTON AKUMU to put aside his financial menu to direct his pen to music. Here is...

Musician Musa Juma (left) of Limpopo International band entertains fans during Guinness 250 Celebrations in Kisumu.  Photo/JACOB OWITI
Posted 16/3/2011

BLOG: Goodbye my Musa Juma

ESTHER MACHARIA - Musa Juma has joined Omondi Tony and the Limpopo Band is now in in heaven....

Posted 15/2/2011

Where does Valentine leave the men?

It is 8.30am and everyone is sat at their desks ready for a new day, with no single idea that the office would be painted red in a few hours. ...

Posted 8/2/2011

BLOG: House team decision on sittings puzzling

Parliament's Justice and Legal Affairs Committee has done well in regard to upholding the constitutional right of public participation.  ...

Posted 15/1/2011

What the new order in Kenya looks like in my village

A lot has changed in the village lifestyle since I last visited Kajulu in Kisumu....

Posted 12/1/2011

BAKATA: National school quotas is the wrong fix

The government decision to introduce a quota system on admissions to national schools finally proves what most of us have been pointing out as...

FILE | NATION. Parliament buildings: Parliamentary staff should better in their relations with the public.
Posted 12/1/2011

BLOG: Parliamentary staff doing badly in PR

There seems to be a real problem when it comes to Public Relations –forget the text-book banner, magazine, guided-tour stuff, I mean the actual...