By Rev Okoth Otura,
Toronto-Canada
It is indeed my pleasure to share with you the love of Christ this weekend. I hope you will take time and read the below scriptures for your spiritual nourishment, may our the God Israel abundantly bless you.
“My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; then shalt thou understand [...]
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday that Republican rival John McCain’s campaign has been cynical, not racist, in trying to raise fears about his candidacy.
Obama said McCain’s campaign team was “very good at negative campaigning” and was using his relative inexperience, atypical biography and his [...]
By Obote Akoko
His rivalry with Jaramogi Oginga Odinga saw him wallow in political oblivion as he defended Jomo Kenyatta even when Nyanza had turned against the founding president.
He fought in the Second World War, served as an MP in both Kenyatta and Moi governments, rejected a presidential offer and witnessed a legislator being caned by [...]
Leaders agree on review but differ on timing
By Sunday Standard Team
Members of Parliament are agreed that Kenyans will get a new constitution, but differ on whether the timing is right as proposed by international law expert, Prof Yash Pal Ghai.
The MPs, however, said the only obstacle were individuals with an eye to the presidency in [...]
By Jack Nduri And Mutinda Mwanzia
Prime Minister Raila Odinga revisited the election fiasco repeating his party’s victory was ‘stolen’ and 2012 will be the return match to reclaim it. “Do not give up … you know we are not number two in this government … we are number one. The whole world knows what happened,’’ [...]
Former South African president Nelson Mandela on Saturday stressed the need for unity among the country’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) in the face of months of infighting.
Mandela, who led the ANC from 1991 to 1997, told tens of thousands of supporters at a stadium in Pretoria the party should “celebrate and reaffirm” its guiding [...]
By Joseph Murimi
Questions have re-emerged over how former President Kenyatta’s regime spent the $100 million given by the British Government at independence to settle the displaced.
A document obtained by The Standard on Sunday revealed that the amount (Sh6.7 billion at current rates) was given to help address land issues including buying of land owned by [...]
Former prime minister Tony Blair sharply criticised his successor Gordon Brown in a memo, accusing him of having “dissed our own record”, according to the Mail on Sunday.
The report comes with Brown and his ruling Labour Party languishing in the opinion polls, having suffered defeats in three by-elections in as many months, as observers predict [...]
Alex McLean, uncle of Tim McLean who was killed aboard a Greyhound bus Wednesday night, surrounded by family members reads a statement from the family Saturday, August 2, 2008, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, John Woods)By CHARMAINE NORONHA, Associated Press Writer
A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a [...]
ODM supporters should shut up and let Raila do his job
By Jerry Okungu
When did the Prime Minister’s office become an employment bureau?
Are all the former ODM campaigners now shedding tears over non-existent jobs really serious? I thought they were volunteers, not job-seekers. I attended a few fund-raising dinners in Nairobi to support the party [...]
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