Simon Ciuri

2 days ago | nation.africa | Simon Ciuri

In the story ‘The Monk Who Scammed a Family’, which occurred in India last year, a mother’s long-lost son returned as a spiritual leader after 22 years - only to scam his purported family out of 11,000 rupees through identity theft. Bhanumati Singh, from Delhi, was overjoyed when she was reunited with her ‘son’ Pinku, who had disappeared in 2002 at the age of 11. The family had been informed that an ascetic visiting their native village of Kharauli bore the same scar as Pinku.

3 days ago | nation.africa | Simon Ciuri

In the 1820s, Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish charismatic soldier and adventurer, invented a fictional country in central America to swindle land investors and settlers. He sold to his victims an imaginary island named Poyais that he claimed to rule. In droves, thousands of investors bought Poyaisian bonds and land certificates from MacGregor. They later travelled thousands of kilometres to the promised land only to realise Poyais was a fabrication.

1 week ago | nation.africa | Simon Ciuri

James Muiruri, the man captured in a viral video on Monday wailing while holding the body of his grandson and blaming health officials for negligence, is a troubled and angry man because he believes the death could have been avoided. His 10-month-old grandson, also named James Muiruri after him, died at Igegania Level Four Hospital in Gatundu North, Kiambu County. “There is money for our politicians to fly choppers but there is no medicine in hospitals and the doctors are on strike.

1 week ago | taifaleo.nation.co.ke | Simon Ciuri

Habari za Kitaifa Kitendawili kuhusu ‘utekaji nyara’ wa Koimburi polisi wakidai alighushi kunyakwa Na SIMON CIURI May 27th, 2025 Kusoma ni dakika: 2 HUKU utata ukigubika madai ya kutekwa nyara, kuteswa na kisha kuachiliwa kwa Mbunge wa Juja George Koimburi, wandani wake wamesema masaibu yake yalianza Ijumaa wiki jana. Mbunge huyo alikuwa akisambaza hundi za basari katika Shule ya Msingi na Gachororo Ijumaa iliyopita, kulingana na wasaidizi wake.

1 week ago | nation.africa | Simon Ciuri

Associates of Juja MP George Koimburi, whose family says he was abducted on Sunday and dumped in a coffee plantation on Monday morning, have retraced his troubles to last Friday. The MP was issuing bursaries at Gachororo Primary School last Friday when, according to his aides, he abruptly escaped on a motorcycle after complaining he was being accosted by people believed to be security officers.