Stephen Nzioka

Nairobi

Reporter at The Standard (Kenya)

Reporter at KTN News/the Standard media Group PLC/content creator/ blogger-studied journalism at Moi university.

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Governor Wavinya wanted my help to remove Speaker CS Mutua reveals

1 week ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Stephen Nzioka

Labour Cabinet Secretary Dr. Alfred Mutua distanced himself from the ongoing wrangles between Governor Wavinya Ndeti and County Speaker Anne Kiusya on the latter’s planned impeachment by a section of MCAs.Speaking during a show on a Kamba vernacular radio station, Mutua revealed that he had earlier held a phone conversation with Governor Ndeti where the governor asked for his support for the speaker to be impeached, only for him to reject such a proposal.
How stalled construction of Thwake dam left school with only 7 learners

1 month ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Stephen Nzioka

It is eight years now since locals around Thwake Dam in Makueni were relocated after the state acquired some of their lands to allow for the construction of the dam. About 1,792 people were moved to pave the way for the project around 2021; those around exuded confidence that it would bring blessings. But according to residents, the project seems to have affected some key facilities, including Unyee Primary School.
Body of missing Briton found, police arrest two

1 month ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Stephen Nzioka

The body of Campbell Scott, 58, a British businessman who went missing on February 17, during a workshop in a Nairobi hotel was on Monday morning positively identified at the Makueni County referral hospital Morgue. On Saturday around 10am at Makongo forest, along Wote-Machakos road, boys who were grazing at sections near the road bumped into a decomposing body which had been badly mutilated.
Son kills father in quarrel over wood logs in Makueni

2 months ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Stephen Nzioka

Police in Makindu are holding a murder suspect, Musyoki Kavita, who killed his father, Kavita Muli, due to a dispute surrounding wood logs. The murder leaving the family and neighbours in shock at Kalimani village, Kyale sub-location, Makindu.
Questions after body of student is found in swimming pool

2 months ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Stephen Nzioka

A bitter dispute is brewing between a school in Makueni and the family of a Form Two student following his death last week. Martin Mugambi's body was found floating in the Miangeni International School’s swimming pool. On Saturday, the family of Martin Mugambi protested at the Makindu sub-county hospital morgue after learning that a scheduled post-mortem would not happen.
Makueni woman gives birth and buries the baby alive

2 months ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Stephen Nzioka

Detectives from Salama police station on Sunday morning commenced investigations to unravel motives behind a woman’s move to give birth and bury her baby alive at a riverbed on February 7,2025. The woman identified as Mwongeli Kisui is reported to have given birth at her sister’s home at Kwa Nyunyi village, Ngaamba, Kilome sub-county, Makueni, on Friday around 9a.m before her mother coming for the neonatal and subsequently burying it mercilessly alive. “The woman is a single mother of two.
Makueni woman gives birth and buries the baby alive

2 months ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Stephen Nzioka

Detectives from Salama police station on Sunday morning commenced investigations to unravel motives behind a woman’s move to give birth and bury her baby alive at a riverbed on February 7,2025. The woman identified as Mwongeli Kisui is reported to have given birth at her sister’s home at Kwa Nyunyi village, Ngaamba, Kilome sub-county, Makueni, on Friday around 9a.m before her mother coming for the neonatal and subsequently burying it mercilessly alive. “The woman is a single mother of two.
Makueni farmers embrace road run-off water to fight erratic rains in food production

2 months ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Stephen Nzioka

Makueni is a semi-arid region where farmers for years have relied on irregular rain patterns for farming with rain becoming more often undependable and insufficient to sustain crop production. Due to such, farmers experience crop failures in most of her sub-counties with relief food being the only option.
Mass layoffs, hospitals' closure in Makueni after Trump's freeze of foreign Aid

2 months ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Stephen Nzioka

Makueni County is already feeling the effect of funding freeze by United States President Donald Trump’s administration. Some ten hospitals are at the verge of shutting down and 269 healthcare workers expected to lose jobs. Governor Mutula Kilonzo Jnr speaking to journalist in Wote said there was a high likelihood of losing all gains County had made in the war against HIV/Aids infections in the county.
Author Mailu unveils Trump's statue in his compound

Jan 20, 2025 | standardmedia.co.ke | Stephen Nzioka

Loading Article... For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. When the world was witnessing the swearing in of United States President Donald Trump on Monday many miles away, in a small village of Mathemboni, Kaiti, Makueni county unusual low key mock swearing in of the 47th U.S president was also conducted-but with a different message-to warn him against white supremacy.