A Nairobi tycoon who faces charges of attempting to bribe Nairobi governor Michael Mbuvi Sonko with Sh 5 million has made an application to travel out of the country to attend to his daughter’s medical needs.

Praful Kumar Premchand Saula, who is out on bond, made the application through his counsel Kennedy Marete under certificate of urgency while attending his pretrial conference at the Mombasa law courts before Principal Magistrate Henry Nyakweba.

The counsel told the court the application is urgent as the accused person had to seek the court’s permission to travel outside the country.

Marete informed the court that Praful intended to travel to the United Kingdom to attend to his daughter’s medical needs from October 22 to November 22.

He told the court he is fully aware of the court’s ruling delivered on August 24, 2018 in regards to the accused leaving the jurisdiction of the court without the court’s leave.

“I wish to reiterate the accused person is a law abiding citizen and that he continues to obey the court order and to attend when he is required,” he said.

The counsel said his application is in keeping with the dictates of justice and fairness and pleaded with the court to expeditiously address the prayers they have sought.

Marete informed the court he had served the office of the Director of Public Prosecution with the notice of application on the Nairobi tycoon’s intention to travel outside the county.

The matter will be argued on October 4 after the court set the date.

Five witnesses have been lined up against Praful in the case.

Tanzanian music group Navy Kenzo made up of love birds Aika and Nahreel has partnered with super star Diamon Platnumz in a new club banger titled 'Katika'.

Watch the video below

Ugandan singer Juliana Kanyomozi has just released her latest video.

The video titled 'Zaabu' is off the Bits & Pieces Album that dropped in July this year.

It's track #9 & the fifth video off of the Album.

Watch the video below

Popular music producer Shirko is back home, Mombasa. This is after spending close to 15 years in Tanzania where he also managed to work closely with almost all top artists from the country (Tanzania).

Among his most recent work is Aslay's 'Nibebe' which is still ruling the airwaves across East Africa.

Shirko has now set up a state of the art music studio in Liwatoni.

In an exclusive interview with Ommydallah, the talented producer revealed the reason for his return, experience from Tanzania among other issues.

Below is the interview.

Atemi's new video featuring Nameless 'Romantic' was officially launched last week  at the Shifteye Studios on Argwings Kodhek Road at an exclusive event attended by  a host of top entertainment journalists and other stakeholders.

The video was shot in Nigeria by world class video director Clarence Peters.

Below are photos from the launch.

TCB Naturals an iconic brand in the hair industry last Saturday launched a unique show titled ‘TCB Naturals Hair Runway Show” at the InterContinental hotel, Nairobi.

The show is aimed at showcasing the talent of local Kenyan stylist and it’s evolution in line with international standards.’

The show a first of its kind involved having the stylists use various TCB products on the models to create outstanding hairstyles across the 3 categories (Relaxed Hair, Natural Hair and Natural Hair with extensions).

Judges for the event included Muli Musyoka (Chief Trichologist & CEO – Hairhub), Farouk Jannedy (Leading Hair Stylist in Kenya) and Tabitha Tongoi (Creator & Owner - Craving Yellow).

TCB Naturals recently launched their new campaign with the tag line – Hair that lets you Shine.

The campaign includes the on-going TVC featuring the soundtrack ‘Lookie Lookie’ by the leading Kenyan-Norwegian singer Stella Mwangi.

TCB Naturals has had a stellar history of providing exceptional and effective hair care products for the Kenyan women.

It is a product of Godrej Consumer Products Kenya, since 2016 and it offers a range of products from relaxers to maintenance and recently introduced products under the styling category.

It’s current portfolio includes Relaxers, Hair Food, Herbal Pomade, Leave-in Treatment and Oils.

Those who were in attendance included competition participants (stylist & models) from the salon and trade channel among others.

Africa’s premium live band Alternate Sound formed by Nigerian ace music producer GospelOnDeBeatz is in Kenya for their debut East African tour.

Kicking off the tour in Nairobi, they performed with pop queen Tiwa Savage at “The Baddest” album launch (15^th September, 2018) by Redsan. Their performance p live at the Kiza Lounge, in Nairobi this Saturday, 22^nd September 2018 will open doors to many other East African performances.

At the very same time, GospelOnDeBeatz has teamed up with Alternate Sound and Davido Music Worldwide hitmakers: Davido and Peruzzi to release “Run Am”—a new Salsa-infused pop banger.

GospelOnDeBeatz says, “This tour to East African has been in the works for a while now and we are ecstatic to make it happen. We are bringing sounds from the West and fusing them with the East African sound and make magic,” adding, “While here, we are also hoping to collaborate on some projects with more artistes and events/festivals from the region so watch out for that. “

The band's meticulous panache has been paired with the Africa’s top artistes among them, Tiwa Savage, Patoranking, Banky W, Praiz and Reekado Banks on the most prestigious stages across and beyond the continent.

They have featured as headline acts and also official band on positioned stages like The CAF Awards 2017, SoundCity MVP Awards 2017, The Headies Award 2018, One Africa Music Fest (London) 2018, The Nigerian Football Federation Awards 2018, amongst others.

The band headlines their own show - “Alternate Sound Live” which is a quarterly live and intimate showcase by the band. The first edition took place on the 23rd of November 2017 had over 700 people in attendance with the second live show taking place on the 5th of April, 2018. 

Both events were staged at Hard Rock Café in Victoria Island and saw A-list artistes such as Banky W, Skales, Praiz, Dr. Sid, Reekado Banks, Terry Apala, Iyanya, Chike, Fiokee, Kaffy and upcoming artistes; GreyC, Okiemute, Marv and Squeeze Terella and many more performing.

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD "RUN AM" ON ITUNES: https://bit.ly/2O0JOQk

Leleshwa Wines & the Afro-soul star Atemi have partnered in a tour dubbed as ‘Inspired by Kenya’. The tour celebrated Kenya as a beautiful and magical country and showcased its beauty and romance through the melodious tunes of Atemi and delicious Leleshwa Wines. Both are a great source of pride for Kenya.

The tour culminates in the release of the hit song ‘Romantic’ by the Bebi Bebi hit maker, Atemi Oyungu featuring the legendary Kenya pop artist Nameless. 

Romantic is a fun, uplifting and catchy love song that tells the story of African romance as each sideasks for more romance from the other side.

The track was written by Atemi Oyungu and David Mathenge, arranged and produced by Ihaji and mixed and mastered by Denis Ihaji and Robert Kamanzi(R- Kay).

The visuals were directed and beautifully captured by the award-winning Nigerian video director, Clarence Peters.

The audio was officially released on Tuesday 18th September and the videowill be launched at an online eventon Thursday 20th September at 7:30pm