Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu has appointed rapper Mwana Fa as the Deputy Minister for Culture, Arts and Sports.

Mwana Fa real name Hamis Mohamed Mwinjuma who is also the current Member of Parliament for  Muheza constituency was among the new faces appointed by President Suluhu  in a mini -reshuffle on Sunday.

The rapper takes over from Pauline Gekul who has been transferred to the Ministry of Constitution and Legal Affairs retaining her post.

The appointment of Mwana Fa was well received by Tanzanian artists arguing that he is up to the task and will improve the entertainment sector.

"Moja ya karata turufu aimecheza leo mama" posted Diamond Platnumz.

Barnaba classic posted "Engo mama. You deserve my brother"

Rosa Ree "Wow! Big Congrats @mwanafa Unastahili!

Cabinet Secretary for ICT and Digital Economy Eliud Owalo has appointed seven new members of the Communications Authority of Kenya board.

Among those named is renowned Mombasa based communication specialist and ICT expert Mgeni Mboto Hassan. 

Mboto is a well multi-skilled Communication Specialist and ICT expert with good all-round supervisory and technical expertise.Hassan is also a social advocate for youth and community change in Mombasa County.

She is also a political activist having being a founding member of United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Youth League Mombasa Chapter that was instrumental in Presidential and Gubernatorial Campaigns for Mombasa County.

Mboto was a member of the campaign secretariat for UDA’s Mombasa Governor Aspirant Hassan Omar.

She holds a Bachelors in Development Studies & Economics from Mount Kenya University, Mombasa Campus, Kenya,(2015 -2019)

She studied Diploma in Mass Communication and Media Relations at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology, Main Campus (2010 -2012).

She studied at Coast Girls High School, Mombasa (2005 –2008) for her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), Mean Grade of C plain.

She also studied at the famous Star of the Sea Primary School, Mombasa (1997 –2004) where she did her Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE), and got Mean Grade of B+.

Her very capable with Hands-on expertise in heading overall communication strategies right from the conceptualization stage to the execution and close-out is an added advantage to her appointment to the position position.

Mboto also worked as a Civic Engagement Project Officer with Coast People Forum and Uraia in various civic engagement forums across the coastal counties where community leaders and change makers were empowered on civic rights and importance of the new constitution as well as its benefits to the citizens.

She also worked as Deputy Chief of Staff under Office of the Senator and later a Project Assistant at Renaissance Center Mombasa where she mainly handled youth led initiatives through organizing and linking various youth with relevant stakeholders handling different issues pertaining to the youth and community.

Mboto was also a Kenyan Representative at the 2020 OpenGov Digital Youth Summit organized by Restless Development organization.

She also worked with the Mombasa Youth Assembly which focuses on advocation for policies touching on youth and community at large as well as promoting good governance, improve service delivery and enhance youth public participation.

She also mentors’ young people on good governance and leadership and was the first Female Presidential Candidate for Mombasa Youth Assembly Presidential Election and emerged the first runners-up.

She participated in the training and capacity building of over 750 youth across Mombasa County under the Mombasa Youth Assembly as well as founding member of the Kwale and Kilifi Youth Assemblies.

Under Mombasa Youth Assembly and with assistance from IRI, we were able to conduct consultative program through which we advocated for inclusion of youth, women and People Living with Disabilities in public participation policies by ensuring that was implemented as a policy and was successful in Mombasa and Kilifi County.

Others are appointed alongside Mboto include Bhoke Christine Nchama, Esther Njoki Njoroge, Mgeni Mboto Hassan, Joel Nyambane Okengo, Eric Langat, Alex Wafula Wamalwa and Nicholas Kamuya Ng’arua.

The new team, according to a gazette notice published on Friday, will serve for a period of three years, with effective February 24, 2023.

Owalo also revoked the appointments of Mahmoud Mohamed Noor, Paul Muraguri Mureithi, Jackson Kiprotich Kemboi and Laura Chite who were installed by his predecessor Joe Mucheru in the former administration.

Education cabinet secretary Ezekiel Machogu has ordered chiefs to conduct a mop up to ensure 100 percent school transition to both junior secondary school and form one admission.

Speaking in Mombasa on Thursday,Machogu listed Kilifi and Kwale counties as having registered only 30 percent in the junior secondary admissions.

“Education is free and compulsory and that is why we are instating on 100 percent transition, and that is why we are monitoring the registration of students in junior secondary, and form one admission,” said Machogu.

He therefore asked local administration officials including county commissioners,chiefs and subchiefs  to conduct an extensive mop up campaign to take learners to school.

“We have found Kwale and Kilifi counties are not doing very well ,and we are asking chiefs and sub chiefs to mop up and ensure 100 percent, currently we are at 95 percent transition,” said Machogu.

The cabinet secretary warned parents will be prosecuted for failing to avail their children to school saying the government is spending a lot of money in the payment of capitation for learners.

“ They have been coming slowly. We blame the parents because they have not been serious, they have been holding back their children for house chores and that is why we are embarking on a serious assignment with chiefs to mop up,” said Machogu.

Machogu has also affirmed that the competence based curriculum cannot be abolished to revert to the 8-4-4 system.

Machogu said the government will ensure the amendments presented by the presidential working group will be considered to fine tune the CBC system.

This is after Members of Parliament called on the government to speedily address challenges affecting the competency-based curriculum (CBC) or else abolish it altogether.

“We have to go with what other countries are doing, the standard in other countries are different and we have to align our education systems with growing global demands,” said Machogu.

The National Assembly stated that there are teething problems they said have hindered the smooth implementation of the curriculum, six years after its roll-out.

“There is no going back, we are moving forward ,there is no way we can go back to the 8-4-4 syatem,the system that we have to accept is CBC and that is the way to go,” said Machogu.

Speaking in Mombasa during on the sidelines ongoing Inaugural Biennial Conference on Universities Funding in Kenya held in Mombasa Machogu said the train has left the station and is not turning back.

The Mps claim the state of unpreparedness on implementation of CBC has been exposed largely by the transition last month of the first CBC cohort to Junior Secondary School (JSS).

MPs approved a resolution to press the government to address the many challenges plaguing the new system of education that replaced the nearly four-decades-old 8-4-4 system, whose last group of learners will sit Standard Eight and Form Four national examinations this December.

Boomerang Africa becomes Cartoonito Africa in English-speaking African countries on 25 March with the best of Boomerang alongside exciting new shows filled with more laughs, more adventures and more friends.

There’s still plenty of room for long-time Boomerang favourites like Zig & Sharko, Mr Bean, Masha and the Bear, Tom & Jerry, Scooby-Doo and Looney Tunes Cartoons to shine alongside newer friends such as Dino Ranch, Thomas and Friends: All Engines Go and Lucas the Spider.

Cartoonito brings them together – while adding brand-new shows like Batwheels, Bugs Bunny Builders and Interstellar Ella just for starters offering a wider variety of programmes filled with new friends, trusted fun and extraordinary adventures for the whole family to enjoy.

“The rebrand of Boomerang Africa into Cartoonito Africa enriches our channel universe, bringing together the crème de la crème of Boomerang with more adventures and more friends to be part of ONE big Cartoonito family!” says Ana Gonzalez, Editorial Lead: Southern Europe and Africa, Kids Brands.

Leading the rebranded channel is an exciting special  Secret Origins of the Batwheels which kicks off at 08:40 CAT on 25 March.

Batwheels is an action-adventure show that combines two of kids’ favourite things  superheroes and vehicles! The show revolves around a fun, dynamic team of super-powered vehicles and the obstacles these characters encounter as they battle the bad guys.

This heroic and fresh gateway to Gotham City teaches that teamwork is an integral part of play that will help save the day.

A 32-minute special, Secret Origins of the Batwheels, sees the Batcomputer forced to bring the Bat-Vehicles to life when Batman, Robin and Batgirl are all captured.

The newly-minted Batwheels must defend the Batcave and face off with the Legion of Zoom – all without Batman’s help! The Batwheels series will then run every weekend at 08:40 CAT.

Bugs Bunny Builders follows Bugs and Lola as they manage a crew of builders at ACME Construction Company who really shouldn’t be anywhere near a construction site! However, by working together as a team, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety and others use their tools and wild vehicles to pull off some of the looniest construction jobs ever! Bugs Bunny Builders premieres on Monday, 10 April, at 16:45 CAT and will run Mondays to Fridays at the same time.  

In Interstellar Ella, the year is 3021. The place is the Milky Way, where eight-year-old Ella gleefully heads out with her friends on exciting adventures of discovery.

At only eight, she already knows quite a bit about space ... but there is always more to explore! With her besties Slippy and Madhu, Ella navigates the challenges that come her way.

Things may not always work out the way she plans, but Ella never lets that get in the way of interstellar fun. Interstellar Ella premieres in June 2023.

Cartoonito Africa – home to your favourite characters filled with more laughs, more adventure and more friends - will be distributed in linear on all the same channels -  DStv (channel 302), GOtv (channel 68) (channel 155 in Ghana and channel 357 in Uganda), AzamTV (channel 227) and Canal+ Ethiopia (Channel 127).

The music space is about to be held awestruck with what is potentially one of the leading anthems of the year. BNXN (fka Buju), Kizz Daniel and Seyi Vibez have dauntlessly raised the baton, altogether rendering an incredible pitch on ‘Gwagwalada’.

With ‘Finesse,’ ‘Buga,’ and ‘Chance (Na Ham),’ each of these singers unarguably has a leading track that rocked the previous year to their name. Coming together on this one will profess a triple effect of whatever we’ve known and set them as examples for subsequent outputs from other singers.

It calls for reiteration to state how powerful this joint single is, ‘Gwagwalada’ is a pure miscible blend of Afrobeats and Amapiano, distinguished by the thrilling South African kicks. It is also a track that establishes the national presence of a street in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, Abuja.

The combination of these 3 musicians; Bnxn, Kizz Daniel and Seyi Vibez is what we never thought we could see because of their different sounds, yet, the three combined so well to deliver the required vibe on this ‘Gwagwalada’.

Produced by Sarz, the song is a mixture of 3 sounds on a beat and the output of the 3 artistes is a noteworthy mention. This is a good song by all standard and it makes for an impulse listening.

‘Gwagwalada’ goes on to cement the nature of what to expect and launches as one of the leading anthems of the year. The next best thing is to envisage the progress report that will follow.

Listen HERE

The County Assembly of Mombasa kick- started the process of vetting County Executive Members today, Thursday.

First to appear before the House Appointments Committee was Education and Digital Transformation CEC nominee Dr, Mbarwali Kame who said he up to the task and ready for work, based on his education background and career.

Kame who is the Development Director at Moi University Mombasa campus was put to ask how he will improve the county early childhood development (ECD) programme.

"The main challenge currently facing our ECD programme is the lack of enough infrastructure. This will be among my first priorities when I get into office. We also need to ensure we have enough teacher and equipements to ensure that our children get the best education" said Kame.

Kame also promised to look into the issue of county bursaries and scholarships schemes especially it's formation and funding.

"It is the right of every student who deserves the bursary or scholarship to get it, no deserving student should miss this and I will ensure that this is achieved" he added.

The second nominee to appear before the committee being led by speaker Aharub Khatri was the Finance and Economic planning nominee Evans Oanda.

Mr. Oanda promised to prioritise paying of county pending bills and suppliers on time.

"This will enable the smooth running of county services without affecting the residents" said Oanda.

The Health CEC nominee Dr. Swabah Ahmed was the last to face the committee, for today.

The vetting is expected to continue on Friday before ending on Monday next week.

On Friday, Mohammed 'Amadoh' Hussein (Lands), Daniel Otieno (Transport and Infrastructure ) and Emily Achieng (Water, Natural resources and climate change resilience) are expected to appear before the committee for vetting.

Kenneth Muigai (Public service and administration , youth, gender and sports), Kibibi Abdallah (Blue economy, agriculture and Livestock) and Mohammed Osman (Tourism, culture and trade) will face the committee on Monday.

"We expect to hand over our report to the appointing authority who is the governor immediately after this process" said Salim Juma, Mombasa county clerk.

WCB signee Mbosso has survived a grisly road accident in the United States of America (USA).

The singer who is currently in US for a music tour shared a video of their badly damaged car that seems to have been knocked by another vehicle.

In the video clip Mbosso is also seen being escorted to a nearby ambulance for emergency treatment while the vehicle is being towed away by a break down.

The singer however assured his fans he was fine despite sustaining injuries in his left rib, shoulder and back,

"Mumivu kwenye mbavu upande wa kulia, bega na uti wa mgongo ila niko salama kabisa Alhamdullilah" he posted.

https://ommydalla.co.ke/buzz/item/3203-mbosso-announces-new-dates-for-his-us-tour

Mbosso has already held music shows in major cities of US like Seattle, Washington and Arizona 

Dorcas Kavata, the mother of Judica kalinga who scored 403 marks in the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) can now breathe a sigh relief after Mombasa governor Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir came to her rescue.

Nassir has promised to offer full scholarship to Judica as he joins St Brigid's Kimilili Girls High School in Trans Nzoia county.

Judica’s mother Kavata, had previous sought for scholarship from Kwale County, however, was turned away because her records showed she voted in Mombasa County.

Hearing this, Governor Nassir arranged for a meeting with the mother in his office Monday 13^th February to assure her of his personal support for Judica.

“Usitie wasiwasi tutamsomesha huyu mtoto kuanzia leo,” said the county boss.

He further added, “If God blesses me with life, then I will continue to support her. She should continue working hard”

Nassir further stated that his office is currently in the process of establishing the Governor’s Scholarship fund to address needy students seeking financial assistance.

Judica’s mother expressed her gratitude to the Governor claiming that she made the right choice in voting for him as the governor and urges him to continue to extend his hand to the needy people in the county.

“I am so grateful to the Governor. He said he will sponsor my daughter throughout high school and university,” she said.

The mother stated that the daughter had great ambitions to become an accountant and declared the opportunity by the county boss to have brought their hopes back to life.

The county boss is widely known for his efforts in prioritizing support for education during his tenure as Mvita MP and now as the Governor of Mombasa County.

Recently, the governor’s reputation peaked the internet over his annual KCPE and KCSE candidates feeding program, a program that pre-existed his tenure as the Governor of Mombasa County.

Residents of Jomvu and Miritini area are a happy lot after the government announced that a section of the road between Miritini to Kwa Jomvu will be completed before the end of this Month.

Transport and infrastructure cabinet secretary Kipchumba Murkomen announced on Monday,that On 25 February, the road construction will kick off after completion of compensation processes that had delayed its completion.

“We will be here on February 25 to start Miritini to Kwa Jomvu road, as you know it had stalled because of compensation of squatters, but after meeting the European Union we are soon with the president to come here and launch its completion,” said Murkomen.

Area member of parliament Badi Twalib has raised the concerns when deputy president Rigathi Gachagua visited Jomvu area two weeks ago saying the section of the road has caused a lot of untold suffering to motorists.

“The 700 meters’ section has delayed for a long time, stretching from Bayusuf area to the national transport and safety Authority (NTSA), this section had delayed and Kenya National Highways authority has been delaying we ask with humility, to be completed,” Twalib told deputy president Rigathi Gachagua.

Badi said the section of the Mombasa Nairobi highway has delayed for several years forcing huge traffic jams by trucks on the Northern Corridor transit. Residents of the area and public service motorists are the worst hit following the prolonged delays.

“There is a lot of dust coming out when trucks pass by the section that is dusty and untarmacked, if completed then this will change the face of Miritini and Jomvu areas by ensuring the flow of traffic,” said Twalib.

The transport Cs also announced the dualing of Likoni-Lunga Lunga road starting April this year to ensure a good connectivity from the South Coast to the Mainland of Mombasa town.

“In April, we will come to launch the Likoni-Lunga lunga road,”said Murkomen when he toured the Kenya ports Authority on Monday to unveil the new KPA board of management led by chairman Benjamin Tayari.