Some fans have been complaining that Diamond’s Ntampata Wapi video is too westernized due to its inclusion of foreign ladies in the video. Well, today, we put together two of East Africa’s arguably biggest stars, Diamond and Jose Chameleone.
Watch their new videos below and tell us which is king!
1). Diamond’s Ntampata Wapi.
2). Jose Chameleone’s Milliano.
Tanzanian singing star Diamond Platnumz has dumped his girlfriend actress Wema Sepetu allegedly for Ugandan born, South Africa-based socialite and “part time” musician Zari Hassan.
The two have been getting cosy in the recent past, both in Tanzania, where Zari has visited several times and in South Africa.
Last weekend during the Channel O Awards in Johannesburg, South Africa, Zari joined Diamond who was accompanied by his mother.
They were later seen together during the after-party and stayed together the entire time the Bongo star was there.
Diamond has also confirmed that he will be gracing Zari’s “All White Party” at Industrial area based club, Guvnor in Kampala, Uganda, on December 18. He wrote on his Twitter:
KAMPALA! UGANDA! It’s Official Confirmed..18th Dec 2014 at GUVNOR kwenye @zarithebosslady All white Ciroc party!!!
Although Diamond insinuates that they are just doing business together, his close associates who requested anonymity say that their relationship is romantic.
Meanwhile Zari preferred not to comment on her relationship with the Tanzanian artiste:
“As for Diamond I have no comment on that,” she said.
In December 2012, with the support from the DRC Government and in partnership with the Congolese Association of Banks and local banks, more than 1,100 policemen received their salaries through Airtel Money.
That was then…
Fast forward to December 2014, Airtel Money, has hit the 1 million revenue-earning customers landmark in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).The achievement is significant because DRC has the largest mobile-money potential in Africa outside Nigeria and Ethiopia, according to industry statistics.
With this development, DRC has emerged the only market in Africa – outside of the East African Community region and Zimbabwe – where mobile money has achieved scale.
Alain Kahasha, the Managing Director for Airtel DRC said “this is a key milestone for Airtel Money and we are excited that the service is fast becoming helpful to driving DRC’s economy and empowering people. I am pleased that, as we celebrate this achievement, DRC remains one of the markets where mobile money is making a socio-economic impact, pioneering services such as civil service salary payments in partnership with the government.”
Airtel Money is a secure and convenient mobile commerce service that allows customers to transfer money between one mobile phone to the other across all networks, top up mobile phone with airtime or data or another customer’s mobile phone. The service has reached low-income customers enabling them have access to convenient and affordable financial services.
Long-term relationships can be gloriously happy. But often they are not.
Men in particular feel that women don’t understand what it feels like to be a man – and so there is a whole lot of stuff that men wish women knew about them …
… Like a man’s life is dominated by the need to win – in the world of men.
OK, many women are competitive, and many of them work with men, but it is still hard for a woman to understand just how important winning is to a man.
Why’s that? Ultimately it’s because women are only interested in successful men.
Think what you find attractive in a man. Tall, kind and handsome, but the real turn-on is seeing how other men treat him. You are drawn to the man who is respected by other men; who is succeeding socially and in his job or business. And men know that, so they compete to succeed.
Jostle for positions
It’s also why men feel such a powerful need to spend time with other men. Their working and social lives are all about creating the winners and losers that women see. So they jostle for positions at the slightest opportunity.
Listen to a bunch of guys in a bar – there’s always a sharp edge to their conversation. Every comment has the hidden meaning: “I’m better than you!”
It’s also why men are reluctant to admit any sort of weakness. If something is wrong, they’d rather go off quietly and think it over first. So if you want your guy to talk about something, then give him plenty of warning.
Men really hate being ambushed with a problem – and they especially hate it when a woman insists on discussing her concerns right then and there!
Men also use more direct language than women, so being polite just goes over his head. Want him to do something? Tell him exactly what you want!
And he values his independence above almost everything else. So he will keep his finances close to his chest. Start discussing money together before you marry to break that pattern.
Getting married
Men’s need for independence also means that a single man only really thinks about getting married at one point in his life – just a few years after he starts working. Much earlier and he’s not ready. Much later and he’s heading towards becoming a permanent bachelor.
So don’t assume that a guy’s thinking about marriage just because you are. You first have to get the timing right.
Men also have different needs in a relationship. They want to feel needed, while a woman wants to feel loved. So telling him, “I don’t need you!” in the heat of an argument is like a trigger that could start him off looking for someone new.
Living with a man is never going to be easy. But at least if you understand how he sees the world, you won’t have many surprises.
Staunch environmentalist has offered himself as dinner to an anaconda in order to focus attention on the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Paul Rosolie wanted was swallowed alive, filming every moment.
Anacondas, the largest snakes in the world, typically suffocate their prey before ingesting it, making Rosolie’s attempt all the more dangerous.
But Rosolie survived, and now people all around the world will have a chance to watch his harrowing journey into the stomach of the beast, starting Sunday night when the video airs in the United States on the Discovery Channel.
The idea came to him after a decade spent working in, and working to save, the rainforest habitat, Rosolie told AFP.
“Everybody on Earth knows that the rainforests are disappearing and most people can tell you how important they are, but still, not enough people are paying attention, not enough people realize this is such a problem.”
The American activist said he was proud to take on the adventure, even though the prospect of dying was hard to swallow.
An hour inside
To avoid suffocating, experts crafted Rosolie a specially designed carbon fiber suit, equipped with a breathing system — as well as with cameras and a system to communicate.
“We didn’t know if this was going to work, if I was going to be eaten, but we made sure that if I did make it inside the snake, I wouldn’t suffocate,” Rosolie explained after the ordeal.
The next challenge was trying to find a snake in the Peruvian Amazon jungle.
“We spent 60 days out in the jungle, camping, hiking, looking through swamps every night,” Rosolie said.
Eventually, they found a female snake, which at, six meters (20 feet) long, fit the bill.
“When I went up to the snake, it didn’t try to eat me right away,” Rosolie recounted.
“It tried to escape. And when I provoked it a little bit, and acted a little more like a predator, that’s when it turned around and defended itself.”
The explorer was swallowed head first and spent more than an hour inside the giant snake, he said, adding that he kept in touch with his team the whole time.
He said he was scared that something would go wrong, but at the same time, “I was very excited to do it.”
“You are going up against one of the greatest predators of the planet and doing something that no one has ever done before,” he said.
Anaconda doing well
He did not give details on how he was freed from the snake, but he insisted his team was careful not to harm it and that he was the only one in danger.
“We didn’t force the snake to do anything, we didn’t ask from the snake anything out of the ordinary,” Rosolie said, explaining that “snakes very often regurgitate if they’re eating something and a predator comes by, they have to give up their meal so they can escape.”
The anaconda is now doing well, he said.
But Rosolie has faced fierce criticism from animal rights groups, including from PETA, who said “the snake was tormented and suffered for the sake of ratings.”
Rosolie said he even received death threats.
But he wasn’t fazed, saying the shock value is important to increase attention to his cause.
A fund linked to the show was set up to raise awareness and money to protect the Amazon and could also allow for more research of anacondas in their habitat.
After the US showing, “Eaten Alive” will air on December 10 in Finland, Denmark, Hungary, Poland and Sweden, and two days later in Australia, before being broadcast in other countries, including China and India.
Discovery said it expect at least three million viewers in the United States and a million others around the world.
If you’re waiting until the last minute to buy a Smartphone for the holidays, we have you covered.
Rankings were based on a variety of factors including design, software and hardware features, content selection, and price.
We are only considering phones that are available at Jumia (Kenya’s trusted Ecommerce site).
#9 BlackBerry Passport
BlackBerry’s newest Smartphone is the square-shaped BlackBerry Passport. It’s fat and wide compared to all other Smartphone’s, a design BlackBerry hopes will help it stand out. It also has a physical keyboard, a rare thing these days.
Price: Ksh69, 990
#8 Nokia Lumia 830
The Nokia Lumia 830 is one of the newest phones from Microsoft. It runs the Windows Phone 8 operating system and has a sharp 5-inch screen.
Price: Ksh 44,999
#7 HTC One M8 For Windows
The HTC One M8 For Windows is the best phone you can buy running the Windows Phone operating system. It has a gorgeous metal body and the new version of Windows Phone, 8.1, which includes the excellent digital assistant Cortana.
Price: Ksh 49,500
#6 iPhone 5S
Apple’s iPhone 5S may be over a year old, but it’s still a really good phone, especially if you don’t want a bigger screen.
Price: Ksh 58,999
#5 LG G3
LG’s current flagship, the G3, has one of the sharpest displays ever put on a smartphone. It’s also massive thanks to its 5.5-inch display. That makes the G3 more like a phablet than a standard Smartphone.
It’s a good Android phone, but LG put the power and volume keys on the back of the device, which is pretty awkward.
Price: 46,999
#4 Sony Xperia Z3
Sony’s flagship Z3 phone is one of the best Android phones to come out this year. It has a sharp 5.2-inch screen, incredible camera, and is resistant to water.
Price: Ksh 62,999
#3 HTC One (M8)
HTC’s flagship phone, the HTC One (M8), is the best Android phone you can buy.
Like the original, the new HTC One, which is also called the M8, has a gorgeous design and high-quality metal construction. It also has an extra rear camera that acts as a depth sensor so you can edit photos later and change the focus.
Price: Ksh49, 500
#2 iPhone 6 Plus
If you want a phablet, the iPhone 6 Plus is the best phone you can buy. Unlike other phablets that can be thick, chunky, and plasticky, the iPhone 6 Plus is thin, gorgeous, and made of metal. It doesn’t feel like you’re lugging around a giant phone.
Price: Ksh 91,500
#1 iPhone 6
The iPhone 6 is the best smartphone. Unless you really like using Android or Windows Phones, the iPhone 6 should be your first choice.
Chris Hart: We all love predictions. Tomorrow’s weather forecast, for example. The results of the next election. And how long your relationship will last…
Everyone has an opinion on that one, and so newspapers, magazines and TV endlessly offer suggestions.
But the truth is that even the couple rarely knows. Everyone starts off thinking it will last forever. Then you have your first serious argument. Instantly you’re scared. But afterwards, you reason that arguments make you a more skilled communicator and so you’re closer than before. But that belief’s actually an illusion.
Even trained marriage counsellors struggle to make good predictions, despite carefully basing their judgements on all the facts.
Real experts, in whatever field, know that judgement is unreliable. Instead, they create simple scales to guide their decisions. A famous example’s the “Apgar score” used to decide whether a newborn baby needs help. It’s a simple formula based on five vital signs that can be measured quickly: heart rate, breathing, reflexes, muscle tone, and colour.
The score does far better than a doctor’s judgement in deciding whether to take action, and has saved thousands of babies’ lives.
POSITIVE SCORE
Good marriage counsellors use the same idea, because they know that their impressions of a marriage are no better than the couple’s. So instead of using feelings, or judgement, or intuition, they score behaviour.
One very good approach counts verbal and non-verbal expressions of humour, contempt, anger, and affection. It’s very good at predicting marriage failure or success. But it’s complicated. On this scale, the couples with the best chance of success use humour well, are calm, affectionate, tease lovingly, and are interested in one another, companionable and supportive.
But by far the easiest test is a really simple formula: long term happiness equals how often you make love minus how often you quarrel. You don’t want the result to be a negative number! Because a positive score means happiness, while a negative one predicts misery.
This formula was discovered by psychologists who found that happy couples made love more often than they argued, while unhappy couples argued more than they made love. It really is as simple as that. So simple you can use the formula to monitor your relationship.
Just count your lovemaking and arguments and put them into the formula. Lovemaking means naked between the sheets of course, and an argument means anytime one of you is physically or verbally abusive, has emotional outbursts, refuses to talk, or leaves. Worry if a previously positive score goes negative and start looking for the reason.
Because couples are OK when they’re loving more than they’re fighting. The other way round and eventually things will go wrong. Because couples with consistently negative scores generally separate or divorce before very long.
Do you argue a lot? I’m afraid the formula doesn’t mean you’ll straightway become happier by getting friskier in bed. You also need to fix the real problems. But it’s definitely worth a try!
A new business owner or manager can find it tough to know where to draw the line between being everyone’s friend and serving as an authority figure. But instead of turning into the bad guy when things get out of hand, here are a few alternative strategies for managing employees.
Encourage autonomy
Don’t be the type of boss who constantly gazes over employees’ shoulders to see where they’re at in carrying out a project. Micromanaging serves as a disadvantage to productivity. Employees need trust. They need to know that their managers believe they are fully capable of doing their work without a babysitter.
Over managing could disrupt employees’ natural rhythm of creativity or thought process, which can damage engagement and productivity.
Let peers evaluate one another
One way to get out of the bad-guy role is to put employees in charge of providing feedback to one another. Employees work closely with their colleagues anyway, so they often have a better grasp on who’s pulling his (or her) weight and who’s not.
Develop a system by which employees can thank one another for jobs well done or suggest ideas for improvement. Train employees to discuss improvement in a positive way — not to discourage someone.
Ask for feedback
Sometimes managers need to ask employees for feedback on their experience of working in an organization. Without feedback, there’s no way to see opportunities for improving and growing the company.
Listen and don’t try to deflect feedback with defensive statements. Let employees finish speaking. Thank employees for sharing.
Take action
Words that not followed with action add up to no change. When employees provide feedback, consider options to help meet unresolved needs. Take action to show your intention of making requested changes.
For example, if employees say they’ve been working long hours (say, coming in at 8 a.m. and not leaving until 7 p.m.), find solutions so that everyone can return to a normal schedule.
The reality of building a successful start-up is much more complicated than you think. Businesses don’t bloom into billion-shilling companies without a significant amount of capital. And raising money comes with a thorny question for start-ups.
What might the venture have to sacrifice to obtain the funding to fuel growth?
Giving up equity too early in the life cycle of a company can be extremely expensive. But starving a company of funding out of a fear of giving away too much ownership can hamstring its potential.
Self-funding can limit growth
Bootstrapping a company to its full potential is a lofty goal, but it’s almost always unattainable. Businesses simply need capital to fund their growth. And most savvy business owners realize that without outside capital, they will never grow their company to its true potential.
Entrepreneurs should always have a trusted advisor or CFO who can see ahead and make decisions proactively rather than reactively.
If you’re considering self-financing a company, think about the downsides before committing to this approach: Will it impede growth, restrict your market share or lead to a cash crunch?
Self-financed companies can find themselves in an unenviable position possible, running out of cash and desperate for financing. This can lead to a complete loss of leverage at the negotiating table with banks, venture capitalists or private equity groups.
When entrepreneurs lose cash flow, they give up leverage and negotiating power and risk losing too much ownership in a desperate attempt to raise funding
The late Paul Magu was in the process of transferring some of his property to Ms. Ann Wambui Wanyoro, it has emerged! Further, Mr. Magu’s mother, Keziah Wambui has come out to say that Ms. Ann Wambui Wanyoro is the source of her late son’s misery. According to Ms. Wambui, her son was influenced by Ann Wambui Wanyoro, who is currently under arrest and helping police with investigations into the murder. Mr Magu’s mother is still unable to understand why her son was in the process of transferring some of his property to Ms Wanyoro.
Apparently, Ms Wanyoro had been a close friend of the Magu family for about seven years. At the beginning, Paul Magu and his wife Lydiah Wangui were members of Faith Evangelistic Ministries (FEM) in Karen which is led by Apostle Teresia Wairimu. They began to stop going to FEM church when they met Ann Wambui Wanyoro.
Ms. Wambui says that she cautioned her son against going into prophesy at the expense of his job and his family’s wellbeing. “From what I heard, he quit his job about four years ago to concentrate on the church, which they led with Ms Wanyoro.
The church was called Shower Church. It had no buildings and services would be held on Saturdays in Thika. Mr. Magu and Ms. Wanyoro would ferry their congregation with buses from as far as Limuru to attend services at the church. Money was not a problem as Mr. Magu had been financially stable. It is understood that Mr. Magu had set aside a room in his house called ‘Prayer Room’, but it is not clear if Ms. Wanyoro ever joined Mr. Magu as a prayer partner in it, although she is said to have been a regular at his home. “Ann was a frequent guest in the Magu home in the five years I lived and worked with the couple. I knew her as a very close family friend,” said one of Magu’s relative.
Mr Magu’s mother is still unable to understand why her son was in the process of transferring some of his property to Ms Wanyoro. Earlier this week, Ms Wanyoro was arrested in connection with the mysterious deaths in the Magu family.
It is said that Ms Wanyoro was in constant communication with Mr Magu prior to his death and that of his entire family.
