How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
Police arrested blogger and former NTV journalist Yassin Juma on Saturday night. Juma, who has over the past week blogged about the Al Shabaab attack on the African Union Mission in Somalia’s (AMISOM) El Adde base, is currently being detained at Muthaiga police station.
Sources privy to the investigation have confirmed the arrest, adding that Juma will be arraigned in court on Monday.
Shortly after the news of his arrest hit social media, the hash tag #FreeYassinJuma shot to the top of the trend with many social media users asking for his immediate release.
When we bury the TRUTH and continue dancing around it in falsehoods, it will eventually germinate and catch up with us. #FreeYassinJuma
— Dennis Onsarigo (@Donsarigo)
January 23, 2016
What happened to freedom of expression?
#FreeYassinJuma
— Zamzam Billow (@seynabey) January 23, 2016
Just one day after the Friday attack on the El Adde base, Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Ole Nkaissery has warned Kenyans against sending alarming pictures and messages about the El Adde ambush.
Speaking in Mombasa, the CS said that those found sharing such images will be arrested.
The retired Major General stated that posting alarming images and content served to further the Al Shabaab’s fear-mongering agenda.
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