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Everyone ought to at least be a good relationship partner; being a great partner on the other hand makes you a rare commodity, as far as relationships are concerned. Being a great relationship partner doesn’t just happen overnight; you would have to consistently work a lot on yourself over a period of time to reach such heights. However, some people aren’t even worthy to be called a good relationship partner though they see themselves as great relationship partners. Below are signs that you are actually a great relationship partner. 1. YOU GIVE IN YOUR BEST ALWAYS Every great relationship partner gives in their best and nothing short of their best to make their relationship work. You cannot be great in anything without giving your best and relationships aren’t any different. Putting in your best to make your relationship work at all times is what makes you worthy of being called a great relationship partner. 2. YOU TRY TO WORK ON YOUR FLAWS Every human has flaws; some have major flaws,...

Having a relationship with a bad partner can make life a living hell; a bad partner would hardly ever have a successful relationship because such a partner would do so many wrong things that would make the relationship toxic. There are some traits every good partner wouldn’t bring to a relationship, but a bad partner would bring such traits to a relationship without minding. These are some signs of a bad partner. 1. DISHONESTY A bad partner isn’t a trustworthy partner; when you have a partner that comes up with lies thick and fast, and puts up acts that are dishonest then such a partner is a bad partner. A bad partner doesn’t understand the importance of being trustworthy, so they care less about it. 2. THEY DON’T PUT EFFORTS INTO THE RELATIONSHIP Being the only one trying to make the relationship work can be such a strenuous task, and a relationship like that would never work. A bad partner leaves the weight of the relationship on the other partner, and they live their lives like they...

French Navy Frigate FS Provence has intercepted a huge weapons shipment in dhow sailing towards Somalia. The weapons’ smugglers were spotted by a French helicopter on routine surveillance in the Northern Indian Ocean. Several hundred machine guns, anti-tank weapons and AK-47 assault rifles were among the weapons seized from the dhow that wasn’t registered to any country. According to the commanding officer of the Provence, the weapons believed to have been destined for Somalia were seized under the UNSC mandated arms embargo that authorizes interdiction on the high seas of illicit weapons destined for Somalia. The seizure is a success towards stabilizing the region (that has been terrorized by al shabaab militants that are affiliated to al Qaeda) as well as the Combined Maritime Forces Operation to which French has rendered its invaluable contribution. The seizure comes barely a month since an Australian naval ship intercepted another cache of weapons that included 1989 AK-47 rifles a...

Junior high school students in Chicago were studying the Seven Wonders of the World. At the end of the lesson, the students were asked to list what they considered to be the Seven Wonders of the World which are the gifts to our world . Though there was some disagreement, the following received the most votes: 1. Egypt’s Great Pyramids 2. The Taj Mahal in India 3. The Grand Canyon in Arizona 4. The Panama Canal 5. The Empire State Building 6. St. Peter’s Basilica 7. China’s Great Wall While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student, a quiet girl, hadn’t turned in her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The quiet girl replied, “Yes, a little. I couldn’t quite make up my mind because there were so many.” The teacher said, “Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help.” The girl hesitated, then read, “I think the Seven Wonders of the World are: 1. to touch… 2. to taste… 3. to see… 4. to hear… 5. to feel… 6. to laugh… 7. and to love....

The upstate NY man was rich in almost every way. His estate was worth millions. He owned houses, land antiques and cattle. But though on the outside he had it all, he was very unhappy on the inside. His wife was growing old, and the couple was childless. He had always wanted a little boy to carry on the family legacy. Miraculously, his wife became pregnant in her later years, and she gave birth to a little boy. The boy was severely handicapped, but the man loved him with his whole heart. When the boy was five, his mom died. The dad drew closer to his special son. At age 13, the boy’s birth defects cost him his life and the father died soon after from a broken heart. The estate was auctioned before hundreds of bidders. The first item offered was a painting of the boy. No one bid. They waited like vultures for the riches. Finally, the poor housemaid, who helped raise the boy and loved him, offered $5 for the painting and easily took the bid. To everyone’s shock, the auctioneer ripped a h...

Those who know Raila intimately say his biggest weaknesses are: 1. INABILITY TO TAKE ADVICE Raila tends to listen to very many people but often, his mind is made up even as he listens. He will listen but still go back to his old ways. That means no new thinking enters his stream. 2: FAITHFULNESS TO FRIENDS Unlike most politicians, Raila does not know how to let go of old friends who have become a liability. Many view the likes of James Orengo, Jakoyo Midiwo, and Oburu Oginga as spent forces with no new ideas to offer. Nyong'o has eased himself out of Raila's circle although he remains an intellectual force and part of the ODM think tank. Politically, Nyongo is concentrating on Senate duties and campaigns for Kisumu governor. Orengo on the other hand remains a constant around Raila and many view him as a bad influence who pushes out people with new ideas. He seems to believe that those who did not participate in the events of the 1980s and 1990s have nothing to offer. Raila seem...

On a sunny afternoon, at a bustling cafe less than a mile from Stanford University’s campus, near Palo Alto, and more than 5,000 miles from his home, an assistant professor from MIT is telling me about science. Very advanced science. His name is Jeremy England, and at 33, he’s already being called the next Charles Darwin. Say what? In town to give a lecture, the Harvard grad and Rhodes scholar speaks quickly, his voice rising a few pitches in tone, his long-fingered hands making sudden jerks when he’s excited. He’s skinny, with a long face, scraggly beard and carelessly groomed mop of sandy brown hair — what you might expect from a theoretical physicist. But then there’s the street-style Adidas on his feet and the kippah atop his head. And the fact that this scientist also talks a lot about God. Every 30 years or so we experience these gigantic steps forward. …And this might be it. Carl Franck, a Cornell physics professor The 101 version of his big idea is this: Under the right conditi...

Retired leader Fidel Castro accused US President Barack Obama of sweet-talking the Cuban people during his visit to the island last week and ignoring the accomplishments of Communist rule, in an opinion piece carried by all state-run media on Monday. Obama's visit was aimed at consolidating a detente between the once intractable Cold War enemies and the US president said in a speech to the Cuban people that it was time for both nations to put the past behind them and face the future "as friends and as neighbors and as family, together." "One assumes that every one of us ran the risk of a heart attack listening to these words," Castro said in his column, dismissing Obama's comments as "honey-coated" and reminding Cubans of the many US efforts to overthrow and weaken the Communist government. Castro, 89, laced his opinion piece with nationalist sentiment and, bristling at Obama's offer to help Cuba, said the country was able to produce the food a...

REAL COMRADES FORUM A MESSAGE TO ALL KENYANS FOR CHANGE. You are a Luo and am a Kalenjin .She is a Luhya and he is a kikuyu. Uhuru is the President, raila the opposition leader, Ruto the Deputy President while Wetangula is the Minority leader. By their standards, you are poor and I am poor. Each one of them is wealthy. They call each other "brother." Every time they meet, they hug. According to them, we have many things in common; Poverty, Ignorance, Stupidity, Blind Fanatics, Short memory and are willing slaves. The fact that I come from presidents turf does not make me better than you. Neither does coming from opposition region make you worse than me. We all face insecurity, Corruption, Unemployment and we all feel the pinch in the rise of cost of living. When we seriously fall ill, our families have no choice but to chose between death or going bankrupt. Whether in Nyeri, Kisumu, Machakos, Eldoret or Busia, Most families are struggling to choose between paying school fees ...

A decade ago, Prof Bethuel Ogot, one of the country’s towering intellectuals, pronounced the “Kenya project” dead. Kenya has never been a more distant idea than it is now at the beginning of the 21st Century. Nationalism is dead, replaced by sub-nationalism. The tribe has eaten the nation. Few years ago, the country exploded into an orgy of political violence. There may be some people who will be wondering why Prof Ogot is talking about Kenya in terms of projects and ideas. Is Kenya not a concrete reality, an internationally recognised sovereign state? Although the notion of a nation as an idea is an old one, it is Benedict Anderson’s 1983 book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism that offered the most cogent articulation of the concept, and in so doing shaped the contemporary study of nationalism. Anderson defined nations as social constructs, political communities that live in the imagination of the people who ascribe to them. A concrete communit...

You have to pay the cost if you want to be the boss. The cost is discipline. No leader can achieve success without a certain level of discipline. A disciplined person is willing and able to give up short-term pleasure to achieve long-term gains. Of course, becoming disciplined requires you to have daily habits. Only disciplined people with habits can turn their lives around. Habits can change the direction of our lives. While some people have pitiful habits, like gossiping; others have powerful ones, like praising others. No matter who you are or where you came from, your habits can make or break you. What are your habits? Where are they leading you? People ask me all the time, “What are your daily habits? What time do you wake up? What do you do when you get up in the morning?” These questions make me chuckle because I used to ask the same questions when I started my journey to success. The only difference between you and I is that you’re actually getting the answers right now. Here a...

Kamukunji @MPyusufhassan arriving for a constituency event in a taxi. Servant leadership. #WhatMakesKenyaStandOut

BY Paul Bundi Karau Actually, the whole edifice of KNEC needs serious reworking. There is no other body or person who can leak examinations at the scale we saw. Secondly, KNEC officers and examiners are always galivanting around the country talking to students on examinations tricks. Isn't that unethical? I disagree with Dr Benjamin Kailikia Kanake that headteachers are the main culprits. Once a single paper is leaked in this era of WhatsApp and Facebook, there's no knowing whence it goes. It's like a fire in the dry wild. Parents will catch the questions and send to their children, while teachers cash in alike, driven by the ever-escalating pressure to perform. Of course what we need other than fixing the hardware (like dissolution of KNEC, sacking of teachers etc) is to reset our national software. It is an issue of greed and breakdown of moral order. We need integrity. No law can put integrity to a decidedly immoral person. I can now confidently say we need God.

Mbogori Kabakua Nkaissery operates outside this constitution #KNEC #JOHO #Journalists ..giving the IG orders left ,right and centre

Character "Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers." Commitment "...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation." "Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return." "Self dedication is a spiritual experience." "The name of the game is to talk to people. If you don't talk to people, you can't get started...You knock on twenty doors or so, and twenty guys tell you to go to hell, or that they haven't got time. But maybe at the fortieth or sixtieth house you find the one guy who is all you need. You're not going to organize everything; you're just going to get it started. "T...

When I started using pens in primary school, I often made mistakes. I would try hard to erase them. Sometimes I used chalk, but it later reappeared. So I began to use saliva, it worked but only to leave holes in my book. My teachers then used to beat me for being outrageously dirty. But all I tried to do was cover my errors. One day, a kind hearted teacher called me aside. "Young man, anytime you make a mistake, just cross it and move on. Trying to erase it would only damage your book". "But, I don't want people to see my mistake and laugh at me", I protested. "Trying to erase it will make more people know about your mess, and the stigma is for life. HAVE YOU MADE A MISTAKE? "cross" it and move on.That is; take your mistakes to the Cross of Calvary, at the feet of Jesus, leave it there and move on.Don't try to create more irredeemable errors by trying within your power to erase it.'To error is human' so put it in the hands of The Divin...

– Did you know that the genital area of a woman hubours harmful bacteria that can easily enter the vagina during sexual intercourse? – This bacteria have the potential to cause urinary tract infection thus ruining ones sexual life thereafter – It is thus advisable to urinate after sex as this is believed to push out the bacteria but when is the right time to pee? A simple act of peeing after sex is all one needs to avoid dangerous urinary tract infections that can ruin future sexual experiences. For starters, the vagina is very close to the anus and this makes it possible for harmful bacteria to spread around the vagina. During sex thus, the bacteria around the rectum and genital area can be pushed inside a woman’s vagina and accumulate in the urethra. This are the germs that can ultimately lead to urinary tract infections. Unlike men, a woman’s ejaculation does not happen in the urethra thus making urinating the only option to expel any traces of harmful bacterial that might have accu...

The United States’ Permanent Representative to the UN, Ms Samantha Power, on Monday removed diplomatic gloves to launch a blistering attack on Great Lakes regional leaders, singling out President Museveni as a risk to Uganda’s future stability due to his government’s worsening repressive behaviour. Kampala, however, scoffed at what it said was diplomatic sabre-rattling with a spokesperson saying government actions to contain the Opposition were justified to “preserve rule of law for many”. Col Shaban Bantariza, the deputy executive director of Uganda Media Centre, a government communication clearing house, said they “get disenchanted by groups of people who only talk about consequences while ignoring the causes.” Speaking on Monday to the 15-member UN Security Council, the world body’s most powerful organ, Amb Power exalted Uganda’s “critical” contribution to regional peace and its generous refuge policy, playing host to half a million refugees, before criticising its democratic revers...

By GITAU WARIGI If there is one thing I admire in leadership, it is strength. That is why I still hold the name of John Michuki in high esteem. A leader whose word nobody takes seriously is not worth anybody’s time. I have some free advice for this government: If you set out to do something, do it. Especially if it is an order you have given, follow it through. More so after you make a big show in public of wagging your finger. There is nothing as despicable as a public display of weakness. The other day we were treated to the cat-and-mouse game of the central government versus Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho over the latter’s firearms. The government not only ended up with stinking egg on its face. It looked very foolish. Interior minister Joseph Nkaissery was in fighting mood throughout the previous week that Mr Joho must give up the guns – three of them, as we learned. Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinnet stuck to the theme, emphasising that the licences had been revoked. So ...

No president, in history, has been able to complete 100 percent of all his or her pre-election or manifesto pledges. Some even more than the prescribed two terms to complete most items in their first manifesto. What happens is that they would then rely on the political goodwill of their successor to complete the projects they kick off while in office. Actually, they spend their first year in office aligning their pre-election promises with the already existing projects that were started by their predecessors. Consider the example of a politician who is extremely popular here in Kenya – US President Barack Obama. To date, President Obama, despite making progress, is yet to close Guantanamo bay, a promise he made in 2008 when he was elected for his first term. Obama responsibly ended the war in Iraq and promised to end the war in Afghanistan in 2014. However, in October 2015, he delayed the US forces withdrawal from Afghanistan, again. Obama also abandoned a promise to direct revenues fr...