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The paper changed its name to The Standard in 1977 but the name East African Standard was revived later. It was sold to Kenyan investors in 1995. In 2004 the name was changed back to The Standard. It is the main rival to Kenya's largest newspaper, the Daily Nation. In 1989, at a time when Kenya was going into multi-party era, the Standard Group ...
Gertrude's Garden Children's Hospital located in Nairobi, Kenya was founded in 1947, with the donation of some land by Colonel Ewart Grogan, in memory of his wife, Gertrude Edith. The hospital now has seven branches spread out in the city's residential areas. While at Cambridge Grogan was a member of the notorious and mysterious dining society ...
Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe GCFR PC (16 November 1904 – 11 May 1996), usually referred to as Zik, was a Nigerian politician, statesman, and revolutionary leader who served as the 3rd and first black governor-general of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and the first president of Nigeria during the First Nigerian Republic (1963–1966).
On 16 January 1972, the Tanganyikan African National Union (TANU), the ruling party, decided to end the rivalry between the papers and forced a merger. The new paper, Daily News was first published on 26 April 1972. The company which publishes the newspaper retained the name "Standard" and is still known as Tanzania Standard (Newspapers) Limited.
An askari spear bearer guard at an Allied air training school at Waterkloof, Pretoria, South Africa in 1943.. An askari or ascari (from Somali, Swahili, and Arabic عسكري, ʿaskarī, meaning 'soldier' or 'military', also 'police' in Somali) was a local soldier serving in the armies of the European colonial powers in Africa, particularly in the African Great Lakes, Northeast Africa and ...
Products. Newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations. Number of employees. 1,400 (2004) Website. www .nationmedia .com. Nation Media Group ( NMG ), formerly East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, is an East African media group listed based in Kenya and listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange. It is owned by Aga Khan IV.
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The first report to surface about this incident was in the East African Standard. The front-page article reported that ten died at the Hola detention camp. The paper quoted the "official statement" from the colonial authorities: "The men were in a group of about 100 who were working on digging furrows.