Janet Mbugua
| Janet Mbugua | |
|---|---|
| Born |
10 January 1984 Mombasa, Kenya |
| Nationality | Kenyan |
| Occupation | |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Known for | Citizen TV Evening News Anchor |
| Website | http://officialjanetmbugua.com |
Janet Mbugua - Ndichu (born 10 January 1984) is a Kenyan media personality, anchor and actress. As a news anchor she is known to have served in KTN in her earlier year of her career. She worked for Citizen TV for several years, before announcing her retirement from the media industry. She was a leading anchor at Citizen prime time news, alongside Hussein Mohammed. She takes a new role at Kenya Red Cross Humanitarian Society. As an actress she played the lead in television series Rush.
Mbugua was born in January 1984 and raised in Mombasa, Kenya. She has a twin brother Timothy Mbugua.
Janet went to Brooke House High School and after which she joined USIU.
After working for sometime she joined the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Malaysia for her degree in Mass communication.
She did her MBA in Global Business Management at the Swiss Management Academy in Nairobi, Kenya.
In 2004, at the age of 19, Mbugua started off her career at 98.4 Capital FM. In 2009, she was hired as a news anchor, reporter and producer of Pan-African current affairs show, Africa 360, by e.tv in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was a until recently a news anchor at Citizen TV hosting Monday Special and The Big Question.
In 2014, she starred in a sitcom, Rush. She was cast in the lead role as Pendo Adama, the owner and editor-in-chief of Rush Magazine.
She is the founder and director of Media Avenue Limited, where persons are provided with services such as public speaking, moderating and Emceeing. She has also reinforced in the empowerment of young females with the Inua Dada campaign that is endorsed by the Kenya's first lady, Margaret Kenyatta.
Mbugua is married to Edward Ndichu. Together they have a son, Ethan Huru Ndichu born in October 2015.
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