Amina Launches Bid to be WTO Director-General.
It was Ambassador Amina Mohamed’s moment at the Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi last Tuesday evening as she launched her bid for the position of director general of the World Trade Organisation. The...
View ArticleLet’s Be Honest About Nominations
THE selection process for party nominations for the March 4 elections did not go off smoothly yesterday. TNA even had to reschedule its nominations to today. There was a lot of confusion. In places...
View ArticleParties must stop defacing our towns
The season of political contests has started and with it comes some not so pleasant side effects. Politicians are canvassing for votes and trying to outsell each other, courting Kenyan voters for the...
View ArticleKajwang’ says Jubilee tribal
Immigration minister Otieno Kajwang' has accused the Jubilee Coalition of trying to ethnically dominate Kenya. He said Jubilee should not exclude the other 40 tribes. Kajwang' said the ordinary Kenyan...
View ArticleOnunga gets URP ticket
Irene Onunga is the URP aspirants for Kisumu East constituency. Speaking at a press conference in the town after her nomination, Onunga urged residents to vote for individuals instead of parties. “It...
View ArticleHospital rejects dying father
A 33-year-old man was killed in a road accident on Wednesday night at Amukura in Teso. Albert Buluma Ogutu's motorcycle hit a lorry on the Amukura-Kotur road at 8pm. His widow Caroline Akiso, 30, said...
View ArticleKisii is not a swing vote county, says Kiangoi
EAST Africa Legislative Assembly representative Joseph Kiangoi has dismissed the notion that Kisii and Nyamira are swing votes. “I want to categorically state that Kisii and Nyamira are not swing...
View Article35 rescued from Kisumu collapsed building, 6 dead
Some 35 people have so far been rescued and six others confirmed dead after the collapse of a five-storey building in Kisumu on Wednesday. Addressing the media at a joint press briefing at the scene of...
View ArticleVoting in Kisii marred by lack of papers
Confusion yesterday marred nominations for various parties in Kisii County after delays in the delivery of materials. In South Mugirango, the exercise started at noon amid protests from three ODM...
View ArticleNew Zealand group killed in Vihiga crash
Two of the foreigners who had been taken to Aga Khan hospital in Kisumu after a road accident died yesterday while undergoing treatment. This brings the number of the accident victims to five. Two...
View ArticleAspirants linked to death
An acting DC yesterday accused politicians in Teso South of contributing to the death of two people through excess drinking. Sylvester Barasa told aspirants to sell policies to voters instead of...
View ArticleParents in demo over Vihiga school neglect
PARENTS of a primary school in Hamisi constituency, Vihiga County,have condemned the alleged neglect of a school by local leaders. The parents were joined by alumni of Gidimo Primary School who said...
View ArticlePolice probe politician’s murder
POLICE in Kuria are liaising with Tanzanian security officers in investigations to unearth the killers of an ODM county representative aspirant on Sunday night. Kuria West deputy police chief Simiyu...
View ArticleIEBC says parties not for poll
THE Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has warned that political parties may not deliver free and fair nominations exercise due to low levels of preparedness. The commission gave the...
View ArticleMidnight ballot paper delivery sparks outrage
Tension reigned in Homa Bay County ODM nominations after ballot papers were discovered on Thursday at some trading centres a day before the exercise. The materials were found at Rodi Kopany, Juction...
View ArticleKakamega governor’s poll fails to take off
UDF nominations for Kakamega governorship failed to take off yesterday in Kakamega. The party opted for a boardroom deal to pick the candidate in the March elections to avert a looming rivalry between...
View ArticleEwaso Nyiro locals decry insecurity
RESIDENTS of Ewaso Nyiro in Narok South have decried the rising cases of insecurity in the region. Speaking to the Star in Narok town yesterday, chairman of Narok Central Business Association David ole...
View ArticleSambili wins Uasin Gishu URP ticket
IRENE Sambili floored her rivals to clinch the county women representative seat for Uasin Gishu on a National Vision Party ticket in the hotly contested nomination carried out in Eldoret yesterday....
View ArticleGideon sure of Amani’s landslide win in the polls
AMANI coalition on Wednesday took their campaigns to Maasai land and predicted a landslide victory in the March 4 polls. Speaking in Ololulunga trading centre in Naro, Kanu chairman Gideon Moi said...
View ArticleFired judges ‘slowing’ down vetting board
Judges and Magistrates Vetting board has said resistance among judges is slowing down the vetting process. Speaking at the Bomet Council hall on Wednesday during a public sensitisation tour a head of...
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