House summons NHC board over MD’s sacking
Parliament has summoned the National Housing Corporation board members for interrogation over the suspension of the corporation’s managing director Wachira Njuguna. The corporation board has five...
View ArticleEAC Monetary Union to be discussed today
The Parliamentary Committee on Regional Integration is this morning expected to meet to consider the Cabinet memorandum on the establishment of the East African Community Monetary Union. The MPs are...
View ArticleCorridors of Power
Who leaked information to the media about Interior Minister Joseph ole Lenku signing work permits to a terror suspect? We are told that some people in his ministry gave the information to one of the...
View ArticleRights group accuses ATPU of illegal killings
THE Kenya Police is on the spot once again for allegations of extrajudicial killings. A human rights group accused the Anti-Terror Police Unit of extrajudicial killings, torture and enforced...
View ArticleThree accused of having Sh1.5m ivory remanded
Four people have been charged with possessing ivory worth Sh1.5 million. Peter Onyanzi, Melllen Gesare, Ephraim Masika and Anthony Losuru appeared before a Kibera court yesterday. They are accused of...
View ArticleTimamy case ruling next month
LAMU Governor Issa Timamy will know if he will be charged with murder on September 5. Timamy’s case was mentioned before senior principal magistrate Richard Odenyo yesterday since Judge Martin Muya was...
View ArticleHigh Court order reprieve for KPCU
THE High Court has extended orders restraining the Ministry of Industrialisation from interfering with the operations of the troubled Kenya Planters and Cooperative Union. The orders by Justice Weldon...
View ArticleGarissa land board suit set for August 28
THE High Court has halted the recruitment of Garissa County Land Management Board members. Justice Mumbi Ngugi made the order pending the hearing and determination of the matter before the court...
View ArticleSecurity guards charged with car theft
Two security guards have been charged with stealing a vehicle worth Sh2.5 million from Nairobi City Cabs Ltd. Hillary Kirui and Victor Kipkoech are accused of stealing a Toyota Land Cruiser on July 14...
View ArticleCofek sues to stop KQ from flying to West African cities
A lobby group has moved to court seeking to stop Kenya Airways from flying to West African countries hit by the deadly Ebola outbreak. The Consumer Federation of Kenya, through lawyer Henry Kurauka,...
View ArticleJudges' performance to be evaluated - CJ
CHIEF Justice Willy Mutunga has warned lazy judiciary officers against "doing a great damage to the judiciary". Mutunga said when judges resume duty from the August vacation, resident judges and heads...
View ArticleTragedy as woman dies after donating kidney to ailing uncle
A 29-year-old woman has died in an Indian hospital after donating a kidney to her ailing uncle, who survived the operation. Rehema Kanini died on August 7, three days after a successful operation on...
View ArticleResearch agencies get new team leader
FOUR agricultural research institutes of maize, sugarcane, tea and coffee have been merged into one parastatal. Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kenya Sugar Research Foundation, Tea Research...
View ArticleMan shoots dead suspect in Kitengela botched robbery
A licensed firearm holder on Saturday night shot and killed a suspected robber in Muigai estate, Kitengela. The suspects broke into Caleb Radido’s home in an attempted robbery. Radido, who works with...
View ArticleInterview dates for TSC new top brass
TWENTY seven candidates have been shortlisted for interviews by the TSC selection panel to fill five positions of commissioners. The 27 will be interviewed from next Monday. They were shortlisted from...
View ArticleJubilee governors at plebiscite talks
Nine Jubilee governors yesterday turned up for a consultative meeting with MCAs for the proposed referendum. Despite the anti-referendum stance taken by President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President...
View ArticleMCAs to meet at Bomas over the referendum
MCAs from the 47 counties will meet in Nairobi to decide whether to support the referendum call by the governors. The more than 2,200 MCAs will meet at the County Assemblies Forum to be held at the...
View ArticlePatient dies as doctors strike over delayed pay
A patient died yesterday at the Coast General Hospital even as the doctors’ union told members countrywide not to work unless their July salaries are paid in full. The news came when doctors and nurses...
View ArticleAnxiety in NIS over Gichangi replacement
OFFICERS of the National Intelligence Service are anxious about the possibility of outgoing Director General Michael Gichangi's replacement being appointed from outside the spy agency. Several who...
View Article39 per cent of teenagers in slums using contraceptives - report
Thirty nine per cent of teenagers between the ages 15 – 19 living in the slums are using contraceptives. with 12 of teenagers in that age bracket admitting to using a condom as their preferred...
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