Kasarani MP let go in Sh100,000 bribe case
Kasarani MP John Chege breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when a Nairobi court dropped bribery charges against him. He had been accused of corruptly soliciting a Sh100,000 bribe from a businessman on...
View ArticleNo bail for chopping off kid's fingers
A farmhand was yesterday charged with chopping off two fingers of his employer’s primary schoolboy. Patrick Mugambi denied the charge before senior principal magistrate E Nderitu. He is said to have...
View ArticleCID to probe city lawyer's Sh59m deal
A Kibera court has allowed the CID to investigate the accounts of a city lawyer in a fraud case involving more than Sh59 million. The court authorised Sergeant Anderson Ngua to investigate Onesmus...
View ArticleMan admits biting off wife's ear
A 30-year-old hairdresser yesterday pleaded guilty to biting off his wife’s ear because she called him “useless and uncircumcised boy”. Martin Kinuthai is accused of attacking Veronica Wambui on...
View ArticleSuit on Nakuru jobs for February 17
THE case asking a court to declare the Nakuru government top positions vacant and order a fresh recruitment will be heard on February 17. Shadrack Koskey has sued Governor Kinuthia Mbugua, deputy...
View ArticleFormer cop M'Mbijiwe's case postponed
An abuse of office case against two former police officers was adjourned by a Nakuru court on Tuesday. The case was to be heard for three days but it was postponed as the trial magistrate was not in...
View ArticleParliament to host Great Lakes MPs
Parliament will host regional MPs to discuss peace and security, Senate Speaker Ekwe Ethuro has said. The fifth session of the ordinary plenary assembly of the 12-member International Conference on the...
View ArticleSlum project favours Cord areas - reps
Jubilee MCAs in Nairobi yesterday said they will frustrate the government’s slum upgrading in Eastlands launched on Tuesday by President Uhuru Kenyatta. Speaking at City Hall during a press conference,...
View ArticleTraders call for a better wage policy
National dialogue must define wage policy and the frequency of salary reviews in all sectors, a private business leader has said. Kenya Private Sector Alliance director Patrick Obath yesterday said the...
View ArticleWoman's leg broken as Machakos residents confront county askaris
Residents of Machakos yesterday hurled stones at county askaris to stop them from towing away the deputy governor’s car. The clash took place outside Machakos Level Five Hospital. Riot police...
View ArticleI'll work to get back school land - Owalo
Businessman Eliud Owalo yesterday condemned the grabbing of Lang’ata Road Primary School playground. The former aide of Cord leader Raila Odinga visited the school on a fact-finding tour. The...
View ArticleCord tells Uhuru to be firm in fight against graft
Cord wants President Uhuru Kenyatta to be firmer in dealing with corruption in government. Cord MPs Ababu Namwamba (Budalang’i), Junet Mohammed (Suna East) and Opiyo Wandayi (Ugunja), and Kakamega...
View ArticlePresident meets Egypt minister
President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday met and held talks with the visiting Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at State House Nairobi. The President thanked the government of Egypt for sharing its...
View ArticleICC witness testifies in camera
THE trial of Deputy President William Ruto and journalist Joshua Sang at the ICC continued yesterday with the 28th witness giving his testimony mostly in camera. In the short instance of about 10...
View ArticleKDF kills five Shabaab raiders in Lamu ambush
The Kenya Defence Forces yesterday killed five al Shabaab fighters and injured several others during an encounter with the insurgents in Lamu county. A KDF soldier died while three others were injured....
View ArticleConflicting reports on Embu speaker Mate abductor add new twist to kidnap saga
Investigations into the alleged kidnapping of Embu county assembly speaker Kariuki Mate have taken a new twist. In written reports to investigators, two doctors presented conflicting reports on the...
View ArticleBalala too sick to be in court over mineral shipment sizure, says lawyer
Mining Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has yet again failed to appear in court to explain why he should not be punished for disobeying court orders. The CS was expected at the High Court yesterday but...
View ArticleFuel prices in biggest drop since 2010
KENYANS will from this morning pay the lowest fuel prices at the pump since controls started in December 2010. That was when Kenyans last paid Sh94.06 for a litre of petrol, which should have signaled...
View ArticleRECOVERED BODY IS NOT ICC WITNESS YEBEI'S - CID
PRESUMED ICC witness Meshack Yebei’s mutilated body was yesterday identified by police as that of one Hussein Yussuf Borai. CID officers told journalists the body, which has been at the Moi Teaching...
View ArticleKPBC order rematch of Waguthii, Achieng bout
Kenya Professional Boxing Commission have ordered a re-match of last December’s non- title contest between regional champion Sarah Achieng’ and Judy Waguthii in Nairobi. The six-round match sponsored...
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