Five NPRs killed in bandit attack
Five National Police Reservists were yesterday killed by bandits in Baringo South.Area MP Charles Kamuren asked the government to apply shoot-to-kill order to wipe out the bandits and recover stolen...
View ArticleKenya’s debt getting out of control – CoB
The Controller of Budget (CoB) is concerned that Kenya will spend Sh1.1 trillion of its Sh1.87 trillion projected revenue collection next financial year to pay debts.Presenting views on the 2019/20...
View ArticleForeign currency cheques now to clear in two days, says KBA
Commercial banks will now clear foreign currency-denominated cheques within two days following an upgrade to the electronic funds-transfer system.In an enhancement to Automated Clearing House (ACH),...
View ArticleHUSSEIN KHALID: Carol’s death was not in vain
On February 20 Haki Africa and the world marked the UN World Day of Social Justice. The day is dedicated to recognising that social justice is an underlying principle for peaceful and prosperous...
View ArticlePATRICK GATHARA: It’s state that owes citizens data
The piloting of the National Integrated Identity Management System in 16 counties has sparked major controversy online. The government plans to spend up to Sh6 billion to create what it describes as “a...
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Foetuses collected from dustbins in varsities as stigma, illegality propel...
Unsurprisingly, abortion is back in the news again. It remains one of the most controversial and divisive topics of conversations in the country.While this may be true, the fact remains that each day,...
View ArticleBONIFACE MWANGI: Mwatha was murdered, police hit squad 'Hessy' celebrated death
Caroline Mwatha was murdered. Police have presented their version of what transpired and identified the murder suspects, yet many questions still beg for an answer. We don’t know how she ended up in...
View ArticleLesbian evangelist: Jacinta Nzilani took unfamiliar turn after husband's death
Have you ever heard of a lesbian gospel evangelist? And do you know there is a church in Nairobi that accepts gays and lesbians?Well, a 50-year-old evangelist Jacinta Nzilani on Friday shocked many...
View ArticleTata pays students’ fees after Governor Lenku goes easy on rates
Days after State House called for a truce bertween Kajiado county and Tata Chemicals, the company has paid Sh320,000 fees of needy tudents.The company is accused of failing to pay land rates amounting...
View ArticleSAMUEL KARIUKI: Invest in homes for working class
The last 20 years of real the estate boom in East Africa have changed our building landscape and inventory, as it quite rightly should have. Our starting point was a region that was short of every kind...
View ArticleTaxi-hailing app Little has big plans for Africa expansion – CEO
Kenyan ride-hailing company Little is expanding to Tanzania and Ghana by May and plans to raise about $50 million more from investors, its chief executive officer said on Friday.Little, which competes...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Uhuru must lose sleep over Baringo killings
Banditry and cattle rustling in Baringo again have claimed the lives of innocents whose only ‘crime’ is belonging to a particular community.The five killed last Thursday in the volatile Arabel area of...
View ArticleCourts increasingly taming rogue police officers
Killer cops, even celebrated ones, are increasingly finding themselves behind bars, serving prison terms, or awaiting them.For years Kenyan police have been a law unto themselves and while it may be...
View ArticleEXPERT COMMENT: Cops’ impunity started in colonial era
To understand the context, historically from the colonial era, police was systematically used by the colonial government to eliminating individuals or communities that they felt opposed the...
View ArticleIpoa, civil society groups take fight to police doorsteps
The time when police could get away with anything and boast about it could soon end if pressure for accountability by the Independent Police Oversight Authority and human right lobby groups is...
View ArticleOparanya’s presidential bid a headache to Raila, Mudavadi
Council of Governors chairman Wycliffe Oparanya’s 2022 presidential bid is reshaping the landscape in Western Kenya and has rattled powerful political figures eyeing State House.The Star has...
View ArticleKenyans turn to digital careers as technology alters job market
Three years ago, fisherman Bernad Mulobi had his first experience with a smartphone, and it completely changed his life.While fishing in Kiaoni village, Machakos county, Mulobi was inspired by the...
View ArticleSonko cites achievements in ‘fixing’ capital city as promised
The Nairobi government has highlighted its achievements for 2016-17 and to the middle of 2018-19. When Governor Mike Sonko took the oath of office in 2017, he had promised to fix Nairobi’s problems...
View ArticleWitness says cop robbed petrol station, killed guard
A Mandera police officer was involved in armed robbery at a petrol station in which a guard was killed, a court was told yesterday.Salat Jelle, also a security guard at the premises, told the Mandera...
View ArticleCotton shortage hits Sh5bn Rivatex plant
The Rift Valley Textile Company (Rivatex), which was bought by Moi University and revived for Sh5 billion, is operating below capacity due to lack of cotton.Managing director Thomas Kipkurgat said the...
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