Mwingi businesswoman shot
Police in Mwingi have launched investigation over the shooting of a businesswoman yesterday at Mwingi market. The woman was shot by thugs just after she had closed her shop in the evening. Police boss...
View ArticleBaby girl for KCPE student
A Kalambani Primary school KCPE candidate gave birth to a baby girl yesterday. She had been admitted at Mwingi General Hospital. “The mother and the baby are okay," said the hospital's boss Samson...
View ArticleEthuro fights for pastoralists
Turkana Central MP Ekwe Ethuro yesterday said he will continue to champion the rights of the pastoral communities despite his recent arrest on allegations of incitement. Ethuro said he is angry that he...
View ArticleEmbu PC bans night campaigns
The Eastern PC Clare Omollo has banned night campaigns meetings and said any politician violating that rule will dealt with according with the law. Omollo asked the provincial police boss Marchus...
View ArticleActivists hold demo for police
A clarion call went out yesterday when civil society activists took to the streets asking government to look into the plight of our police force. The activists walked from Uhuru park to Vigilance House...
View ArticleNeighbour’s killer escapes murder trial
A man who killed his neighbour in a street brawl over Sh50 will probably not spend the rest of his life behind bars after a court reduced his charge from murder to manslaughter yesterday. Dressed in...
View ArticleRogo’s son loses appeal for lenient bond term
SEVEN terror suspects including the late Sheikh Aboud Rogo’s son will not have their bond terms reduced. The seven had challenged a court's decision to release them on Sh1 million bond with two...
View ArticleMugo steps down from senate race
PUBLIC Health minister Beth Mugo has stepped down from Nairobi county senatorial race, citing health reasons. Addressing the press yesterday in her office, Mugo said she was disappointed with the...
View ArticleSolve land feuds – Nyachae
CIC chairman Charles Nyachae wants the National Land Commission put in place before the general election. Nyachae says the commission will address critical land related issues. Speaking in Kisii town,...
View ArticleAladwa’s mother dies in Kisumu
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has condoled Nairobi Mayor George Aladwa, following the death of his mother this week. Mary Mmboga, 67, succumbed to hypertension last Monday afternoon, after she was...
View ArticlePolice arrest 15 suspects in Eastleigh bomb blast
Fifteen people were yesterday arrested in a heavy police operation in Eastleigh following Wednesday grenade attack. The security operation took place as one of the nine survivors, Peter Kyalo,...
View ArticleThree gangsters killed in Githurai shoot-out
THREE heavily armed gangsters were shot dead in Kasarani by plain clothes police officers yesterday morning. A saloon car, two pistols and 30 bullets were recovered. An unknown amount of money was also...
View ArticleStep-mum cuts boy with knife over food
A five-year-old Nakuru boy was yesterday assaulted by his step mother for eating food reserved for his younger brother. The boy who lives in Ponda Mali estate was taken to hospital by a neighbour...
View ArticleKenya to build 150,000 more homes annually
Government is set to increase the annual production of housing units from the current 35,000 units to over 200,000 units. Addressing County Cooperative Commissioners in Nakuru, Permanent Secretary...
View ArticleChaos in Malindi after bus crushes cyclist
A milk vendor died on the spot after he was knocked down by a bus heading to Mombasa from Lamu along the Malindi Mombasa highway yesterday evening. The incident angered members of the public who begun...
View ArticleDC finds MRC link to the Tana River clash
THE government has now claimed that MRC played a role in the deadly Tana River massacre that left over 130 people dead and others displaced. Tana Delta DC David Kiprop said this yesterday when he...
View Article15 to testify in Waruinge murder case
The prosecution in a case in which five people are charged with killing lawyer Rose Waruinge in her Nairobi house has lined up more than 15 witnesses. Paul Kilyungi Maluki, Mutua Nzioka, John Masila...
View ArticleCourt halts auction of school estate
St Elizabeth Academy in Nairobi's Karen yesterday secured a reprieve after the court temporarily halted the sale of its assets over a Sh32 million loan. Commercial Judge Nancy Kamau ordered the parties...
View ArticleSyokimau residents sue state
Three people have filed a petition seeking compensation from the government over the demolition of buildings in Syokimau. Arthur Omollo, Joshua Ayieko and Gladys Mageka want the government to...
View ArticleTanzania agency suit postponed
AN appeal filed by the Tanzania National Roads Agency over the enforcement of bank guarantees in a botched road contract was yesterday adjourned. The Court of Appeal failed to proceed with the matter...
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