Iranians’ explosives case to be heard on Monday
THE hearing of a case in which two Iranians are charged with keeping explosives was yesterday adjourned. The case will now be heard in Nairobi after a sitting in Mombasa on Wednesday and Thursday....
View ArticleDeep weeds, matatu touts and hairy-chested hookers
"Going for ALotOfMoney. Do I hear ALotOfMoney and Five? ALotOfMoneyandFive? Anyone? Going…Going…Gone!" Cheers. "One politician with vast resources and a heavy populated constituency going to the Man In...
View ArticleDuplication rife in state jobs, TI says
Most Kenyan government institutions have positions that have no clear roles and responsibilities, Transparency International (Kenya) has said. TI-Kenya programme office Sareen Malik said this is done...
View ArticlePC wants corrupt officers out
WESTERN PC James Ole Serian has said that all corrupt people in the ministry of lands, provincial administration and local authorities must be removed before implementation off the new land laws....
View ArticleKWS officers arrest poacher, recover 64kg elephant tusks
Kenya Wildlife Service has smashed an ivory trade syndicate and seized 64 kilogrammes of tusks with of an estimated values of Sh2 million and arrested one suspect. The suspect, Harrison Makongo...
View ArticleKenya to become a rapidly industrialised country
THE objective of Vision 2030 is to transform Kenya into “a middle-income rap- idly industrializing country offering all its citizens a high quality of life in a cleaner en- vironment” by the year 2030,...
View ArticleBett extends time for roads task force work
Roads Minister Franklin Bett has extended for three months the term of the task force reviewing the existing policy framework on management of the roads sub-sector. In a gazette notice Bett said the...
View ArticleDialogue will end your woes, VC tells unions
University of Nairobi vice chancellor Prof George Ma- goha has called on unions representing university staff to consider dialogue. He urged the unions to avoid “unnecessary disruption of academic...
View ArticleKibaki wants Kenya to adopt issue voting
PRESIDENT Kibaki has asked politicians seeking elective seats to conduct issue-based campaigns. Kibaki asked the aspirants to "raise the bar in the political discourse" by focusing on issues. “We must...
View ArticleRegistered As Voters Or Not, Diaspora Kenyans Can Still Sway This Election
Diaspora Kenyans are “mad as hell”. They have been disenfranchised, suppressed, disinherited, disowned, bastardised, declared persona non grata and thrown under the bus by politicians and the IEBC....
View ArticleReason to start one million signature drive
Living in Nairobi can be very confusing at this point in time. News readers we've been used to seeing on our TVs currently engaged in a game of musical chairs, as they move from one station to the...
View ArticleEmbu fraud suspect set free
A 42-year-old woman who had been accused of swindling a prospective land buyer of Sh90,000 yesterday escaped jail after her case was withdrawn because the complainant failed to appear in court. Mary...
View Article10 witnesses to testify in Mercy Keino’s inquest on Monday
TEN people have been summoned to testify on Monday at the inquest into the controversial death of Mercy Keino, a University of Nairobi student whose body was found on the road side in June last year a...
View ArticleCourt awaits DPP’s word in Sh90 million fraud case
The Director of public prosecution (DPP) has not yet given any directions on how a Sh90 million fraud case should proceed, a Nairobi court heard yesterday . The Director of Criminal Investigations...
View ArticleStateless woman to stay in jail
A "stateless" woman who has been pursuing compensation from government for imprisoning her has lost her case. And now Agnes Galawu will not be compensated for alleged violation of her rights and will...
View ArticleCase against presidential aspirants set for December
A suit challenging the eligibility of five leading presidential aspirants to run in next year’s polls will be heard in a fortnight. Appearing before Justice David Majanja yesterday , lawyer Ambrose...
View ArticleCorridors of Power
A top official of the Police Service Commission was taken aback recently when, during a tour of the Nairobi Area Police headquarters, he found alcohol being sold at the canteen in total violation of...
View ArticleKasarani policemen caught on CCTV stealing beer
APs and a senior regular police officer from Kasarani were on Monday night allegedly caught on camera stealing alcohol and money from a bar.The bar owner lost beer worth Sh47, 000 and cash. The...
View ArticleWhat ICC outcome means for Kenya
It is said, and this is a proven fact in medicine, that some cures are worse than the disease. The same holds true in all other aspects of life. The solution or proposed solution to a problem can and...
View ArticleARE YOU DATING A PSYCHO?
There are nice women who behave well, act normal and, by all psychological standards, can be considered sane. On the other hand there are some crazy women who, by the same psychological standards can...
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