Kenyans to spend more
KENYANS are going into Christmas season with little economic worry according to latest poll by Ipsos Synovate. The research conducted between December 6 and 11 on 1,625 respondents shows that 66 per...
View ArticleMudavadi has confirmed yet again that he is politically, a dead man walking
In an op-ed column on September 29 titled, 'Political eulogy of Musalia Mudavadi', I concluded, after an objective analysis, that Mudavadi was for all practical purposes and intent politically dead....
View ArticleThe real signs of the end of the world
Today is a special day. It is December 22 and if you are reading this, it means you are stick stuck with us in this dreary world. The world was supposed to have ended yesterday, December 21, according...
View ArticleWaititu bid to block case flops
Embakasi MP Ferdinand Waititu yesterday failed to stop his prosecution over alleged incitement remarks he made two years ago when he tried to stop demolition of houses built on a road reserve in his...
View ArticleMedia Council has new members
TWO new members of the Media council of Kenya were yesterday sworn in at the Milimani law courts. Muiru Mungai from the University of Nairobi, Peter Wakoli from Kenya Institute of Mass Communication...
View ArticleWoman in court over Sh35million fraud charge
A woman has been charged in a Nairobi court with fraudulently obtaining over Sh35 million from two persons through fictitious land transaction deals. Catherine Wangari Mwendia appeared before chief...
View ArticleCouple’s Sh250m fraud case set for February
A Nairobi court has ordered a Sh 250 million fraud case against a couple and two businessmen to proceed for hearing on February 13, without further delay. The couple Afzal Ahmedali Shah alias Sadrudin...
View Article19 striking nurses in court on disturbance charges
Nineteen striking nurses were yesterday charged in a Kibera court with creating disturbance and causing malicious damage. First to appear in the dock were two officials of the Kenya National Nurses...
View ArticleTwo cleared of killing police officers in election violence
Two men on death row for the murder of two policemen during the post-election violence have had their conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal. Appellate judges Martha Koome, Erastus Githinji and...
View ArticleInsecurity is the main pre-election fear, survey shows
Majority of Kenyans, who will not participate in next year’s polls, have singled out security as their main concern. In the latest opinion poll conducted by Strategic Research between December 17 and...
View ArticleFury over order for all refugees to go to Daadab
KENYA’s decision to place refugees and asylum seekers in camps away from urban centres is a discriminatory and unlawful restriction on freedom of movement, Amnesty International said. Amnesty...
View ArticleTensions as hate leaflets are found in Kakamega town
Police in Kakamega are searching for the source of leaflets circulated in the town warning members of a certain community to leave. The leaflets warned members of the community to leave the area in...
View ArticleBensouda asks for delay in disclosure of witnesses
ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has asked the court to allow her to delay disclosure of the identities of seven witnesses in the case against William Ruto and Joshua Sang'. The prosecutor wants to delay...
View ArticleMemo to those in Jurassic Park
‘THE PROBLEM IS THAT TOO MANY PEOPLE, LIVING IN THEIR VERY OWN JURASSIC PARK, HAVE NEVER GOT TO GRIPS WITH THE FACT THAT SOMEONE CAN SUPPORT A POLITICAL CANDIDATE BECAUSE THEY HAPPEN TO BELIEVE IN THE...
View ArticleThugs kill Kariobangi policeman
A plainclothes police officer was yesterday shot dead in Kariobangi estate in Nairobi by gangsters. The officer, attached to Ruaraka police station, was on patrol with his colleagues from Huruma police...
View ArticleNo noise over X-mas, says Nema
NEMA director general Geoffrey Wakhungu has said any noise above the legal level will lead to arrest. He told bar owners, party planners, churches and matatu drivers that their activities should not be...
View ArticleMum of murdered 5 kids shows up
The mother of five children found murdered in their Korogocho home on Thursday yesterday presented herself to police. The woman who expressed shock at their deaths visited Kasarani police station and...
View ArticleState has lost Sh7bn this year, audit shows
A report by Parliamentary Committee on Public Accounts has revealed that government ministries and departments cannot account for over Sh7 billion. The report which was table in parliament last week...
View ArticleMudavadi, Uhuru part company
Musalia Mudavadi’s UDF camp has described Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto as a “dishonourable, heartless and cheeky” couple. In a statement issued shortly after Uhuru and Ruto announced they had...
View Article39 killed in Tana Delta
Thirty nine people died in renewed clashes between the Orma and Pokomo people in the Tana Delta. Hundreds more are reported injured in the fighting between the two communities. Reports say that over...
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