IDs linked to low voter turnout
A Garissa governor aspirant has urged the government to speed up the issuing of ID cards to the youths in the region. Ali Korane told a campaign rally in Daadab yesterday said the voter registration...
View ArticleThuggery claims in TNA campaign
TNA aspirants in Buuri constituency have resorted to organising criminal gangs to sabotage campaigns of their opponents. On New Year's eve, a 22 year old man was beaten and seriously injured after...
View ArticleHotel body decries insecurity
TERRORISM and general insecurity is a threat to the growth of tourism in Kenya, a hotel body official has said. Anthony Kashero, vice chairman of the Kenya Association of Hotel Keepers and Caterers in...
View ArticleMaalim faults Ruto and Uhuru alliance
Deputy speaker Farah Maalim has hit out at Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto saying that they could not be trusted with leading the country. Farah said that senior alliance leaders cannot not be trusted...
View Article30 new national schools receive Sh750 million
The government has released Sh 750 million to 30 secondary schools which have been elevated to national schools. The schools are currently being inspected to ensure they have necessary facilities to...
View ArticleTribalism will tarnish our image, says Tuju
Party of Action leader Raphel Tuju has raised the alarm over what he termed as increasing ethnic polarisation in the country. Tuju yesterday cautioned Kenyans against "tribal mobilisation," which he...
View ArticleKenya yet to achieve 2008 goals for peace
Kenya enters into the New Year with some of the issues in the four-item reform agenda agreed between President Kibaki and PM Raila Odinga five years ago still pending. Although some of the issues...
View ArticleCorridors of Power
The newly appointed Inspector General of police David Kimaiyo may have started on a high note with a promise to tame crime and institute reforms in the police service. Our moles tell us the man is yet...
View ArticleTJRC may seek fourth extension of its term
DESPITE getting its third extension early last month, Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission may have to seek a fourth extension come the May 3 deadline. If the reasons given for the third...
View ArticleCountdown to the March 4 poll starts
Only 62 days are left before Kenyans go to the polls to pick the fourth president. The elections will also usher in a new system of governance compriseing senators, governors, MPs and country...
View ArticleRaila has never earned salary as PM, claims Midiwo
GOVERNMENT Chief Whip Jakoyo Midiwo yesterday claimed Prime Minister Raila Odinga has never earned his salary since assuming office. Raila assumed office in March 2008 at the beginning of the coalition...
View ArticleBudalang’i floods alert
The government has issued a flood warning in Budalangi following the rising water levels of River Nzoia. Area DC Khalif Abdi Ali has ordered people who live in floods-prone areas to vacate to higher...
View ArticleOutcry over Mara conservancy contract
Trans Mara residents are up in arms over plans by the Trans Mara County Council to renew a 10-year contract with the Mara Conservancy without consulting them. The Mara Conservancy was contracted by the...
View ArticleSubukia family wants IPDs evicted
A family in Subukia district has appealed to the government to come to its aid after more than 200 internally displaced persons invaded their farm over the weekend. Ann Gitau, a daugther of the farm...
View ArticleMinister Mutula supports scrapping of KCPE
EDUCATION minister Mutula Kilonzo on Monday revisited the controversial debate over the proposed scarapping KCPE examinations. Mutua said the content of the education and not education system to be...
View ArticleMPs to debate Kibaki’s send-off package today
Members of Parliament will today revisit debate on a bill on President Mwai Kibaki's Sh 25 million retirment package. The law makers will be debating the Presidential Retirement Benefits (Amendment)...
View ArticleMPs set to tame President on national awards
MPs are today expected to start debate on a bill that seeks to introduce a new law to govern the awarding of national honors by the president. The National Honours Bill 2012 seeks to create special...
View Article14 die in New Year accidents
Fourteen people died in two separate accidents just an hour after Kenyans rung in the New Year. Eleven of the 14 died at Migai near Salgaa along the Nakuru Eldoret highway when a truck, a bus and a...
View Article6 perish in road accident
A nominated councilor in the Meru County Council and her husband were among six people who died on Tuesday night after a Nissan matatu which they were traveling in lost control and rammed into a...
View ArticleUDF severs ties with Jubillee Alliance
Musalia Mudavadi’s United Democratic Forum (UDF) party has today officially decamped from the Jubilee Alliance, a coalition it had formed with The National Alliance (TNA) under Uhuru Kenyatta, and...
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