- Joseph Abanja, Baby Samantha Pendo’s father, has expressed utmost gratitude to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji following an order to charge senior officers who allegedly had a hand in the death of Pendo during the 2017 general election. Speaking during an interview with K24…
- The fight against breast cancer in the country has received a major boost after a new comprehensive breast care centre was launched. The new centre put up at Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH) hopes to enhance quality cancer diagnosis, treatment and patient care…
- Central Police Station in Nairobi is on the spot after a city hawker and a businessman narrated to the court how officers from the station framed them for being in possession of a dangerous weapon, a military dagger after they failed to part with a Ksh50,000 bribe. Evanson Maina Kingori and Eliud…
- Lawyer and activist Miguna Miguna has this evening landed at the Kisumu International Airport ahead of his homecoming ceremony and meeting with his family members at his ancestral home after 4 years in forced exile. The firebrand lawyer was accorded a warm reception by a section of his supporters…
- Former Senator Millicent Omanga now claims that prices of essential commodities have started coming down thanks to the concerted efforts of President William Ruto. The ex-lawmaker says that the Kenya Kwanza government has all hands on deck and has been burning the midnight oil to ensure that the…
- Patients at Ahero County hospital, Kisumu County were left shocked after the management halted the admission of male inpatients over a shortage of nurses in the facility. In a memo shared by Bernadette Achieng, the acting Medical superintendent at the hospital, the latest development saw a shift in…
- 1xBet, one of the world’s leading bookmakers, has become the LOSC’s official regional partner in Africa. The duration of the agreement is three years. According to the terms of the deal, the betting company will be LOSC Lille’s regional partner in the Middle East, North and South Africa. As part of…
- Thousands of people chanted “revolution” as journalist Arshad Sharif was buried after being shot and killed under mysterious circumstances in Kenya. His funeral prayers were performed at Islamabad’s Faisal Mosque earlier on Thursday. Thousands of people attended, many of whom were carrying placards…
- The National Police Service has launched a countrywide crackdown targeting vehicles installed with modified lights. In a statement on Friday, October 28, Police Spokesperson Bruno Shioso said the vehicles include those bearing unlawfully equipped lamps, modified illuminating lights, red lights,…
- Ida Odinga, the wife of Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga, on Thursday, October 27, condoled with the family of her slain bodyguard Barack Onyango Oduor ahead of his interment on Friday. Ida visited Oduor’s family last evening in Bondo, Siaya, and commiserated with them as…
- Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has directed the senior police officers to be charged in relation to the murder of Baby Samantha Pendo that occurred after the 2017 general election in Nyalenda slums in Kisumu. Haji said investigations established that police officers may have…
- Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has denied volcanic eruption at Mount Longonot National Park. The state corporation said a fire had broken out on the mountain but it has since been put out. “A fire outbreak on the southern side of Mt. Longonot National Park reported on Thursday, October 27, 2022, has…
- Lawyer and activist Miguna Miguna has shared details of his visit to Kisumu amid reports of a looming supremacy battle in the Nyanza region. Miguna will be returning to his ancestral home on Friday, October 28, after more than four years in forced exile in Canada. In a statement, the outspoken…
- Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, a source familiar with the deal told CNN Thursday, putting the world’s richest man in charge of one of the world’s most influential social media platforms. Musk fired CEO Parag Agrawal and two other executives, according to two people…
- Kiambu County workers have faulted their employer following a requirement that they avail certified copies of either a marriage certificate or an affidavit certificate to the Chief Officer, Administration, and Public Service. The workers, most of them casuals, have since threatened to go on strike…
- Police in Nairobi came to the aid of an Ethiopian student who was on the verge of becoming a victim of human trafficking. Danil Lucamo had been lured to the trap in a well-orchestrated plan disguised as an opportunity to secure a non-existent job in Nairobi. While appearing before Mkadara Principal…
- A 91-year-old city lawyer accused of defrauding his client over Ksh63.7 million in a land transaction deal will now be under 24-hour police watch, a Nairobi court has ordered. Milimani Chief Magistrate Wendy Kagendo issued the directive to have the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)…
- An East African Pentecostal Church (EAPC) church in Imenti North, Meru County was the target of a brazen burglary as thieves stormed and made away with property worth Ksh4.5 million. In the incident that occurred on the night of Wednesday, October 26, 2022, the thieves said to be members of the…
- Engineer George Mwangi, the husband to politician Gladys Chania was finally laid to rest at his matrimonial Mang’u rural home in Gatundu North in a muddled event that was filled with drama. While such a ceremony would customarily take the entire day in an African setting, Mwangi was hurriedly…
- Police officers have launched a manhunt for a gang of six who robbed a man of Ksh400, 000 and other goods valued at Ksh 3.2 million on Tuesday, October 25, 2022. Calvince Kirochi was blocked by the criminal gang along Waiyaki Way who pointed a gun at him and ordered him to follow them. “While […]
- Five officers previously attached to the disbanded Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Special Services Unit(SSU) will remain under police custody at the Industrial area police station till Monday, October 31, 2022, following their arrest on Wednesday, October 26, 2022. The latest comes…
- Women drawn from the Kamba community have invited South Mugirango Member of Parliament (MP) Sylvanus Osoro to visit Kamba land for a ‘Muthokoi’ meal and a goat for the role he played in saving Peninah Malonza as Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage Cabinet Secretary in Parliament. Jubilant women, who…
- On October 20, 2022, we highlighted a story of six orphans living in abject poverty in Obunga slums in Kisumu. So bad has been their situation that 22-year-old Vivian Awino, the family’s firstborn, who is also a mother of one, and her sisters have been using their old clothes as sanitary pads. They…
- Lawyer and activist Miguna Miguna is expected to land in Kisumu on Friday afternoon after imploring ODM leaders not to mobilize youths to interrupt his homecoming ceremony. Miguna in a tweet announced that he would land in the lakeside city at 3 pm on Friday, October 27, 2022. “My KQ flight from…
- Pope Francis has warned seminarians against the “devil” of digital pornography, while admitting that watching online porn is also a vice of priests and nuns. Pope Francis warned seminarians this week about how the vice of digital pornography “weakens the priestly heart.” In a meeting with hundreds…
- Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) who were appointed by President William Ruto and approved by Parliament this week will be sworn in on Thursday, October 27 at State House, Nairobi. In a gazette notice dated October 26, 2022, the President said the new CSs will take office effective October 27. “In…
- A section of the church leadership in Mombasa has now rolled out divine intervention to ‘combat’ surging crime in parts of the port county. Mombasa Pastors Fellowship led by their chair Pastor Zechariah Mwagandi of Glorious River Church, Mombasa, has partnered with the internationally acclaimed…
- Turkana governor Jeremiah Lomorukai has moved to court seeking an anticipatory bail to avoid arrest by the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission (EACC). in an application filed at the Eldoret High Court through his lawyer Prof Tom Ojienda, Lomorukai says that the anti-graft agency is planning to…
- Grief has engulfed Githaruru village in Gatundu South, Kiambu County after three middle-aged men died while drawing water from a borehole for irrigation on Tuesday, October 25. The three, are among two brothers Earnest Karuru, 29, and George Gateri, 26, who were pumping water from a 25-feet…
- Lawyer and activist Miguna Miguna has implored ODM leaders not to mobilize youths to interrupt his homecoming ceremony in Kisumu county this Friday. The lawyer, who jetted back to the country- on October 20 after being forcefully exiled for 1716 days, claims that his trip to Kisumu is an act of…
- Residents of parts of Kiambu have raised their concerns and fears following cases of intermittent earth tremors in the area for the third week running. The earth tremors were witnessed a fortnight ago with the same recurring on Wednesday morning October 26, 2022, which according to locals were…
- Businesses came to a standstill along Kenyatta Street in Kitale Central Business District (CBD) when a Mercedes Benz hearse carrying the remains of a prominent business person failed to move, attracting people who came to witness the bizarre event. Speaking to K24 digital, an eyewitness said the…
- A 26-year-old woman has been arrested in Kebirigo sub-location, Nyamira County, on suspicion of throwing her aborted infant into a pit latrine. Confirming the incident, Nyamira South Sub-county Police commander Moses Kirong revealed that the suspect, Maria Maroko was arrested by police on Tuesday,…
- Pakistan’s Interior Ministry has formed an investigation team to probe the killing of renowned journalist Arshad Sharif. The ministry issued a notification saying that the investigation team include officers from Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Inter-Services…
- The National Assembly on Wednesday, October 26, overturned a decision by the Committee on Appointments to reject the nomination of Peninah Malonza as Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage Cabinet Secretary. The committee led by National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula had unanimously rejected Malonza’s…
- A vehicle at the centre of the killing of Pakistani journalist Arshad Shariff by the police in Kajiado has been recovered. The vehicle, a Mercedes Benz Sprinter van registration number KDJ 700F, had been reported missing at Pangani Police station on Sunday, October 23, prompting an operation that,…
- Equity Bank and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) have been ordered to pay a musician they sued in a case that dragged in court for three years. Justice Wilfrida Okwany directed Equity Bank, together with the DPP Director Noordin Haji and the police to pay Edwin Obiero Nyadida Ksh250,000…
- Kenya Railways has cautioned members of the public of a new scam targeting Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) customers. In a notice, Kenya Railways said fraudsters behind the scam pose as employees of the corporation with intention of defrauding SGR passengers. The scammers are said to lure their…
- UK’s new Prime Minister (PM) Rishi Sunak named his Cabinet hours after assuming office. Two nominees raised eyebrows as they were not allocated any ministries. Sunak rewarded two of his allies Nadhim Zahawi and Sir Gavin Williamson with Cabinet appointments without giving them ministries to run.…
- Former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko insists Kenyan police should not be blamed for the death of Pakistani journalist Arshad Mohammed Sharif. The National Police Service (NPS) admitted that Sharif was shot by police in a case of mistaken identity after local cops in Magadi received a circular from…
- An Iranian hermit nicknamed the “world’s dirtiest man” for not taking a shower for more than half a century has died at the healthy old age of 94, state media has reported. Irna news agency reported that “Amou Haji”, an endearing nickname for an elderly person, died on Sunday in the village of…
- Police officers in Bungoma County have launched a manhunt for suspected robbers who killed a night club guard before walking away with drinks worth Ksh70,000 and other valuables on the night of Sunday, October 23, 2022. The owner of the shop is reported to have safely locked the shop before walking…
- Residents of Hakimori village in Gatundu North, Kiambu County are crying for help after a jigger infestation hit the village. Bearing the brunt are the elderly persons who have been incapacitated from going about their daily economic activities as the fleas invade both their hands and legs thereby…
- A middle-aged woman in Meru escaped death by a whisker on Tuesday October 25, 2022, when angry villagers stormed her home after she was allegedly found making love with her son. The woman from Kiguchwa in Tigania Central faced the wrath of her fellow women after she was reported to have been…
- Seven learners at Oldonyo Onyokie Secondary School Magadi have been admitted to hospital after sustaining serious injuries as strong winds left a trail of destruction at their learning institution. Heavy winds blew up the classroom roofs on Monday afternoon October 24, 2022, leaving 31 girls…
- The nomination of Aisha Jumwa as Gender and Public Service Cabinet Secretary (CS) and her Agriculture and Livestock Development counterpart Mithika Linturi now hangs in the balance after Azimio-leaning legislators recommended their rejection. The Azimio Members of Parliament in the vetting…
- National Assembly Committee on Appointments on Tuesday, October 25 unanimously rejected the nomination of Peninah Malonza as the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Tourism, Wildlife, and Heritage. In a notice of motion in Parliament, Majority Leader Kimani Ichungwah said the Committee chaired by Speaker…
- Rishi Sunak rose to power because of the internal wrangles in the ruling Conservative Party which has had three Prime Ministers in three months. Unlike in Kenya where the electorates vote for the President directly in an election, in the United Kingdom (UK) voters vote for Members of Parliament (…
- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is one of the wealthiest people in the United Kingdom. He is so rich that the common citizens in Britain have expressed fears he could be out of touch with the harsh economic situation in the country. Sunak and his wife, Indian tech heiress Akshata Murty, have an…
- Rishi Sunak became Britain’s third prime minister of the year on Tuesday and now must turn his attention to taming an economic crisis that has left the country’s finances in a precarious state and millions of Britons struggling to afford food and energy bills. Sunak, the U.K.’s first leader of…