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  • - Shop and wholesale owners in rural areas of Kajiado County want the government to give proper direction on maize flour price reduction since they already have stock bought at high prices. The sellers say the government’s announcement that Unga should retail at Ksh100 from the previous Ksh 210-230…
  • - Kenyan media houses are set to hold a debate for four Deputy Presidential candidates piting Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance’s Martha Karua, United Democratic Alliance’s (UDA) Rigathi Gachagua, Roots Party’s Justina Wamae and Agano Party’s Ruth Mutua. Amidst political turmoil, two of the Deputy…
  • - Kenyan media houses are set to hold a debate for four Deputy Presidential candidates piting Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance’s Martha Karua, United Democratic Alliance’s (UDA) Rigathi Gachagua, Roots Party’s Justina Wamae and Agano Party’s Ruth Mutua. Amidst political turmoil, two of the Deputy…
  • - Kenyans were on Tuesday, July 19, seething with rage following the contradictory statements from the Athletics Kenya official page. This was after the body shared a statement denying allegations that 32 ‘joyriders’ travelled to Oregon at the expense of key competitors who ended up experiencing…
  • - A transgender prisoner who got two fellow inmates pregnant at New Jersey’s only women’s prison has been moved to a men’s prison where she is being held in a vulnerable unit. Demi Minor, who is serving a 30-year sentence for stabbing her former foster father to death, was moved from the Edna Mahan…
  • - The electioneering era has been a lucrative business season for Kitengela hawkers, who now operate without restrictions on time. Ordinarily, hawkers in the populous town operate from 3:00 pm, but in the recent past, they have been opening their businesses from as early as 6:00 am till late in the…
  • - The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has moved to court to challenge a recent High Court order directing the reopening of Keroche Breweries. In a statement on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, the taxman said the order contradicts previous orders issued by the same court. “The Kenya Revenue Authority moved to…
  • - Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Secretary General Edwin Sifuna has come out to address the scuffle between him and blogger Robert Alai during an Azimio rally held on Saturday, July 16, 2022. Speaking to a local radio station, Sifuna clarified that the confrontation between him and Alai, who is…
  • - The long-awaited Deputy Presidential debate will finally be going down at the Catholic University of East Africa. The debate, which is set to proceed in two tiers, will see Kenya Kwanza’s Rigathi Gachagua and Azimio’s Martha Karua face off in the second tier as Justin Mae of Roots Party and Ruth…
  • - Police officers in Kitale, Trans Nzoia County, are looking for a G3 rifle taken from a National Police Reservist (NPR) who was found on Tuesday morning murdered in a sugarcane plantation in Amagoro area. Speaking to K24 Digital, Kiminini Sub-County Police Commander John Onditi confirmed the…
  • - The Public Service Commission (PSC) has announced 3,000 internship vacancies for Government ministries, departments and agencies positions. Interested candidates are rquired to have a bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized university, they should also have graduated not earlier than…
  • - Roots party presidential candidate George Wajackoyah now claims his UDA rival William Ruto has been working for him, through the bottom-up economic model initiatives. Speaking to a local TV station the candidate, who has promised to legalise marijuana (bhang), said the wheelbarrows Ruto has been…
  • - Roots party presidential candidate George Wajackoyah now claims his opponents are spying on him. Speaking to K24TV on Monday, July 18, 2022, Wajackoyah alleged that the two leading presidential candidates — Raila Odinga of the Azimio – One Kenya coalition and Kenya Kwanza’s William Ruto — have…
  • - Police in Nairobi are holding 24 suspects linked to a violent confrontation between supporters of Embakasi West MP George Theuri and Jubilee candidate Mark Mureithi Mwenje in Umoja, Nairobi. A police report seen by K24 Digital indicates three people were injured during the Monday night incident.…
  • - A suspected Alshabaab militia was on Sunday, July 17, 2022, arrested in the Milimani area of Lamu County by General Service Unit (GSU) Officers. The arrest came after an intelligence-led operation to flush out Alshabaab militants hiding in the Boni forest. Preliminary investigations indicate the…
  • - Mwai Kibaki Hospital, an annexe of Kenyatta National Hospital in Othaya Nyeri county, has started a safe and convenient dialysis treatment for patients suffering from kidney failure through a procedure called Arteriovenous fistula. The procedure is the first of its kind in the Mt Kenya region and…
  • - Attorney General Kihara Kariuki has been granted 45 days by the East African Court of Justice to file his response in a case where former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko is challenging the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold his impeachment. A notification sent to Kihara by the regional court’s…
  • - Attorney General Kihara Kariuki has been granted 45 days by the East African Court of Justice to file his response in a case where former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko is challenging the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold his impeachment. A notification sent to Kihara by the regional court’s…
  • - Police in Nakuru have recovered military fatigue from a rental house in Pangani, Nakuru, as a crackdown on criminal gangs in the county intensifies. In a statement on Monday, July 18, the National Police Service (NPS) said the military tactical gear was recovered following a tip-off from a member…
  • - Police have launched investigations after a body of a 67-year-old woman was found in a gold mine pit in Hamisi, Vihiga County. The body was discovered on Friday, July 15, 2022, inside the 12 feet foot pit. Preliminary investigations indicate the elderly woman was killed by his husband Reuben Shumba…
  • - Motorists plying the Kitengela – Kajiado route have been warned against speeding amid concerns over an increased number of fatal accidents along the 43km stretch. According to police records, 16 people have died in separate road crashes with 28 others reduced to disabled in the last three months.…
  • - Police have launched a manhunt for two suspects who robbed a man of Ksh100,000 and his mobile phone worth Ksh40,000 in the Korogocho market after they kidnapped him in Kariobangi. Boniface Wainaina who works as a stage clerk at the Kariobangi roundabout was waiting to board a Matatu to go to Kayole…
  • - South Gem Ward representative David Audi has accused his political opponents of being behind the fire that destroyed his car on Sunday, July 17, 2022. The vehicle, a Toyota Probox bearing registration number KBS 670F, was set ablaze by unknown persons last night. “My Probox, registration number KBS…
  • - Two suspects were on Sunday, July 17, 2022, arrested as the police continue with their investigations into the stabbing of a middle-aged man in a guest house along Kirinyaga road in the Nairobi Business District (CBD). According to a Police report seen by K24 Digital, 30-year-Old Vincent, who…
  • - ODM leader Raila Odinga on Sunday, July 17, 2022, took the Azimio One Kenya coalition charm offensive to Nairobi’s Embakasi East Constituency. He was flanked by a host of city politicians led by his running mate Martha Karua, in the mission to fill his vote basket ahead of the forthcoming August 9…
  • - The government has introduced a massive subsidy to millers that will see maize flour prices for a 2kg packet reduced to Ksh100 effective Monday, July 18.  In a statement on Monday, the Ministry of Agriculture directed that all retailers should sell the two-kilogramme packet of flour at Ksh100, down…
  • - The Ethics And Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has filed a suit in the High Court in Nairobi seeking to recover Ksh24,999,600 allegedly embezzled by officials of Turkana County Government through a private company. The Commission commenced investigations following an allegation that officials of…
  • - Police in Gem Siaya county, have launched a probe into an incident where unknown people torched a car belonging to South Gem MCA Onyango Audi. According to Gem Sub-County Police Commander Charles Chacha, attackers stormed his home on Monday morning and burnt down his vehicle before taking off. “We…
  • - Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has revoked the certificate it issued to Mike Mbuvi Sonko to run for Mombasa governor seat. The electoral body further barred the former Nairobi governor from vying for the seat citing the Supreme Court’s judgement issued on Friday, July 15.…
  • - In an unprecedented but well-calculated political move, the Kikuyu Council of Elders and Kiama Kiama Cultural Associations have set the Agikuyu free from the 1969 oath. The oath, which was reportedly administered in 1969, barred the community from socially and politically associating with the Luo…
  • - Former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko has moved to the East African Court of Justice to challenge Kenya’s Supreme Court’s decision to uphold his impeachment.  He wants the regional court to certify the matter urgently and temporarily stop the implementation of the judgment rendered by the top court on…
  • - Musician Kevin Bahati now says his life is in danger. Bahati, who is vying for Mathare parliamentary seat, claimed his opponent has been sending him threatening messages and goons to attack him. “Because I made it to Azimio rally, my opponent sent goons to manhandle me. They have torn my Jubilee…
  • - Police in Nandi County have launched a manhunt for a cop who raped a female prisoner in one of the offices at Kaimosi Police Station on Sunday, July 17. The victim had, on July 14, been arrested for the offence of child stealing and was detained at the station. While the station commander was on […]
  • - Uganda’s National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) has received a green light from the courts to investigate a degree certificate obtained by Johnson Sakaja from Team University. Sakaja’s academic papers have been a subject of discussion in Kenya after allegations that he never graduated from the…
  • - Detectives in Kajiado are investigating a bizarre incident where unknown assailants wounded cows by inflicting deep cuts using a sharp object at Rimpa, Ong’ata Rongai, Kajiado County. It is reported that the incident happened on Saturday, July 16, 2022, in broad daylight when unknown assailants…
  • - Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko now wants Chief Justice Martha Koome to resign over a recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld his impeachment. Sonko was dealt a blow after the Supreme Court on Friday, July 15, 2022, upheld a lower court’s ruling that he was fairly removed from office in December…
  • - Several suspected bandits were fatally injured in a fierce exchange of fire with police officers along the Ndonyo Wasin – Sereolipi Road in Samburu county. In an incident said to have occurred on Wednesday, July 13 but reported by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Sunday, the…
  • - A photo of Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed’s daughter identified as Firyal Nur with Africa’s fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala has gone viral on social media. The photo is being shared with the claim that it shows recent visuals of Firyal amid backlash over the visa debacle between athletes…
  • - Mary Chebukati, the wife of Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati has revealed how his family is hanging tough following his absence due to his role in the upcoming election. Speaking during her mother’s burial on Saturday, July 16, Mary asked Kenyans to…
  • - A family from Mosebecho village in Kapsabet town, Nandi county is mourning the death of their son who was found dead in his room 23-year-old Elvis Kipkemei who has just graduated from Meru University with a degree in Nursing is suspected to have been murdered before his body was brought silently to…
  • - Mosoni Lemoto Torome, the late granny who died aged 135 years was, on Saturday, July 16, 2022, laid to rest at her Isinya home in Kajiado county. The granny who was married in 1920 and enjoyed seeing her 7th generation was buried at Nkiito village in a colourful ceremony characterized by lengthy…
  • - Two police officers have been arrested for alleged robbery in Tharaka South. In a statement by DCI, the duo, sergeant John Lekidayo and constable Kelvin Kinyua, both based at Nkubu police station were linked to a theft case where a lorry ferrying hardware goods worth 600,000 was blocked and…
  • - Cecilia Njeri Mbugua, one of the 300 surviving members of the Wareng/Nyakinyua dance troupe in Uasin Gishu County is pleading with President Uhuru Kenyatta to help them get title deeds for their prime 80 acres of land located in Kapseret Sub-county, Uasin-Gishu county. The 105-year-old who has been…
  • - Residents of Kajiado are up in arms over an emerging trend of illegal land subdivision allegedly being fueled by rogue land surveyors who divide land entirely without providing an access road, fueling conflict and creating confusion. Agitated locals blame the rogue surveyors for creating false…
  • - Farmers in Kajiado have been asked to be cautious while buying hay to avoid falling prey to rogue businessmen selling substandard hay that is poisonous. Kajiado Hay Growers Co-operative Society now says that some of the rogue cartels are selling hay intoxicated with high levels of chemicals that…
  • - Africa’s fastest man, Ferdinand Omanyala has been trending for the past one week following his visa hitches. His debut at the biennial championships was marred with chaos seeing him arrive three hours to the championships. Despite arriving after three hours to the championships, the athlete who is…
  • - Africa’s fastest man, Ferdinand Omanyala has been trending for the past one week following his visa hitches. His debut at the biennial championships was marred with chaos seeing him arrive three hours to the championships. Despite arriving after three hours to the championships, the athlete who is…
  • - Africa’s fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala has issued a statement as he bows out of the 100m final race following his defeat at Eugene’s Hayward Field semi-finals during the World Athletic Championships in Oregon, USA. Omanyala clocked 10.14 to finish fifth in Heat three in a race won by Jamaica…
  • - Ferdinand Omanyala’s fairy tale at the World Athletics Championships came to an end on Sunday morning after he finished fifth in Heat three of the semi-final in Eugene, Oregon.  Omanyala clocked 10.14 in a race won by Jamaica youngster Oblique Seville who clocked 9.90 ahead of Marvin Bracy(9.93) of…
  • - Ferdinand Omanyala’s fairy tale at the World Athletics championships came to an end on Sunday morning after he finished fifth in Heat three of the semi-final in Eugene, Oregon.  Omanyala clocked 10.14 in a race won by Jamaica youngster Oblique Seville who clocked 9.90 ahead of Marvin Bracy(9.93) of…