- Diamond Platnumz is yet to settle down but unlike his Wasafi Records brother Don Fumbwe, the Bongo singer never seems to find the perfect partner to settle down with. For years, Diamond Platnumz has promised his fans a wedding and seeing that even his ‘favourite’ baby mama Zari Hassan could not get…
- Kiambu-based detectives have recovered assorted Kenya Power equipment with an estimated worth of Ksh11 million. In a statement, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations(DCI), the state properties were recovered following a raid at a scrap metal yard in the Denderu location. The yard is said to be…
- Police in Huruma, Nairobi county have arrested seven suspects for being in possession of narcotic drugs. In an update, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations(DCI) says the suspects were nabbed during a midnight raid following a tip-off from members of the public. They include; Alex Murimi,…
- The Nation Media Group (NMG) has called on President William Ruto to publicly disassociate himself from utterances by Trade CS Moses Kuria, who has declared a trade war against the media house. In a statement hours after the CS declared economic ‘war’ against Nation, following a series of exposės…
- Two Judicial officers are on the spot for allegedly misrepresenting rulings in a case where a city businesswoman is charged with theft of Ksh2.5 million from her overseas former boyfriend. Asking Milimani Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina to allocate the case against Pheny Okwaro Owino to a new…
- Michael Macharia, popularly known as DJ Brownskin, who is facing charges of aiding the suicide of his wife has been freed on Ksh 100,000 cash bail. Milimani Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina ordered the release of DJ Brownskin on an alternative bond of Ksh200,000 after failing to find compelling…
- Kenya Union of Journalists(KUJ) has sent a message of outrage to Investments, Trade & Industry Cabinet Secretary(CS) Moses Kuria following his recent attacks on Nation Media Group. In a statement on Monday, June 19, 2023, the union stated that Kuria’s latest stunt – after being linked to an…
- The Media Owners Association has castigated Trade Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria over his threats against the Nation Media Group. In a statement, the association’s chairperson Agnes Kalekye termed Kuria’s foul language as a major disqualification for him to hold public office. “It is unfortunate…
- US rapper Big Pokey has died after collapsing during a performance in Texas. The artist, whose real name was Milton Powell, was performing at a Juneteenth-themed event at a bar on Saturday when he fell backwards on stage. Witnesses rushed to help the 45-year-old before he was taken to a nearby…
- A Belgian TikToker faked his own death to find out who cared and then turned up to his own funeral. David Baerten, 45, and his wife and children decided to prank friends and family members to find out what they really thought him. To spread the news of Mr Baerten’s death, one of his children […]
- The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) sleuths have arrested a Kenya Power officer accused of demanding a Ksh15,000 bribe from a client. Officials aware of the matter intimated to K24 Difital that the officer had threatened to increase the customer’s bill to over Ksh800,000. The Kenya…
- At least two Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldiers have been killed as they responded to a suspected Al-Shabaab attack on a General Service Unit (GSU) team at Mlima wa Faru, Lamu County. 10 other GSU officers had been injured when the armoured personnel carrier (APC) they were travelling in ran over…
- Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has vowed to continue the fight against rogue churches and preachers in the country. Speaking after attending a church service at the PEFA Church Kamahuha, Maragua Constituency, Murang’a Country, Kindiki said the government would not relent until the…
- Labour Cabinet Secretary Florence Bore, the CS accused of squatting in a Ksh120 million house in Karen has accused the owners of the house of malice. In a statement on Sunday, June 18, 2023, Bore claimed that she had entered into a purchase agreement with Gatanga MP Edward Muriu and his wife Maria…
- A man in Masaba South, Kisii county has been accused of chopping off a tenant’s fingers over Ksh500 rent arrears. In the unfortunate incident which occurred on Friday, June 16, 2023, the accused, a landlord, allegedly assaulted a student identified as Newton Nyabuto after he delayed his rent…
- A man has been arrested for kicking a small, elderly dog so hard that it remains in critical condition days after the brutal attack occurred in Venice. Bart, a 15-year-old Yorkshire terrier, was with his owner, Laura Michele Rosenfield, on Wednesday at around 3 p.m. when the incident happened. The…
- Police in Ruaraka police station have launched a probe into how three workers at a construction site in Eastleigh, Nairobi, lost their lives due to negligence by the landlord. According to the officers led by the Ruaraka Deputy OCPD Willy Kubano the construction of the building had been suspended…
- Water, Sanitation and Irrigation Cabinet Secretary (CS) Alice Wahome has denounced rumours that she is involved in the Karen house scandal involving a CS and a Member of Parliament (MP). The saga was a hot topic for the better part of Saturday morning after the spouse of a Murang’a MP claimed that…
- Sorrow engulfed Kapropita village in Baringo county after a nine-year-old boy drowned while swimming in Chemorop River, within Kabarnet town on Friday, June 16, 2023. The boy, who was a Grade Three learner at Visa Oshwal Primary School, was in the company of his four friends when they went for a…
- Eight people have died in the third heatwave to hit Mexico since mid-April, the country’s health ministry said on Friday. Temperatures reached a record high of 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) in the capital Mexico City this week. Seven of the victims died of heatstroke and one of dehydration…
- Hamisi Iddi, the MCA for Chewani Ward in Tana River County, is dead. Iddi, who served as the minority leader in the County Assembly of Tana-River, died in an accident on Malindi-Garsen road on Saturday morning. Iddi was a first-term ward representative elected under a UDA party ticket in last year’…
- A body of a 57-year-old man has been exhumed by police in Nandi after evidence placed the deceased’s son and widow at the centre of his murder. The body of the deceased, Joseph Cheruiyot, was found dumped in a neighbour’s water pan in Chepanyiny area, Chepalungu sub-county, a week ago. Cheruiyot’s…
- At least 25 people have been killed at a school in western Uganda by rebels linked to the Islamic State group. A further eight people remain in a critical condition after the attack on Lhubiriha secondary school in Mpondwe. Police say the attack on Friday was carried out by the Allied Democratic…
- Media personality Ciku Muiruri says she has forgiven two men who abducted her daughter and her friend in Nairobi’s Westlands area on June 4, 2023. The former radio queen recounted the events of the early June incident in a recent interview with a local daily. Ciku believes that her prayers led to a…
- The Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission (EACC) officers have arrested a police officer in Meru for allegedly demanding a Ksh10,000 bribe from a bodaboda rider. George Waweru Kagia of Mutuati police station is alleged to have stopped the rider and demanded documents to prove that he owned the…
- The Supreme Court has ruled that the procurement process of the Ksh500 billion contract between Kenya and China for the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway(SGR) was not flawed. A judgement rendered by Supreme Court judges led by Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu overturned the Court of…
- The government has suspended the exhumation of bodies at Shakahola forest, even as the death toll hit 336 on Friday, June 16, 2023. The government has suspended the exhumation exercise to prepare for autopsy examination on the bodies already exhumed. 10 more bodies were exhumed on Friday, while no…
- The Supreme Court has rejected a plea by over 6,000 pensioners to temporarily suspend the National Social Security Fund’s (NSSF) move to increase monthly deductions to Ksh2,160 pending the determination of their appeal. In a ruling delivered on Friday, June 16, 2023, the apex court judges led by…
- A bid by a company associated with Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua to have a lawyer and a city businessman charged with conspiracy to defraud it of Ksh1.6 billion land situated in Embakasi, Nairobi has flopped. This is after Milimani Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina stopped the criminal prosecution…
- Pope Francis was discharged from Rome’s Gemelli hospital Friday where the 86-year-old was recovering from abdominal surgery, after the procedure sparked renewed concerns over his health. The pontiff left hospital in a wheelchair and spoke with well-wishers and medical staff who had gathered outside…
- Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has asked both primary and secondary school head teachers to ensure teaching starts at 8.00 am and ends at 3.45 pm on weekdays. Machogu said the Ministry provides for a maximum of six hours of teaching, noting that the education of learners should be…
- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has been accused of intimidating and frustrating witnesses in a Ksh1.5 billion land dispute case pending in the High Court. Gachagua has been accused of orchestrating the arrest of a lawyer and an alleged landowner. This emerged following the arrest and arraignment…
- The dramatic case surrounding Kenyan dancehall artiste Karagu Kimani alias KRG The Don and his alleged baby mama Susan is far from over. In a recent interview with YouTuber Eve Mungai, Arrow Boy and Dufla affirmed that KRG was indeed involved with Susan and that the alleged daughter (Yvonne) could…
- The Kenya Power company has announced that several parts of Nairobi will experience power outages. In a statement shared via their official Twitter account, the utility company said that the expected blackout is meant to pave room for system maintenance. “Hello, please find the areas on maintenance…
- Pastor Ezekiel Odero got a reprieve after the state restored broadcasting by his TV stations following a ruling by a Mombasa court. On Thursday, June 15, 2023, via YouTube, the church announced the reopening of its TV station and thanked God for the move. This has allowed the televangelist and his…
- Embakasi East Member of Parliament (MP) Paul Ongili Owino alias Babu Owino has revealed how much he spent on Felix Orinda popularly known as DJ Evolve. Babu was charged with behaving poorly while handling a firearm resulting in the shooting of the DJ at a club in Kilimani, Nairobi county in January…
- There was drama in parliament after Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition Members of Parliament (MPs) stormed out of the parliament soon as Treasury Cabinet Secretary (CS) Njuguna Ndung’u started reading the 2023/2024 Budget. In a video seen by K24 Digital, there was commotion after the Treasury CS…
- When former Gatundu South MP Jossy Ngugi sought the intervention of President Uhuru Kenyatta to have the Gatundu Level Five Hospital Morgue expanded, residents booed him saying the move would prompt more deaths. The hostility of Gatundu residents against their then MP over the August 2013 request…
- Parliamentarians passed the Sh3.679 trillion budget estimates for the Financial Year 2023/24 ahead of today’s reading of President William Ruto’s first budget since he won the presidency last year. The Executive was allocated Sh2.1 trillion, Parliament Sh40 billion while the Judiciary and the…
- Belgium tiktoker David Baerten, 45, and his wife and children decided to prank friends and family members to find out what they really thought him. To spread the news of Mr Baerten’s death, one of his children took to social media and wrote a tribute to her father. She wrote: “Rest in peace Daddy.…
- The contentious Finance Bill 2023 sailed through the Second Reading after a charged debate in the National Assembly on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. 176 MPs voted in favour of the Bill while 81 voted against it. There were no abstentions. Prior to the vote, National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani…
- Equity Group Holdings Plc, in keeping with its strategic regional expansion, on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, announced its intention to acquire Compagnie Générale de Banque (Cogebanque) PLC Ltd in Rwanda after signing a binding term sheet that will mean that, upon completion of the transaction, EGH…
- Four traffic police officers were on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, arrested by Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officers while they were extorting motorists plying the Outering Road in Nairobi. The EACC detectives arrested the rogue cops at Kware stage near the Pipeline estate when they…
- Siaya police are holding a 50-year-old man after he was arrested for defiling and impregnating his wife’s 15-year-old niece at Pap-Kakan village, Mulaha sub-location in Siaya Township Ward. The suspect, who has been identified as Micah Onyango Oure, was arrested after it was established that he had…
- 41-year-old Jackson Kandie has pleaded guilty to killing a villager, Japheth Kiprop, whom he accused of committing murder in 2018. Appearing before Kabarnet Law Courts, Kandie pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge for the killing that happened at his home in Kaplel, Sacho on May 25 at around 6 pm…
- Fear has gripped Kairi, Igamba, Ngorongo and Kagambwa villages in Gatundu North constituency over increased attacks by marauding machete-wielding gangs. The criminals are reported to have been attacking the villagers in their homes, businesses and on their way home from work. The recent victim is…
- Two lead lawyers in the case of controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie have withdrawn from the case. The lawyers, George Kariuki and Elisha Komora, have cited frustrations in accessing the preacher who is in detention alongside his co-accused. “With the challenges that the suspects are going through…
- Noordin Haji has been sworn in as the new Director-General of the National Intelligence Service (NIS). This comes a day after the National Assembly approved his nomination to be the new spymaster to replace Philip Kameru who has retired. He is now set to return to NIS where he previously served as…
- Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has given an update on his COVID-19 status hours after reports that he was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). In an update on Tuesday night, Museveni claimed that he had been busy doing paperwork, although he stayed in isolation after a second test came out…
- Traders of the famous Buruburu’s Mutindwa Market are counting losses after a morning inferno burnt down their stalls. According to preliminary reports, the traders were unable to salvage any of their goods even as some members of the public took the opportunity to loot. Fire fighters from nearby…
