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  • - Police were on Thursday, March 30, forced to lob t******s canisters to disperse a group of goons who attempted to invade Kedong ranch at the border of Narok East and Naivasha sub-counties. Two rival groups are said to have broken into the private property before they started to fight. A joint team…
  • - Azimio la Umoja -One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga has maintained his stance on the ongoing protests. Speaking to supporters in Mukuru Kwa Njenga the opposition leader affirmed that no amount of anti-r**t officers deployed will block them (Azimio) from accessing various residential areas in…
  • - Two Anti-T*******m Police Unit (ATPU) officers have been arrested for failing to repatriate four Somali nationals who were found to be in the country illegally. Constable Noah Songony of ATPU Garissa and Constable Elkana Kemboi of ATPU Lamu were arrested by detectives from the Internal Affairs Unit…
  • - Anti-government protesters in Siaya county on Thursday, March 30, glued themselves at the county’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) offices and set the offices on fire. An amateur video seen by K24 Digital shows the offices up in flames as a billow of smoke filled the vicinity. The youths…
  • - Tens of police officers have been deployed to provide security at retired President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Ichaweri home in Gatundu South, Kiambu County. Top Gatundu South Sub County police officers who sought anonymity told journalists that enough officers had been deployed in the entire constituency…
  • - Several students are feared to have died in a grisly accident involving Pwani University bus at Naivasha, due to a brake failure. According to preliminary reports, the students were heading to Eldoret for a sports event, when the bus carrying over 30 of them collided with a matatu along Kayole area…
  • - The United States has denied reports that it has revoked visas for Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, Trade Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria, Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro and his Kikuyu counterpart Kimani Ichungwa. This follows reports that the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets…
  • - A s*x worker was found m******d in Bombolulu, Mombasa county. Nkoko Injuu Africa’s executive director Maryline Laini said that the mutilated body of Halima Hamisi was found dumped in nearby thickets and that she had been sexually assaulted. “She bore marks on her neck indicating that she was first…
  • - Transport on the busy Homa Bay-Kisumu main road has been paralysed as angry protesters block the road using stones and electricity poles. Shops within Homa Bay town, which serves as the county’s headquarters, remained closed for fear of looting by youths who invaded the town early in the morning.…
  • - Rally driver Maxine Wahome, who is accused of murdering her boyfriend Asad Khan, has been released on a Ksh2 million bond. High Court Judge Lilian Mutende ruled that there were no compelling reasons to continue detaining her pending the hearing and determination of her murder case. “No forceful or…
  • - Bruno Shioso is among 12 police officers who have been shortlisted for interviews for the position of Deputy Inspector General of Kenya Police. 30 police officers applied for the job after the position fell vacant following the retirement of Edward Mbugua. The National Police Service Commission (…
  • - Pope Francis has a respiratory infection and will need to spend a few days in hospital in Rome, the Vatican says. The 86-year-old had breathing difficulties in recent days but does not have Covid, a statement said. It said he would need “a few days of appropriate hospital medical therapy”. “Pope…
  • - Embattled Football Kenya Federation (FKF) President Nick Mwendwa got a major reprieve after the court quashed a Ksh38 million fraud case against him on Wednesday, March 29. In a ruling delivered by Kiambu Senior Principal Magistrate Wilson Rading, the court invalidated the decision by the…
  • - Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has called on leaders allied to the Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya coalition to stop their attacks against Kikuyu Member of Parliament Kimani Ichung’wah and his Kiharu counterpart Ndindi Nyoro. The two legislators have in the past two days come under heavy criticism…
  • - Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has announced a ban on opposition demonstrations in the city ahead of planned protests on Thursday, March 30, 2023. The county boss made the declaration while responding to his Kisumu counterpart Anyang’ Nyong’o’s statement encouraging Kisumu residents to join…
  • - Former TV anchor Jacque Maribe and her ex-fiancé Joseph Irungu alias Jowie have a case to answer in Monica Kimani’s murder, the High Court has ruled. Justice Grace Nzioka on Wednesday, March 29, said the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt that the duo had a hand in the murder of Kimani…
  • - Mother of former Kisii governor James Ongwae has sued Siaya governor James Orengo for hurling insults at her during a political rally organized by Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition party in Kisii county late last month.  In a defamation suit filed in court, Grace Moraa Ongwae says Governor Orengo…
  • - Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Prof Kithure Kindiki is the best-performing CS so far, an opinion poll released by TIFA on March 29, 2023, has shown. Kindiki was ranked the best at 26 per cent, followed by his education counterpart Ezekiel Machogu at 10 per cent. Prime…
  • - KANU Party chairperson Gideon Moi has spoken over the recent invasion of private properties belonging to former President Uhuru Kenyatta and Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition party leader Raila Odinga. In a statement, Moi called on Kenyans to avoid the destruction of property, even as they…
  • - A Kenya-based Dutch musician and prolific s*********r who has fathered about 550 children around the world is being sued for allegedly increasing the risk of accidental incest. According to the New York Post, Jonathan Jacob Meijer, 41, has donated sperm to at least 13 clinics, including 11 in the…
  • - Lawrence Njuguna, popularly known by his stage name DJ Fatxo, has won the Mugithi Artist of the Year award by e360 Awards. Fatxo was nominated for the award in February and made a post asking his fans to vote for him. According to E360 Entertainment, the sponsors of E360 Awards, the awards are…
  • - Banisa MP Kullow Maalim Hassan is dead. Hassan died on Tuesday night while receiving treatment in Nairobi after a hit-and-run motorcycle accident which happened on Saturday, March 25, 2023. According to the family, the legislator was hit by a speeding motorist at Capital Centre and was taken to…
  • - The 50 newly appointed Chief Administrative Secretaries (CASs) will have to wait longer before they assume their offices after High Court sitting in Nairobi declined to lift orders blocking them from reporting to their respective offices. When the matter came up for directions on Tuesday, March 28…
  • - Police in Embu county have launched investigations after a 14-year-old boy allegedly took his own life after being sent home to collect fees. Dickson Mwenda was a candidate for this year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam at Kiriari Primary School in Kigumo village. While…
  • - A total of 72 students from Mukumu Girls’ have been admitted at Kakamega County General Hospital with diarrhoea. This has been confirmed following test results by public health officers and medics in the facility, who ruled out cases of cholera. According to the hospital, the girls are likely to…
  • - A total of 72 students from Mukumu Girls’ have been admitted at Kakamega County General Hospital with diarrhoea. This has been confirmed following test results by public health officers and medics in the facility, who ruled out cases of cholera. According to the hospital, the girls are likely to…
  • - 25 applicants are in the race to succeed Wafula Chebukati, the former chairperson of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). This is according to a panel constituted to recruit new commissioners of the electoral body. In a statement, Nelson Makanda, the chairperson of the seven-…
  • - Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga now claims persons who invaded former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s family land in Ruiru on Monday were not locals. Addressing members of the press when he visited the Northlands farm on Tuesday evening, the opposition leader alleged that the…
  • - A 19-year-old w***n has pleaded with the Mombasa law courts not to jail her estranged boyfriend, who allegedly defiled her. In her confession before Mombasa Senior Principal Magistrate Vincent Adet, the complainant Sharlet Maria informed the court that she was still in love with Paul Luhanzo, who…
  • - The Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome has ordered a probe into the invasion of retired President Uhuru Kenyatta’s family estate on the Eastern bypass and Raila Odinga’s company, East Africa Spectre in Embakasi, Nairobi on Monday, March 27, 2023. The i*****l raids saw goons cut down trees and…
  • - Police in Mwingi East are investigating the mysterious death of a 33-year-old man who was found dead outside his house on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. While confirming the incident, Mwingi central sub-county police commander Peter Mutuma noted that the body of Joseph Kiteme was found facing upwards…
  • - Former Bonchari MP Robert Pavel Oimeke has been jailed to three years in prison with an option of a Ksh1 million fine for the offence of demanding a Ksh500,000 bribe. Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Peter Ooko on Tuesday, March 28 slapped the former MP with the jail term after finding him g…
  • - Comedian Eric Omondi has been arrested along Uhuru highway as he was heading to State House to deliver CVs. Amateur footage seen by K24 Digital shows a sweaty Omondi pushing a cart loaded with boxes carrying CVs. Shortly after, he was ambushed by police officers who bundled him into their c*r…
  • - KANU party led by Gideon Moi has joined other factions in condemning the attacks on retired president Uhuru Kenyatta’s family estate in Ruiru, Kiambu county on Monday, March 27, 2023. In a statement, the party’s Secretary-General George Wainaina termed the incident as disturbing and alleged that…
  • - Raila Odinga has responded to the police’s use of water c****n to disperse his supporters in Kawangware, Nairobi on Monday, March 27, 2023. Police water c****n sprayed Raila’s convoy with water in Kawangware as thousands of Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance supporters escorted their leaders. The…
  • - The chaotic protests that happened in Kenya on Monday, March 27, 2023, have drawn the attention of media in the US. On Monday, during a press briefing, journalists asked Vedant Patel, the Principal Deputy Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, about the situation in Kenya. “Potential…
  • - The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has launched investigations into the alleged failure of the police to protect properties owned by former President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. In a statement, IPOA chairperson Anne Makori revealed that there was a…
  • - The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has launched investigations into the alleged failure of the police to protect properties owned by former President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. In a statement, IPOA chairperson Anne Makori revealed that there was a…
  • - As most Kenyans continue to struggle to make ends meet, shopkeepers in Gatundu North, Kiambu County have stopped selling goods on credit to desperate consumers over repayment uncertainties. Due to poverty and prolonged drought, most residents of Kairi, Gatono, Kagambwa, Muirigo, Kangaita, Makwa,…
  • - Voting in Twitter polls will require users to be verified, owner and CEO of Twitter Elon Musk. In changes that he says will address advanced artificial intelligence (AI) bot swarms taking over, the tech company plans to make unverified accounts less visible on the platform. Unverified accounts will…
  • - Voting in Twitter polls will require users to be verified, owner and CEO of Twitter Elon Musk. In changes that he says will address advanced artificial intelligence (AI) bot swarms taking over, the tech company plans to make unverified accounts less visible on the platform. Unverified accounts will…
  • - ICT Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Dennis Itumbi has moved to court seeking to have a lawsuit filed by the Law Society of Kenya challenging his appointment together with that of 50 other CASs thrown out. In documents filed at the Milimani High Court, Itumbi also wants the orders barring CASs…
  • - A huge fire broke out on a farm at the Kenyatta family’s Northlands City near Ruiru on Monday evening, hours after a***d goons invaded the property. Videos seen by K24 Digital, show the inferno spreading rapidly in a planted forest on the expansive ranch.  NorthLands City right now,why destroy the…
  • - The Kenya Editors’ Guild and the Media Council, have condemned attacks on journalists covering anti-government protests in Nairobi. In a statement on Monday, March 27, Kenya Editors’ Guild h**d Churchill Otieno said increasing cases of v*****t attacks on journalists were “worrying”. Otieno said…
  • - Two men were shot dead after the opposition’s anti-government protests in Kisumu turned v*****t on Monday, March 27, 2023, The deceased said to be in their 20s were shot separately in two different spots — Nyalenda and Kondole. According to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital CEO…
  • - Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya coalition Raila Odinga has condemned attacks on his property and that of former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s family by unknown persons on Monday, March 27, 2023. The East Africa Spectre Limited, a gas plant owned by the opposition leader along Mombasa Road, and the…
  • - Narc Kenya leader Martha Karua claims there are plans to arrest and detain Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga over the ongoing anti-government protests. The opposition demonstrations pushing for economic and electoral reforms entered the second week on Monday, March 27, 2023…
  • - Investments, Trade & Industry Cabinet Secretary(CS) Moses Kuria raised eyebrows on Monday, March 27, 2023, with a cryptic tweet after the i*****l invasion of former presidents Jomo and Uhuru Kenyatta’s farm along Eastern By-Pass in Ruiru. In his first tweet after the reports of Northlands’ raid…
  • - Three bodyguards attached to Narc Kenya party leader Martha Karua, who were arrested on Sunday evening over allegations of taking part in the anti-government demonstrations in Nairobi, have been released on Ksh5,000 police bond each, lawyer John Khaminwa says. The bodyguards, Daniel Tabu, Joseph…
  • - As Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya alliance supporters matched in the streets for their weekly demonstrations on Monday, March 27, 2023, a mob stormed former Presidents Jomo and Uhuru Kenyatta’s farm in Ruiru. The gang invaded the multi-billion property well-a***d with m******s and power saws before…