Duale wants future party primaries to be overseen by electoral body
The National Assembly Leader of Majority and Garissa Township MP Aden Duale (pictured) is proposing that all future party primaries be conducted by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission...
View ArticleMore women to join KDF in fresh policy
Kinyuru Munuhe and PSCU @PeopleDailyKe President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday launched Defence Ministry gender policy document that will see more women recruited into the Kenya Defence Forces. The...
View ArticleODM set to endorse Raila at delegates convention
Kasarani gymnasium will tomorrow host more than 4,000 delegates and observers of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) during its National Delegates Convention (NDC). According to the party’s executive...
View ArticleEACC sleuths raid homes of senior NLC officials
Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) detectives have this morning raided the houses of Senior National Land Commission (NLC) officials, among them Chairman Mohammed Swazuri over skewed...
View ArticleJubilee to approve Uhuru’s candidature at Bomas meeting
Jubilee Party has convened a National Delegates Convention tomorrow to approve President Uhuru Kenyatta’s candidature as the presidential candidate in the August 8 General Election. Secretary general...
View Article2,000 aspirants to run as independents
Mercy Mwai @wangumarci and James Murimi @Jamesmurymy About 2,000 aspirants who lost in the just-concluded party primaries have applied to run as independent candidates in the August 8 General...
View ArticleSh1.5b Mbita bridge finally ready for use
Noven Owiti and George Odiwuor @PeopleDailyKe The government has officially opened the Sh1.5 billion Mbita causeway bridge in Homa Bay county. The bridge will connect residents of Mbita mainland and...
View ArticleAspirants urged to accept poll outcome
Religious leaders now want political aspirants who engage in violence to be barred from contesting in the August 8 General Election. The clerics also all candidates in the election to accept results...
View ArticleWe are ready for poll petitions, declares CJ
All election disputes will be resolved by the Judiciary within six months after the August 8 General Election, Chief Justice David Maraga has said. Speaking when he launched the 2016 annual report of...
View ArticleState rolls out HIV prevention medicine
by George Kebaso @Morarak The government yesterday launched the pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PreP) drug that will help in prevention of HIV infection and a HIV/Aids self-testing device. PreP is an...
View ArticleRuto meets Western, Kamba teams
DPPS @PeopleDailyKe Deputy President William Ruto has asked Kamba and Western Kenya leaders to play a leading role in marketing the Jubilee Party manifesto to voters in their respective areas ahead of...
View ArticleLeave Western to us, Ford-K, ANC tell ODM
Ford-Kenya and Amani National Congress (ANC) leaders in Kakamega have asked the ODM party to withdraw candidates from the Western region in favour of the two National Super Alliance (Nasa) affiliate...
View ArticleTension high as bandits strike Kitui village
Tension remained high in Kyuso sub-county in Kitui after heavily armed bandits raided a village on Wednesday night and made away with unknown number of livestock. The raiders believed to be herdsmen...
View ArticleVeteran politicians M’Mukindia, Koigi abandon Jubilee for Nasa
Nakuru politician Koigi Wa Wamwere (left) and former Cabinet minister Kirugi M’Mukindia (right) have defected from the Jubilee Party to the Opposition, Nasa. Koigi’s move comes barely two weeks after...
View ArticleMinor defiled by father cries for justice
Roy Lumbe @lumbe_roy A nine-year-old girl in Gitare, Gilgil is seeking justice after she was allegedly defiled by her step father who is still free even after the matter was reported to the police in...
View ArticleLaw lobby calls for effective poll dispute measures
Kenya needs a robust electoral dispute resolution mechanism ahead of the August 8 General Election to guarantee peaceful polls. A report by the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) has...
View ArticleNairobi county workers get 15 per cent pay hike
Mike Ratemo and Sandra Wekesa Nairobi City county government has signed a collective bargaining agreement with its unionisable employees that will seem them get a 15 per cent salary hike. In a...
View ArticleNkaissery warns politicians against disrupting peace
The government will deal firmly with politicians who try disrupt peace during and after the August General Election, Interior Cabinet secretary Joseph Nkaissery has said. The CS said the law will...
View ArticleLand Commission officials deny complicity in fraudulent compensation
A day after senior officials from the National Land Commission were interrogated for over six hours by Ethics and Anti Corruption detectives , the officers were today putting on a brave face ,...
View ArticlePolice release images of 24 teenage suspected criminals
Police have released the images of 24 youths, believed to be part of a gang of criminals that have been terrorising residents of old town, in the Coastal city of Mombasa. The suspects are said to be...
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