Kenyatta, Ruto rebuff CORD ultimatum on dialogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO1LoFlvG30 The country is headed for yet another showdown on Monday next week after police rejected a notification by the opposition Cord coalition to hold...
View ArticleMediation talks on Rawal retirement case collapse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7JJdQMpFPk Attempts by the Law Society of Kenya to mediate an out of court settlement on the contentious retirement age of Deputy Chief Justice Kalpana Rawal and...
View ArticleOne on One with reigning Miss World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hPbgkQfV6c She was voted the most beautiful of them all and has since taken on a cause that is dear to her, raising awareness for children born with cleft lips....
View ArticleSupreme Court bars Havi from Rawal-Tunoi appeals
The glaring division in the five-member Supreme Court was publicly exposed last evening when it gave a 3-2 split decision disallowing lawyer Nelson Havi’s application to participate in the appeals...
View ArticleTerrorist spouse charged
The wife of an Islamic State (IS) terror group leader Mohammed Abdi Ali, who is linked to planning an anthrax attack in the country, has been charged with being a member of a terrorist group. Nuseiba...
View ArticleTobiko lauds agency unity in fighting corruption
Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko has said the establishment of the Multi Agency Team (MAT) to fight corruption has helped reduce the vice. He said the body, which brings together law...
View ArticleState sued over Dadaab camp closure
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has sued the government over its move to close the Daadab refugee camp. The commission wants the decision of the State to repatriate the refugees...
View ArticleJubilee merger almost complete, say officials
Jubilee leaders have said the attempt to unite alliance affiliates into one outfit—Jubilee Party of Kenya (JPK)—is almost complete with the registration, election and nomination rules process on the...
View ArticleDemolition of risky houses ‘on course’
People still living in buildings condemned by the government have no option but to relocate, Public Works principal secretary, Mwangi Maringa has said. He has asked tenants in the 228 buildings that...
View ArticleTwo shot dead in Kisumu protests
Police in Nairobi yesterday adopted a surprising tactic in dealing with Cord demonstrators by leaving them to march along some city streets without barring their procession at any point. Unlike two...
View ArticleCrowded agenda as MPs resume sittings
A heavy agenda awaits Members of the National Assembly as they resume sittings today after a one month break. The legislators, who went on recess in early May, troop back to the House to a full...
View ArticleReprieve for Cord as court allows anti-IEBC demos
The High Court yesterday allowed Cord to continue with their countrywide IEBC protests. Justice Joseph Onguto declined to stop the protest but however, ordered Inspector General of Police Joseph...
View ArticleCourt orders detention of UK murder suspect
Bernice Mbugua, Monica Kagia and Brian Terer A British national who allegedly murdered a woman in Karen on Sunday has been detained for five days by a Kibera court to allow police to conduct further...
View ArticleFive ‘gangster-varsity’ students arrested
Police in Kikuyu, Kiambu county yesterday arrested five students from University of Nairobi , Lower Kabete campus after they reportedly staged series of armed raids in the area on Monday night. A...
View ArticleUganda fete forces EAC to change budget date
This year’s budget statement will be read today as opposed to the traditional second Thursday of June. Kenya’s budget statement is read simultaneously with other East African Community (EAC) member...
View ArticleHow Finance Act changed budgeting process rules
As the National Treasury Cabinet secretary Henry Rotich reads his fourth budget speech today since the Jubilee government came to power, he will be looking back with nostalgia on how the budget making...
View ArticleMPs summon Uhuru, Raila on poll reforms
Mercy Mwai and Sarah Ndungu Two parliamentary committees have invited President Uhuru Kenyatta and Cord leader Raila Odinga to give their views on the reconstitution of the Independent Electoral and...
View ArticleAnalysts urge caution in borrowing as public debt soars
Kenya’s rising total public debt is expected to reach $31.6 billion (Sh3.2 trillion) at the start of 2016/17 financial year. According to the budget summary for 2016/17, the National Treasury has...
View ArticleGM, matatus in deal on high capacity buses
General Motors East Africa has formed a consortium with matatu owners in a bid to scale up absorption of high capacity buses in the public transport industry. This comes amid a sustained push by the...
View Article600 out of school after farm closure
The government is doing everything possible to ensure learning resumes at Makongeni Primary School after it was closed last week, Rongai deputy county commissioner David Koskei has said. According to...
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