Court officials await petitions
The Court Process Server Society of Kenya has expressed confidence in its preparation to handle election petitions. In a statement signed by Chairman Alex Ochwo Alela yesterday, the group urged...
View ArticleParliament puts out adverts for more staff
Parliament is expanding its workforce to cater for the increased number of MPs and the new Senate. The Parliamentary Service Commission, the group charged with recruiting workers for the National...
View ArticleNarc Kenya outlines post-poll agenda
The National Management Committee of Narc Kenya yesterday outlined its post-election engagements and set the agenda of the National Executive Council meeting and the planned retreat. The party...
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View ArticleSuccess all starts in the mind
My children’s outlook to life is quite different. The difference is never clearer than when they are involved in a race or an event. One of them, the eternal optimist, will say to me, “I will win all...
View ArticleThe law shields children from sexual predators
Defilement is the violation of the chastity of a child. Section 8 (1) of the Sexual Offences Act provides that a person who commits an act which causes penetration with a child is guilty of an offence...
View ArticleUK actress roots for Kenya wildlife
Virginia McKenna, the British actress known for her award-winning role in a Kenyan shot film, Born Free, was in the country recently to launch a partnership with Kenya Airways to raise funds to push...
View ArticleLegendary footballer Joe Kadenge's birthday party
Soccer legend and former AFC Leopards striker Joe Kadenge got a birthday surprise at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi last Saturday. He had gone to watch his former club popularly known as Ingwe play against...
View ArticleFinlays Golf Day at the Karen Country club
The Karen country club came alive last Friday as the prestigious venue hosted the Finlay's golf day. Finlay's is a company based in Kericho in the Rift Valley and deals with agricultural produce like...
View ArticleI almost conceded defeat, Raila says
Prime minister Raila Odinga has said that he almost conceded defeat in the recent presidential election but realized that it was wrong to do so. “I was just about to do it but my sixth sense told me...
View ArticleCites convention 'fails to protect the African elephant'
The Kenyan delegation to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and the Kenya Elephant Forum members' hopes were dashed in the first few days of the convention in Bangkok,...
View ArticleThree die mysteriously in drug case
POLICE have reopened investigations into the deaths of an anti-narcotic policeman, an immigration officer and the wife of the acting police spokesman who died in mysterious circumstances after they...
View ArticleUhuru warns Raila over petition
PRESIDENT-elect Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday told Prime Minister Raila Odinga to stop politicizing the election petition and wait for the verdict of the Supreme Court. Uhuru, accompanied by his deputy...
View ArticleIEBC chair responds to Cord petition
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Isaack Hassan has responded to the petition by the Cord coalition challenging the outcome of the March 4 elections. In his response the IEBC chair said...
View ArticleRaila dismisses quit order on Ministers
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has dismissed a directive to Ministers and Assistant Ministers who were elected during the March 4 general elections to resign before taking up new jobs. The PM said that...
View ArticleIEBC ordered to release files for Siaya governor poll
The High Court in Kisumu has ordered the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to release documents required in a suit challenging the results of the March 4 Gubernatorial poll. The suit was...
View ArticleUhuru, Ruto respond to Cord poll petition
President elect Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto have both filed responses to a petition by the Cord coalition challenging the outcome of the March 4 general elections. In his response, the...
View ArticleNCIC urges Uhuru, Raila to preach peace
The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has urged President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga of the Cord coalition that came second in the March 4 polls to let the Supreme Court...
View ArticleELECTION NOT TRANSPARENT - EU OBSERVERS
"The processing of official results was wholly lacking in transparency," according to an internal report of the European Union election observers. The report was written the week after the March 4...
View ArticleSupreme Court issues directions on election petition
The three petitions challenging the outcome of the March 4 presidential elections have been mentioned this morning at the Supreme Court. A six-judge bench led by Chief Justice Willy Mutunga has given...
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