USAID gives blankets to Kakamega
More than 2,100 orphaned and destitute children in Kakamega county received blankets from a USAID project of Aphia plus over the weekend. The children from Siaya, Butere and Khwisero districts...
View ArticleAskaris bring down Kiosks
Malaba Town Council askaris yesterday flattened more than 20 kiosks in Malaba The small scale traders appealed to Busia governor Sospeter Ojaamong to intervene and stop the indiscriminate demolitions....
View ArticleYouth reject nominees list
Youths from Kisii yesterday threatened to move to court to block the swearing-in of county assembly nominees. Led by Jubilee youth leader Cyrus Matoke, they claimed the list of TNA nominees published...
View ArticleCounty to get more clinics
TRANS NZOIA The county government will support the expansion of health facilities to help in decongesting hospitals. governor Patrick Khaemba said over the weekend that his government will help to...
View ArticleBike thief gets five years in jail
A man who was found guilty for stealing a motorbike has been jailed for five years by a Kilgoris court. Alfred Rutoh was brought before Kilgoris resident magistrate Amos Mokoross accused of having...
View ArticleMan killed in Narok quarry
A man was yesterday killed in a quarry caved in Narok South. Two others escaped unhurt. Mulot chief Joseph Korir said a huge rock crushed the Jackson Ngetich to death. He said wananchi took more than...
View ArticleODM told to reject IEBC list
ODM women league leaders in Busia have asked the ODM party secretariat to reject the list of nominees published in a local daily yesterday and instead come up with a new list that represents the whole...
View ArticleStreet families to be relocated
THE government will round up street families living under the Migori bridge after residents complained of rising insecurity in the area at night. “We will investigate the matter and round up all of...
View ArticleMoi University gets title to Busia campus
MOI University has acquired the title deed for 200 acres where the Alupe Constituent College stands. Speaking at a stakeholders meeting at Akukuranut Development Trust offices in Chakol chaired by...
View ArticleMigori cops seize Sh4m bhang from Tanzania
POLICE in Nyatike yesterday impounded bhang stuffed in seven gunny bags that was being transported from Tanzania. The bhang estimated to be Sh4m was being transported through Migori to Nairobi and...
View ArticleMasinde Muliro farm land feud rages on
Members of a lands co-operative society who have settled on a 201 hectare disputed piece of land of fallen political legend Masinde Muliro say they are living in fear after some strangers toured the...
View ArticleNew sports tourism stadium for Kapsabet
New sports tourism stadium for Kapsabet NANDI county is planning to build a stadium to promote sports tourism in the region. The stadium to be located at kapsabet will be put up at a cost of Sh200...
View ArticleOngwae to revive Kisii cooperatives
KISII governor James Ongwae yesterday said the cooperative movement is at the verge of collapsing due to poor management. He said he will seek support from the county assembly members in legislating...
View ArticleChinese tourist killed by hippo in Naivasha
A Chinese tourist was killed by a hippo in Naivasha on Sunday night. According to Osman Ibrahim, the warden in charge of Hellsgate National Park, the middle-aged woman left her room at the Lake...
View ArticleLaikipia conservancy has lost 45 jumbos to poachers in 1 year
Forty five elephants have been killed by poachers at Laikipia Nature Conservancy in the last one year, the conservancy director Kuki Gallmann has said. Speaking to wildlife stakeholders at Kinamba...
View ArticleRuiru taxi driver now missing for nine days
A 40-year-old taxi operator has gone missing for nine days in what is feared to be an abduction. Francis Kahuhu received a phone call on April 18 to pick two clients at Kasarani and take them to...
View ArticleActivist faces fraud charges
A Mt Kenya human rights activist has been charged with six counts of obtaining money by false pretence. Christopher Mwai appeared before Nanyuki senior resident magistrate V. K. Kiptoon, charged that...
View ArticleGatundu matatu crew strike
Gatundu –Matatu crews’ lay down tolls citing harassment by unlawful gangs Transport between Gatundu Thika and Nairobi was paralyzed for the better part of the day yesterday as Matatu operators laid...
View ArticleDuo denies Kiambu theft
Two men were arraigned before a Thika court charged with stealing electrical wires. Dennis Kipkemboi and Geoffrey Kongo denied the charges before senior principal magistrate Martha Mutuku, They were...
View ArticleWoman on fraud charge
A 39-year-old woman was charged with obtaining money through false pretext in a Thika court. Susan Wanjohi appeared denied the charges before senior principal magistrate Martha Mutuku. The accused, who...
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