Kilifi list of CDF team rejected
Two youth leaders in Kilifi North has differed with their counterparts over the selection of the CDF committee. Kenya Muslim Youth Alliance Kilifi field officer Asili Randani, the youth accused some...
View ArticleJoho meets transporters
THE Kenya Transport Association, Kenya National Highways Authority, Container Freight Station Association and KPA, held a meeting on Friday with governor Hassan Joho. They proposed ways of decongesting...
View ArticleHIV appeal for unborn babies
EXPECTANT mothers have been advised to give birth in hospitals to avoid transmitting HIV to their young ones. Women Fighting Aids in Kenya Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Joram Oranga, yesterday said...
View ArticleUhuru to watch best drama items in Mombasa
PRESIDENT Uhuru will watch the best performances at State House Mombasa on Friday, the Kenya National Drama Festival has announced. This is a shift from tradition where teams travel to State House,...
View ArticleSh280 million facelift for Mtongwe ramps
The Sh280 million refurbishment of the Mtongwe Ferry jetty has begun. Kenya Ferry Services awarded Foundation Piling Limited, an engineering firm dealing with cites investigation and piling, to repair...
View ArticleSyringes to be used in HIV fight
THE National Authority for Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse chairman Frank Njenga yesterday said the Needle and Syringe program will help fight HIV/Aids in the country. The government has called...
View ArticleCourt to rule on nurses' union in two weeks
The battle between the nurses and the Labour ministry over the registration of their union is still on. The Kenya National Union of Nurses coast secretary general Peter Maroko said they are seeking a...
View ArticleNyali MP promises to feed Mijikenda
NYALI MP Awiti Bolo on Monday said the Mijikenda community will be given priority in food, healthcare and education programmes. Awiti, popularly known as Jobo Jobo, said the Mijikenda need empowerment....
View ArticleTana River farmers risk their lives as floods rage
THE level of flood waters in Tana River county is increasing every day and there are fears that families that did not move to higher grounds may be swept away. Due to heavy rains Tana broke its bunks...
View ArticleFloods havoc hits Murang'a Kiambu counties
Over 10,000 families have been rendered homeless by floods in Central region, Kenya Red Cross officials have said. Red Cross official in-charge of Central and upper Eastern region Gerard Bombe said the...
View ArticleWarring groups in Laikipia call for a truce
Warring communities in Laikipia have agreed to maintain peace for the sake of development.At a meeting convened by governor Joshua Irungu at Rumuruti town yesterday, elders from the different...
View ArticleExpand highway, ex-MP urges State
Former Maragua MP Elias Mbau has asked the government to renovate the Makuyu-Nyeri highway to reduce traffic related deaths on the road. Speaking during the burial ceremony of a Kuppet official who...
View ArticleGatundu south elects its CDF management team
Gatundu South yesterday became the first constituency in Kiambu to elect CDF officials after holding grass root elections in its four Ng'enda, Kiganjo, Kiamwangi and Ndarugu wards. Each ward elected...
View ArticleMan slashes brother to death in Kirinyaga row
A land dispute turned tragic in Kirinyaga after a middle-aged man hacked his brother to death over a dispute involving a piece of family land. The machete-wielding assailant ambushed the brother as he...
View ArticleKiambu farmhand puts together his own chopper
Residents of Magomano village in Kiambu have been flocking to a homestead for a glimpse of a homemade helicopter which has been assembled by a 20 year-old farm hand. Onesmus Mwangi started assembling...
View ArticleDrive to halt extinction of indigenous tree launched
Kenya Forestry Research Institute is rolling out a massive drive to save high value indigenous tree species in semi-arid Ukambani region threatened with extinction. Speaking to the Star yesterday,...
View ArticleThreats to kibwana over sand permits
Weeks after the Makueni Governor Professor Kivutha Kibwana banned sand harvesting in the region, it has now emerged that cartels who control the activity in the area have threatened him. The cartel...
View ArticleMP criticise WIper for ignoring Mavoko minority
Mavoko MP Patrick King'ola Makau has faulted the wiper democratic movement of ignoring the marginalized and minority in nominations to the Machakos county assembly. The wiper legislator said minorities...
View ArticleKuti pledges cooperation
Isiolo Senator Mohamed Kuti yesterday pledged to embark on campaign to build mutual relationship between the national and the county government in order to enable a quick take off for the county. Kuti...
View ArticleBike men protest poor roads
Business in Mwingi stood still as the boda boda operators held a peaceful demonstration due to poor roads in the market. They carried placards written ‘barabara mbaya pesa mingi town clerk home.’...
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