Teso North funeral home to work with district hospital
TESO residents will no longer have to take their deceased to Bungoma and Busia which are more than 25km away. This follows the launch of a 36-capacity Frapa Funeral Home which is attached to the...
View ArticleOngwae asks state to deliver
KISII governor James Ongwae yesterday said that his administration will harmonise national and county employees for the sake of efficient and effective delivery of services to the people. Speaking at...
View ArticleNakuru senator unhappy with governor's leadership
THE differences between Nakuru governor Kinuthia Mbugua and senator James Mungai over the running of the county have gone public . The senator hit out at the governor over the way he is running the...
View ArticleMP wants jobs for Maasai
NAROK NORTH MP Moitalel ole Kenta and the Trusted Society of Human Rights Alliance have opposed the list of the cabinet nominees for Narok County. Kenta accused the governor Samuel Tunai of...
View ArticleSh12 million for orphans
THE government has released more than Sh12 million to be disbursed to 3,069 homes of orphans and vulnerable children in Bondo and Rarieda districts. According to Siaya county director of children...
View ArticleMPs Greed And Citizen Apathy
It is going, going, gone... Well, almost. I am talking about the resistance against blackmail by their Excellencies, their Highnesses (or is it their altitudes), Most Honourable Members of the 11 th...
View ArticleNaivasha squatters accuse preacher of land grabbing
FIVE hundred squatters held a demonstartion at ADC farm in Naivasha over a move to grab their land. They are accusing a prominent televangelist and some prominent traders for taking away their land....
View ArticleBusia lobby rejects planned Sh90m governor's house
BUSIA county residents are up in arms against a multi-billion shillings budget proposal. The county leadership proposed a Sh3 billion budget for the next financial year, but the residents have rebelled...
View ArticleNandi Cabinet nominees to be vetted next Tuesday
TEN members of the Nandi county executives named by governor Cleophas Lagat will be vetted on Tuesday next week. The executives list includes professionals nominated early this week by Lagat who said...
View ArticleAl Shabaab recruiting youth online
The Somali and Kenyan youth have been cautioned against being recruited to the al Shabbab terror group through the social media. Speaking at a social media forum that brought together Kenya and Somali...
View ArticleReservist shot dead in Dadaab
A Kenya police reservist was yesterday morning shot dead by unknown assailants at the Ifo market in Dadaab district. Police said the reservist was patrolling the market at 6 am when he was shot dead...
View ArticleAssembly members puzzled on what to call Kitui governor
Kitui county assembly do not know what title to use while addressing or make reference to their governor Julius Malombe, the members have said. The memebrs told the county assembly Speaker George...
View ArticleTseikuru DC unhappy with story on herders in Kitui
Media reports that I have allowed pastoralist communities from elsewhere into the area are false, Tseikuru district commissioner Stephen Momanyi has said. Yesterday’s star newspaper ran a story in...
View ArticleCircular dating
I have started circular dating. A friend of mine first told me about this concept about two years ago and at the time it sounded like another dating gimmick: date a few men at once and sleep with none...
View ArticleOthaya MP poll petition postponed
THE hearing of the petition of challenging the March 4 election of Mary Wambui as Othaya MP has been postponed to Wednesday next week. High Court judge Jairus Ngaah postponed the hearing yesterday...
View ArticleMurang'a hit-and-run matatu driver charged
A matatu driver who fled the scene of an accident that killed two people has denied he caused their deaths. Danson Thuo yesterday told Murang’a chief magistrate Bildad Ochieng he was not driving...
View ArticleKenha builds new bridge to reopen highway
TRANSPORT along the Likoni-Lunga-Lunga highway resumed yesterday. A bridge was constructed to link the road which had been destroyed on Wednesday by floods. The Kenya National Highways Authority...
View ArticleRed Cross wants Tana River county declared disaster zone
The Kenya Red Cross Society wants the county and national governments to declare Tana River a disaster zone. Speaking to the press at Gamba yesterday, secretary general Abbas Gullet said the area faces...
View ArticleCorridors of Power
Some county representatives from the expansive Rift Valley were overheard gossiping about one of the governors from the region. The reps said their boss is rather sartorially challenged and that since...
View ArticleItalian billionaire Flavio Briatore jets into Malindi
Italian billionaire and international investor Flavio Briatore yesterday jetted into Malindi. Briatore told the press he is in the country to inspect his Sh500 million exclusive billionaires resort....
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