Kilifi county wants fair list
KILIFI county assembly members have warned that they will not approve of names of the executive committee if the list does not reflect the face of the county. Speaking at the county headquarters at the...
View ArticleResidents want Nyali police moved
Residents of Nyali constituency have called for the transfer of police officers. The residents said insecurity has become rampant in Nyali. They attributed this to the complacency of the security...
View Article13 charged with illegal oath-taking
THIRTEEN suspected members of a separatist group including a witch doctor were yesterday arraigned before a magistrate court in Mombasa. The suspects were arrested on Sunday by detectives sent to the...
View ArticleBriatore plans third Malindi beach resort
Italian billionaire and international investor Flavio Briatore will set up a state-of-the-art resort early next year. The beach-front property will be built near his Sh500 million 'Billionaires Resort'...
View ArticleMwatela threatened me in murder probe - CID
THE Immediate former Mwatate MP Calistu Mwatela threatened a CID officer investigating the murder of Scottish geologist Campbell Bridges, a High court in Mombasa heard. Sergant Kenneth Sulubu who was...
View ArticleChloride Exide power for Isiolo girls
Students of Lobarishereki Primary School in Isiolo North at the weekend celebrated the donation of solar powered electricity by Chloride Exide for their dormitory. The school head Samson Lematango said...
View ArticleBuuri MP blasted over CDF polls
Buuri MP Boniface Kinoti is on the spot for lack of transparency in electing CDF committee members. Timau ward representative Geoffrey Kinoti, said there is fear that the MP may decide to uphold his...
View ArticleStudent and driver killed in crash
A sixteen-year-old girl and the driver of a construction company truck died when the truck lost control along the Micii Mikuru-Muriri road which is under construction in Tigania East in Meru. Police...
View ArticlePolice arrest Meru herbalist
Police officers in Tigania East have arrested a herbalist whose "treatment" left one dead and four others hospitalised. Police Boss Charles Kosgey said the five are family members from Karama location...
View ArticleGarissa family wants CJ to intervene in case
A family in Garissa has appealed to Chief Justice Willy Mutunga to intervene in a case in which their relative has been in remand for almost a year. The family says their relative did not commit the...
View ArticleFormer Isiolo Girls head interdicted
FORMER principal of Isiolo Girls Secondary School has been interdicted a day after the Parent-Teachers Association barred the new school principal from taking over. Mary Amina has been interdicted for...
View ArticleI don't need to be in the House - Kalonzo
Former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has said he is not interested in going back to Parliament but will work from outside as the Wiper party leader. Addressing a congregation at the Anglican Church of...
View ArticleJilted man slits throat of lover's son
A man slit the neck of his lover's son to avenge being jilted by her, an Embu court heard yesterday. A witness told the court yesterday that 20-year-old Geoffrey Nyoike slit the neck of 9-year-old Ryan...
View ArticleGarissa boda boda bid to fight soaring crime
Garissa county government has unveilled plans to put serial numbers on all motorcycle taxis commonly known as boda bodas. Speaking in Garissa town last week, the area county commissioner Mohamed Maalim...
View ArticleUnion pushes for building of free port
DOCK Workers Union officials are pushing to have the ground breaking for the construction of the free port and the adjoining industrial park done within three months. This was among the agreements made...
View ArticleMy followers are innocent, says Maina Njenga
Former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga on Sunday said his followers are not terrorising Gatundu residents. Njenga was speaking at his Hope International Ministries Church in Garden Estate during a thanks...
View ArticleActivist files petition challenging Lesuuda's nomination
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has been given three days to file its response to a petition challenging the nomination of former TV personality Naisula Lesuuda as senator....
View ArticleSh273bn too little for schools - Knut
The Kenya National Union of Teachers yesterday said the money allocated to the education sector is too little. The government allocated Sh130 billion to the Ministry of Education and Sh143 billion to...
View ArticleUNDP to clean up streams in Nairobi
A Chinese environmentalist and volunteer is working with UNDP to clean up streams in Nairobi. Wu Xiang De on Saturday said he will clean all streams and rivers in Kenya that have been polluted by sewer...
View ArticleMum denies burning her daughter's hand
A mother of three was yesterday charged in a Mombasa court for burning her daughter’s hands over Sh500. Saumu Said was arrested on Sunday by officers from the Children Welfare department over the...
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