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Nigerian nationals are among 80 suspects who were charged in California over a multi-million-dollar con scheme targeting women and businesses worldwide.
US Federal prosecutors said the 80 suspects, most of them Nigerians, are facing charges of stealing over $46 million through various schemes.
One…
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A Kenyan-born man was on Thursday sentenced for life by a US Court after he was found guilty of raping an elderly woman who was suffering from dementia.
Anthony Mamboleo Nyakeo, a former health care worker in Texas, was convicted with sexually assaulting a 74-year-old woman, according to Dallas…
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The government says it is in the process of reviewing Kenya’s foreign policy in a bid to attract more investments from Kenyans in the diaspora.
Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Dr. Monica Juma says the move is also aimed at making Kenyans living and working abroad take up national roles at…
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Deported Kenyan lawyer Miguna Miguna on Wednesday filed a contempt of court suit against five top State officials including Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i.
In the case, Miguna accuses Matiang’i, former Immigration Director-General Gordon Kihalangwa, Director of Criminal Investigations (…
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A 38-year-old Kenyan-born man was on Friday handed a 15 and a half year extended prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to stealing jewelry worth £442,000 from a shop in North Yorkshire.
Victor Okumu, of Queen Street, Lazenby, Cleveland was sentenced to 10 and half years in prison plus five years…
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A video of a homeless Kenyan-born woman narrating her struggle in the streets of the United Kingdom has been shared online.
The woman, who only identified herself as Peggy, said she went to the UK for further studies but ended up in the streets.
In the video posted on Kenyans in the UK Facebook…
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A US federal court on Friday sentenced confessed Kenyan drug lord Baktash Akasha Abdalla to 25 years in prison.
Baktash, who pleaded guilty to six counts of drug trafficking and bribery in October 2018 before the Southern District of New York Court, was further ordered to pay a fine of $100,000 (…
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A 41-year-old Kenyan man was shot dead by a hotel security guard in Bosaso Port, the commercial capital of the autonomous Puntland State of Somalia.
Cosmas Joseph Owuor, who worked at a hotel in the port city for four years, was reportedly shot dead by one of hotel’s security guard on Monday…
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Kenyans in the diaspora will not participate in the upcoming 2019 population census, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has said.
In a statement on Twitter, KNBS said Kenyans living and working abroad will not be counted during the August 24th and 25th exercise but their family members in…
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Former IEBC Commissioner Roselyne Akombe has said she is ready to fly back to the country to testify on what happened in the 2017 presidential election.
Responding to a Kenyan social media user, Pius Kinuthia, who accused her of refusing to share details of what transpired in the election, Akombe…
