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A Kenyan man was on Monday charged in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with being in possession of an illegal firearm, which witnesses said he uses to threaten passers-by on Saturday.
Kevin Oscar Naholi, 40-year-old, on Monday appeared before U.S. District Court and was charged with being in possession a…
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Susan Njeri Kariuki, the founder of Dallas, Texas-based Karisan Media passed away on Friday at a Dallas area hospital following a short illness.
Ms Kariuki passed away at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Plano, a suburb of Dallas after going into Acute Respiratory distress. She was also suffering…
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Job Mogire beat all odds to rise from Kerongorori Seventh Day Adventist Mixed Secondary School in Kissi County to become a research scholar at Harvard University’s Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program.
Mogire narrates how he overcame stuttering in his early life days to rise through…
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US-based lawyer Martin Oketch has become the latest entrant in an already flooded race for Homa Bay County Assembly Speaker.
Oketch, who has been working as an attorney for a bank in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday announced his bid for the position, saying that his desire to inject meaningful…
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Former US-based lawyer and newly-elected Nakuru County Senator Susan Kihika is embroiled in a family feud surrounding children custody.
A billionaire businessman said to be her husband has been sued by his first wife, where she accuses the senator of mistreating her children who are in custody of…
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A Kenyan-born doctor has been sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison and ordered to pay $18 million in restitution for Medicare fraud scheme by a federal court in Dallas, Texas.
Dr Ransome Njekia Etindi, 57, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud while working at Dallas-based practice…
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US-based scholar Dr. Vincent Kandagor Chesire, of Knoxville, Tennessee has passed on in Kenya after he was involved in a flash flood accident in Marigat, Baringo County.
Kendagor reportedly died while undergoing treatment at a Eldoret Hospital Intensive Care Unit (ICU). He is said to have been…
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A Kenyan professor visiting the United States on a conference lost his life after drowning in a snorkeling accident last week in Florida.
Dr George Muhia Kariuki, a professor at the Department of Agricultural Services and Technology at Kenyatta University passed away on Wednesday, August 10th while…
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Kenyans living abroad have increased the amount of money they send to the country by Sh3.64 billion, a 4.11 per cent growth, for the first six months of this year.
The increase has been attributed to activities in the wake of 2017 general elections, held a week ago.
Statistics from the Central Bank…
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The National Bank of Kenya has inked a deal with global digital money transfer service WorldRemit in a bid to facilitate cash transactions for Kenyans living abroad to East Africa.
The new deal between the two firms will enable WorldRemit users to make instant bank deposits to NBK accounts in…
