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A security guard who was sacked for directing Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i to queue for a security check at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in 2017 has lost a case against her former employer. Daizy Cherogony, who was fired following the April 5th, 2017 incident, sued…

The Jubilee Party on Monday issued an update on secretary-general Raphael Tuju’s health after he was involved in a grisly accident last Wednesday. In a statement, Jubilee communications director Alex Memusi said Tuju’s condition had improved and that the injuries he sustained in the crash were…

Former Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa was on Monday afternoon released on a cash bail of Sh1 million or an alternative bond of Sh3 million with a surety of a similar amount. Earlier in the day, Echesa and his co-accused Daniel Otieno Omondi, Clifford Okoth Onyango, and Kennedy Oyoo Mboya…

Former Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa was on Monday arraigned in a Nairobi court over the Sh39 billion fake military equipment tender. Appearing before Chief Magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot, Echesa and his co-accused were charged with 12 fraud-related offenses including conspiracy to commit a…

Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris has called for the legalization of abortion in Kenya. Speaking during the 9th Africa Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, which is ongoing at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Passaris said Kenyan women…

Kenyan ambassador to South Sudan Chris Karumba Mburu has died of a heart attack. He collapsed and died at his residence in Juba, South Sudan on Sunday night, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mburu, the former director of External Intelligence at the National Intelligence Service (…

Former Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri has accused President Kenyatta of betraying him. Speaking at Nanyuki PCEA Church on Sunday, Kiunjuri claimed that in the run-up to the 2017 elections, he entered into an agreement with Kenyatta to back his re-election bid. As a result, Kiunjuri…

A middle-aged Kenyan man who videotaped himself sexually assaulting an underage girl has been arrested.  The sex pest was apprehended on Saturday afternoon in Kericho town after the video recording went viral on social media platforms, sparking outrage from Kenyans. He was booked to Nyagacho…

Police in Nairobi are investigating the killing of 35-year-old Kenyan tycoon Karandeep Singh Dhilon. Dhilon was found dead in his house in Nairobi’s Westlands area on Friday night with a single gunshot wound in the mouth, Standard Digital reported. Police said the bullet was fired in his mouth and…

A detective from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) was on Friday arrested in connection with a series of robbery incidents in Mombasa. Fadhil Masoud, an officer attached to Railways Police Station DCI office, was arrested in a house in Nyali, Mombasa together with two other suspects…