KENYA NEWS

Mombasa Law Courts Principal Magistrate Edgar Kagoni was on Friday apprehended over the loss of narcotics worth millions of shillings. Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said Magistrate Kagoni was arrested after 10kgs of Heroin worth Sh30 million and Sh600,000 cash were found to be…

A 27-year-old Kenyan man was on Thursday arrested in Nairobi with fake currencies amounting to Sh200 million. Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said the man identified as Bobby Kariuki was nabbed with the counterfeit money at a house in Nairobi’s Kileleshwa estate. Police who arrested…

Detectives from Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Friday arrested three suspects in connection with Thursday’s robbery of Sh72 million in Nairobi. The three were arrested in Kiambu County hours after police recovered 13 empty cash boxes and bags that were stolen from the G4S team in…

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Dr. Patrick Njoroge says that 117 million pieces of the old Sh1,000 banknote are yet to be returned ahead of October 1st deadline. In an interview with Citizen TV on Thursday, Njoroge divulged that Kenyans had exchanged about 100 million pieces of the old Sh1,…

President Kenyatta has ordered Kenyan flag hoisted at half-mast in honor of late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. In a statement on Friday, State House said Kenyan flag will fly half-mast from Saturday until Monday. “The flag of the Republic of Kenya shall be flown at half-mast at State…

An unidentified woman has sued former State House Director of Digital and Diaspora Communications Dennis Itumbi for child maintenance. In a lawsuit filed through lawyer Enricah Dulo, the woman accuses Itumbi of neglecting the child since she was born and failing to provide any form of support. She…

Three criminals posing as cops managed to steal Sh72 million from a Standard Chartered Bank branch in Nairobi on Thursday morning. Part of the money was reportedly stolen from a G4S van while the rest was withdrawn from an ATM at Standard Chartered Bank in Nairobi West, police sources told Daily…

The US Embassy in Nairobi has announced it will stop accepting old-generation Sh1,000 Kenyan note from September 12th. In a statement posted on its social media pages on Thursday, the embassy cited Central Bank of Kenya’s (CBK) directive that the old design of Sh1,000 banknote will cease to be…

A DNA test has confirmed that late Kibra Member of Parliament Ken Okoth sired Nairobi nominated MCA Anne Muthoni Thumbi’s son. The results of the test, seen by Daily Nation, revealed that the late politician's DNAwas a 99.9 percent a match to the boy's. Samples for the test were extracted from…

The Kenyan government has confirmed that two Kenyans are among foreigners who were attacked and their property destroyed following a fresh wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. While condemning the attacks on Wednesday, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma said the Kenya High…