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Murang'a Governor Mwangi wa Iria and his Usawa Kwa Wote party have endorsed Azimio La Umoja-One Kenya coalition party presidential candidate Raila Odinga’s presidential bid. Addressing the press on Tuesday, Wa Iria said he decided to back Odinga after his bid to vie for the presidency in the August…

Kenyan singer and businesswoman Esther Akoth, alias Akothee, has announced plans to set up a school for the less fortunate. Dubbed Akothee Foundation Academy, the school will sit on a seven-acre parcel of land which the 39-year-old musician donated to the institution last year. Through a post on…

Deputy President William Ruto has questioned the government’s move to reduce the prices of maize flour ahead of the August 9th general elections. On Monday, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Cooperative announced a four-week subsidy that will see the price of a two-kilogram…

The price of maize flour will from Monday reduce to Sh100 for a two-kilogram packet, Sh52 for one kilogram, and Sh30 for a half-kilogram pack following intervention by the government. On Monday, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Livestock & Cooperative announced it had inked a deal with…

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has revoked the clearance of former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko to vie for the Mombasa gubernatorial seat. This comes after the Supreme Court dismissed Sonko’s appeal challenging his impeachment as Nairobi governor, declaring that he was fairly…

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is set to decide former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko’s fate after the Supreme Court upheld his impeachment on Friday. While dismissing Sonko’s appeal, the apex court ruled that the impeachment proceedings against him before the County Assembly…

Two people were on Saturday hospitalized and several others injured following a fight between Kenyan and Korean workers at a construction site in Konza City, Machakos County. Confirming the incident after visiting the site, University Education and Research Principal Secretary Simon Nabukwesi said…

The High Court in Uganda has dismissed a petition seeking to stop the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) from investigating Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja’s degree from Team University. The Kampala-based university wanted the court to stop NCHE from investigating whether Sakaja studied and…

Hundreds of millions of shillings were raised for the Azimio La Umoja-One Kenya coalition party presidential candidate Raila Odinga during an invite-only dinner where attendees paid up to Sh1 million for a meal.  Sunday Nation reported that most of the attendees in the Friday night fundraiser…

Police in Nairobi are detaining a youthful man after he was found in possession of 93 mobile phones suspected to have been stolen in the Embakasi area. Brian Mutua Muema was smoked out of his rented house in Nairobi’s Pipeline estate by officers from Kware Police Station who were acting on a tip-…