KENYA NEWS

President Kenyatta has announced a 12 percent increment in the country’s minimum wage effective May 1st. The president said the move is aimed cushioning workers against the rising cost of living owing to external economic factors. Speaking during this year’s Labor Day celebrations at Nyayo Stadium…

Police in Kiambu are detaining a 21-year-old woman suspected to be a drug peddler.  Rosemary Waithera Ngige was arrested on Saturday following an intelligence-led operation conducted by officers attached to the Kibichoi police station. During the operation at Thuita village in Komothai, the…

The late former president Mwai Kibaki has finally been laid to rest at his rural home in Othaya, Nyeri County. The body of Kibaki, who died on April 22nd at the age of 90, was lowered to the grave at around 6:00 pm on Saturday following a funeral service held at Othaya Approved School Grounds. He…

Kenya’s third President Mwai Kibaki will receive a 19-gun salute as his body is lowered to the grave during his State funeral in Nyeri on Saturday. Kibaki, who died on April 22nd aged 90, becomes the third Kenyan to ever be accorded a State funeral with full civilian and military honors after his…

The body of the late former president Mwai Kibaki was on Saturday morning transported by road to his rural home in Nyeri ahead of his burial. The funeral cortege, escorted by family members and military officers, left Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi at 7:00 am and traversed Kiambu, Murang'a, Kirinyaga…

The Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) Othaya Annex has been renamed Mwai Kibaki Hospital in honor of the late former president, who died last week. The hospital’s director Peter Munene said the decision to name the facility after Kenya’s third president was made following consultations between…

Migori Governor Okoth Obado’s wife Hellen Obado has declared her bid for the county’s woman representative seat. Mrs. Obado told Nation that she will be contesting for the seat in the August 9th elections as an independent candidate. “It is true I am firmly in the race to be the third woman…

The Pamoja African Alliance (PAA) party has written to the Registrar of Political Parties seeking to exit the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition party. The Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi-led party says it wants to formally disengage from the coalition and withdraw its signature from the coalition…

Kenya has protested a move by the United States to include it in the list of signatories to the Declaration for the Future of the Internet. Government spokesperson Cyrus Oguna termed the move as erroneous, saying that protocol was not followed in the signing of the declaration that is aimed to…

President Kenyatta on Friday led a cross-section of national and foreign leaders in paying tribute to the late former President Mwai Kibaki. In his address at Kibaki’s State funeral service at Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi, Kenyatta eulogized the departed former president as a hero of Kenya's…