KENYA NEWS

Mang'u High School’s Jeriel Ndeda Obura is the overall top student in the 2021 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination. Ndeda emerged the best performer with an A of 87.167 points followed by Timothy Mukuha Kamau of Alliance High School with 87.139, Job Ngara Kamau of Mang'u (87…

Comedian and radio presenter Phelix Odiwuor, alias Jalang'o, has secured the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party ticket to run for Lang’ata parliamentary seat in the upcoming elections. Jalang'o won the ODM party nominations held on Friday after garnering 3,509 votes ahead of his closest rival…

Popular Nairobi-based blogger-cum-politician Robert Alai has bagged the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party ticket to vie for an MCA seat in the city. Alai will fly the ODM flag in the Kileleshwa Ward Representative race after winning the party nominations held on Friday. He trounced eight other…

The government has formed a national funeral steering committee to organize the burial of former President Mwai Kibaki. Head of Public Service Joseph Kinyua said the committee was created following an order by President Kenyatta, who announced Kibaki’s death earlier in the day.  The committee…

The family of a man who was boiled to death at a metal factory in Thika, Kiambu County on March 25th has rejected a second compensation package of Sh2 million. 34-year-old Caleb Otieno was killed after he fell into a vat of molten steel at the Blue Nile Rolling Mills Ltd, where he worked for seven…

Starehe MP Charles Njagua Kanyi, alias Jaguar, says he will announce his next move after the UDA party denied him a ticket to defend his seat. On Thursday, the Deputy President William Ruto-led party issued a nomination ticket to East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA) MP Simon Mbugua to vie for…

Nairobi County Assembly Speaker Benson Mutura was on Friday arraigned in court for allegedly stealing over Sh5 million. Mutura appeared before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Esther Kimilu where he denied charges of stealing by a public servant. He is accused of fraudulently including his name…

President Kenyatta has led the nation in mourning the death of Kenya’s third president Mwai Kibaki, who died on Friday aged 90. In his message of condolence, Kenyatta eulogized Kibaki as an icon and gentleman of Kenyan politics. “Mwai Kibaki lives on in the hearts of millions of Kenyans, East…

The Azimio La Umoja-One Kenya coalition party has unveiled Polycarp Igathe as its candidate for Nairobi governor in the forthcoming elections. This comes after Westlands MP Tim Wanyonyi, who was eyeing the Nairobi gubernatorial seat on an ODM ticket, stepped down from the race and will now defend…

President Kenyatta has declared a period of national mourning following the death of former President Mwai Kibaki. Addressing the nation from State House, Uhuru said the country will observe a period of national mourning from Friday until sunset on the day Kibaki will be laid to rest. “That in…