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Nominated MP David Sankok says he will file a petition to block ODM leader Raila Odinga from running for president in the August 9th general election.
Sankok, an ally of Deputy President William Ruto, claims Odinga committed treason by actively participating in the 1982 failed coup and swearing…
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Police have opened a probe against Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot over alleged racist remarks he made on Saturday.
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji on Tuesday directed police to investigate the senator over his utterances that appeared to racially profile Kesses MP Swarup Mishra…
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Celebrated Kenyan scholar, historian, and cleric Sheikh Abdillahi Nassir is dead.
Abdillahi, who served in the pre-independence Legislative Council of Kenya (LegCo) between 1961 and 1963, passed away in Mombasa on Tuesday aged 89.
Deputy President William Ruto eulogized the deceased as “an academic…
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Renowned activist Boniface Mwangi has hired senior counsel Martha Karua to represent him in a case in which his house was allegedly blown up with explosives.
Mwangi’s unfinished bungalow in Lukenya, Machakos County was partially destroyed in October last year in an alleged attempt to demolish it.…
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Kenya has suspended all inbound and transit passenger flights from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for seven days.
Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) Director-General Gilbert Kibe on Tuesday told Business Daily that the move was in retaliation for a similar ban by Dubai.
"Inbound and transit…
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Power supply has been restored in most parts of the country following a nationwide outage on Tuesday mid-morning.
Kenya Power in a statement said the blackout was caused by collapsed towers on a high voltage transmission line connecting Nairobi to the Kiambere hydroelectric dam. The company did not…
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Activist Okiya Omtatah has moved to court seeking to have sitting public officers, including the deputy president, barred from running for president.
Omtatah, in a petition filed at the High Court on Monday, argues that any public officer among them a sitting deputy president, governor, deputy…
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Two people have been killed and several houses torched following a fresh attack by unknown assailants in Lamu County.
The Sunday night attack in the Majembeni area forced residents of Juhudi, Salama, and Widhu to flee their homes and spend the night in the cold.
Affected residents sought refuge in…
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A Nairobi court on Monday detained a suspect accused of defrauding Kasarani OCPD Peter Mwanzo of Sh600,000 in a Sim-swap scam.
The court granted the prosecution’s request to detain the suspect named Gideon Mark for eight more days to allow police to complete investigations.
Mark, who was arrested…
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Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has ordered a probe against Kitutu Chache MP Richard Onyonka over incitement claims.
Haji wants police to investigate a video in which Onyonka is captured uttering alleged inceteful remarks while addressing a gathering in Kisii.
“Reference is made…
