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A police officer on Sunday night shot and killed his girlfriend before committing suicide in Nakuru County. Corporal Bernard Sivo, 28, is reported to have followed Mary Nyambura to Njoro Sub-County Hospital where she had been admitted with a fractured leg after being assaulted by the officer. He…

The Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) has warned Kenyans against participating in a campaign run by Cadbury. The State agency on Monday raised a red flag over what it termed as unethical terms of competition. In the campaign dubbed ‘In Our Own Words’, the UK-based confectionery company requires…

The High Court has quashed an order barring the media from covering a child upkeep case against Senate Speaker Ken Lusaka.  High Court Justice Jairus Ngaah set aside the gag order on Monday following a petition filed by the Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ). “That the ex-parte application be…

Naivasha MP Jayne Kihara is set to lose property worth millions of shillings over a Sh10 million debt. This comes after the court allowed auctioneers to attach her movable property to raise Sh10,988,786 on behalf of former Naivasha MP John Mututho. The debt accrued from the cost of an election…

A section of MPs allied to Deputy President William Ruto have threatened to sue President Kenyatta for misusing public funds. The MPs claim that the president spent taxpayers cash amounting to Sh13.5 billion on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) process that was declared unconstitutional by the…

Kenya is set to receive over 800,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the United States. The consignment of 880,000 shots of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is set to arrive at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Monday morning, according to Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe. The…

Acting Nairobi Governor Ann Kananu on Friday signed the Public Nuisance Bill, 2020 into law. The new law, which seeks to bring order and sanity in the city, proposes a Sh10,000 fine or a six-month jail term for those found spitting or blowing their nose in public spaces within Nairobi. Public…

Police have exhumed the body of a 12-year-old girl who was found dead in Moi’s Bridge, Uasin Gishu County last year. The body of Grace Njeri, one of the alleged victims of self-confessed Moi’s Bridge serial killer Evans Juma Wanjala, was exhumed for postmortem and DNA tests. She is believed to be…

The courts have fatally deflated President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga’s 2022 game plan — annulling the BBI process— a central pillar in their succession strategy. The Building Bridges Initiative, among other proposals, sought to expand the executive,  introducing the office of…

An American missionary has been detained at a private hospital in Kitale over a Sh259, 465 medical bill. Ms Sandra Joyce Lichtfuss, 68, who suffered a hip bone fracture after falling at her house at Gatua Estate, has been receiving treatment at Goodwill Cottage Hospital. Ms Lichtfuss, who comes…