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Detectives are holding a 21-year-old suspect believed to have been operating a high-tech mobile phone scam syndicate. The suspect identified only as Kiprop was arrested in Juja, Kiambu County by detectives from the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau in collaboration with Safaricom’s fraud…

Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has offered to raise the children left behind by corporal Caroline Kangogo, who allegedly killed herself on Friday. Kangogo, 34, was found dead inside a bathroom at her parents’ home in Nyawa, Elgeyo-Marakwet County on Friday. She is suspected to have committed…

A family in Nairobi is demanding justice after their kin was brutally attacked by three Nairobi City County askaris. The askaris allegedly plucked out all his teeth after he failed to give them a bribe of Sh100 on July 2nd. Antoney Maina, a socks hawker in Nairobi CBD, was on his normal duty along…

An alleged suicide note left behind by fugitive police officer Caroline Kangogo has emerged. Kangogo, who was on police radar for the murder of two people in Nakuru and Kiambu, was found dead inside a bathroom at her parents’ home in Nyawa Elgeyo Marakwet on Friday. She is suspected to have…

Deputy President William Ruto has spoken out following Thursday’s by-elections in Kiambaa Constituency and Muguga Ward. Speaking during a burial in Mathioya, Murang'a County on Friday, Ruto praised residents of the two areas for maintaining peace during the hotly contested by-elections. He termed…

Renowned Kenyan conservationist Joanna Stutchbury is dead. Joanna was reportedly shot dead by unknown assailants outside her home in Thindigua, Kiambu County on Thursday evening. Award-winning conservationist Dr. Paula Kahumbu, who broke the news of her murder via Twitter, said Joanna was shot four…

The government has declared Tuesday, July 20th a public holiday to mark Idd-ul-Adha. The announcement was made by Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i through a gazette notice on Friday. “It is notified for the general information of the public that the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Co-…

Fugitive police officer Caroline Kangogo, who was wanted for murder, has been found dead. Kangogo is reported to have committed suicide by shooting herself inside a bathroom at her parents’ home in Nyawa, Elgeyo-Marakwet County on Friday morning. Rift Valley Regional Police Commissioner George…

Kenya received a total of 305,635 international arrivals between January and June 2021. 96,003 of the visitors were female while 209,632 were male, according to the latest data from the Tourism Research Institute. The United States was the leading source market in the period under review with 49,…

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced it will break ground for a temple in Nairobi, Kenya to serve its growing followers in the region. The groundbreaking ceremony for the Nairobi temple is scheduled for September 11th, 2021 with officials at the US-based church indicating…