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President Kenyatta on Wednesday made a surprise visit to the Kisumu port where he stayed for close to three hours.
The president reportedly landed at the port in three Kenya Air Force helicopters at around 2.45 pm and was picked up by a convoy of about 10 vehicles.
He was then driven towards the…
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ODM leader Raila Odinga is this week expected to launch his presidential campaign ahead of the August 9th elections.
Odinga, who will be giving his fifth stab at the presidency, will launch his campaign at a mega rally in Thika, Kiambu County on Saturday.
On Tuesday, Odinga met a group of youth…
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Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has announced the acquisition of geo-mapping technology to monitor landlords’ tax payments in major towns across the country.
KRA Commissioner for Legal Services and Board Co-ordination Paul Matuku told Business Daily that a block management system that uses a…
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Two accredited coronavirus testing labs have been suspended for issuing fake Covid-19 PCR test results to travelers.
This is after an investigation by the Ministry of Health revealed that a majority of doctored Covid-19 results came from the two laboratories—Checkup Medical and Meditest.
The probe…
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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…
