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Confessed child serial killer Masten Milimo Wanjala has reportedly escaped from police custody.
Wanjala, who is accused of murdering more than 10 minors, was being detained at Jogoo Road Police Station in Nairobi when he escaped on Tuesday, The Standard reported.
It remains unclear how the 20-year-…
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The government has borrowed Sh6.3 billion from South Korea to finance the proposed Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) network in Nairobi.
Business Daily reports that Treasury signed the Sh6,365,150,000 loans with the Korean Export and Import Bank on January 29th this year, but the funds are yet to be…
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US President Joe Biden is set to host his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta at the White House on Thursday for personal talks.
Kenyatta, who is currently on an official visit to the US, will become the first African leader to visit the White House since Biden took over power in January last year.…
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Popular Nairobi businessman JR Githere has passed away.
Githere died following a grisly road accident along the Nairobi-Mai Mahiu highway on Saturday night. Naivasha assistant county commissioner Dennise Diffu told Nation that the accident occurred at Governor area along the busy highway.
Reports…
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Deputy President William Ruto claims that cartels at the Petroleum and Mining Ministry are behind the high cost of fuel in the country.
Speaking on Tuesday, Ruto said corruption cartels at the ministry must be crushed for the cost of the essential commodity to come down.
He alleged that…
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Detectives have arrested a 24-year-old man suspected to be the mastermind of a motorbike theft syndicate.
Isaack Hassan was apprehended alongside his accomplice Mohammed Ibrahim (24) at a house in Moyale town as they prepared to escape the police dragnet. The syndicate is believed to be behind the…
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Police in Naivasha are in hot pursuit of a female gang that has been spiking revelers’ drinks in clubs and bars before robbing them.
This follows a spate of incidents in which several men lost huge sums of money after their drinks were laced with stupefying substances. Some of their victims end up…
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Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has decried low turnout in the ongoing nationwide mass voter registration exercise.
On Monday, the commission said it registered only 202,518 new voters in the last seven days out of the weekly national target of 1.5 million.
Samburu, Elgeyo…
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A housemaid accused of killing her employer’s seven-year-old son and seriously injuring his mother has been arrested.
Lydiah Jelagat Kipng’etich, who went into hiding after the September 24th incident, was arrested in Gilgil, Nakuru County on Sunday.
The 24-year-old was flushed out of her…
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President Kenyatta on Sunday arrived in the United States for a two-day working visit.
Kenyatta landed in New York, where he is slated to chair a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) high-level debate on diversity, state-building, and peace.
Kenya is currently holding the monthly rotational…
