KENYA NEWS

More than one million Kenyans are set to receive Sh8,000 each in government aid starting next week. This comes after the government released Sh8.7 billion for the payment of beneficiaries enrolled in various cash transfer programs. The money will be disbursed to 1,090,587 cash transfer…

Kisii Deputy Governor Joash Maangi’s car was on Wednesday night torched by an irate mob in Narok County following an accident that claimed the lives of two people. Maangi says he was traveling to Nairobi from Kisii in the company of his driver and bodyguard when the accident occurred at Oloolung’a…

Renowned economist David Ndii is under fire from Kenyans on social media over his comment on circumcision. A Twitter user identified as @Nudih tagged Ndii on the social media platform seeking his opinion on Narok County possibly approving the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Constitutional…

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has shortlisted 10 candidates for the position of Chief Justice ahead of interviews slated for April. The 10 candidates are Justice Said Chitembwe, Prof. Patricia Mbote, Justice Martha Koome, Justice Marete Njagi, Senior Counsel Philip Murgor, Justice Nduma…

Five people believed to be members of a gang that has been terrorizing taxi drivers in Githurai, Ruiru, and Kirigiti areas have been arrested. The five, Peter Njoroge Kirika, John Muchoki Gatuhu, John Kimani Ng’ang’a, Peter Mwangi Murima, and Benson Itimu Kariuki, were arrested on Monday by…

Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with the robbery of Sh15 million from a Chinese national in Nairobi. Acting on intelligence, detectives from the DCI’s Special Service Unit (SSU) trailed Cyrus Kinyanjui (32) and Alexander Kuria (30) to Mombasa. Kinyanjui was intercepted aboard a…

Four suspects were on Tuesday arraigned at Milimani law courts in Nairobi for allegedly stealing from the dead. Two of the suspects, Muguna Mutembei and Ayugu Eugene Shivachi, were charged with 12 counts of stealing Sh2.8 million from Amos Ngata Muiruri, a Nairobi-based businessman who died in…

Bonchari MP John Oroo Oyioka has died after a long illness. Oyioka passed away on Monday evening at the Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu, where he had been admitted. He becomes the fifth legislator to die over the past three months after MPs James Lusweti (Kabuchai), Justus Murunga (Matungu), and…

Immediate former United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD) secretary-general Mukhisa Kituyi has returned to the country to launch his 2022 presidential bid. Kituyi landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi on Sunday and proceeded to Makadara Friends Church…

President Kenyatta has announced that Gusii Stadium will be renamed after the late former Cabinet Minister Simeon Nyachae. Speaking during the funeral service of the late Nyachae on Monday, Kenyatta said the government will allocate an additional Sh150 million for the upgrade and completion of the…