KENYA NEWS

A Chinese company has won a Sh5.6 billion government contract to set up a bus rapid transit (BRT) system along Thika Superhighway. The Ministry of Transport and Public Works settled on Stecol Corporation to undertake the project that is expected to be completed in eight months. Stecol will from…

Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja has pleaded guilty to flouting Covid-19 rules. Sakaja, who appeared before Chief Magistrate Roselyne Onganya at Kasarani makeshift court on Tuesday, was ordered to pay a fine of Sh15,000 or serve a three-month jail term in default. He faced charges of breaching curfew…

Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka and his Nark-Kenya counterpart Martha Karua have finally joined the Senior Counsel club. The two are among 24 senior lawyers conferred with the title by President Kenyatta on Monday. Others are Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo, Fred Ngatia, former Director of Public…

President Kenyatta has convened an extraordinary meeting will all the 47 county governors amid rising cases of Covid-19 in the country. The high-level meeting whose main agenda will be to discuss the country’s preparedness for the Covid-19 pandemic will be held next Friday, according to State House…

A proposed law that would have seen Kenyans who fail to report cases of bribery slapped with a Sh5 million fine or a prison sentence of up to 10 years has been dropped. This is after National Assembly Majority Leader Amos Kimunya applied to recall changes made to the Bribery Act, 2016, and other…

US Ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter was over the weekend embroiled in a Twitter tiff with firebrand Kenyan-Canadian lawyer Miguna Miguna. The altercation started after Amb. McCarter tweeted a short video of the world-famous wildebeest migration, urging American tourists to visit Kenya following…

Kenyan media personality Jeff Koinange has tested positive for Covid-19. Koinange, who works for Royal Media Services, broke the news through Twitter on Monday, saying he is asymptomatic and currently is self-isolation. “Folks, just to let you know, I have tested POSITIVE for Covid-19. I'm doing…

Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja has announced his resignation from the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Covid-19. Sakaja, who served as the Chairperson of the committee, stepped down on Monday, two days after he was arrested for allegedly defying Covid-19 curfew orders. Police apprehended Sakaja at 1 am…

Beatrice Andega, the widow of the late Kenyan comedian and actor Charles Bukeko, alias Papa Shirandula, has blamed Karen Hospital for his death. Speaking during his burial in Funyula, Busia County on Monday, Andega claimed that her husband would be alive if the hospital agreed to admit him. She…

Government spokesperson Cyrus Oguna has dispelled reports that he is presently admitted to the hospital. Oguna through Twitter on Monday said he just completed an assignment out of town and he is well.  “We have noted reports on social media purporting that I have been admitted to the hospital…