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Deputy President William Ruto was on Friday cleansed by the Talai elders to protect him from bad omen ahead of the 2022 presidential election. The two-hour ceremony was held at Kapsirwo village in Nandi County, where elders performed rituals in a nearby hill to insulate DP Ruto from harm and…

Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei was taken to a hospital in Eldoret after he was involved in a road accident along the Eldoret-Kapsabet road. Cherargei was reportedly driving to his home in Eldoret from Nandi on Friday night when he lost control of his car and veered off the road. He is said to have…

A 28-year-old Kenyan man has been awarded Sh5 million after a Nairobi court established that he was wrongly arrested and prosecuted. High Court judge James Makau on Friday directed the State to pay Anthony Murimi Waigwe Sh4.5 million as compensation and an extra Sh500,000 as punitive damages. In…

Police have arrested three terror suspects ferrying explosive materials along the Nairobi-Namanga highway. The three, including two Kenyans and one foreigner, were nabbed by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) at Maili Tisa shopping center on Friday. They are Moses…

The government is set to raise entry grades for police recruits in Kenya under new reforms being undertaken by the National Police Service (NPS). The changes are aimed at injecting highly-skilled manpower into the Kenyan police service and bring to life the much-needed police reforms, according to…

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has received the green light to conduct a search at the homes and offices of former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero. EACC had in 2018 obtained warrants to search the properties over unexplained wealth estimated at Sh9 billion but Kidero and his wife…

The government’s ban on single-use plastics in protected areas across the country has taken effect. The prohibition, which was announced a year ago, took effect on Friday as Kenya joined the rest of the world in marking the World Environment Day. The ban is aimed at reducing the amount of…

A Nairobi court has directed the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to return a car and firearms seized from former Sports CS Rashid Echesa. In a ruling on Thursday, Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot ordered the DCI to hand the two pistols and a Range Rover vehicle…

A Kenyan student has done the unthinkable by going for a diploma course despite scoring an A plain in the 2019 KCSE examination. Kahindi Bruno Shariff, who was among the 627 candidates who scored an A plain in last year’s KCSE exam, has opted to pursue a diploma in pharmaceutical technology, a…

The Health Ministry has raised alarm over the growing number of Covid-19 patients escaping from quarantine facilities. The ministry said it fears the trend could derail the government’s efforts to combat the spread of Covid-19, which has so far infected 2,340 people in Kenya and killed 78. Health…