The House Committee on Appointments chaired by Speaker Justin Muturi has approved Prof George Magoha as the next Education Cabinet Secretary. This comes after Magoha’s vetting by the committee on Thursday last week. Parliament is expected to debate the report tomorrow. A surgeon, professor, manager and entrepreneur, Magoha told the committee he has never failed […]

Officers from the Flying Squad have intercepted $20 million (Ksh.2 billion) in a safe inside a Barclays Bank branch in Nairobi. Three people; one foreigner and two Kenyans, were arrested at the Barclays Bank, Queensway Branch in Nairobi’s Mama Ngina street. They are currently in police custody as police pursue more leads. No official confirmation […]

The Kenya Medical practitioners and Dentist Union (KMPDU) is now demanding for the immediate termination of the training programme in Cuba claiming that it has not been beneficial to Kenyan doctors. This follows the death of Dr. Hamisi Ali Juma who allegedly committed suicide in Cuba where he was training under a partnership programme between […]

A French court on has handed Congolese singer Koffi Olomide a two-year suspended prison sentence for the statutory rape of one of his former dancers when she was 15. The ruling means the Congolese star only faces arrest if he commits further offences. former dancer. The court in Nanterre, outside Paris, also ordered him to […]

Ali Salim Gichunge’s mother has been released. Sakina Mariam Abdalla, the mother of the mastermind of Dusit terror attack Ali Salim Gichunge, was on Monday freed on a Ksh1 million bail with an alternative bond of Ksh2 million. The prosecution told the court that the information which was within her knowledge would have been used […]

It was an emotional moment yesterday at the senate building when Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho on Monday revealed how a timely intervention by Kisii County Senator Prof Samson Kegengo Ongeri saved his mother. The Devolution and Inter-Governmental Committee chairman John Kinyua (Laikipia) had just introduced Ongeri as his senior despite being a junior at […]

By Boniface Mwangi The Catholic Church in Machakos runs a children’s home named ‘Martyrs of Uganda’ near Kinatwa, on the Machakos-Wote road. The home also houses a primary school which is open to the local community. Last month, on Friday 15th February, one boy at the primary school reported being sodomized by the school’s cook, […]

Detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have recovered 48 vehicles purchased with proceeds meant for the Arror and Kimwarer dam projects. A local Daily reported that the 48 double-cabin vehicles were bought for transport services in the construction of the dams but were diverted to private use. Sleuths privy to the matter […]