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Court halts trial of city official charged with bribing Sonko
Court stops criminal trial of Nairobi County Chief of Staff George Wainaina temporarily until February 2 when the High Court will hear his case challenging his prosecution at the Magistrate court. High...
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10 things to know about Aaron Cheiruyot
1. Born on 23rd February 1986 to Mr Joel Kipkoskei, a tea farmer and Mary Koskei a teacher, Mr Cheruiyot fully supported the teacher’s strike which paralyzed education in Kenya towards the end of last...
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City hospital fights for right to detain body over Sh17.5m bill
A hospital in Nairobi has argued in court that it has a right to have a settled bill from a patient. The family of Fred Nyaigero had moved to court seeking to have Karen Hospital compelled to release...
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Teacher who shielded non-Muslims during Mandera attack dies
A teacher who shielded non-Muslims during an ambush by Islamist gunmen on a bus traveling from Nairobi to Mandera has died Mr Salah Farah died on Sunday night at Kenyatta National Hospital, according...
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Police bust international fake currency cartel in Nairobi
Police have arrested two men believed to be behind a transnational fake currency ring in Africa, and found about Sh111 billion in counterfeit foreign cash. Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal...
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Itumbi makes pledge towards ‘under the tree class’ and Twitter goes ham
Statehouse man Dennis Itumbi on Monday pledged desks, bags of cement and a lorry of building stones to a primary school whose plight was recently featured in the media. Mr Itumbi, the Director of...
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Declare a two-day mourning in honour of KDF, Cord begs Uhuru
Opposition chiefs have called on President Uhuru Kenyatta to declare a two-day period of national mourning in honour of the Kenya Defence Forces soldiers who died last Friday following a terrorist...
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REVEALED: Why Kenyan youth have fallen in love with ‘hustler money’
More than half of Kenyan youth have no qualms making money using dubious means, according to a survey published in Nairobi on Monday. About half of those interviewed in the study by the East African...
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Mugenda to remain as VC, Judge orders
Kenyatta University Vice-Chancellor Olive Mugenda will continue to discharge her duties instead of proceeding on terminal leave pending the recruitment of her successor. This follows the Employment and...
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Kenyan woman who allegedly wanted to join ISIS jailed
A middle aged woman will serve five years in jail after she was found guilty of possessing videos relating to terrorism. Amina Mwaiz Muange entered into a detailed plea agreement with the prosecution...
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City MP in nasty group chat with ‘homosexual’ constituent
A city MP is at it again. Nairobi News has obtained a nasty exchange between him and some of his constituents who live in South Africa on a WhatsApp group chat. In the exchanges, the MP uses...
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Mudavadi: How I met the love of my life Tessie
Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi has gone public on the details of how he met his better half – Tessie. During an interview with a local television station on Tuesday morning, the...
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#KOT frustrated as Twitter suffers global outage
Users of Twitter in Kenya were a frustrated lot after the giant social media site suffered a global outage on Tuesday morning. The site was unavailable from 11:20am. In an email to the British...
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Cord in jubilation as Wetangula survives bid to kick him out
Bungoma Senator Moses Wetang’ula on Tuesday survived a bid to remove his name from the voters’ register over bribery claims. A special committee of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission...
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Uhuru’s ‘anticlimax’ live address on slain KDF soldiers
Kenyans were on Tuesday left disappointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta’s mid-day live television address to the nation on the recent attack on Kenyan soldiers in Somalia. The head of state said nothing...
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Man in court for sharing photos of ‘slain’ KDF soldiers on WhatsApp
A man has been arraigned before a court charged with sharing via WhatsApp pictures of Kenya Defence Force soldiers who were allegedly killed during an attack on by Al-Shaabab terrorists in Somalia last...
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Why CUE has ordered closure of 10 Kisii University campuses
The Commission for University Education (CUE) has ordered the closure of 10 out of 13 Kisii University Campuses in Western, Nyanza and Rift Valley and issued 90 days of winding up and relocating the...
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Witness: This is how MP Muchai was killed
The gunman who killed former Kabete Member of Parliament George Muchai opened fire without provocation, an eyewitness told a trial court in Nairobi Tuesday. Mr Ronald Nyangeres Siang’o, a vendor, said...
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Government appoints new NYS boss, swears in a different one
Three days is a long time, as one Sam Michuki might have realized. On January 16, the government announced the appointment of Mr Michuki as the new National Youth Service (NYS) director general. Three...
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Kenya’s most expensive toilet built at a cost of Sh11.3m
A county-owned radio station in Vihiga built a toilet for its staff, who are yet to be hired, at a cost of Sh11.3 million that was not factored in the budget, says an assembly team. Vihiga FM is yet to...
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