BY MICHAEL MUMO
Traders within the Nairobi Central Business District are up in arms over what they term “a worrying upsurge in robberies.”
The traders who met under the banner of the Nairobi Central Business District Association on Friday said the robberies were being executed in broad daylight by a gang of people who appeared to be [...]
BY JAMES WOKABI
The 2008-2009 athletics calendar will start next month with the first round of the national cross country series in Machakos.
The meet which is scheduled for November 8 at Machakos High School will be the first of the six round series that will culminate at the national cross country championships on February 21, [...]
KENYATTA DAY – what’s there to celebrate?
By George Nyongesa
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Fact: The Government of Kenya (GoK) will on Kenyatta Day spend on Airforce jets and State festivities over K.Shs. 300 million raised from high taxes on fuel, electricity and water; whereas thousands of Kenyans are cold in the IDP camps and millions [...]
Orengo: Let PM oversee Government
By peter opiyo
Lands Minister James Orengo has kicked of another storm by claiming the Head of Civil Service was creating another centre of power, contrary to the Constitution.
Orengo said Head of civil Service and Secretary to the Cabinet Francis Muthaura should not oversee operations of Government, since that job was [...]
Extra month for Cockar team
BY GEORGE MUNYORI
President Mwai Kibaki has extended by one month the mandate of the Cockar Commission investigating the Grand Regency sale.
Commission Secretary Anthony Ombwayo said on Wednesday that the President had granted them until the end of October to present a report, following the expiry of its previous mandate on [...]
Mwatela unaware of CID summons
BY ANNE KIGUTA
Former Central Bank Deputy Governor Jacinta Mwatela says she has not received any summons from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in an ongoing probe over the leakage of confidential bank documents.
Sources at the CID told Capital News that they dispatched the letter on September 18, directing the Former [...]
BY LABAN WANAMBISI
NAIROBI,A regional conference on Monday called on African governments to prioritise the inclusion of persons with disabilities (PWDs) while implementing Millennium Development Goals.
Speaking after opening the Conference, Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network (EDAN) director Samuel Kabue complained that the group had been left out of the MDGs despite forming the bigger portion of those [...]
By Kiptenengen arap Matiangigen
Dear Kenyans, Raila Odinga had a humble request to his kinsmen to undergo the un-Luo practice of circumcision. The PM, I believe, wanted to make a point related to health and HIV transmission.
It may be unscientific as opposed to political but one thing strikes me most in our discourse. Raila’s comments have [...]
PNU jeers at ODM Cabinet threat
BY JUDIE KABERIA
The Party of National Unity has scoffed at a decision by its coalition counterpart Orange Democratic Movement’s that it would complain to the Cabinet about the Kamukunji vote-tallying fiasco.
Addressing the press at the party headquarters Wednesday, Cabinet Minister Beth Mugo and Simon Mbugua who was declared winner [...]
Kamukunji: Parties fight over results
By Standard Team
The war of words between ODM and PNU occasioned by the controversial Kamukunji election results went a notch higher, threatening to erupt into another test of unity for the Grand Coalition.
Kamukunji appeared to provide another forum for eruption of undercurrents of pent up anger and rivalry that have [...]
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