Israel’s Knesset on Monday passed legislation allowing the closure of the Al Jazeera television. The law was passed 71 to 10 in its second and third readings in the Knesset plenum. The first reading of the bill was passed on Feb. 12. Under the bill, the communications minister will be empowered to shut down foreign […]
Speaker of National Assembly Moses Wetangula has come to the rescue of the Health Cabinet Secretary and called on Parliament to step in and advice on how to end the conflict in the health sector. Speaking when he attended a thanksgiving ceremony for Lugari MP Nabii Nabwera in Kakamega County, Wetangula said that the issues […]
Former US President Donald Trump posted the $175 million bond in his civil fraud case in the state of New York on Monday, according to court filings. The funds were secured from Knight Specialty Insurance Company and temporarily postpones the seizure of Trump’s properties by New York Attorney General Letitia James while he appeals the […]
Nigeria’s revenue service has filed tax evasion charges against crypto platform Binance, it said on Monday. The cased filed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in Abuja accuses Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, of four counts of tax evasion. The FIRS charges include non-payment of value-added tax (VAT), company income tax, failure to […]
A 33-year-old man Bernard Langat and a Junior Secondary School (JSS) teacher in one of the schools in Trans Mara, Narok County hanged himself outside his girlfriend’s house in a suspected love affair. Mr. Langat is said to have visited the girlfriend known as Sharon who’s a student at Bomet central TTI and they stayed […]
Dr Gamaliel Hassan, CEO Stima DT Sacco. Members of Stima Sacco are in for Ksh 4.1 billion payout for the full year ended December 31, 2023 on what the organization says stems from better performance reported in the year. While the sacco maintained its final dividend at the rate of 15pc per share on fully […]
African Non State Actors have condemned the decision of locating the Santiago Network on Loss and Damage in Geneva over Nairobi and want it recalled. The activists have warned that the multi-billion dollar fund will fail to meet its abjectives if the decision is not reversed saying this decision overlooks the purpose of the network […]
Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja has found himself in the center of a complex land grabbing scandal of a 18-acre piece in Loresho valued over Sh2 billion. According to reports, the governor finds himself in the circus of the 16-years old land tussle after offering hundreds of millions to buy the contested land from a controversial […]
The mysterious “Havana syndrome” ailment that has afflicted U.S. diplomats and spies across the world may be linked to energy weapons wielded by members of a Russian military intelligence sabotage unit, the Insider media group reported. A U.S. intelligence investigation whose findings were released last year found that it was “very unlikely” a foreign adversary […]
Several road users will spend their Easter in police cells after being arrested by NTSA and Police in a Sunday morning crackdown on Thika Road. Those arrested are mostly excess passengers caught in the PSV vehicles. Some of the vehicles without proper documents including inspection and road service license (RSL) were impounded with number plates […]
The Government has warned those behind the supply of substandard fertilizer, saying their days are numbered. Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi on Sunday fired a warning signal, stating that the government will not relent in its quest to comprehensively investigate the matter and culprits will be brought to book and face the full force of […]
Clinical officers working in all government hospitals apart from Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) are set to go on strike starting Monday. Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) Secretary General George Gibore and Chair Peterson Wachira say the strike is triggered by what they term as government negligence of […]
