Category: Breaking news
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How MPs voted in the Finance Bill 2023
Finance Bill has passed. Total number of votes cast: 254 Yes 176 No 81 Votes are as follows: 1. Hon Samuel Chepkonga – YES 2. Hon. Samuel Atandi – NO 3. Hon. John Walter Owino (ABSENT) 4. Hon. Irene Njoki – YES 5. Hon. Florence Jematia – YES 6. Hon. Joshua Kandie – YES 7.…
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Today’s latest news headlines
NEWS HEADLINES 1. Kenyans celebrate Marathon Champion, Kelvin Kiptum, on his final journey, as some question Eliud Kipchoge’s absence 2. Kenya Power, KPLC, made Kshs 319 Million in profit for the half year ended Dec 2023 3. Nairobi man whose mom took cash to Pastor Ezekiel arraigned in court for allegedly stealing from a Chinese…
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TSC suspends Nyambaria High School Principal Charles Onyari
The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has suspended Nyambaria High School Principal Charles Onyari over examination Malpractices. Yesterday, the Kenya National Examinations Council, Knec, officials camped at the school and dismissed the Principal as a Centre Manager. Nyambaria high school was the best school in the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, exams. One KCSE…
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Mukumu Girls Principal, BOM sent packing
NEWS JUST IN Education CS Ezekiel Machogu makes changes at Mukumu Girls, transfers principal and dissolves Board of Management; names Jane Mmbone new school head. This follows the school’s closure on April 3, after an outbreak that claimed the lives of three students and one teacher- and left hundreds of others hospitalized, and in critical…
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Magoha tells Varsities to stop setting up more campuses, KUCCPS portal for revision of courses still closed
Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha has asked universities to cut down on number of non-technical staff and raise faculty levels. This is in a bid to prudently utilize the available resources. Magoha also directed universities to stop the establishment of more satellite campuses in order to improve on quality. He was speaking when opening…
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Massive Transfers, Demotions for County Commissioners by Interior CS Kithure Kindiki
REPUBLIC OF KENYA MINISTRY OF INTERIOR AND NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION POSTING ORDER For Immediate Release Harambee House, Nairobi; 7th March, 2023 To enhance service delivery within the National Administration, changes have been made among County Commissioners in all the 47 Counties of the Republic of Kenya with effect from 7th March, 2023. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS RECALLED TO …
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Reprieve for woman with a huge cystic growth on the right side of the face as Moi Teaching and Referal Hospital (MTRH) doctors remove it
A Kenyan lady who has been living with an abnormal growth on the forehead for the last 24 years can now breath easy. Beatrice Makokha, a resident of Kamusinde in Kimilili Sub County, on Monday had a successful surgery to remove the troublesome growth. A Multi-Disciplinary Team at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) has…
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Covid-19 results today: Kenya records 51 more positive cases as total cases increase to 963
The Ministry of Health announced that 51 more cases tested positive on Tuesday out of the 1,933 samples tested; bringing the country’s tally to 963. Of these new cases 19 are females and 32 are males aged between 2 years and 63 years. Out of the 214 positive cases that have been recorded at the…
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Safaricom waives transaction costs, increases daily transactions’ amounts
Giant telecommunications Company, Safaricom, has waived transactions fee for amounts less than Sh1,000. This follows a directive by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday evening. The directive to reduce cashless transaction costs is aimed at curbing the spread of the infectious Corona Virus pandemic. Safaricom customers will now also be able to transact increased sums of…
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More contaminated, poisonous, Sugar found by detectives
SUSPECTED CONTAMINATED SUGAR IMPOUNDED Police have recovered bags of sugar that are suspected to be contaminated and unfit for human consumption, after a member of the public raised alarm. In a raid conducted at a small scale shop within Riverside area in Ruaraka, police recovered 48 kilograms of the sugar and a further consignment of…
