It is a dark start of year 2021 for families in Githurai village of Ruiru, Kiambu County after an abandoned shrub where five children were playing caved in resulting in their death. The children, all aged between three and seven years, were playing within the compound of an abandoned construction site when the tragedy occurred. Two of them succumbed to breathing complications while being rushed to...
The Kisumu city management has demolished Neno Evangelism Church and an extension of Mamba hotel which are located on the road reserve. This is part of the ongoing pursuit by the county government to reclaim the grabbed public land. Church members on Thursday managed to salvage their property from the premise. At some point, police were forced to lobby...
A tree that has graced a neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya, for nearly a century is slated to be taken down to make way for a highway through the city intended to reduce traffic jams. The fig tree, four stories high and almost a century old, its arched branches forming a giant canopy, has served as a landmark for generations of Kenyans in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Westlands in the capital,...
The widow of a Mombasa businessman has moved to court to stop the distribution of her husband’s Sh600 million estate. Katharina Walele, the widow of Gasper Walele Mwanguwa, wants the High Court to nullify a decision by a lower court that allowed the property to be distributed to her daughter Veronica Kalamba, son Julius Mndwariga and stepson John Ighacho. Katharina is only entitled to a Sh10,000...
A huge fire has been reported at the lower side of Ngara Market in Nairobi. According to photos and videos shot at the scene, billows of smoke could be seen invading the sky from more than a kilometre away. The smoke filled the air as residents tried to put out the flames before the emergency services arrived. At the time of this reporting, the cause of the inferno...
A 36-year-old pregnant woman is shivering inside a hollow baobab tree trunk on a cold morning. It is drizzling and she is surrounded by her four children. What started as a normal disagreement between Juliet Samba and her inlaws has now culminated in her expulsion from the family, prompting her to seek refuge in the forest alongside her husband and four children. The woman from Kirutai...
The gold trading community in Osiri-Matada mines in Nyatike is counting losses after Saturday afternoon fire razed the mines. Property of unknown value was reduced to ashes, including more than 50 mabati structures used as houses and business premises. Osiri-Matanda goldmine chairman Kephas Ojuka said the fire started in the afternoon at the informal centre, which is home to about 2,000...
The High Court has barred former Gatundu North MP Kariuki Muiruri from accessing a 17-acre parcel of land in Thika which is the subject of a protracted legal battle. Thika Environment and Land Court Judge L. Gacheru issued an injunction restraining Muiruri, his agents, and workers from developing, leasing, transferring or dealing in any way with the property LR No. 4953/2414, located at Kiganjo in...
Property worth millions of shillings was destroyed early Sunday morning in Nakuru County as the Kenya Railways Corporation evicted its tenants. The evictions saw businesses stretching about 500 metres along the busy Geoffrey Kamau Road demolished. The move is meant to pave way for the rehabilitation of the Nakuru-Kisumu medium meter gauge Railway and the Sh160 Billion expansion of the Limuru-Nakuru road...
The 'Proposed Nairobi River Pollution Control Action Plan' is set to act on or demolish several factories, estates and malls that have encroached on riparian land or have been discharging effluents into the river. NEMA currently is recruiting 100 environmental inspectors, 50 police officers and crime scene officers to implement its laws. Two tanneries in Industrial Area have been ordered...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1065875346942296065 A road accident involving a Kenya Prisons bus. The bus rammed into a handcart otherwise known as mkokoteni near the Bunyala Road junction, flipping the handcart upside down and leaving two casualties lying on the road. Both the bus and the handcart pushers were heading towards the Nairobi Central Business District (CBD). The two handcart...
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