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Greek realtors have launched an Africa-wide charm offensive targeting affluent investor-families keen on moving to the European Union (EU) member country through purchase of at least Sh30 million property. Enterprise Greece board member George Zissimatos said the campaign officially launched in Nairobi last week is aimed at exciting the Greece real-estate sector, which lost up to 50 per cent...

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A criminal gang is allegedly harassing and extorting money from prospective homeowners at Murema estate in Juja. Owners of undeveloped plots accuse those already settled of hiring the Mungiki to man the entrance of the estate and extort Sh1,500 per lorry full of building materials. They claimed that their settled neighbours had fenced off the estate and erected a gate where all vehicles bringing...

The body of an NLC official who went missing on Friday has been found at City Mortuary. Police say the body of Jennifer Wambua was collected from Ngong area on Saturday. Wambua, who was the commission’s deputy communications director, had not been seen since Friday, and a missing person report was filed at the Capitol Hill Police Station, Nairobi by her husband. Joseph Komu, her husband, said...

The troubled empire of late politician and business tycoon Njenga Karume is facing a litmus test with the planned auction of the prime Jacaranda Hotel in Nairobi to clear a bank loan. The hotel, which is among the few surviving businesses that the late politician left behind, has been earmarked for sale to recover a Sh257.6 million loan owed to Guaranty Trust Bank. Karume, a former...

1. SEASON ONE This is called honey moon and lasts about two years. This stage is very sweet, nice and romantic. This is where you find names like honey, sweet heart, baby and so on. In this stage, everything is perfect. This is a stage where a man returns home and dumps his socks and shoes anywhere but in the morning, he will wake up and find them placed where they're supposed to be. This...

Fresh details have now emerged that wealthy Kiambu businessman, Jonathan Gachunga, shot dead his wife Philomena Njeri after he discovered that another man alleged to be her mpango wa kando had impregnated her. According to a friend of the deceased couple, Njeri had deserted her matrimonial home for more than five months. She returned home on Monday heavily pregnant, leading to a serious quarrel with...

A 70-year-old Ugandan woman has given birth to twins, "an extraordinary feat", her doctor told AFP on Thursday. "It's an extraordinary feat to give birth to twins" for a 70-year-old mother, Dr. Edward Tamale Sali, who supervised her pregnancy and delivery, told AFP. The mother, Safina Namukwaya, described the birth of the twins, a boy and a girl, on Wednesday as a "miracle". Both mother and babies...

The loan limit of a borrower has the ability of rising to a higher amount depending on their behaviours in borrowing and repaying.  “The limit shall be reviewed and adjusted based on the borrowing and repayment history of previous Hustler Fund loans taken,” the ministry of Cooperatives and MSMEs says.  Therefore, borrowers are encouraged to continue using Hustler Fund and pay their loans on...

An emotional Tabitha Karanja on Tuesday, March 9, took the stand to testify in the inquest of her daughter’s death at Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi. Tabitha, who is the founder of Keroche Breweries, accused Omar Lali of financially preying on her late daughter, Tecra Muigai. Testifying in court, Tabitha asked God to avenge her daughter’s death, saying that Tecra worked hard only to share her...

In the developing story on Ngong Forest land controversy covered extensively by Citizen TV, it has emerged that the late Francis Lotodo, the then minister for natural resources might have duped the country on the reasons for hiving off 53 hectares of forest land. Lotodo vaguely claimed the parcel of land was meant for a fictitious school with no name or even acreage. Parliamentary proceedings of April 1998...

The earlier architects designed buildings with front view facades that would give them aesthetic appeal from passersby. More like the American concept the Europeans who first put up permanent structures modelled them on the ones back home. Home owners were somehow proud to show off the beauty of their structures. Did you know that as late as the year 2000, Kenya’s State House just had simple kei...

Westlands Member of Parliament Timothy Wanyonyi had never in his wildest dreams imagined he would be a politician, leave alone a MP after he almost lost his life in a carjacking incident about 21 years ago. Filled with ambition and motivation, Timothy was fresh out of law school was working at his elder brother Moses Wetangula’s law firm, Wetangula and Company Advocates when disaster struck and left...

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria is set to undergo stem cell surgery in Dubai.   This comes after the MP's feet exploded after standing on an electric mat for four hours, sustaining third-degree burns.   Speaking to Capital FM on Tuesday, Kuria revealed that he will be among the pioneers to undergo the stem cell surgery in the world.   “I am scheduled for stem cell surgery...

Bail and Bond in the Courts  The courts have powers under the Constitution and the CPC to admit an accused person to bail or to release him or her upon executing a bond with sureties for his or her appearance. The exercise of these powers entails the performance of the following judicial and administrative functions: Determining whether or not an accused person should be granted bail;...

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested a suspected serial killer and rapist who has been terrorizing residents of Ruiru, Kiambu County.   According to the DCI, 29-year-old Paul Magara Morara, who is believed to be a member of a cult, has been killing women and strangely stealing their panties.   The DCI says the suspect, who was arrested...

A deputy director at the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) bought the bulk of 35 apartments in the four months to September 2019 when Kenya withdrew the old Sh1,000 banknote to tackle illicit financial flows. The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has raised the red flag that the apartments worth Sh374.5 million and Sh94 million in bank accounts linked to Margaret Wanja Muthui were the products of illicit...

By loveKenyan businesses have received a boost in storage and warehousing after Africa Logistics Properties (ALP) launched a $6million (S653.1 million) warehousing facility in Limuru. The ALP West facility sits on an expansive 49 acres that comprise of seven phases. There has been a huge local warehousing demand in recent months, especially in the wake of Covid-19,  as businesses adapt to e-commerce...

A 31-year-old man from Kamanamsim in Litein, Kericho county is in custody after he was caught in an unnatural act with a calf. Kennedy Lamar, was arrested after the calf’s owner Fancy Langat, raised alarm attracting the whole village, after she heard her calf groaning at around 5am. An alarmed Langat who thought a predator had attacked her livestock leapt from her bed, opened her door and...

Police in Nairobi are investigating the raiding of industrialist and philanthropist  Dr Manu Chandaria's home Sunday night.  Reports say the gang entered Dr Chandaria’s heavily-secured Muthaiga residence in spite of heavy exchange of gunfire with police personnel guarding the home. However, according to the police, family members were unhurt but the criminals made away with an unknown amount of...