Matemu insists EACC will probe MPs over chaotic passage of security laws

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has maintained that parliamentary Standing Orders cannot oust Chapter Six of the Constitution.

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 11 years ago

Mazrui dynasty: Prominent Coast family vows to defend its vast land holdings

The 400-family-strong Mazrui dynasty has exerted immense influence on the Kenyan Coast before and after Kenya gained independence.

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 11 years ago

Heavy rains cause losses in Nairobi, Kirinyaga

Flash floods wreaked havoc in several parts of the country, with Nairobi and its environs suffering drainage and traffic crisis following overnight storms.

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 11 years ago

Pensioners’ plight: How Kenya Railways retirees’ billions were plundered

At the beginning of the 2006 working year, Vitalis Odongo dispatched an official memo to every department within the mammoth Kenya Railways organisation. Attached to the acting managing director’s memo were a series of instructions that underlined the importance of the message he was passing to close to 20,000 of his employees.

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 11 years ago

State owes retirees Sh225m in Muthurwa deal

More questions have been raised on how property belonging to the Kenya Railways Staff Retirement Benefits Scheme were disposed of.

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 11 years ago

Rift Valley leaders fault police over jobs, say hiring failed credibility test

Leaders in the South and Central Rift have called for nullification of the recent police recruitment, saying it was not transparent.

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 11 years ago

CS Kandie creates team to revive tourism

A taskforce has been formed to advise the Government on how to rejuvenate the tourism sector, currently on a downward trend.

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 11 years ago

Supkem ordered to hold polls

The Registrar of Societies has ordered the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (Supkem) to hold elections in the next 45 days.

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 12 years ago

Big money rocks athletes' life and marriage

The huge athletics dollar payout in races abroad aptly obeys the social maxim: more money more problems.

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 12 years ago

TNA, APK in new scramble for Meru supremacy

The heightened political rivalry witnessed in last year’s general election between TNA and APK in Mt Kenya East is brewing, even as Meru residents await the Supreme Court’s decision on whether they have to go back to the polls to elect a governor

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 12 years ago

Revealed: The inside story of ODM’s ‘Men in Black’

Details have emerged that the combative “Men in Black” at the aborted ODM elections last weekend were acting on instruction and executing a carefully crafted script.

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 12 years ago

Exposed: An elaborate cash printing cartel

A major cash counterfeiting scandal has taken root at the lakeside city of Kisumu, with dealers claiming connection to high-profi le politicians churning out paper money that passes for genuine legal tender worth millions of shillings.

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 12 years ago

Witness names ODM in post-poll chaos

The second witness against Deputy President William Ruto at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has implicated ODM in the violence that engulfed the country after the disputed 2007 presidential election results.

By Standard On Sunday Reporter 12 years ago