KCPE joy turns to pain

While good performance in national examinations brings unbridled joy to parents and students, for some families, this only lasts for a flirting moment

By Sunday Team 7 years ago

Six Supreme Court judges have not held single meeting since their judgement

Attention will momentarily shift from political campaigns this week as four Supreme Court judges who ruled in favour of nullifying results of the presidential elections make public their full judgment.

By Sunday Team 8 years ago

Ruto vs Kalonzo: A tale of betrayal, quest for revenge and big dreams

With a history of betrayal, the two deputies harbour presidential ambitions in the 2022 elections when Kenyatta and Odinga dynasties are expected to take a break. Now, they are keen to show their value as Election Day beckons

By Sunday Team 8 years ago

Uhuru, Raila woo swing vote

With 48 hours to the polls, the President returned home in Kiambu County, while the NASA candidate took his team to Mombasa.

By Sunday Team 8 years ago

Kenyans cut down on essentials as cost of living shoots through the roof

With inflation at a 58-month high of 11.5 per cent, it appears all economic fundamentals are conspiring to turn Kenya into a nation of broke citizens

By Sunday Team 8 years ago

Use of Jubilee smart cards jolts party primaries

A proposal to use smart cards in the upcoming Jubilee Party nominations has run into headwinds with majority of aspirants insisting national identity cards should be used.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

NASA has no solid agenda, Uhuru says as he woos Coast

President Uhuru Kenyatta took the battle for votes to Opposition’s stronghold in Coast telling voters that the National Super Alliance (NASA) co-principal Raila Odinga was only good at spreading propaganda.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

SA, Seychelles nationals held in narcotics crackdown

Four foreigners suspected to be drug dealers were arrested in Mombasa and an unknown quantity of narcotics seized.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

Development should enhance the value of, and not destroy, precious national heritage

What should be done to stem the decline of wildlife?

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

Fresh details on how KDF camp was overrun as top commanders summoned

Kenya Defence Forces commanders in Somalia were summoned to Nairobi on Friday evening to explain the Kulbiyow carnage as military top brass began to confront the enormity of the losses from the attack.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

Anxiety as Raila’s super alliance takes shape

Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka will on Tuesday become the third opposition politician to be endorsed by his party to contest for the top seat on the Opposition’s super alliance ticket.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

Fury over Sh5.3b scam as Raila tells Uhuru to quit

Yesterday, opposition leaders Raila Odinga (ODM), Musalia Mudavadi (ANC), Moses Wetang’ula (Bungoma Senator), Johnstone Muthama (Machakos Senator), and three lawmakers repeated calls for President Kenyatta to resign on the grounds that he had failed to contain graft.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

Senior county officers in Central and South Rift to quit for 2017 polls

As campaigns for the 2017 elections begin in earnest, a host of senior state officials in Central and South Rift regions are expected to resign to contest various seats.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

Contest under other parties or face lock out, JP aspirants told

Anxiety has gripped politicians in Rift Valley eyeing the Jubilee Party ticket. Their fears are founded on claims that the party leadership has already drawn a list of preferred candidates for various elective seats in the next general election.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

Leaders want fair contest in Uhuru's new vehicle

Anxiety is palpable among aspirants for elective positions as the party top echelons put on hold plans to announce national officials.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

Panic as earthquake aftershocks hit Western and North Rift

There was panic in parts of Western Kenya as earthquake aftershocks hit Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia, Trans-Nzoia, Vihiga and Siaya. In Kakamega town witnesses said storey business premises shook for a few minutes, causing panic among occupants who dashed out thinking the building was collapsing.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

Why Coast counties are struggling to raise revenue

Experts have urged the county authorities to be more innovative in raising funds and seal loopholes in revenue collection to stop being “perennial beggars” from the national government.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

ODM, JAP win ward by-elections in strongholds

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and the Jubilee Alliance Party (JAP) have won ward by-elections in their strongholds.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

Raila Odinga points finger at ‘Kwekwe Squad’ in Jacob Juma's brutal murder

Fresh claims emerged over the brutal killing of businessman Jacob Juma as CORD co-principal Raila Odinga told mourners in Bungoma County yesterday that a police hit squad code named “Kwekwe” was responsible.

By Sunday Team 9 years ago

Long, teary, dreadful but hopeful 10 days and nights

This is the long and short of the harrowing story of the tens of families of missing Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officers whose camp was attacked by Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia last week.

By Sunday Team 10 years ago

Jet saga: Why Uhuru must draw the line

The intrigues surrounding President Uhuru Kenyatta’s mid-air about turn from a diary appearance at a US investment conference has put his handlers on the radar with the official explanation creating more uncertainty over the true events of that night.

By Sunday Team 10 years ago

Heed President Uhuru Kenyatta's call to resign, Jubilee MPs say

A section of Jubilee MPs have urged those named in the corruption ‘list of shame’ released by President Uhuru Kenyatta to resign.

By Sunday Team 11 years ago

Why Yebei’s case puts State on spotlight over the disposal of unclaimed bodies

The discovery of the body of International Criminal Court (ICC) witness Meshack Yebei at the Voi County Referral Hospital Mortuary in Taita Taveta County has raised questions on the disposal of unclaimed bodies and puts into sharp focus the national fingerprints register.

By Sunday Team 11 years ago

Kenya now bans Tanzanian tour firms in tourism feud

After months of haggling over cross-border tourism operations, the Government has, with immediate effect, barred Tanzanian registered tour vans from operating in the country altogether.

By Sunday Team 11 years ago

Central leaders scoff at Saba Saba rally

Politicians in Central Kenya have criticised CORD leaders over tomorrow’s Saba Saba rally at Nairobi’s Uhuru Park. In Kirinyaga, Mwea MP Peter Gitau threatened to mobilise a million Kenyans to forcefully occupy the residence of CORD leader Raila Odinga should the rally turn chaotic.

By Sunday Team 11 years ago

Keep off our counties, Central Governors tell CORD

As the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) continues its string of rallies countrywide, queries have been raised over their failure to include Central Kenya in their itinerary.

By Sunday Team 11 years ago

Mudavadi offers to lead mediation on proposed national dialogue

After a year in the political cold, former Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi has finally asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to give him a chance as a mediator in the national dialogue that the opposition and Cord leader Raila Odinga has asked for.

By Sunday Team 11 years ago

Perera yet to sue Kenya for new demands on Anglo Leasing

Mystery of the fresh demand for Sh3.05 billion by a businessman in the Anglo Leasing scandal contracts deepened after top government officials said they were unaware of equipment supplied from the tender.

By Sunday Team 11 years ago

Intrigues as former ICC witness family forced to flee home

For the second time this year, the family of former ICC witness John* (identity withheld) has been forced to flee their home due to fear of the unknown.

By Sunday Team 11 years ago

Phone records hold clue to terror probe

Investigation into a foiled terror attack in Mombasa last week is now centred on three aspects surrounding a car found with explosives. It is focusing on a one-month policy for which the vehicle was insured, the presumed owner of the KAN 410E Toyota Hilux and the profiles of two suspects from Wajir County, now in detention.

By Sunday Team 12 years ago

Did Al-Qaeda from Arabian Peninsula plot foiled attack?

As police celebrate thwarting what they say could have been Kenya’s deadliest terrorist attack, investigators now believe the plotters were from the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular (AQAP) group based in Yemen.

By Sunday Team 12 years ago

Theories abound on Mombasa suspects’ arrest

Rival theories of the Federal Bureau of Investigations involvement in foiling the Mombasa terror attack abound with reports that the Americans had been on a separate counter-terrorism operation in Kinango, Kwale, when they accidentally picked a signal of a live bomb on their counter during a routine call on Mombasa County Commissioner Nelson Marwa on March 17.

By Sunday Team 12 years ago

Raila: Pay cut will only hurt already burdened workers

The move by President Uhuru Kenyatta, Deputy President William Ruto and their Cabinet to take a pay cut has elicited sharp reactions from across the political divide.

By Sunday Team 12 years ago

Lethal tablets among drugs teachers and parents are fighting

Across the country, parents and teachers are having a hard time containing heavy consumption of illicit drugs by students.

By Sunday Team 12 years ago

Long school holidays: The headache of most Kenyan parents

Many parents of school-going children are worried that the long vacations mean unlimited free and unsupervised time, increasing the risk of truancy among their children

By Sunday Team 12 years ago

How to make the most of holidays

Away from the fears and jitters hanging on to parents, some child experts are offering home grown solutions that will help beat the money blues and ensure children spend quality time with their parents and peers.

By Sunday Team 12 years ago

MBA in the dock as infidelity wrecks more marriages

Why would women rather ‘cry in a range rover than laugh in a bicycle’?

By Sunday Team 12 years ago

Exposed: Booming passports, IDs sale

As government announced the sacking of fifteen high ranking immigration officials, investigations by The Standard on Sunday reveal a core of corrupt

By Sunday Team 12 years ago

Catalogue of Kalonzo’s ICC shuttle diplomacy

Former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka led Cabinet ministers and top Grand Coalition Government officials on an unsuccessful mission to defer the Kenya cases at the ICC.

By Sunday Team 12 years ago

Prayer rallies revealed possibility of UhuRuto ticket

The Camp Uhuru strategists were buoyed by the prayer meetings held before the Ocampo Six left for the pre-trials hearings at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, because they believed a movement could grow from here.

By Sunday Team 12 years ago