Author: Eagle Reporter

Iranian ambassador to Kenya Jafar Barmaki on Monday paid a courtesy call on the Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Masika Wetang’ula. Barmaki who has been in the country for the past three years congratulated lauded Kenyans for having a peaceful elections in the August 9 elections saying that the country’s democracy had matured and come of age. He also emphasized on the need to have a proper banking system with the Iranian government where business people can conduct direct exchange in cash. “As a country we value the good trade relationship that the two countries have often had even…

President William Ruto Monday appointed a National Steering Committee on Drought Response to lead a private sector effort to mitigate the drought situation in the country. The Committee will be chaired by Safaricom Chief Executive Officer Peter Ndegwa, and its members include CEOs James Mwangi (Equity), Jane Karuku (EABL) and Diamond Trust Bank’s Nasim Devji. It will establish an appeal fund under the auspices of the Red Cross and report to the Deputy President who is co-ordinating the Government response. Other Members include KCB head Paul Russo, Rebecca Mbithi, Family Bank, Joshua Chepkwony of Jamii Telecom and Shamaz Savani of…

The national education taskforce on Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) appointed by president William Ruto Monday afternoon paid a courtesy call on the Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Masika Wetang’ula.The taskforce accompanied by a section of the departmental committee members on Education including the Chair, Tinderet MP Julius Kibiwot Melly together with his deputy the Malava MP Malulu Injendi who sought to brief the Speaker on the CBC Taskforce mandate and elaborate on the workings so far. The 49-member task force Committee appointed by the President was tasked to review the current CBC education program and work out on the…

Security agencies are holding a man who is a resident of Bura East Sub-County in Tana River County for providing sensitive information to Al Shabaab in order to facilitate their terror operations in the North Eastern Region (NER), Tana River and Lamu Counties.Mustafa Khalib Muhumed’s arrest confirms the police reports and investigations that he has over time been supplying the Somalia based al-Shabaab terror group with information and in return receiving payments for the services. According to police, at the time of his arrest the subject had just delivered a detailed surveillance report about a security installation for attack.Place said he…

Police engaged in running battles with Masinde Muliro University students in Kakamega town who were rioting after a fifth year student was brutally murdered and his body dumped in Mahiakalo area. The body of the student who was pursuing an engineering course at the university was discovered at the wee hours by neighbours. Another student was found lying in critical condition close to the deceased and he is undergoing treatment at the county referral hospital.Kakamega county police commander Joseph Kigen said that the deceased could have been murdered elsewhere and his body dumped there suspecting that it could be a…

Kenya Commercial Bank has threatened a Mombasa based hotelier of dire consequences should he attempt to enter the English Point Marina that he owns.KCB through its lawyer George Oraro, has cautioned English Point Marina director Nazir Jinnah that he faces jail or any other unspecified legal consequences.This is after Nazir disputed a court order that KCB used to forcefully take over his hotel last month over a Sh5.2 billion debt dispute.However, KCB through Oraro insisted that the Court of Appeal had vacated the orders issued by high court Judge Dorah Chepkwony while cautioning Nazir against entering the hotel premises.”Take notice…

A woman believed to be the owner of the building that collapsed and killed two people at Ruaka in Kiambu County was arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) while attempting to leave the country.Police said Jennifer Kamau, 59 was headed for the USA when shewas intercepted.She immediately complained his blood pressure had gone up and was rushed to hospital.Kiambu County head of DCI Richard Mwaura said the woman is under police care in hospital.“She will be processed and taken to court once he recovers. She is in hospital for now but under police watch,” he said.She had been…

A quack doctor who had been in practice for years has been in operation for years was Monday sentenced to 29 years for unlawfully administering drugs to patients at his clinic in 2015 and raping them.James Mugo Ndichu, alias Wairimu was found guilty of ten counts. Milimani chief magistrate Wendy Micheni had found that Mugo, 47, who was charged with 12 counts was guilty of 10 counts.Micheni considered all the mitigation and the seriousness of the offences while sentencing Mugo.She noted that Mugo was a danger to the society especially women and needed to be kept away. “I have considered the…

Detectives based at Kasarani police station, Nairobi are looking for a woman who stabbed her ex-lover, a police officer based at Zimmerman police post before fleeing.The woman identified as Pamela Njambi, 30, attacked the officer as he left her house Sunday night, after a failed reconciliation attempt that lasted for around 30 minutes. According to the officer, his former girlfriend had invited him to her house in a bid to rekindle the dying embers of their once blissful relationship. But the officer turned down the overtures and informed his jilted lover that their relationship had run its course and he…

The Central Organization of Trade Unions, COTU (K), Secretary General Dr. Francis Atwoli was Monday re-elected for the fourth term to the position of Vice President of the International Trade Union Confederation, ITUC, during the ongoing fifth Congress in Melbourne, Australia. The ITUC remains the largest trade union organization in the world with a membership of over 200 million drawn from 163 Countries and has its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Atwoli’s name was proposed on the floor of the over 2000 delegates to the Congress and unanimously approved by the delegates hence granting him another four years term in the leadership of…