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The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) cut power to parliament due to an outstanding debt of 23 million cedis ($1.8 million). The outage interrupted a debate on the president’s State of the Nation speech. A video shared by local media showed MPs in the dimly lit chamber chanting: “Dumsor, dumsor”, which means power outage in […]
Retired Tanzanian President Ally Hassan Mwinyi died on Thursday 29th February 2024 aged 98 after succumbing to cancer. He served Tanzania as the second president from 1985 to 1995. The Tanzanian prime minister Kassim Majaliwa, has announced the burial schedule which will start on Friday at 11 AM. The body will leave his Mikocheni home […]
The National Youth Service (NYS) has lowered the minimum Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) mean grade from the current D plain to D- (minus) in its bid to accommodate more Kenyans in future recruitments. While appearing before the National Assembly Committee on Cohesion and Equal Opportunities, James Tembur, the NYS Director General, stated that […]
Every Kenyan, including unemployed youth aged over 25, will be required to pay for the new Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF). According to the announcement from the Ministry of Health, unemployed Kenyan youth will not be exempted from the new monthly contribution to the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) starting from July 1, 2024. The […]
Deductions towards the new Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) have been pushed to July, Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha has announced. Kenyans were to pay 2.75 per cent of their gross pay to SHIF from March 1, 2024, in what will see contributions for top earners rise by more than eight times. Speaking during a […]
A man who went berserk Saturday night killing four close family members in Muhoroni sub-county, Kisumu county was Sunday night arrested. Police said the suspect,28, was arrested at a sugar plantation in the area while frail after he had swallowed a cattle dip poisonous chemical. He had tried to die by suicide before he was […]
Most parts of the country will receive above-normal rains in the coming planting season, which will begin early next month. Weathermen said they are fairly confident of this, adding that chances of heavier rains are above 70 per cent. The March-May long rains season is the most important in Kenya and forms at least 40 […]
The high court in Eldoret has declined to stop the burial of World Marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum following an application by a 22-year-old woman who claims to have sired a child with the runner. Justice Wananda declined to stop the burial following the application by Edna Owuor through her lawyer Joseph Oyaro. She claims […]
President Joe Biden’s dog Commander bit US Secret Service agents on at least 24 occasions, according to new documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests. The German Shepherd’s actions caused disruptions for the presidential bodyguards, prompting a change in tactics. One senior agent advised others to “give lots of room” to avoid further incidents. The […]