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IEBC Extends Presidential Running Mate Nomination Deadline To May 16
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IEBC Extends Presidential Running Mate Nomination Deadline To May 16

Presidential aspirants and those eyeing gubernatorial seats in the August General Election now have two more weeks to name their running mates. This is after the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) extended the April 28 deadline for submitting running mate names to May 16. IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati announced the changes on Tuesday, shortly after a consultative meeting between representatives of political parties and the electoral body. “The date for submission of aspirants lists for presidential aspirants and their deputies as well as gubernatorial aspirants and their deputies will be on the 16th of May,” he said.` “Independent candidates who are vying for president and governor positions, and their deputies, shall also submit their names by 16th of Ma...
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Court Freezes Bank Account Of Gov’t Employee Earning Ksh.32K But Transacted Ksh.79 Million
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Court Freezes Bank Account Of Gov’t Employee Earning Ksh.32K But Transacted Ksh.79 Million

The High Court has frozen the bank account of a public officer at the Ministry of Environment who is alleged to have fraudulently acquired public funds amounting to millions of shillings. According to preliminary investigations by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), Samuel Njoroge Kariuki's currently has Ksh.22 million, an amount that does not match his salary and therefore the funds in the account are believed to have been obtained through corruption. Documents filed in court indicate that Kariuki joined the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in January 2018, as a Finance Officer II in job group K earning a salary of Ksh.32,000. Before joining the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, was working at Save the Children and earning a net salary of Ksh.27,000. ...
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French President Emmanuel Macron Wins Re-Election
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French President Emmanuel Macron Wins Re-Election

The success continues the theme of the first round, when Macron finished 4.5 points and 1.6 million votes ahead of Le Pen, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon just barely being eliminated for the second round – he won nearly 22% of the vote, just a single percentage point behind the far-right candidate. With the first round behind him, Macron knew that he could count on the support of a larger number of candidates (Valerie Pécresse, Les Républicains; Yannick Jadot, Europe Ecologie Les Verts; Fabien Roussel, Parti Communiste; and Anne Hidalgo, Parti Socialiste) than Le Pen, who was endorsed only by the two other far-right candidates (Eric Zemmour and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan). While Mélenchon did not call for his supporters to cast votes for Macron, he proclaimed that “not a single vote” should...
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Mwai Kibaki’s body arrives in Parliament
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Mwai Kibaki’s body arrives in Parliament

The body of former President Mwai Kibaki on Monday arrived at Parliament buildings a few minutes before 7:30 am. This followed a Solemn Procession that began from Lee Funeral Home and took to  Valley Road and Kenyatta Avenue through to Parliament Road. A Military Guard of Honour was mounted along Parliament Road for the entry procession into Parliament The former Head of State will lie-in-state for the next three days. Kibaki died at the age of 90.
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Education CS Magoha To Release 2021 KCSE Exam Results
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Education CS Magoha To Release 2021 KCSE Exam Results

The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) 2021 examination results are set to be released by Education CS Prof. George Magoha. The results will be released at the KNEC headquarters on Dennis Pritt Road, Kilimani, Nairobi.  A total of 831,015 candidates sat the exam. The exams were done in 10,413 centres. The papers were disseminated from 483 distribution centers, with Magoha supervising the examination distribution and monitoring exercise. Students had until April 1 to submit their choice of courses to the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service.
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IEBC Announces 418,000 Temporary Jobs Ahead Of August Elections
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IEBC Announces 418,000 Temporary Jobs Ahead Of August Elections

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has announced a total of 418,192 short-term job opportunities ahead of the August 9 General Election. IEBC is looking to recruit deputy county returning officers (47), deputy constituency returning officers (290), presiding officers (52,481), deputy presiding officers (52,841), logistics officers (389) and support electoral trainers (5,827). The elections authority is also looking to enlist 580 ICT clerks, 302,860 polling clerks, 47 county based voter educators, 290 constituency based voter educators and 2,900 ward-based voter educators All interested parties should apply for the positions on IEBC’s online portal, where requirements for the slots will be available, before May 6, 2022.
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Jaguar protests after Mbugua is handed Starehe UDA ticket
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Jaguar protests after Mbugua is handed Starehe UDA ticket

Starehe MP Charles Njagua 'Jaguar' has suffered a major blow after his rival was handed a UDA ticket for the Starehe Parliamentary seat. Njagua who was contesting against East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) MP Simon Mbugua lost in the opinion polls that took place on Wednesday. It is believed that supporters of Starehe MP Njagua and his opponent MP Simon Mbugua clashed leading to the postponement of the exercise. The National Elections Board announced that the party will use opinion polls to settle on popular candidates. But Njagua has argued that his constituents were denied their democratic right to go to the ballot and choose their leader. “The people of Starehe were denied their democratic right to go to the ballot again for the nominations and choose their lea...
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Johnny Depp Takes Stand In Defamation Case Against Ex Wife Amber Heard
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Johnny Depp Takes Stand In Defamation Case Against Ex Wife Amber Heard

Actor Johnny Depp has begun his testimony in his defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard. "My goal is the truth," Depp said early in his remarks. Depp, known for his work in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, is suing Heard for $50 million in a Fairfax County, Virginia court over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which wrote about her experience with domestic abuse. The piece was published roughly two years after Heard alleged Depp bruised her face after throwing a phone at her in their Los Angeles home. Depp denied the allegation and was not charged with any crime. Depp was not referred to by name in Heard's piece. Still, Depp claims it led to financial losses for him, including being dropped from future "Pirates of the Caribbean" films after he led the franc...
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2,000 Police Officers Found Mentally Unfit To Serve
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2,000 Police Officers Found Mentally Unfit To Serve

Inspector-General of Police Hillary Mutyambai has said 2,000 police officers are mentally unfit to serve in the police service. Speaking when he met bishops and senior clergy of the Anglican Church in Nairobi on Tuesday, Mutyambai said that the findings were established after medical examinations were conducted on police officers. “We have subjected all the officers to medical examination, and to our surprise, we got a big number. We isolated almost 2,000 police officers who are unfit to do their law enforcement work,” said Mutyambai. IG Mutyambai went on to say that a process to manage some of the mentally unstable officers, has been initiated. He highlighted the importance of having stable officers in the service, pointing out the high risk posed especially when the offi...
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