PHOTO:COURTESY An interruption was experienced during the swearing in of the 47 Members of County Assembly (MCAs) at the Kisumu County Assembly where chaos broke out when the Clerk Owen Ojuok announced that he had a communication from the Court barring 4 nominated MCAs from swearing in. Amid chaos, Ojuok read that the MCAs, Kennedy Ajwang, Lawino Opar, John Obaso and Regina Kizito had been barred through a court […]
The United Nations General Assembly is set to return to an in-person meeting for the first time in two years amid general division in the world instigated by the war in Ukraine. After two years of pandemic restrictions and video addresses, the UN General Assembly has asked leaders to come in person if they wish to address the world at the occasion — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is the […]
A suppliers’ credit financing which forms the base of the multi-billion Anglo-Leasing trial was approved by Cabinet, a witness has said. According to Mr Ignatius Wekesa, the investigating officer in the case who is being cross examined and the final prosecution witness, said that the government gave the nod for the supplies of security items on Cabinet approval at the time saying before magistrate Felix Kombo that a look at […]
p PHOTO:COURTESY President Uhuru Kenyatta and President-elect William Ruto have rallied MPs in their respective political formations ahead of today’s crucial vote in Parliament, their final political contest before the transfer of power on Tuesday. In the Senate, former Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka is up against former Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi, who has been endorsed by the President-elect. The two rival coalitions are also tussling for the deputy Speaker […]
Miguna Miguna, the Kenyan lawyer who was deported to Canada after the controvertial mock swearing-in of Raila Odinga has asked the Public Service Commission head Joseph Kinyua to provide documents to facilitate for his travel back to the country ahead of William Ruto's swearing in to the office oof the President. Miguna gave Kinyua as the chairperson of the assumption of Office of the President Committee 24 hours to facilitate […]
IMAGE: VATICAN NEWS Pope Francis has landed in Canada to kick off a week-long trip that will centre around his apology on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church for the abuse that Indigenous children endured at mostly church-run residential schools. “This is a trip of penance. Let’s say that is its spirit,” the pope told reporters after his flight took off from Rome on Sunday. The papal plane […]
Roomies, Gunna’s attorneys are working overtime for his release. They have asked a neighboring county in Georgia, the physical location of the rapper’s jail cell, to order his release. According to Billboard, his lawyers are now trying their luck with Henry County, located next to Fulton County, where he is jailed. On Tuesday, his attorneys filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which is a constitutional procedure that […]
Ivana Trump was laid to rest in a gold casket on Wednesday at her Manhattan funeral, which was attended by the entire Trump family, including Melania, who was rumored to skip the ceremony over an ongoing feud with her husband’s first wife. Ivana, the ex-wife of Donald Trump, passed away at the age of 73 last Thursday, The Shade Room previously reported. She was married to Donald Trump from 1977 […]
ABSOLUTE MORON When I read this story online, I nearly spilled on my coffee because of the sheer laughter from all of this. A Kiambu woman accused of robbing Sh 4 million from her employer was detained on Tuesday by police officers at a witchdoctor's house where she allegedly had gone to "seek protection" against arrest. Miriam Mwelu, according to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), was arrested in […]
