African 800metre champion Sarah Moraa and 3000 metre steeplechase silver medalist Edmund Serem are among 19 athletes who have been selected in team Kenya for the World Under 20 athletics championships slated for Lima, Peru this August. The team was named today following the conclusion of a two day national trials at the Nyayo…
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Rayton Okwiri during a fight in March. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] World Boxing Federation (WBF) Africa middleweight champion Rayton Okwiri is set for a world title fight in September, officials have confirmed. Okwiri is set to face a Canadian boxer in a World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight title fight in Port Louis, Mauritius according to…
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua during an address at his official residence in Mombasa on June 25, 2024. [Omondi Onyango, Standard] An activist has filed a lawsuit against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua over comments he made about NIS Director-General Noordin Haji’s handling of recent anti-government protests. The petition, filed by Fredrick Bikeri at the Milimani High…
Noah Lyles remains unfazed by a potential threat from Jamaicans despite Kishane Thompson clocking a season’s best at the Olympics trials in Kingston. World 100m champion Noah Lyles is unbothered by the impressive time recorded by Jamaican Kishane Thompson at the Olympics trials. Thompson managed a personal best 9.82 on Thursday in what was a…
Nominated Member of Parliament (MP) Bishop Jackson Kosgei has detailed the moment anti-finance bill protestors stormed the National Assembly on Tuesday, June 25. Kosgei recounted that MPs were conducting their business inside the chamber, focusing on voting for the Finance Bill. “We were inside the chamber when suddenly, our colleagues from the other side of…
Three middle-aged men died in Ruiru, Kiambu County while unloading granites from a container trailer that had ferried the material from the industrial area in Nairobi. Eight people had begun to offload the stones when the construction materials fell on them. Four, according to Ruiru Sub-County police commander Alex Shikondi, managed…
Raphael Nzomo’s owned pony ‘The Breaker’ that was rode by Zimbabwean BJ Bowen was voted the Best Playing Pony (BPP) in the 8-Goal-international match between Kenya and Zimbabwe at Manyatta Polo Club in Gilgil on June 23,2024.[Courtesy] For a pony to understand the rules of polo fully, it has to undergo a comprehensive training for…
KDF Officers in Nairobi CBD during the anti-Finance Bill protest. [Stafford Ondego, Standard] In a display of might, armored vehicles and military personnel from the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) patrolled Nairobi for the better part of Thursday. Dispatched from Nyayo Stadium Thursday morning, the soldiers entered the city through Tom Mboya Street where they were…
McKinstry. who is set to leave Gor Mahia when his contract expires at the end of June, has revealed the transfer strategy the club will take which will make them do well in the Champions League next season. Outgoing Gor Mahia coach Johnathan McKinstry believes the club can make history by becoming the first ever…
Salim Swaleh, Director of Press at the Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary, has received cash bail of Kes.400,000 each in a case involving allegations of obtaining money by false pretenses and abuse of office. In a ruling on Wednesday, Magistrate BenMark Ekumbi at the Milimani Law Courts directed Swaleh and his five coaccused to…
Police officers in Ongata Rongai, Nakuru, waylaid suspected looters inside a supermarket on Thursday, June 27, 2024. The suspected looters were caught and compelled to lie flat inside the supermarket after the police conducted a successful raid. “This supermarket pays a lot of people and you want to steal here. Why are you doing that,”…
High Court Judge Lawrence Mugambi on Thursday found that the state did not err in deploying Kenya Defence Forces internally to help quell chaos arising from widespread anti-tax protests. In a case pitting the Law Society of Kenya, the State Law Office, the Cabinet Secretary for Defence, and three others, Judge Mugambi indicated that KDF…
Nanyuki Town in Laikipia County on Thursday witnessed calmness as businesses operations continued smoothly as usual unlike on Tuesday when rowdy Anti Finance Bill 2024 youths paralysed business. A spot check by KNA at various places in Nanyuki Town revealed businesses were open with no sign of chaos…
Kenya Sevens’ Anthony Omondi (left) at World Rugby Challenger Series.[World Rugby] When Antony Omondi was dropped from the Kenya Rugby 7s squad Shujaa a few days before the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, he felt his world had come to an end. He was dejected and frustrated because playing at the Olympics was his ultimate dream, but…