NAIROBI, Kenya Nov 11 – Retired President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, are among several leaders who are attending the requiem mass of Beatrice Wambui Muturi.
Wiper Leader Kalonzo Musyoka and opposition politicians are also present.
Beatrice Wambui Muturi who died aged 90 is Uhuru’s first cousin.
But following the recent introduction of the contraflow traffic system for the service, the sector minister, Mahama Ayariga, has set a doubled target of 16,000 daily passenger journeys for the service, which is to be achieved by Christmas 2026. The Aayalolo contraflow service operates on major commuter routes linking Kasoa, Amasaman and Adentan to central Accra.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 10 – Murang’a Woman Representative Betty Maina has pulled out of the 2027 parliamentary race, in a decision that signals the growing uncertainty facing President William Ruto’s political allies in the Mt Kenya region. The legislator appeared to link her decision to the changing political mood in Mt Kenya, particularly the growing popularity of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP).
The UK partnership comes a few weeks after the Osun State Government's collaboration with Chinese tech company to deploy AI surveillance system.
Nigerian-born American lawyer, Shirley U. Emehelu, has made history as the first immigrant to become Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Emehelu, who emigrated from Nigeria as a child, was appointed by Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Monday, becoming the fifth Lieutenant Governor of the state. A graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, Emehelu also worked in private legal practice and served as a judicial clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Plus letters from Sheila Triggs and Stephen Smith A key lesson for the UK from the US midterm elections is that a different approach to managing the economy is essential if Labour hopes to retain power in two years’ time. Voters in the UK will judge Andy Burnham’s government just as harshly as American voters have judged Donald Trump if they too feel the economy is not working for them.
By Ike Uchechukwu CALABAR Thousands of aggrieved local government workers in Cross River State on Tuesday protested at the Federal Secretariat in Calabar, rejecting the state government’s claim that 3,000 of them had been reinstated and describing the announcement as a “huge hoax”. Receiving the protesters at his office, the Public Complaints Commission’s Federal Commissioner for Cross River State, Dr Owa Egbara, commended them for their orderly conduct and said he had studied their petition.