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Wainaina Ndungu

Windfall for tea farmers as KTDA releases Sh5.5b

Agriculture CS Mithika Linturi says the early bonus is not a loan but earned from sale of tea. Pay out comes amid a probe on KTDA, but the CS seems to validate last year's payment.

By Graham Kajilwa and Wainaina Ndungu 1 year ago

Windfall for tea farmers as KTDA releases Sh5.5b

Win for gender parity quest as more women get elective posts

Win for gender parity quest as more women get elective posts

By Wainaina Ndungu 1 year ago

Police bosses now ordered to cut non-essential spending

Police bosses now ordered to cut non-essential spending

By Wainaina Ndungu 2 years ago

CS vetting: Meet Mr Controversy Mithika Linturi

CS vetting: Meet Mr Controversy Mithika Linturi

By Wainaina Ndungu 2 years ago

William Ruto's plan to transform agriculture, earn foreign exchange

President said Government will continue financing fertilizer import subsidy. State to double the land under irrigation to 1.4 million acres in three years.

By Wainaina Ndungu 2 years ago

William Ruto's plan to transform agriculture, earn foreign exchange

Kindiki: Soft spoken scholar gets 'tough' post that needs grit

Prof Kindiki burst into the national limelight when he was named as one of the lawyers to represent President Uhuru Kenyatta and then Deputy President William Ruto at ICC

By Wainaina Ndungu 2 years ago

Kindiki: Soft spoken scholar gets 'tough' post that needs grit

Hamisi Massa: Acting DCI boss says will be polite but firm

The acting head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Hamisi Massa has promised to employ new methods in apprehending suspects of economic crimes.

By Wainaina Ndungu 2 years ago

Hamisi Massa: Acting DCI boss says will be polite but firm

Queen Elizabeth II: The Kenyan connection

The future Queen Elizabeth II received the news of her father's death in 1952 in Nyeri while touring Kenya.

By Wainaina Ndungu 2 years ago

Queen Elizabeth II: The Kenyan connection

Uhuru to attend Consecration of the Holy Oil ceremony in Murang'a

President Uhuru is expected to attend the Consecration of the Holy Oil at the AIPCA Gakarara Church in Kandara, Murang’a tomorrow.

By Boniface Gikandi and Wainaina Ndungu 2 years ago

Uhuru to attend Consecration of the Holy Oil ceremony in Murang'a

From Jumapili to Jogoo, Meru and Thika estates bear tags that baffle locals

Kooje, Shauri Yako and Kambakia estates in Meru bear names that residents hardly understand.

By Phares Mutembei and Wainaina Ndungu 2 years ago

From Jumapili to Jogoo, Meru and Thika estates bear tags that baffle locals

PHOTOS: Kirinyaga residents throng Wanguru stadium for Mashujaa Day celebrations

This will be President Uhuru Kenyatta’s last Mashujaa Day address as the sitting President, and with it comes a number of expectations from Kenyans.

By Ndungu Gachane and Wainaina Ndungu 3 years ago

PHOTOS: Kirinyaga residents throng Wanguru stadium for Mashujaa Day celebrations

Embrace national unity, Musalia tells Kenyans

Musalia thanked Mt Kenya counties for concerted efforts to approve the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Bill

By Wainaina Ndungú 3 years ago

Embrace national unity, Musalia tells Kenyans

Stalled projects to be revived

Dr Kibicho said the committee, which was established last year, had so far visited 1,500 projects across the country.

By Wainaina Ndungu and Dickson Mwiti 4 years ago

Stalled projects to be revived

Uhuru no longer at ease in fractured Jubilee Party

Political goodwill that could catapult his ambitious legacy projects into a tangible reality seems to have run out.

By Wainaina Ndungu and Jacob Ng’etich 5 years ago

$Uhuru no longer at ease in fractured Jubilee Party$

How heart break drove girl to suicide

In the last hours of her life, Makena, 19, is said to have been shattered and inconsolable

By Wainaina Ndungu and Boniface Gikandi 5 years ago

How heart break drove girl to suicide

Scores of central Kenya residents dying young, police say

Number of suicide cases in Central Kenya alarming

By Wainaina Ndungu and Boniface Gikandi 5 years ago

Scores of central Kenya residents dying young, police say

Mt Kenya’s elaborate scheme to get it 'right' in census

Mt Kenya leaders want residents to go back so they can be counted in their home counties in the August census.

By Wainaina Ndungu and Jacinta Mutura 5 years ago

Mt Kenya’s elaborate scheme to get it 'right' in census

The politics involved in the Sh6.9 billion a year miraa sector

The dark tan leaves of the miraa tree, their flexible branches bent by years of human weight pulling at them during harvesting, dot the Nyambene highlands in Meru County.

By Wainaina Ndungu and Dickson Mwiti 7 years ago

The politics involved in the Sh6.9 billion a year miraa sector

Uhuru, Ruto plead with voters for another term

Political rivalry between Meru Governor Peter Munya and his Senator Kiraitu Murungi was laid bare when President Uhuru Kenyatta toured the region yesterday.

By Wainaina Ndungu and Vincent Mabatuk 7 years ago

Uhuru, Ruto plead with voters for another term

DP Ruto moves to counter Munya in Meru

Deputy President William Ruto has accused the Opposition of intimidating the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).

By Phares Mutembei and Wainaina Ndungu 7 years ago

DP Ruto moves to counter Munya in Meru

Big win for Peter Munya as PNU merger annulled

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party suffered a setback yesterday after a tribunal ruled that the Party of National Unity (PNU) was not part of the Jubilee coalition.

By Kamau Muthoni and Wainaina Ndungu 8 years ago

Big win for Peter Munya as PNU merger annulled

Stalled dam mocks thirsty Marsabit folks

It was supposed to be one of the biggest reservoirs in this parched part of the country. But all there is to show for the Badasa Dam project is a large uncompleted earthen embankment in Marsabit Forest.

By Wainaina Ndungu 10 years ago

Stalled dam mocks thirsty Marsabit folks

Opinion:What you should know about Uhuru Kenyatta’s ICC case

Trial Chamber V (b) of ICC has convened status conference today involving only the parties to the case namely Prosecution, Defence and the Accused person Uhuru Kenyatta to discuss the “critical juncture’ of the case.

By Wainaina Ndungu 10 years ago

Opinion:What you should know about Uhuru Kenyatta’s ICC case

Official: Alcoholism not to blame for few births in Central region

A demographer has attributed low population growth rate in Central region to high use of contraceptives and not alcohol abuse.

By Wainaina Ndungu 10 years ago

Official: Alcoholism not to blame for few births in Central region

Fencing of Mt Kenya Forest faces hurdle over boundary

A community in Tharaka Nithi County is threatening to disrupt the construction of the Mt Kenya Forest fence over a 12-kilometre strip of forest land they claim was originally their farmland.

By By WAINAINA NDUNGU 10 years ago

Fencing of Mt Kenya Forest faces hurdle over boundary

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