by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | County News, news
Kakamega senator has lashed at COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli over plans to name the Luhya community’s preferred presidential candidate ahead of 2017 poll. Atwoli said the candidate will be named during an end year fete on December 31 at Bukhungu Stadium...
by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Talks between Taita Taveta nurses, health services officials and the county assembly have collapsed after the health workers’ union on Tuesday refused to end the strike. Last week, the county assembly formed an ad hoc committee which was tasked with ending the strike....
by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | news
Former President Daniel arap Moi has mourned the death of veteran politician John Keen, describing him as ‘long-time personal friend and fellow freedom fighter’. In his message of condolence to the family through his spokesman Lee Njiru, Moi said he had...
by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | sports
Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal’s Euro 2016-winning coach Fernando Santos scooped the top prizes at the seventh edition of the Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai on Tuesday. Ronaldo claimed the best player award after helping his country land their...
by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | news
The Latest on the aftermath of the U.S. allowing an anti-settlement resolution to pass through the U.N. security council (all times local): 1:45 p.m. A Jerusalem city councilman says a municipal committee has delayed a vote on roughly 500 new homes in Jewish areas of...
by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | news
The leaders of Japan and the United States sought to remind the world that even the most bitter enemies can become allies, during a historic pilgrimage to the hallowed waters of Pearl Harbor. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did not apologize, but conceded Japan “must...
by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | news
Nigeria’s most senior Muslim cleric has rejected a new gender equality bill, which proposes that women and men inherit an equal share. The Sultan of Sokoto, Mohamed Sa’ad Abubakar, said Muslims would not accept the violation of Islamic law guaranteeing men...
by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | news
There will be no Fidel Castro streets or plazas in Cuba, in keeping with the late revolutionary leader’s wishes, as spelled out in a law Cuban legislators passed on Tuesday. President Raul Castro, 85, said that before dying at the age of 90 on November 25, his...
by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | news
Nigeria has struck off 50,000 ‘ghost workers’ from the state payrolls this year, saving nearly 630 million euros, the presidency said Tuesday. The office of President Muhammadu Buhari, who was voted into power last year vowing to stamp out endemic graft in...
by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | news
Senate is set to debate contentious changes to elections laws that were passed by the National Assembly last week. Anti-riot police barricaded Parliament Road and Harambee Avenue as more officers were deployed around Parliament Buildings. Some senators were forced to...
