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Pkemoi Ng'enoh

Anger after Rose Njeri arrest over anti-Finance Bill 2025 website

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-01 09:40:00

Rose Njeri employed her skills to create a web portal that would enable Kenyans to submit their views on the Finance Bill, 2025.

How to streamline matatu sector in Nairobi

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-05 15:43:57

How to streamline the matatu sector in Nairobi.

Rose Njeri: My harrowing four days locked up in police cells

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-06 10:00:00

With a disarming smile, one struggles to believe that Rose Njeri is the woman who has been giving authorities sleepless nights.

Woman stabbed to death by ex-boyfriend at her workplace

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-07 00:00:00

It is reported that the two argued but the man shortly removed a knife and stabbed her on the chest four times.

Trouble follows Mugithi singer Samidoh as he now faces arrest

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-11 00:00:00

Police officer Samuel Muchoki Ndirangu, popularly known by his stage name Samidoh, now faces arrest over what has been described as desertion of duty.

How 5 youth were abducted, held for 2 weeks for criticising Ruto, his allies

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-13 10:42:00

In December last year, five young men were abducted for allegedly posting and sharing content deemed disparaging to President William Ruto.

Suspended Central Police Station OCS Samson Talaam breaks silence

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-15 08:00:00

Suspended Central Police Station OCS Samson Talaam now claims he was not arrested.

Sakaja's City Mortuary refurbishment plan stalls as county relies on untrained morticians

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-15 11:00:20

Plans to upgrade Nairobi's City Mortuary have stalled as public morgues struggle with a severe shortage of trained morticians, forcing reliance on unqualified and casual workers.

Doctors: Kariuki suffered severe brain injury

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-19 06:00:00

KNH boss says patient is under close observation and critically ill. Kariuki’s father says they are in deep shock after turn of events.

Hawker Boniface Kariuki undergoes second surgery

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-19 15:08:44

Boniface Kariuki, the hawker who was shot at close range during Tuesday’s demonstrations in Nairobi, has undergone a second surgery at KNH.

Boniface Kariuki's family conned as hospital bill climbs above Sh1m

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-21 20:12:00

Scammers steal Sh200,000 promising to clear Kariuki’s hospital bill through SHA.

Gen-Z Revolt, Ongata Rongai family that lost son, one year later

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-24 18:57:45

It's been one year now since Jacinta Anyango's son Kennedy Onyango was fatally shot during the Gen-Z protest in Ongata Rongai town in June 2024.

Sakaja's Sh100m hawker relocation plan falls flat

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-25 11:50:51

Hawking in the Central Business District has been a headache whose right prescription is yet to be found, decades later.

How Sakaja's Sh100 million Nairobi hawker's stalls were turned into toilets

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-28 11:00:00

The initiative to relocate hawkers to backstreet lanes was meant to restore order. But most stalls lie abandoned or vandalised as traders reject the spaces.

Bullet fragment still lodged in Boniface Kariuki's brain

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-28 20:00:00

Some fragments of the ammunition lodged in Kariuki’s brain have presented a serious challenge for the medical team.

Nairobi: How Sakaja's Sh100m stalls were turned into toilets

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-06-29 12:55:35

Nairobi’s persistent hawking crisis remains unresolved despite costly projects, political pledges, and repeated interventions that have failed to relocate traders or restore order to the CBD.

Ex-MCA files petition to remove Sakaja over gross misconduct

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-07-03 06:00:00

Maxwell Ochar says county boss failed to perform his duties professionally, transparently and accountably. Assembly Speaker Ngondi says petition needs strong evidence, including documents.

The faces of Saba Saba

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-07-07 13:08:22

The push for the multi-party democracy was led by key political figures and firebrands, some of whom have died.

President orders police to shoot in the leg any person causing chaos

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-07-10 00:00:00

According to the Head of State, attacking police stations or government installations amounts to a declaration of war, and the police should respond firmly.

Police coverup: Boy nursing bullet wounds locked up in cells for two days

By Pkemoi Ng'enoh   2025-07-11 09:00:00

The last sound he heard was not referee's whistle but crack of gunfire that shattered his legs and possibly his dreams.