Friday, May 9th, 2008
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| • | Search for New Reggae 'King' Proves Elusive: Tomorrow marks exactly 27 years since Bob Marley passed on the morning of May 11, 1981. Indisputably, the charismatic virtuoso appears to have defied the test of time.
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| • | Rift Valley Names Team for National Competition: Rift Valley has picked a team of 81 athletes for the Kenya Prisons games at Nyayo National Stadium, Nairobi, on May 23 and 24.
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| • | Power Outage Paralyses Court Duties: Operations at the Mombasa Law Courts were disrupted by power blackouts forcing some judges to adjourn cases.
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| • | Moi's Son Poll Petition Struck Off: A Nakuru court has struck out an election petition filed by a son of former President Moi, Jonathan, on a technicality.
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| • | KCB's Sh5 Billion Rights Issue Approved: Shareholders of Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) have agreed to raise Sh5 billion through a rights issue. The bank will use the funds for expansion locally and within the region.
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| • | Government Calls for Help As Maize Shortage Looms: THE country faces a deficit of about three million bags of maize.
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| • | 300 Refugees Return Home From Uganda: Three hundred displaced persons, who had sought refuge in Uganda, have returned.
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| • | Rare Show of Unity At Session: THE Kenya School of Monetary Studies in Ruaraka, Nairobi, yesterday hosted the country's high and mighty.
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| • | DC Orders IDP's Arrest: A spokesperson for displaced people at Kitale showground was arrested after he differed with the local District Commissioner on resettlement.
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| • | Gang Demolishes Structures Over Land Controversy: Thousands of people were left homeless when property worthy millions of shillings were destroyed in Nairobi's Kangemi estate.
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| • | Kibaki Cautions Cabinet On Infighting And Graft: President Kibaki kicked off the first Grand Coalition Government bonding meeting with a call for unity and an end to corruption.
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| • | By-Elections Won't Divide Us, Says Raila: THE by-elections will not renew old rivalries in the Grand Coalition Government, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, has said.
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| • | Kibaki Rewards Tuju, Kibwana: Buried in December elections former Cabinet ministers Mr Raphael Tuju and Prof Kivutha Kibwana are now working at Harambee House as the President's "special advisers".
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| • | Bandari Hope to Use Home Advantage to Hit Leaders Mathare Utd: BANDARI coach Wycliffe Anyangu has told his struggling stars to turn the heat on form team and joint KPL leaders Mathare United at Mbaraki today.
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| • | Head of WFP Shot Dead At Lokichogio Airport: The Head of World Food Programme (WFP) in Lokichogio has been shot dead.
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| • | Sh114 Million Facelift for Lokichogio Airport: Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has commissioned a new control tower with a modern air traffic control system at Lokichogio Airport at a cost of Sh114 million.
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| • | Fugitive Kabuga Still Makes Merry: Wanted for genocide in his country, fugitive Felicien Kabuga has been said to be in Kenya on several occassions. Last week, it emerged that he has business ventures here. How the whole world could be after him without success.
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| • | Collective Responsibility Top On the Agenda: Collective responsibility in Government topped a raft of issues slotted for discussion, as the two-day bonding workshop for the Grand Coalition Government got under way.
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| • | Kisumu Ecstatic Over Raila's First Visit As PM: A new era dawns on Nyanza politics today when Prime Minister Raila Odinga brings home a rich harvest that has eluded the community for decades.
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| • | MPs Escape Death in Plane Mishaps: Three MPs and other passengers cheated death twice after they were involved in two plane mishaps.
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