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Former University of Fort Hare (UFH) lecturer and fugitive Professor Edwin Ijeoma was allegedly arrested at a road block near Bhisho on Tuesday

THE STANDARD KENYA Police officers examining the accident scene at Allsops on Thika Road, Nairobi. [Courtesy] Two police officers were injured on Monday night, April 19 after a Nairobi-bound lorry rammed into their truck on Thika Road. The cops, Corporal Geoffrey Sigolia and Police Constable Joseph Kiminda, sustained injuries of varying degree. Kiminda’s skull and right hand were fractured, leaving him critically injured. Sigolia, on the other hand, suffered an injury in the left leg. The l...

THE STANDARD NAIROBI Motorists are blocked along Langata road in Nairobi after 8 pm curfew on Monday. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]  A senior police officer was Sunday night injured when a motorcycle hit him at a roadblock in Pangani area, Nairobi. The Pangani Officer Commanding Station (OCS) Samir Yunus was manning the roadblock along Dr Griffins Road when a speeding motorcycle ran over him. Officials said Chief Inspector Yunus sustained head injuries after he fell out of a heavy knock he got f...

THE STANDARD KENYA Commuters queue outside the Kenya National Archives. [Courtesy] Commuters who transit through the Kenya National Archives termini are on Monday evening pensively watching the clock as darkness rolls in with the night curfew of 8 pm to 4 am. A spot-check by The Standard has revealed that queues snake the landmark, a popular meeting point located on Moi Avenue, opposite Hilton Hotel, as hundreds race to beat the night curfew.  Commuters queue outside the Kenya National Archive...

All roadblocks and evacuations have been lifted, and fire crews are continuing clean-up efforts. Officials tell residents to be cautious wen returning home. According to officials, several homes are being evacuated amid a wildfire near Birdseye road in Helena Sunday afternoon. Officials estimate the fire to be at about 2 acres as of 5 pm. The areas evacuated include Sunset Road and Sun Hill Drive. Evacuation orders have been lifted for Windy Ridge Drive, Eagle Ridge Road, Shangrilla Dr...

Photo Credit: IANS IANSLive Visakhapatnam, April 3 (IANS) Having achieved its target of handling 69.84 metric tons (MT) in financial year 2020-21, the Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT) is aiming to handle 80 million MT of cargo in the current fiscal. To get full access of the story, click here to subscribe to IANS News Service © 2021 IANS India Private Limited. All Rights Reserved. The reproduction of the story/photograph in any form will be liable for legal action. For news, views and gossips, ...

Uber worker rights: A day late and a dollar short 17 Mar, 2021 09:00 PM 3 minutes to read Financial Times Uber hit a roadblock last month when it lost a five-year legal battle over drivers rights in Britain. On Tuesday, the ride-hailing company said it would reclassify them as workers, entitled to the minimum wage, pensions and holiday. That is not quite the concession it appears. Even so, the traffic is heading in just one direction: towards much tougher regulation of disrupt...

Daily Monitor Sunday March 14 2021 My earliest recollection of a clash between civilians and the security forces is of an evening journey that was interrupted at the junction where Rubaga Road leaves Namirembe Road near the former Pride Theatre in Kampala.  I was in the company of my father when we were stopped at a roadblock. This was the mid-80s and I have come to believe that there was no real reason for the stop because of what the man at the roadblock said to my father.  He demanded to ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The call made by the country's top cop for police personnel to properly conduct roadblock duties, is timely, says Johor police chief.

IPOH: Police have arrested a 47-year-old man for attempting to bribe a policeman at a roadblock in Sungkai. Perak police chief Datuk Comm Mior Faridalathrash Wahid said the man, who was heading to Teluk Intan from Kuala Lumpur, had allegedly offered the policeman RM150 to let him through the roadblock on Thursday (March 11). “The man did not have a border-crossing permit with him. “He was ferrying three foreign men from Bangladesh, ” Comm Mior Faridalathrash told reporters after visiting ...