Simon Ciuri

1 week ago | nation.africa | Sam Kiplagat |Simon Ciuri

Two men who aided terrorists in the deadly Dusit D2 hotel attack six years ago have been sentenced to 30 years in prison each. Hussein Mohamed Abdille Ali and Mohamed Abdi Ali were handed the sentence by High Court Judge Diana Kavedza, who found them guilty of facilitating the 2019 attack, which left 21 people dead. The court concluded that the duo provided support to the attackers by sending them money and helping them to acquire identification documents.

1 week ago | nation.africa | Simon Ciuri

On the morning of June 10, Mr Joseph Mwaura, 56, bid his wife goodbye and left for work just like he had done for years. But that routine Monday turned into a nightmare for his family when the longtime Thika-based law clerk vanished without a trace and has not been seen or heard from since. Mr Mwaura, who hails from Makuyu in Murang’a County, was last seen at his workplace in Thika town.

1 week ago | nation.africa | Simon Ciuri

Mount Kigali University has appointed Kenyan scholar and literary communicator Prof Egara Kabaji of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology as its new chancellor. Based in Rwanda, Mount Kigali University was formerly a campus of Mount Kenya University (MKU). It gained autonomy in 2023, becoming an independent institution with its own governance and academic framework. On Saturday, the university’s Board of Directors led by chairman Simon Gicharu announced Prof Kabaji’s appointment.

3 weeks ago | nation.africa | Simon Ciuri

In the story ‘The Monk Who Scammed a Family’, which occurred in India last year, a mother’s long-lost son returned as a spiritual leader after 22 years - only to scam his purported family out of 11,000 rupees through identity theft. Bhanumati Singh, from Delhi, was overjoyed when she was reunited with her ‘son’ Pinku, who had disappeared in 2002 at the age of 11. The family had been informed that an ascetic visiting their native village of Kharauli bore the same scar as Pinku.

3 weeks ago | nation.africa | Simon Ciuri

In the 1820s, Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish charismatic soldier and adventurer, invented a fictional country in central America to swindle land investors and settlers. He sold to his victims an imaginary island named Poyais that he claimed to rule. In droves, thousands of investors bought Poyaisian bonds and land certificates from MacGregor. They later travelled thousands of kilometres to the promised land only to realise Poyais was a fabrication.