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The murder trial of former Migori Governor Okoth Obado, his former personal assistant Michael Oyamo and former county employee Caspal Obiero lasted seven years and 10 months, during which prosecutors called 42 witnesses to reconstruct the events leading to the killing of university student Sharon Otieno.

Although dozens of witnesses testified, the case ultimately turned on the evidence of a handful of key witnesses whose accounts linked the three men to the murder and persuaded the court that they had acted in concert.

Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/how-key-witnesses-cornered-obado-in-sharon-murder-case--5536730
The suits, official motorcades and political meetings will give way to prison uniforms, regimented routines, headcounts and nights in a ward shared with up to 60 other inmates.

Inmates are assigned accommodation based on a security and risk assessment.

Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/what-awaits-ex-migori-governor-okoth-obado-in-prison--5536766
The family of Sharon Otieno, who was killed by her boyfriend and father of her unborn child, Okoth Obado, along with his two aides, is happy with the court verdict that found the former Migori governor guilty of murder, noting that this marks a new beginning for them.

Family says they had finally found justice for their late daughter.

Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/we-got-justice-sharon-otieno-family-speaks-obado-verdict-5536676
The conviction of former Migori governor Okoth Obado, his former personal assistant Michael Oyamo and Caspal Obiero in the murder of Sharon Otieno once again put the spotlight on Kenya's Witness Protection Agency.

Witness protection encourages people with crucial information to come forward by assuring them of State protection from retaliation.

Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/explainers/explainer-kenya-s-witness-protection-plan-and-how-it-works-5536804
When the government introduced a new funding model for higher education in 2023, it promised to achieve two goals: ensure that no deserving student was denied access to university because of poverty and rescue public universities from a financial crisis that had pushed many to the brink.

Three years after launch, rising debts and student hardship forced the government to abandon the university funding model.

Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/education/what-next-collapse-of-ruto-funding-model-fails-students-varsities-5536706
For thousands of people undergoing bariatric surgery, that daily—or sometimes weekly—pill routine becomes as permanent as the surgery itself. Yet it is one of the least discussed parts of life after dramatic weight loss.

Surgery costs about Sh800,000 and is increasingly becoming a solution for people struggling with excess weight.

Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/life-and-style/saturday-magazine/weightloss-surgery-and-the-silent-burden-that-no-one-talks-about-5536806
In the final part of the Nation’s exclusive serialisation of ‘Dancing with the Devil’, Prof Stephen Kiama details the dramatic months before his removal as Vice-Chancellor.

Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/prof-kiama-lies-and-betrayals-that-led-to-my-exit-as-uon-boss-5536478
For more than five years now, officials of clubs featuring in the Football Kenya Federation Premier League have been unanimous in their call for the competition to be run by an independent body or company.

Their push received a major boost on Thursday after the federation and club officials agreed to form a seven-member transition committee to steer the process.

Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/football/why-clubs-want-independent-body-run-kenya-top-football-league--5536776
Pension funds are pushing for the issuance of a special Treasury bond to recover more than Sh71 billion in unremitted deductions, as mounting arrears by county governments and other agencies rattle the stability of retirement savings.

The proposal is among measures by pension schemes to get the deducted but unremitted money.

Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/business/pension-funds-eye-special-t-bond-to-recover-sh71bn-5536684