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Primary, Junior Secondary, and Secondary schools have reopened after a long December holiday.

Students are returning to class following a 10-week break that began on October 24, 2024.

The early holiday was scheduled to accommodate the national examinations.

According to the 2025 academic calendar, learners will be in school for 13 weeks for the first term and will close on April 4.

The students will proceed for half term for five days, between February 26 to March 2.

Kenyans brace for demonstrations against abductions

Kenyans are gearing up for demonstrations in response to the rising cases of abductions across the country.

The protests, which have been dubbed “Monday is Monday,” first began on December 30, 2024, as citizens voiced their frustrations over the menace

The demonstrations are expected to take place in major towns and cities.

Notices shared on X (formerly Twitter) have outlined the details for the protests, urging participants to come prepared with placards, bottles of water, handkerchiefs and Kenyan flags.

Demonstrators have also been asked to wear a specific dress code for the protests—black and white clothing—as a symbol of unity and mourning over the lives lost or disrupted by these abductions.

Kenyans are hoping that the demonstrations will push the government to take stronger measures to combat abductions, hold perpetrators accountable and provide justice to the victims' families.

Businessman Ashok Dock in court over land fraud

Billionaire businessman Ashok Doshi will appear before Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina on Monday for the mention of a case where he was charged with fraud involving land ownership.

Doshi and his company Magnum Properties Limited were in 2023 charged with four counts of land fraud, forging land documents and forcefully taking over the land worth millions of shillings located at Nairobi’s Processional Way.

The charge sheet showed Doshi who is a director at Doshi Group of Companies allegedly hatched the plan to defraud the land owned by Greenview Lodge Limited in 1992 when he forged a stamp duty from the Ministry of Lands to claim ownership.

Doshi denied the charge and was released on Sh500,000 bail.