Fri, 16 January 2026

• 7:05 pm Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba has extended the Grade 10 admission deadline to Wednesday, January 21, saying the move is aimed at achieving a 100 per cent transition of learners to Senior School.
• 5:02 pm EPRA has approved plans for a university to generate 40 megawatts of solar power for the national grid,a move set to make it the first university in Kenya to supply electricity at such scale.
• 4:33 pm Kenyans have been advised to temporarily halt travel through the Busia and Malaba border points as Uganda awaits the outcome of its general election.
• 3:58 pm Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja has condemned the alleged assault at Nandi Hills Police Station and ordered an immediate investigation, directing the Internal Affairs Unit to conclude its probe within three days.
• 3:24 pm A court has ordered the exhumation of a General Service Unit (GSU) officer secretly buried at a church compound, after police raised alarm over the covert burial of the officer without the knowledge of his family.