News Tracker - Saturday, 29 March 2025 - 6:27 am

Date of Update
News Tracker
Date of Update
Body

NTSA launches a crackdown on Magadi Road, resulting in a huge traffic snarl-up and matatus ditching passengers 2km from Ongata Rongai.

Date of Update
Body

DCI apprehends 12 more suspects from the Panga-Boys gang who have been causing havoc in the coastal region.

Date of Update
Body

At least three people are reported dead after a head-on collision between a matatu and a school bus along the Molo-Keringet road on Friday night.

Date of Update
Body

South Sudan will probe the First Vice President, Riek Machar, who is under arrest for trying to stir up rebellion despite peace talks led by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

Date of Update
Body

The government is reviewing the new university funding model to introduce new variables to cluster students into categories that match their current financial situation.

Date of Update
Body

National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula has offered a Ksh1 million cash prize for the chief who will lead in new IDs and voter registrations in Bungoma County. 

Date of Update
Body

Motorists travelling to and out of Mombasa have been stuck in traffic for over 10 hours along the busy Mombasa-Nairobi Highway between Mariakani and Bonje at Mazeras.

Date of Update
Body

A bus belonging to Super Metro has been involved in a road accident with a personal vehicle on Thika Road that resulted in the bus overturning and landing in a ditch.

Date of Update
Body

Two middle-aged men have been sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment each for sodomising a 16-year-old boy in Kericho County in 2023.

 

Date of Update
Body

Police in Kwale County have arrested 120 suspects linked to the machete-wielding criminal gang known as panga boys.

Date of Update
Body

Gachagua has cautioned Mt Kenya residents against believing President William Ruto’s promises when he visits the region next week.

Date of Update
Body

Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya has expressed fear for his life following a recent incident where goons almost attacked him at a funeral in the Kiminini Constituency.

Date of Update
Body

Gachagua has asked CDF General Charles Kahariri to stay out of politics and instructed him to “go back to the barracks” days after his warning over the ‘Ruto Must Go’ chants.

Date of Update
Body

Attorney General Dorcas Oduor gazettes a five-member selection panel for appointing members of the Waqf Commission, which, among other things, manages Islamic endowments.

Date of Update
Body

Kenya and the United Nations are in discussion to make the JKIA a regional humanitarian hub, which will significantly raise the airport's global standing and revenue generation. 

Date of Update
Body

Fear has gripped the residents of Ongata Rongai after CCTV footage of a lioness hunting in the Tuala area emerged online on Friday night.

Date of Update
Body

Ruto has appointed former Lunga Lunga MP Khatib Mwashetani as the chair of the Board of Directors of the NTSA.

Date of Update
Body

Health CS Aden Duale has formed a 19-member committee to serve for three months, chaired by James Masiro, to review pending NHIF claims.

Date of Update
Body

Ruto has appointed former Nandi Woman Representative Tecla Chebet Tum to be a member of the Technical Working Group on Gender-based Violence (GBV), including femicide.

Date of Update
Body

Governor Johnson Sakaja has placed the blame on the political elite for the growing resentment and frustration seen among the youth of Kenya.

Date of Update
Body

Police have arrested three people, including the purported husband, in connection to the brutal murder of a 17-year-old refugee girl who was forcibly married to a 55-year-old man. 

Date of Update
Body

Over 160 companies dealing in different products and services are set to close their doors over the next three months, according to the registrar of companies.

Date of Update
Body

A severe cholera outbreak has been reported in Kiambu County after several residents were rushed to the Kiambu Referral Hospital showing symptoms of the fatal waterborne disease.

Date of Update
Body

Raila Odinga has expressed displeasure after the South Sudan government denied him access to talk to the country’s first Vice President, Riek Machar, who is currently under detention.

Date of Update
Body

KeNHA has arrested a suspect found vandalising reinforcement bars along the Miritini-Kipevu road.