News Tracker

Mon, 15 April 2024

  • 3:28 pm Striking doctors pray for patients and the government while staging strike in Eldoret Town.
  • 3:00 pm Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka voices his condemnation of the attack on Israel by Iran.
  • 2:55 pm KMPDU sues IG Japhet Koome over his remarks declaring the nationwide doctors' protest a public nuisance
  • 2:47 pm Kenya Power reduces electricity prices by 13.7% for domestic users for the month of April.
  • 1:36 pm Renovations currently underway at Kasarani Stadium in preparation for AFCON 2027.
  • 1:12 pm Head of Public Service Felix Koskei states that the govt will not increase the salaries of civil servants to tame soaring wage bill.
  • 12:49 pm Trade Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano launches the Karibu Business Support Centre, a loan access centre designed to support Kenyans in business.
  • 12:20 pm DP Rigathi Gachagua arrives at UDA headquarters for a National Steering Committee meeting.
  • 11:43 am Dagoretti North MP Beatrice Elachi blames corruption and mismanagement of public funds as reasons which have contributed to the country finding itself in a protracted doctors' strike.
  • 11:06 am Former Murang'a Governor Mwangi wa Iria terms ODPP's decision to charge him over tender as political witch hunt.
  • 10:43 am Thirdway Party Leader Ekuru Aukot describes the govt's refusal to implement CBA with doctors as proof that the government has no respect for the rule of law. 
  • 10:17 am Beijing Half Marathon organisers launch investigations after footage seemingly shows  2 Kenyan athletes and 1 Ethiopian runner allowing a Chinese athlete win.
  • 9:48 am Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa calls for Kenya Kwanza to rule the nation for the next 50 years.
  • 9:16 am Auditor General Nancy Gathungu piles pressure on 12 counties including Nairobi to dispose off unserviceable and grounded vehicles.  
  • 8:39 am UDA Secretary General Cleophas Malala insists that party's constitution allows for 3 deputy party leaders amid protests from DP Rigathi Gachagua's camp.
  • 8:20 am SRC to organise national wage bill conference amid stalemate between the Executive and KMPDU, the doctors' union over remuneration of intern doctors.
  • 7:04 am Second lady Pastor Dorcas Rigathi cautions drivers against reckless driving endangering the lives of other motorists and Kenyans.
  • 7:01 am 11 deceased KU students honoured during annual interfaith thanksgiving prayer service held at Kenyatta University.
  • 6:45 am Education CS Ezekiel Machogu reveals that the road accident involving a Kenyatta University bus which claimed 11 lives left him shaken to the core.
  • 6:30 am UDA party assures members of free, fair and verifiable party nominations.

Sun, 14 April 2024

  • 7:42 pm Kenya Met projects increased rainfall in various parts of the country throughout Sunday evening.
  • 7:00 pm Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka questions the sincerity of Kenya Kwanza's interventions geared at lowering cost of living arguing that recent scandals such as the fertiliser debacle negate all that.
  • 6:30 pm KANU Chairman Gideon Moi mourns his late sister June Chebet who passed on earlier in the week, expressing his belief that she is now in a better place.
  • 6:00 pm The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) and 8 other organisations including the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) issue a 4-hour ultimatum to Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome asking him to withdraw the statement where he claimed that the striking doctors have become a nuisance through the disturbance of public tranquility.
  • 5:18 pm Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro hails President William Ruto for 'turning Kenya's economy around'.
  • 5:14 pm Senate Majority Leader Aaron Cheruiyot insists the govt cannot sustain the Ksh200,000 pay for intern doctors that KMPDU is demanding.
  • 4:44 pm Kelvin Kiptum's family feted with a trophy at the Rotterdam Marathon in the Netherlands.
  • 4:02 pm Agriculture PS Paul Ronoh reveals that the govt will crack down on fertiliser cartels as blame game on proliferation of fake input in the market persists.
  • 3:44 pm Driver and passengers flee overloaded matatu after being cornered by NTSA officials in Mumias Road, Kakamega County.
  • 3:27 pm EPRA reduces fuel prices; petrol by Ksh5.31 to retail at Ksh193.84 ; Diesel by Ksh10 to retail at Ksh180.38 and Kerosene by Ksh18.68 to retail at Ksh170.06