News Tracker

Mon, 21 October 2024

  • 5:54 pm Police officers from Ijara recover modified gas cylinders and items used in making Improvised Explosive Devices during an operation of the En Cache within Mathax Adon.
  • 4:47 pm 2 members of the Samburu County Assembly were among 8 people who were injured in a single-car accident that occurred in Marmar, Samburu County.
  • 4:07 pm A Kenyan delegation, led by Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi, is attending the 2024 IMF/World Bank Meetings in Washington, D.C., focusing on financial stability, poverty reduction, and green financing.
  • 3:58 pm Foreign Principal Secretary Kipkori Sing’oei confirmed that the Government of Kenya had repatriated four Turkish nationals who were allegedly abducted on Friday last week in Nairobi.
  • 3:26 pm Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) officials call upon the government to intervene and provide security to teachers and students in banditry-prone areas during the national examination assessment period.
  • 2:51 pm Rigathi Gachagua’s lawyer on Monday criticised Justices Eric Ogola, Fred Mugambi, and Anthony Mrima for declining to stop his impeachment despite sitting on Saturday to hear applications filed by the Attorney General and Parliament.
  • 2:20 pm MPs are expected to debate a proposed law (Political Parties Amendment Bill, 2022) sponsored by Gladys Sholei that seeks to compel the Registrar of Political Parties (RPP) to inform and convey to parliament any political parties’ coalition agreements deposited in her office. 
  • 1:52 pm Kenyan doctor Jacqueline Kitulu on Monday made history after she was elected the World Medical Medical Association (WMA) President after beating Professor Caldas Alfonso of Portugal among others.
  • 1:13 pm Kenya National Union Post Primary Teachers (KUPPET) reveal that they will incorporate demands for standing and detoxification allowance in their new Collective Bargaining Allowance(CBA).
  • 12:50 pm Police officers recovered two guns in Samburu County used to aid thugs to steal livestock in Samburu.
  • 12:23 pm Kajiado County Commissioner James Taari issues a warning to residents collaborating with bandits to steal livestock and sell them to Kiambu and Nairobi.
  • 11:54 am Kirinyaga Nominated MCA Lucy Njeri is in distress following the murder of her daughter whose lifeless body was discovered in a rental apartment, two days after she went missing.
  • 11:19 am Faith Kipyegon, Beatrice Chebet, and Emmanuel Wanyonyi nominated for track athletes of the year by World Athletics.
  • 10:49 am National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula mourns former Bonchari MP Zebedee Opore as a selfless leader who prioritised his people.
  • 10:38 am DCI Anti-Narcotics officers recover approximately 3.6kg of suspected heroin worth Ksh14,540,000 during a raid in Ngerenya, Kilifi County, and arrested a suspect.
  • 9:56 am DCI Deputy Director John Onyango leads a tree-planting initiative at Mazingira Forest Block, supporting President Ruto's goal to plant 15 billion trees by 2032.
  • 9:23 am The United Kingdom Government on Monday announced that it had changed visa application processes for foreigners, including Kenyans, who had already applied for visas to visit the nations under her territory.
  • 8:48 am The Office of the Auditor-General has flagged irregularities in the Central Bank of Kenya’s secretive award of a Ksh14.5 billion tender for printing currency to a German firm (Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technologies).
  • 8:19 am Nairobi County Government reveals that all 100 occupants of the collapsed Kahawa West building were evacuated while all mjengo workers who were working on the ground floor were accounted for.
  • 7:56 am The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Monday arrested three suspects linked to the burglary of electronic items and Ksh3,659,000 (which was in American currency valued $24,500) at a house in Nairobi’s Westlands area.
  • 7:23 am Wiper Leader Kalonzo Musyoka faults IPOA over shoddy investigations over police force on Kenyans during anti-government protests.

Sun, 20 October 2024

  • 6:36 pm Kenya Red Cross revealed that two people have so far been rescued from the collapsed Kahawa West building and taken to Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral & Research Hospital.
  • 5:31 pm Nairobi County Deputy Governor Njoroge Muchiri confirms that casualties are expected to be minimal as the Kahawa West building had been condemned and evacuations effected by the Nairobi City County's Planning Enforcement team. 
  • 4:46 pm Juja residents boo the deputy county commissioner designated with delivering President William Ruto's speech at the parallel Mashujaa Day celebrations.
  • 4:18 pm US Embassy in Kenya announces that its offices will remain closed on Monday, October 21, in observance of Mashujaa Day.
  • 3:20 pm President William Ruto revealed that the government will release Ksh2.7 billion for the construction of fish landing sites and markets equipped with cold chain storage facilities across the country, with Ksh1.2 billion allocated specifically to the Coast region.
  • 2:34 pm Ousted Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua reveals that he survived two poisoning attempts in Kisumu and Nyeri. one executed by NIS.
  • 2:02 pm Ousted Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua reveals that his doctor informed him that should he have arrived 20 minutes later, his story would be different.
  • 1:47 pm Kapsaret MP Oscar Sudi on Saturday revealed that plans to swear in DP nominee Kithure Kindiki on Tuesday by 10 am were underway following the impeachment of Rigathi Gachagua.
  • 1:18 pm Kenya Red Cross says a multi-agency response team was dispatched to Kahawa West after a building collapsed.