1:29 pm
Sleuths from EACC arrested the Principal Prosecution Counsel in charge of ODPP in Kilgoris after he was captured on video soliciting a bribe worth Ksh50,000 to fast-track a businessman's case.
12:52 pm
Health Cabinet Secretary Deborah Barasa announced that the government is working to increase funds allocated for ICU patients by SHA to Ksh28,000 from Ksh4,480 while that of cancer patients will rise from Ksh400,000 to Ksh550,000.
12:24 pm
Deputy President Kithure Kindiki announces that 19.5 million citizens have been registered on Social Health Authority (SHA) so far noting that the state is making policy and administrative interventions to address emerging challenges in the Taifa Care rollout.
11:41 am
A community of the deaf staged protests in Nakuru after the body of a 7-month-old baby living with disability vanished from the Nakuru Level Five Hospital morgue.
11:18 am
Kenya Power report shows that its electricity demand peaked at 2,316 megawatts linking the growth to network improvements and increased connections.
10:56 am
Mumias East MP Peter Salasya proposes that Kenya should have a Prime Minister as the head of government and a monarch as the head of state.
10:25 am
Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei demands full implementation of the NADCO Report by amending the 2010 Constitution by creating the Office of the Prime Minister (PM) and allowing Raila Odinga to serve Kenyans in that capacity.
9:54 am
Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka argues that former Prime Minister Raila Odinga did not surround himself with a team that is experienced which may have cost him the AUC chair bid. "Instead of taking many of our colleagues from the broad-based government arrangement to Ethiopia, we should have just taken the ambassadors of the countries who were going to vote," he stated.
9:19 am
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba has reaffirmed that all parameters are being met in the ongoing promotion of teachers by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) after continued reports of irregularities by both the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET).
8:48 am
KICD Chairman Simon Gicharu mourns the late KEPSHA Chair Johnson Nzioka terming his death terming it as a big loss to the education sector.
7:27 am
Property estimated to be worth millions of shillings was destroyed in a fire that broke out in Kiambu Town on Sunday just minutes before midnight.
Sun, 16 February 2025
4:48 pm
The Kenya National Private Security Workers Union (KNPSWU) has called on the government to intervene and revoke licences of private firms that do not adhere to the set minimum wage after a six per cent increase last year.
4:26 pm
President William Ruto has proposed that the AU assembly directs the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC), with the help of the African Union Commission (AUC) headed by Mahmoud Ali Yousouff to ensure that it concludes assessing 42 AU entities earmarked for reforms and presents a report by July.
3:52 pm
Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka has claimed that President William Ruto inadvertently played a role in derailing Raila Odinga's chances at the African Union Commission elections.
3:29 pm
Deputy President Kithure Kindiki mourns the late Baringo Senator William Cheptumo as a dignified leader who chose his words carefully in public and private conversations.
3:25 pm
Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga thanked all MPs and other entourage that travel to Addis Ababa to support his bid for the AUC chairmanship.
2:47 pm
President William Ruto has proposed that the African Union (AU) adopts Haiti as Africa’s sixth region, emphasising the need for sustained support for Kenya's peacekeeping mission in the Caribbean country.
2:13 pm
Kenyan athlete Geoffrey Kamworor finished second in Barcelona's half-marathon clocking 58:44 behind Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo who finished at 56:41.
1:49 pm
A woman accused of killing her 4-year-old son for soiling himself was arrested after taking the corpse to Mama Lucy Hospital Mortuary.
1:20 pm
Baringo Senator William Kipkorir Cheptumo dies aged 57, Senate Speaker Amason Kingi confirms. Cheptumo was discharged from the hospital on Sunday last week and passed away on Saturday evening.
12:49 pm
The IEBC selection panel announces that it has received 1,848 applications to fill commissioner positions at the Commission.
12:16 pm
Former DP Rigathi Gachaguasends heartfelt message to Raila Odinga after losing the AUC chair race noting, "Africa needed you most, but God, in His own wisdom, found that Kenya, your motherland, and indeed, we Kenyans, your beloved brothers and sisters, have unfinished business with you as their coveted son as we unshackle our country from recklessness."
9:57 am
IG Douglas Kanja says that a new digital system that will minimise interpersonal interaction between the police and citizens was in the last stages of development after 3 police officers were arrested by EACC officers for taking bribes north of Ksh48,000.
9:29 am
President William Ruto chairs the committee of the African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
