News Tracker

Mon, 10 March 2025

  • 1:52 pm Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen holds a meeting with ambassadors, high commissioners, and heads of financial institutions who lauded Kenya's Shirika Plan which seeks to integrate refugees into the daily economic life of the country.
  • 1:14 pm A Nairobi company has announced the planned auction of two macadamia processing companies belonging to former Thika Town MP Patrick Wainaina alias Jungle slated for March 25, 2025.
  • 12:54 pm A protection police officer attached to Parliament on Sunday night opened fire at the Gigiri police canteen in Nairobi’s Westlands area, killing a colleague and injuring another.
  • 12:18 pm President William Ruto has committed Ksh50 million to initiate the construction of an engineering facility at Kamukunji Technical and Vocational College in Eastleigh, with the construction set to begin in June this year.
  • 11:56 am Transport along Magadi Road towards Rongai has been brought to a standstill after Multimedia University students, while engaging the police in running battles, blocked the road in protest following the death of one of their colleagues in a road accident.
  • 11:23 am The Public Service Commission has gazetted a list of 205 public employees who failed the clerical officers' proficiency exam, informing them they have to resit for the elective subjects they failed.
  • 10:53 am The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) is planning to build new weighbridge stations at Isinya along the Athi River–Namanga (A) Road in Kajiado County and at Suswa along the Narok–Mai Mahiu (B7) Road in Nakuru County.
  • 10:20 am President William Ruto officially opens the Kamukunji Technical and Vocational College in Nairobi.
  • 9:56 am Kenya Power says that it awarded over Ksh4.15 billion in tenders to youth, women, and persons with disabilities (PWDs) in 2023/2024. 
  • 9:24 am Nation Media Group has appointed former Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) CEO Geoffrey Odundo as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
  • 8:48 am EPRA notifies the public of consultative workshops on the Draft Energy (System Operations) Regulations, 2025, Draft Energy (Electricity Reliability, Quality of Supply and Service) Regulations, 2025, and Draft Energy (Electricity Incident and Accident Reporting) Regulations, 2025, to take place between March 17 to March 24, 2025.
  • 8:12 am Property of unknown value was destroyed on Sunday evening after a fire razed part of Mamboleo Market in Kisumu, near the city's bus stage.
  • 7:42 am Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka refutes claims that he sponsored youth to heckle Raila Odinga at Gusii Stadium during a Shabana FC match on Sunday afternoon.
  • 7:21 am Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja on Sunday officially opened the Thika Police Community Chapel at Thika West Sub-County Police Headquarters.

Sun, 09 March 2025

  • 5:03 pm Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua admitted he was hesitant to officially launch his political party, alleging that his rivals were scheming to obstruct the process.
  • 4:08 pm Police have revealed the individual who set up a patrol base at a random building within Asis village in Uasin Gishu County did so without authorities' knowledge.
  • 3:39 pm Kisumu County Governor Anyang Nyong'o has hit back at Kalonzo Musyoka for criticising the recently signed MoU between ODM and UDA as a betrayal to Kenyans. In a statement, Nyong'o stated that the agreement would benefit all Kenyans and not just the two parties.
  • 3:11 pm The death toll in the Transmara-Kisii clashes has risen to three after two more people were killed in the ongoing conflict between warring communities. Tension remains high as sugarcane farms are set ablaze, prompting authorities to deploy additional police officers to the border to restore order.
  • 2:47 pm People's Liberation Party Leader Martha Karua has asked President William Ruto to resign if he cannot end cases of human rights violations in the country, including femicide, abductions and extra- judicial killings. 
  • 2:33 pm President William Ruto donates another Ksh20m to AIC Fellowship Annex, Eldoret, in aid of projects; says no one will stop him from giving to churches.
  • 2:01 pm President William Ruto has hit back at the organizers of the Occupy Jesus Winner Ministries protests maintaining that he will continue donating to churches. 
  • 1:40 pm Uasin Gishu Senator Jackson Mandago has asked President William Ruto to scrap the medical covers of all Governors and MPs and direct them to be onboarded on the Social Health Authority (SHA).    
  • 1:23 pm Residents of Matunda in Bungoma County have set a truck ablaze after it lost control and killed five people on the Kitale-Webuye road.
  • 1:01 pm Police have lobbed teargas at Roysambu Roundabout in Nairobi, to disperse youths who had come to occupy Jesus Winner Ministries where President Ruto pledged Ksh20m last week.  
  • 12:38 pm Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka attends a church service at Christian Foundation Fellowship Church in Nairobi. 
  • 12:26 pm PCS Musalia Mudavadi calls on Parliament to fast-track passage of the Assumption of the Office of President and Transition of Executive Authority Bill, 2025 aimed at establishing formal mechanisms to facilitate presidential transitions after the outcome of a general election.
  • 12:00 pm Alego Usonga MP Sam Atandi asks President William Ruto to bring Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka onto the broad-based government arrangement.
  • 11:42 am One person has passed away and two others injured after they were involved in a road accident at Kinungi along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway just hours after another crash left 16 people injured.
  • 11:23 am Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui delivered a dominant performance at the Nagoya Marathon on Sunday, March 9, clinching victory with a time of 2:20:40 and securing a hefty payout.
  • 11:01 am Bishop Edward Mwai of Jesus Winner Ministries Church has revealed that police arrested several youths who had planned to stage protests at the church.