News Tracker

Fri, 11 October 2024

  • 10:19 am High Court Judge Lawrence Mugambi refers cases challenging Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment to Chief Justice Martha Koome who will in turn constitute a three-judge bench to hear and determine the matter.
  • 9:29 am Justice Lawrence Mugambi set to rule on whether the DP Rigathi Gachagua impeachment cases will be referred to Chief Justice Martha Koome.  
  • 9:00 am Daadab MP Farah Maalim refutes speculation that he has been banned from accessing most hotels across Kenya. 
  • 8:45 am Former Health CS Mutahi Kagwe tipped to replace Rigathi Gachagua as deputy president. 
  • 8:00 am Ministry of Health says it is investigating reports doing rounds on social media where Kenyans have been complaining of polio vaccines having adverse effects on their children. 
  • 7:31 am President William Ruto and Haiti Prime Minister Garry Connille to hold joint press conference at 10am at State House, Nairobi. 
  • 7:00 am Health CS Debra Barasa urges Kenyan employers to invest in mental health clinics to facilitate better care of their employees.   

Thu, 10 October 2024

  • 5:47 pm Activist and lawyer Morara Kebaso reaches out to Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua to join forces with him and share information he has on the Kenya Kwanza Government in his continued quest to expose graft.
  • 5:23 pm Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille touches down in Kenya and was received by Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi. Conille will engage in high-level bilateral talks with President William Ruto on several issues including MSS deployment.
  • 4:53 pm NEMA undertakes cleanup of Nairobi River at Arboretum and tree planting activities to mark the first Mazingira Day.
  • 4:27 pm Former LSK President Nelson Havi explains that Rigathi Gachagua will cease being DP if the Senate upholds impeachment because the Constitution did not contemplate judicial intervention.
  • 3:53 pm EACC officials call upon lawyers, accountants and other professionals in the country to refrain from using their respective professional competencies to facilitate theft of public funds.
  • 3:28 pm Environment CS Aden Duale announces crackdown on garbage collectors in Nairobi and assures the public that Nairobi River will be cleared in 15 months.
  • 2:20 pm Sources from Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's office confirm to Kenyans.co.ke that a letter making rounds insinuating his resignation as DP is fake.
  • 1:50 pm Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti says she will not pay all striking doctors after a previous 56-day strike cost the county Ksh77 million.
  • 1:15 pm Embakasi East MP Babu Owino reveals that Kenyans surprised him with Ksh370,000 in gifts for his birthday.
  • 12:54 pm A female police officer collapses and dies while at her house in Utawala, Nairobi.
  • 12:23 pm Nominated Senator Raphael Chimera calls for urgent action by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) after lions escaped their park and began roaming freely within the Mackonon estate in Kwale.
  • 11:52 am Police launched investigations after a farm manager who went missing on Monday this week was found dead at a dam inside Mayer Farm.
  • 11:04 am First Lady Rachel Ruto's Mazingira Awards winners ceremony kicks off at State House in Nairobi.
  • 10:58 am Kenyan police among 100 MSS officers deployed to combat a gang that killed 70 people in Gonaïves and Saint-Marc areas of Haiti.
  • 10:26 am Environment CS Aden Duale kicks off Mazingira Day national celebrations at the Nairobi Arboretum.
  • 9:37 am Government Pathologist Dr Johansen Oduor reveals that the late Mombasa taxi driver Victoria Mumbua was repeatedly struck with a blunt object several times before being strangled to death.
  • 9:22 am KMPDU Secretary General Davji Atellah insists that the strike notice issued by all public servants is still in force despite the government extending medical coverage for civil servants until November 21, 2024.
  • 8:18 am “We should build bridges instead of building barriers" - National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula advocates for stronger ties during a meeting with Ambassador Olof Skoog, the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights.
  • 7:52 am Kenya Railways suspends commuter Rail Service trains serving between Nairobi Central Station and Lukenya, Syokimau, Embakasi Village, Ruiru, Kahawa West, and Limuru to mark Mazingira Day.
  • 7:21 am The family of Mercy Kwamboka, a student at the University of Nairobi's Chiromo Campus who was found murdered and her body dumped in a thicket in Mwiki, revealed that she sustained a broken leg after torture.

Wed, 09 October 2024

  • 6:55 pm Martha Karua faults the National Assembly over the manner in which DP Rigathi Gachagua was impeached describing the process as "mob lynching"
  • 6:31 pm  Kenyatta University beats University of Nairobi to rank as the top university in Kenya. 
  • 5:25 pm Mwengi Mutuse, the MP who moved the motion to impeach DP Gachagua at the National Assembly claims the deputy president's legal team submitted a huge volume of documents very late in an attempt to rattle MPs.