News Tracker

Thu, 17 October 2024

  • 5:06 pm Senate resumes impeachment trial after a short suspension following DP Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment.
  • 5:00 pm President William Ruto announces that the Government will employ 20,000 more teachers in January 2025.
  • 4:27 pm Makueni Senator Dan Maanzo claims Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua looked tired before Paul Muite, the lead counsel in his defence team reported that he had been taken in ill.
  • 4:04 pm Senate Speaker Amason Kingi suspends Senate sitting after Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua fell ill. Kingi directed that the DP should testify at 5:00 pm when the session resumes.
  • 3:18 pm Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua  has been rushed to hospital, his lawyer Paul Muite tells The Senate after the DP went missing moments before he was scheduled to appear as a witness at his impeachment trial.
  • 3:00 pm Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja states Uhuru Park cannot be reserved on public holidays. 
  • 2:45 pm A report by NielsenIQ Data Measurement for 2024 shows that petroleum jelly products recorded the highest demand growth of 8.9 per cent while demand for cooking oil fell by 8.4 percent.
  • 2:10 pm Senate resumes trial on DP Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment after a lunch break.
  • 1:26 pm 3 Kenyans who had been arrested and jailed in Madagascar freed and flown to Kenya after Mining CS Hassan Joho intervened.
  • 12:43 pm High Court Judge Bahati Mwamuye forced to adjourn the hearing of the Adani Group Limited case after Kenyans stormed the virtual courtroom, disrupting the session.
  • 12:11 pm Malindi Airport honoured as the Overall Winner at the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA)'s Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Awards ceremony held at Ocean Beach Resort.
  • 11:47 am Activist Morara Kebaso claims he believes police are likely to disrupt the parallel cleaning exercise he has planned in Narok County on Mashujaa Day.
  • 11:00 am Kisumu Governor Anyang Nyongo's wife gets appointed to the Africa Breast Cancer Council.
  • 10:40 am MCSK CEO Ezekiel Mutua credits Gachagua's lawyer Elisha Ongoya with representing him pro bono earlier in his career when he led a journalists union. 
  • 10:10 am Property destroyed after fire razes buildings at Mukuru kwa Ruben.
  • 9:05 am MPs summon Gideon Moi over missing title deeds for Ksh1.08 billion Rift Valley Polytechnic Land.
  • 9:00 am DP Rigathi Gachagua arrives at the Senate accompanied by his son Keith for the second and last day of his impeachment hearing.
  • 8:45 am Environment CS Aden Duale reveals Kenya has officially joined the Middle East Green Initiative (MGI) during a ministerial meeting held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • 8:00 am Treasury CS John Mbadi to fly to Washington this week to unlock Ksh77.9 billion loan.  
  • 7:17 am Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi presides over the ongoing rehabilitation of the Juja-Farm-Gikumari-Kiratina-Corner Road. 
  • 7:00 am Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja skips DP Gachagua's Senate trial to speak at the Bloomberg Summit in Mexico. 

Wed, 16 October 2024

  • 6:45 pm  Media Council of Kenya cautions journalists to exercise caution while reporting on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment. 
  • 6:35 pm Fire burns building in Eastleigh in Nairobi. The Kenya Red Cross has responded.  
  • 5:49 pm Interior PS Raymond Omollo assures Kenyans Kwale Stadium is ready to host Mashujaa Day Celebrations.
  • 5:00 pm Treasury CS John Mbadi hosts UAE's Ambassador to Kenya, Salim Mohamed Al-Naqbi at his office.
  • 4:53 pm Treasury CS John Mbadi dismisses calls to abolish the Social Health Authority (SHA).
  • 4:00 pm Lamu Governor Issa Timamy names James Gichu as his new deputy following the death of Raphael Munyua.
  • 3:55 pm J.P. Morgan appoints former CBK Executive Sailepu Montet as its new Country Manager for Kenya.
  • 3:00 pm President William Ruto expresses his concern that Kenya's manufacturing sector is not doing well & weighing down the country's economy. 
  • 2:30 pm Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga hosts US Ambassador Meg Whitman at her office.