News Tracker

Fri, 26 September 2025

  • 4:40 pm Former DP Gachagua claims his only disappointment, should he not be chosen as the united opposition’s presidential flagbearer in 2027, would be missing the chance to face off with Ruto on the Presidential Debate stage.
  • 4:16 pm Milimani Children's Court orders detention of the two minors who were arrested for desecrating the Kenyan flag after a football match at Nyayo Stadium until Wednesday.
  • 3:49 pm People’s Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua officially declares intention to run for the presidency in the 2027 General Election, promises to serve for only one term if elected.
  • 3:08 pm IEBC to resume the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) starting Monday, September 29, for eligible Kenyans to either register as new voters or update their details ahead of the 2027 General Election.
  • 2:41 pm Motorists using the Nakuru–Nairobi highway stranded near Gilgil after a truck overturned, completely blocking the road and bringing traffic to a standstill.
  • 2:20 pm Former President Uhuru Kenyatta announces plans to embark on a nationwide "meet the people” tour in part of Jubilee Party’s grassroots mobilization ahead of the 2027 elections.
  • 1:49 pm A court in Ngong has sentenced three men to life imprisonment after they were found guilty in a robbery with violence case involving theft of a phone and shoes.
  • 1:11 pm Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has broken his silence over the turbulent moments he faced in the aftermath of the 2022 general elections, saying his family and allies were targeted.
  • 12:39 pm Nairobi County is pursuing a Ksh2.7 billion debt swap deal with President William Ruto’s national government, Governor Johnson Sakaja has revealed.
  • 11:41 am Former President Uhuru Kenyatta to chair the Jubilee Party’s Special National Delegates Convention (NDC), a meeting expected to give the party direction ahead of the 2027 general elections amid years of internal wrangles.
  • 11:21 am Protesters are camping outside Raila Odinga's home in Karen, demanding his intervention amid allegations that some senior government officials aided the grabbing of over 2,000 acres of prime land in Kibiku, Ngong, Kajiado County.
  • 10:44 am MPs criticise the Agriculture and Food Authority for allegedly favouring certain communities when hiring as only two ethnic groups take the majority of jobs at the State corporation.
  • 10:19 am A section of Kenyans are now calling on the DCI to take action against four individuals captured on video flogging an unidentified woman.
  • 9:44 am After 14 years at the heart of Kenya’s oil explorationTullow Oil officially leaves the country after selling its Ksh15 billion assets to Gulf Energy Limited.
  • 9:31 am Chuka University student, John Tingoi, has floored nearly 89,000 contestants worldwide to make it to the global finals of the International Quant Championship (IQC) 2025.
  • 8:57 am Ministry of Health update has shown that the majority of married women under 49 years old in Kenya are in need of contraception, either because they do not want more children or because they wish to delay pregnancy.
  • 8:20 am MPs have criticised the Government Advertising Agency spending, asking how spending Ksh9 million on one newspaper per week is cheaper than spending Ksh24.5 million on four newspapers.
  • 7:41 am Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has formed a multidisciplinary team to investigate the explosion and subsequent fire in a manhole near its storage facilities and headquarters in Eastlands, Nairobi.
  • 7:13 am Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and the Ministries of Cooperatives and Transport have proposed changes to the contentious Motorcycle Regulations Bill sponsored by Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale.

Thu, 25 September 2025

  • 6:31 pm The Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA) has partnered with St. John Ambulance to construct first aid and trauma centres along major roads.
  • 6:07 pm An autopsy has revealed that Samson Ouma, a 35-year-old man who allegedly died in police custody in Kitale, succumbed to a blood clot.  
  • 5:52 pm CS Mutua says government is in advanced stage of finalising instruments for the ratification of the ILO Conventions 189 and 190, to enhance a decent working environment for workers.
  • 5:30 pm court in Kisii has summoned an operating manager of a local bank for the theft of Ksh52 million siphoned from accounts at the bank's Kisii branch.
  • 2:44 pm The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has announced the arrest of one of the suspects behind the desecration of the Kenyan flag during a match between Mogadishu FC and Kenya Police last Saturday.
  • 2:23 pm The National Integrity Alliance (NIA) has demanded the urgent passage of the Whistleblower Protection Bill to provide legal protection to whistleblowers who expose graft and other malpractices in government, while condemning rising attacks on journalists.
  • 1:40 pm Justice Kanyi Kimondo has ruled that four of the seven accused in the 2015 fatal shooting of the ex-Kabete MP George Muchai and his three aides have a case to answer.
  • 1:12 pm Several traders are counting losses after their businesses were brought down by the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) officials on Wednesday, September 24.
  • 12:48 pm The body of Corporal Kennedy Mutuku Nzuve, who died in a tragic road traffic accident while on patrol in Haiti on September 1,  is scheduled to arrive in Nairobi tomorrow, September 26, NPS has said.
  • 12:18 pm NPS has confirmed Benedict Kabiru, the officer who went missing during an operation in Haiti in March 2025, is dead.
  • 11:54 am The Nairobi County has closed two factories that process glass from liquor bottles in Kayole that were operating near residential buildings.