News Tracker

Fri, 12 April 2024

  • 9:56 am India and Kenya engage in a discussion to assess prospects in agriculture, DPI, healthcare, energy and infrastructure. 
  • 9:02 am NPS positively identifies the Traffic Police Officer seen allegedly collecting bribes from the public.
  • 8:50 am KRA rescinds its previous decisions to exempt businesses with an annual turnover of Ksh5 million and below from producing invoices through the eTIMS.
  • 8:10 am First Lady Racheal Ruto hosts the Professional Association Of Nyanza (PANY) Women's strategic plan launch at Serena Hotel, Nairobi.
  • 7:25 am Labour CS Florence Bore reveals low applications for 2,500 jobs that were secured by President William Ruto in Saudi Arabia.  
  • 7:10 am The Commission on Revenue Allocation engages with the Fiscal Responsibility Commission from Nigeria on a benchmarking visit to the National Assembly.

Thu, 11 April 2024

  • 6:40 pm OJ Simpson dies at 76.
  • 5:34 pm Mombasa Governor Abdulswamad Nassir hosts Mudavadi and Head of Public Service Felix Koskei in Mombasa.
  • 5:20 pm Pharmacy and Poisons Board warns Kenyans about purchasing cough syrup manufactured in South Africa.
  • 4:53 pm Azimio leader Raila Odinga chairs ODM's NEC meeting.
  • 4:00 pm Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud lands in Kenya for a meeting with President William Ruto.
  • 3:53 pm US pharmaceutical company Moderna puts on hold plans to construct a vaccine manufacturing facility in Kenya.   
  • 3:11 pm Azimio leader Raila Odinga issues an ultimatum to President William Ruto over the issues experienced within the health sector.  
  • 2:54 pm The Ministry of Health refutes claims that the government is rolling out mandatory DNA tests.  
  • 2:05 pm Office of the Auditor General exposes the millions unaccounted for in the County of Trans Nzoia.  
  • 1:25 pm TikTok officials tell MPs that the company pulled down 296,000 videos from Kenya in 2023.
  • 1:09 pm EACC clears Ezra Chiloba in Communications Authority Staff Mortgage Scheme Case.
  • 12:35 pm Kisumu Governor Anyang' Nyong'o warns that doctors who have not been reporting to work will not be remunerated.
  • 12:00 pm 58% of Kenyans think the country is headed in the wrong direction, Infotrak report shows.
  • 11:31 am Govt to set up high-tech cybersecurity defence centres to protect critical infrastructure from hackers.
  • 11:04 am UK suspends 8% tariff for flowers exported from Kenya.
  • 10:48 am Francis Atwoli, COTU-K Sec-Gen, endorses President William Ruto’s Affordable Housing Project.  
  • 10:04 am The Auditor General reveals several discrepancies in expenditure by the Kisumu County Government.
  • 9:54 am Data from EPRA reveals that Kenyans have continued to make purchases despite the high cost of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in the country.
  • 9:12 am Former President Daniel Moi’s daughter June Moi passes away at the age of 60 years.  
  • 8:43 am The Kenya Forest Service (KFS) announces that the government has signed an MoU with a private company to advance sustainable forest conservation.  
  • 8:12 am Detectives from the DCI arrest three gang members suspected of terrorising Nairobi residents.  
  • 7:58 am Gretta Fenner, the Managing Director of the Basel Institute of Management in Switzerland, is reported dead after an accident in Kenya.  
  • 7:15 am Reports reveal that the minibus that plunged into a river on Wednesday, April 10, in Makueni County was escaping the NTSA.  

Wed, 10 April 2024