News Tracker

Tue, 09 April 2024

  • 6:38 pm Several deaths reported in suspected terrorist attack in Lamu
  • 6:10 pm NCCK calls for public participation on NADCO Report before it is implemented.
  • 5:40 pm Kenya's electricity imports hit record high spiking 65.74%
  • 5:24 pm UDA shifts blame for protracted doctors' strike on county governments.
  • 4:40 pm Transport CS Kipchumba Murkomen orders the remarking and installation of proper signage on all busy roads within Nairobi.
  • 4:30 pm Azimio Coalition threatens to join doctors in staging their nationwide strike if the govt fails to address the issue that has culminated in the paralysis of service delivery in public hospitals.
  • 3:37 pm World Bank lists the Kenyan Shilling as the best performing currency in East Africa.
  • 3:06 pm Djibouti fronts its Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf to challenge Raila for AUC job.
  • 2:34 pm President Ruto reveals that he helped save PCEA from wallowing in debt by requesting one of his friends to purchase a Ksh550 million parcel of land owned by the church.
  • 2:12 pm NTSA to issue 6-month driving license suspensions to motorists overtaking school buses which have extended their stop signs.
  • 1:22 pm Nominated Senator Maureen Tabitha moves bill proposing hefty fines for employment agencies exploiting Kenyans seeking jobs.
  • 1:00 pm Interior CS Kithure Kindiki directs police to protect the public from disruption caused by the ongoing doctors' strike
  • 12:33 pm Family of four buried alive after mudslide guts Torokiat Village, Narok County.
  • 12:00 pm President William Ruto announces that his administration will make changes to the Hustler Fund to make it Shariah-compliant
  • 11:18 am President William Ruto's High Commissioner nominee to Ghana Vincent Mogaka rejects the job. 
  • 11:00 am Interior CS Kithure Kindiki declares Wednesday a public holiday.
  • 10:38 am Nyeri County doctors now face sacking, after the county halted salary payments for 59 out of 62 doctors still participating in the ongoing nationwide strike.  
  • 10:12 am Autopsy results for Kisii-based blogger, Duke Nyabaro reveal that he was strangled to death manually.  
  • 9:25 am The National Disaster Operation Centre issues an alert over the potential spillage of the Seven Forks Dam.  
  • 9:12 am Stakeholders in the construction sector and the scrap metal industry blame the dollar for the losses they are incurring.  
  • 8:07 am President William Ruto announces the removal of vetting during the applications for National Identification Cards (IDs).  
  • 8:06 am Eight people lose their lives after a van rams into a truck around the Ngata area on the Nakuru-Nairobi Highway.  

Mon, 08 April 2024

  • 6:33 pm NARC-Kenya Party Leader Martha Karua laughs off the reasons the govt has given for declining to cave in to the striking doctors' demands insisting that the Kenya Kwanza govt has demonstrated unnecessary lavish spending since assuming power.
  • 6:00 pm The national govt intends to grow the country's manufacturing sector to an ambitious 20 per cent of the country's GDP by 2030, President William Ruto announces.
  • 5:25 pm Second lady Dorcas Rigathi hosts the family of Harris Kibathi, the late District Commissioner who facilitated her admission to high school more than 40 years ago.
  • 5:00 pm President William Ruto advocates for the strengthening of local manufacturing insisting its better for Kenyans to have a locally made Datsun than a foreign Rolls Royce.
  • 4:35 pm Education CS Ezekiel Machogu appoints Former Homa Bay Woman Representative Tabitha Nyandiek as a member of the Council of the University of Kabianga.
  • 4:03 pm Ministry of Interior begins process of acquiring 2,000 acres for setting up military training camp in Samburu County.
  • 3:38 pm President William Ruto orders the deployment of military to West Pokot to stem banditry which has crippled education in the region.
  • 3:09 pm President William Ruto orders companies which have distributed fake fertiliser in the market to compensate all farmers who bought the input.