News Tracker

Wed, 03 April 2024

  • 6:44 pm A group of former govt employees behind the annual Safari Rally championship pen a letter to President Ruto lamenting the State's failure to pay them. 
  • 6:30 pm Second Haiti Gang leader known as New York killed in shootout with police.
  • 5:43 pm ODM tells govt to subsidise the price of fertiliser from Ksh2,500 to Ksh1,500 as a show of remorse to farmers over fake fertiliser debacle.
  • 5:20 pm President William Ruto strikes trade off deal with his Ghanaian counterpart to help Raila clinch the AUC seat.  
  • 4:38 pm Embakasi East MP Babu Owino files motion seeking to impeach Health CS Susan Nakhumicha over alleged gross incompetence and failure to avert the protracted doctors' strike.
  • 4:10 pm National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wah meets US Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman to discuss President William Ruto's State visit to the US in May.
  • 3:35 pm ODM announces plans to commence its grassroots elections at the end of April 2024.
  • 3:17 pm Environment CS Soipan Tuya announces revocation of all individual land titles in gazetted forests.
  • 2:46 pm Benjamin Agina quits his position as the Director of Siaya Governor James Orengo's Press Service.
  • 2:27 pm ODM demands resignation of State officials appointed to run UDA elections.
  • 1:33 pm President William Ruto reveals govt's plan to institute policies geared at increasing diaspora remittances from Ksh497.8 billion to Ksh1.3 trillion in the next 5 to 7 years.
  • 1:15 pm Foreign Affairs CS Musalia Mudavadi co-leads bilateral talks between Kenya and Ghana in Accra. 
  • 12:50 pm US govt in a trade report protests against Kenya's move to restrict bovine semen imports. 
  • 12:20 pm President William Ruto directs Treasury to eliminate double taxation for Kenyans working in the diaspora.
  • 11:39 am Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua asks judges to stop constantly issuing orders he believes are derailing the war against illicit alcohol and drug abuse.
  • 11:19 am Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza announces plans to decamp to UDA ahead of the 2027 elections.
  • 10:36 am A Kenyan man is killed after being ambushed by armed robbers in South Sudan.  
  • 10:01 am Doctors declare they are still on strike despite the government's overnight release of Ksh2.4 billion for recruiting interns.  
  • 9:35 am Machakos residents raise alarm as fire razes dormitories in Masii Boys High School.  
  • 9:10 am A report by the Office of the United States Trade Representative reveals how American firms are edged out in lucrative government contracts in Kenya.  
  • 8:37 am Police arrest a 28-year-old woman over allegations of stabbing her husband, an elite unit police officer, at their matrimonial home in Baringo County.  
  • 8:12 am Investigative journalist John-Allan Namu reveals how politicians attempted to block the expose of fake fertilisers from being aired for the public.  
  • 7:23 am Meru County Deputy Speaker Mwenda Ali's six-year-old daughter dies in a road accident along the Meru-Nairobi Highway.  
  • 7:15 am PSRA issues an ultimatum to private security firms for withholding crucial documents for their employees illegally.  

Tue, 02 April 2024

  • 6:40 pm 9 police officers hospitalised after residents attacked them in Matungu, Kakamega County.
  • 6:30 pm President William Ruto jets out to Ghana for a State visit.
  • 5:26 pm A recent report by Timely Kenya highlights that nominated MPs affiliated with the Azimio La Umoja Coalition are the top performers.  
  • 5:11 pm A Subaru belonging to the Meru Deputy Speaker Mwenda Ali is destroyed after bursting into flames along the Embu-Meru Highway.  
  • 4:47 pm AfDB blacklists Chinese firm accused of engaging in fraudulent activities in the East Africa region.
  • 4:30 pm Nigerian afrobeats star Davido reveals he is planning to sue all media houses that published stories claiming that he had been arrested on April 1.