News Tracker

Sun, 17 March 2024

  • 3:11 pm Boda boda rider arrested after ferrying 2 officers to home in Narok where they were assaulted and died
  • 2:47 pm DP Rigathi Gachagua asks school bus drivers to be careful to avoid any accidents that may put Kenyan learners in harm's way.
  • 2:31 pm National government sets aside Ksh250 million for upcoming wildlife census.
  • 1:39 pm Court dismisses alleged election interference petition against military chief Francis Ogolla filed by former IEBC commissioner Irene Massit.
  • 1:22 pm Canadian media outlets report that the North American country is hesitant to deploy troops to Haiti alongside Kenya despite immense pressure from the US.
  • 12:50 pm EACC, ODPP and AG Justin Muturi oppose Kenya Kwanza MP Geoffrey Ruku's bill seeking to decriminalize certain corruption offences.
  • 12:19 pm President William Ruto meets Abraham Leteipa Kaeno, a 29-year-old university graduate from Kilgoris, Narok County, who earns Ksh68,000 a week from online jobs
  • 11:35 am Second Lady Pastor Dorcas Rigathi kickstarts campaign targeting drug addicts in Nanyuki.
  • 11:00 am Mining CS Salim Mvurya revokes the appointment of Jessica Gakinya as a member of the Board of Directors of the Kenya Fisheries Service days after President William Ruto appointed her as Kenya’s envoy to Rabat, Morocco.
  • 10:48 am DP Rigathi Gachagua delivers President William Ruto's condolence message at Kapsabet Boys High School following accident.
  • 10:08 am Bomet residents storm Governor Hillary Barchok's office demanding his resignation.
  • 9:42 am Two people die, several others injured after matatu rams into a stalled truck along the Eldoret - Nairobi Highway.
  • 9:09 am Police report reveals that content creator Brian Chira who died yesterday was a victim of a hit and run.
  • 8:36 am Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja assures city residents Uhuru Park will be opened by March 2024.
  • 8:18 am UDA Secretary General Cleophas Malala denies banning party members from appearing in interviews alongside Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna.
  • 7:30 am The Kenya Transporters Association expresses concern over surge in extortion as govt stages crackdown on illicit goods and drugs along highways.
  • 7:12 am  US Senate approves nomination of career foreign service member Dennis Hankins as America's US ambassador to Haiti.

Sat, 16 March 2024

  • 5:49 pm The Baringo North Member of Parliament (MP), Joseph Makilap, and Baringo Women Representative, Florence Jematian, have been ambushed by bandits.
  • 5:24 pm The Kenya Transporters Association expresses concern over an alleged surge in extortion coinciding with an intensified crackdown on illicit goods and drugs along highways.  
  • 4:46 pm President William Ruto, confirms his intention to sign the bill, giving the government the authority to resume implementing his homes programme.
  • 4:22 pm Two people are feared dead after a school bus belonging to Kapsabet Boys High School gets into an accident in the Patkawanin area on the Marigat-Kabarnet road.  
  • 3:13 pm Kenya Coast Guard Service announce that it will host a  National Maritime Exercise in May 2024 in conjunction with the KDF and the European Union Naval Force.
  • 3:03 pm President William Ruto discloses that people already enlisted in the NHIF will undergo fresh registration.  
  • 2:44 pm Tax measures the government is eying to implement in the upcoming financial year.  
  • 2:21 pm More than 10,000 people in Murang’a rendered jobless following CS Kithure Kindiki’s directive to close bars operating near residential areas and schools.  
  • 1:32 pm President William Ruto reveals he had agreed with three foreign countries for online jobs for Kenyan youths.
  • 1:12 pm The newly formed Water Police Unit conducts an operation in Meru County where 5 people have been arrested for illegal water connections.
  • 12:52 pm Musalia Mudavadi heaps praise on Raila Odinga as the latter continues in his bid for AUC Chairperson.   
  • 12:21 pm Ruto confronts hecklers at a rally in Bomet County.
  • 11:51 am The National Assembly's Public Investments Committee scrutinizes how a consultant engineer received Ksh22.5 million in overpayment.