2:13 pm
The Communications Authority has announced plans to shut down 42 TV stations in the next seven days; the TV stations include Metropol TV, Mount Kenya TV, and Kingdom Ambassadors TV.
1:50 pm
Rigathi Gachagua has vowed to revoke the Housing Levy and refund deductions to all those who have paid for the levy introduced if he is elected president in 2027.
1:15 pm
Three suspects who were arrested over the killing of lawyer Kyalo Mbobu have been released due to the lack of evidence.
12:28 pm
George Ruto's Ksh14 million matatu, Mood, has been involved in a minor accident in Eldoret; no casualties reported.
11:48 am
President Ruto has donated Ksh1 million to the family of Susan Nabwire, the woman who was killed by her husband in Pipeline, Nairobi, on August 13.
11:16 am
Benard Njagi, the Chaplain at State House Chapel, reveals that two months before the 2024 anti-government protests, clergy members had visions about the protests and prayed at the chapel, prayers that stopped the protests from turning into a national security threat.
10:39 am
President Ruto attends a church service at the State House Chapel, becoming the first president to do so.
9:58 am
NTSA allows the collection of smart driving licence biometrics at 15 selected Huduma Centres across the country to speed up rollout.
9:32 am
Kenya's presidential jet, Harambee One, is undergoing a year-long maintenance in the Netherlands, which Defence CS Soipan Tuya claims is the last maintenance for the 1996-commissioned aircraft.
8:52 am
National Assembly Minority Leader Junet Mohamed claims ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna's opposition to the broad-based government stems from the "wrong company" in a public rebuke just days before the three-day 20th party celebrations in Mombasa.
8:17 am
KDF soldiers under MONUSCO have intensified patrol operations in the eastern Ituri Province of the DRC following a brutal attack on mourners by suspected militia groups.
7:42 am
The Kenya Forest Service has dismissed a petition circulating online, which seeks, among other things, to revoke the mandatory use of the eCitizen platform for gate collection and to allow the Community Forest Association to regain control of the forest.
7:23 am
31-year-old Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir delivered a dramatic, lung-busting final 100-metre sprint to outpace Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa and win gold in the women's marathon at the World Championships in Tokyo.
Sat, 13 September 2025
5:31 pm
Several people injured after a bus ferrying Gor Mahia FC fans overturns at Kimende along the Nairobi-Naivasha highway.
5:19 pm
Police in Kirinyaga have arrested seven suspected gang members believed to be carrying out criminal activities in the county during a raid in which they also found weapons as well as tools for breaking into houses.
4:47 pm
Siaya County government fires 385 health workers believed to have been hired using forged documents; the mass firing came after an audit was conducted following complaints from 500 employees regarding nine months' arrears.
4:25 pm
Kenya has launched a campaign to remain on the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Council for the 2026–2027 term; the campaign is being led by the Cabinet Secretary for Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs, Hassan Joho.
3:51 pm
Beatrice Chebet Wins 10,000M Race With a Time of 30:37:61 to Give Kenya its First Gold Medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championship in Tokyo.
3:01 pm
President Ruto has ordered Treasury CS Mbadi and his Education counterpart Ogamba to align the capitation disbursement formula with the education calendar year amid concerns about disruption in capital flow to schools.
2:51 pm
Primary school heads, through KEPSHA chair Fuad Ali, have called for increase in funding for free primary education, saying that the current allocation is inadequate for meeting rising costs; they want the capitation raised to Ksh2,300 per pupil from Ksh1,420.
12:42 pm
At least 2,100 violence and harassment cases against sexual and gender minorities were reported in Kenya between October 2023 and September 2024, according to Lives on the Line report by a coalition of rights groups.
12:32 pm
KUPPET Secretary General Akello Misori forced to cut short his speech after a section of teachers heckled him during the Walimu na Rais forum at State House, Nairobi.
11:29 am
President Ruto promises teachers across the country 20 per cent of Affordable Housing Units during the Walimu na Rais forum at State House, Nairobi on Saturday morning.
10:43 am
KeNHA deploys a team of geologists to investigate the cause of visible cracks along the Eveready roundabout on the Nakuru-Marigat Road; the team to conduct a “diagnostic exercise” along the road and table a report in the next ten days.
10:11 am
President Ruto vows not to relent in his crackdown on fraudsters misusing the SHA; promises health system would be rid of those who steal money intended for patients.
9:59 am
Moses Kuria’s Chama Cha Kazi party announces Duncan Ireri Mbui as its candidate for the Mbeere North parliamentary by-election in; Mbui recently defected from Gachagua’s DCP.
9:20 am
Jubilee Party resolves not to field a candidate in the upcoming Mbeere North by-election and will instead support a joint opposition candidate, the party's Deputy Organizing Secretary, Pauline Njoroge reveals.
8:51 am
KRA has announced that its Integrated Customs Management System (iCMS) will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Sunday from 4am to 12pm.
8:11 am
MPs have raised alarm over Ksh1.8 billion idle funds lying at Kenyan embassies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ethiopia amid concerns over financial discipline and the fate of diplomatic projects.
7:48 am
Two MPs, Anthony Kibagendi of Kitutu Chache South and Japheth Nyakundi of Kitutu Chache North, got into a physical confrontation during a funeral in Sensi Ward, Kisii County after Kibagendi called out President Ruto.
