News Tracker

Wed, 06 September 2023

  • 12:52 pm Leadership crisis brews at the University of Nairobi (UoN) after Acting Vice Chancellor Julius Ogeng'o refuses to leave office following return of Professor Stephen Kiama.
  • 12:20 pm USAID invests Ksh203 million to support Kenyan government to develop its carbon market activation plan.
  • 11:30 am Worldcoin CEO Alex Blania appears before the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee investigating the crypto firm's activities in Kenya.
  • 11:10 am Police officers locked up in a chang'aa den by angry villagers in King'ong'o, Uasin Gishu County moments after moving to make arrests during a routine patrol.
  • 10:38 am Clinton Mutwiri, the third-best student in 2022 KCSE, is yet to join the university after lacking school fees.
  • 10:37 am Parliament convenes to discuss pathways for effective climate action. 
  • 9:44 am High Court allows the government to import 125,000 metric tonnes of duty-free cooking fat.
  • 9:42 am Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley sends a video message to world leaders at the Africa Climate Summit.
  • 8:32 am African leaders want developed nations to contribute significant amounts to the mitigation of Climate Change. 
  • 8:32 am Former Nairobi Governor, Dr Evans Kidero, lauds the government for allowing opposition leader, Raila Odinga, to attend the African Climate Summit. 
  • 7:48 am Senators move to bar two-term Governors from running for office in the first five years after they leave office. 
  • 7:20 am The inaugral Africa Climate Summit enters day 3 at KICC, Nairobi. 
  • 6:42 am Governor Kamau Thuge says CBK may find it difficult to trace WorldCoin transactions as money was paid via mobile money.
  • 6:41 am 17-year-old locked out from applying for HELB loan due to being underage.

Tue, 05 September 2023

  • 6:48 pm Woman charged with being in possession of python skin worth Ksh. 100,000.
  • 6:38 pm The National Environment Authority (NEMA) announces resumption in the issuance of licences for Environmental Assessment Experts.
  • 5:59 pm Multi-agency police team shuts down gas company located along Mombasa Road after conducting compliance raid.
  • 5:12 pm Kenya to benefit from Ksh600 billion funding which will go into various climate change-related investments in Africa.
  • 4:44 pm Colombian Vice President Francia Elena Márquez Mina, adopts Kenyan name — Nyawira — owing to her Kenyan roots.
  • 4:10 pm Kenya receives Ksh1.8 billion cash injection from the European Union (EU).
  • 3:47 pm  Global Centre for Adaptation's Africa regional office moved to Nairobi, President William Ruto announces.
  • 3:30 pm Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) arrests gang leader accused of terrorizing city residents.
  • 2:30 pm Operation Linda Jamii, a lobby group, sues President William Ruto through Attorney General's Office over 'Mambo ni Matatu' remarks.
  • 2:08 pm EU looking to collaborate with Africa to develop shared plan for global carbon pricing in preparation for COP 28.
  • 1:42 pm 4-page letter by the late American novelist and journalist Ernest Hemingway detailing his trip to Nairobi in 1954 sold for Ksh34 million
  • 1:10 pm Acting Director General of Immigration Services Evelyn Cheluget assures Kenyans that the department is committed to resolving passport backlog that has put the govt on the spot.
  • 12:53 pm A vehicle with transporting donkey meat to Nairobi crashes in Mai Mahiu.
  • 12:23 pm US Climate Envoy John Kerry confirms Joe Biden's readiness to commit $3 million every year to build climate resilience.
  • 11:54 am 26 Ethiopians detained in Murang'a for being in the country illegally.
  • 11:30 am Govt reserves City Hall Way for Presidential motorcades in revised African Climate Summit protocols.