News Tracker

Mon, 31 July 2023

  • 12:25 pm CJ Martha Koome inaugurates the specialised Environment and Planning Division and the Land Division for the Environment and Land Court (ELC).
  • 11:30 am Education CS Ezekiel Machogu says 285,167 students have secured placements in universities, colleges and artisan courses in 282 training institutions.
  • 11:15 am CS Eliud Owalo releases ICT Ministry's digital scorecard at a Nairobi hotel.
  • 10:57 am The government will unveil a State spokesperson in two weeks, ICT CS Eliud Owalo announces. 
  • 10:38 am Education CS Ezekiel Machogu has launched the new HELB website for university students to apply for government funding. 
  • 9:56 am Senators visit Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital to investigate concerns that have been raised by students over the management of the facility.  
  • 9:45 am ICT Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo announces that Huduma Number will now be optional. 
  • 8:53 am Azimio La Umoja to challenge President William Ruto's order that pardoned 37 prisoners including former KEMRI boss Davy Koech. 
  • 8:05 am DCI investigating fraud at City Hall following payments that were made to companies that did not supply anything to Nairobi County. 
  • 7:47 am Uasin Gishu County refunds parents who took their children to Finland for studies in the controversial academic airlift program started by former governor Jackson Mandago. 
  • 7:09 am Kuccps to release the results of university placement today; students will be given one month to prepare for the start of the varsities calendar.

Sun, 30 July 2023

  • 6:33 pm DP Rigathi Gachagua questions human rights activists for not calling out protesters who engaged security officers with crude weapons.
  • 6:10 pm Interior CS Kithure Kindiki warns select leaders using democracy to cause mayhem and anarchy in Kenya.
  • 5:31 pm Kiambu County Government launches campaign to clean streets across major towns.
  • 4:51 pm ODM SG Edwin Sifuna fires back at South Africa's Julius Malema arguing that he was blinded by Kenya Kwanza propaganda.
  • 4:02 pm President William Ruto confirms approving Fly Dubai to fly to Kenya 4 days a week to boost tourism.
  • 3:35 pm President William Ruto says his government left the cost of living out of his agreement with Azimio because it was part of his manifesto.
  • 3:07 pm President William Ruto addresses a rally in Likoni, Mombasa County.
  • 2:51 pm Police seize a Toyota Premio with contraband goods at an accident scene shortly after evading a roadblock in Mombasa County.
  • 2:21 pm Kericho County on the spot over misappropriation of Ksh13.7 million raised for Londiani accident victims.
  • 1:46 pm Chief Justice Martha Koome to launch two separate Divisions of the Environment and Land Court on Monday, July 31.
  • 1:34 pm Prime CS Musalia Mudavadi insists Kenya is not in a crisis compared to the Sudan conflict.
  • 1:10 pm DP Rigathi Gachagua arrives at Alliance High School to mark 100 years since its establishment in 1926.
  • 12:33 pm Kenyan Ambassador to the UK Manoah Esipisu joins other Kenyans for a Kenya in the Park event in Ealing, North London. 
  • 11:47 am Jane Marriot, former UK Ambassador to Kenya, formally arrives in Pakistan to take over a similar role.
  • 11:08 am President William Ruto attends a church service in Ukunda, Kwale County.
  • 10:51 am Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua will be the chief guest at the laying of a chapel foundation stone at Alliance High School.
  • 10:36 am United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls President William Ruto over ongoing conflicts in the region including in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). 
  • 9:59 am Migori Senator Eddy Oketch maintains that Azimio La Umoja has preconditions before talks with Kenya Kwanza. 
  • 9:35 am Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko pledges to take care of Baby Sagini whose relatives have been jailed for gouging out his eyes last year in a crime that shook the country.