News Tracker

Wed, 30 April 2025

  • 7:48 pm President William Ruto has appointed Prof Makau Mutua as the Senior Advisor of Constitutional Affairs in the Executive Office of the President.
  • 6:17 pm KRA has warned of a planned service disruption on Thursday, May 1, between 12am and 11:59pm.
  • 5:39 pm The Draft Finance Bill 2025 has officially been received at the National Assembly after the Cabinet passed it during its sitting on Tuesday.
  • 5:10 pm DCI has arrested seven people suspected to be members of a gold scam syndicate based in Spring Valley; the raid recovered 350kgs of fake gold worth over Ksh70 million.
  • 4:55 pm NEMA will start the Sustainable Waste Management regulations 2024 next month, requiring producers and importers to manage their products' lifecycle from production to disposal.
  • 4:14 pm KeNHA has announced a 7-hour traffic disruption for Nairobi-bound lanes near Katani Road Junction on Mombasa Road on Sunday, May 4, from 9pm to Monday, May 5, 4am for maintenance.
  • 3:41 pm A traffic snarl-up is building up along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway after a gas tanker and a mini-truck overturned.
  • 3:08 pm The High Court has mandated that police officers managing public events must wear uniforms and be easily identifiable, prohibiting face coverings and plain clothes.
  • 2:54 pm Nairobi County has threatened to shut down the Orchid Lounge located along Ngong Road within the next 72 hours over numerous complaints of noise pollution.
  • 2:18 pm Governor George Natembeya has slammed the National Treasury over the delayed disbursement of funds to the county governments, saying counties have been forced to turn to banks for loans to run their counties.
  • 1:48 pm Residents of Oldonyonyokie Ranch in Kajiado County have staged a protest against the establishment of a carbon credit project on their land.
  • 1:04 pm High Court Judge Bahati Mwamuye has declared a protest ban issued by former Nairobi Police Commander Adamson Bungei during the 2024 anti-tax demonstrations illegal and unconstitutional.  
  • 12:54 pm The government has scrapped the 1.5 per cent Digital Service Tax (DST) in the Finance Bill 2025.
  • 12:13 pm Employment and Labour Court reinstates Professor Paul Wainaina as the Kenyatta University Vice Chancellor with immediate effect.
  • 11:43 am President William Ruto has been accompanied by Raila Odinga at the ceremony to install the new Vice Chancellor of the Cooperative University of Kenya.
  • 11:13 am The prices of common market products such as maize, potatoes, and green vegetables are set to rise further in May, following a surge in inflation rates.
  • 10:50 am The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has revealed details of the intricate process that will go into the vetting of betting and gaming companies ahead of the 2025/2026 financial year, as the crackdown against rogue companies intensifies.
  • 10:10 am The Wildlife Principal Secretary, Silvia Museiya, has revealed that the government is set to knock down some factories erected within the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) along Mombasa Road to pave the way for a wildlife migratory corridor.
  • 9:55 am The United States President Donald Trump's administration has listed Kenya among the countries that lack proper enforcement structures to curb the entry of counterfeit goods.
  • 9:05 am The National Assembly's Public Petitions Committee on Tuesday, 29 April, received a petition seeking the official recognition of the Chuka community as a distinct tribe in Kenya.
  • 8:10 am Traders at Limuru Market in Kiambu County were thrown into panic on Tuesday evening after a swarm of bees descended on the area, attacking anyone in sight.
  • 7:49 am The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) on Tuesday, April 29, announced a raft of measures to ensure tax compliance by members of the public.

Tue, 29 April 2025

  • 6:11 pm The Cabinet has approved the Finance Bill, 2025; no new taxes, just a clean-up, according to the State House. 
  • 5:46 pm The Cabinet has approved the establishment of a Consulate General in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
  • 5:17 pm Police are set to launch a crackdown on unregulated betting companies as the government seeks to control the runaway sector.
  • 4:50 pm The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will assess Kenya's human rights situation for the fourth time on Thursday, May 1.
  • 4:10 pm The Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced that the next cohort of medical interns will be posted starting July 1.
  • 3:49 pm A 42-year-old Kenyan was shot and killed by the father of her children in Minnesota, US, after being involved in a gun altercation, authorities say.
  • 3:09 pm Kenya is set to receive Ksh64.65 billion in healthcare funding from international philanthropists, including the Gates Foundation and the UAE’s Mohamed Bin Zayed Foundation for Humanity.
  • 2:48 pm Mombasa County Governor Abdulswamad Sheriff has announced that the Technical University of Mombasa is set to start offering medicine degree courses.