News Tracker

Fri, 26 May 2023

  • 7:08 am Investors threaten to flee the country and find alternative markets after youth raided tea firms. 
  • 6:53 am Housing PS, Charles Hinga, leaves a presentation with MPs after facing tough questions on the Housing Fund project. 

Thu, 25 May 2023

  • 6:45 pm CS Kithure Kindiki maintains that no key Kenyan installations were hacked by Chinese IT gurus in response to a Reuters report. 
  • 5:15 pm DPP Noordin Haji releases a detailed report on why he cleared DJ Fatxo in the Jeff Mwathi death case. 
  • 4:59 pm Bipartisan talks co-chair George Murugara accuses Azimio of frustrating bipartisan talks.
  • 4:29 pm Ida Odinga calls for sex education of young girls to curb teen pregnancy.
  • 3:20 pm Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit calls out President William Ruto for making unrealistic pledges before 2022 polls. 
  • 3:11 pm Police whisk away former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga to unknown destination from DCI headquarters. 
  • 2:30 pm Azimio principal Martha Karua accuses the state of breaking the law and violating the rights of Maina Njenga.
  • 1:15 pm Interior CS Kithure Kindiki reveals that one survivor who was rescued from Shakahola died after refusing to eat. 
  • 12:58 pm Police lob teargas at Maina Njenga supporters outside DCI headquarters along Kiambu Road. 
  • 11:27 am Martha Karua, Eugene Wamalwa and George Wajackoyah accompany Maina Njenga to DCI Headquarters along Kiambu Road.
  • 10:31 am Konza Technopolis Development Authority woos Chinese investors to the project as the first phase of development nears completion.
  • 9:45 am Parliamentary Committee questions State Department for Petroleum for diverting Ksh42 million to pay staff for working overtime.
  • 9:11 am Interior CS Kithure Kindiki to oversee commencement of autopsy on 129 bodies exhumed in Shakahola.
  • 8:38 am Police arrest 20-year-old man selling guns and bullets. 
  • 8:27 am CAS Dennis Itumbi threatens to sue Nation Media Group over alleging that a series of articles in Daily Nation and Taifa Leo defamed him.
  • 7:21 am 24 suspects arrested in Bomet and Kericho counties following violent protests over management of tea factories. 
  • 6:29 am Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi tells Kenyans to brace themselves for hard times for the next two years. 

Wed, 24 May 2023

  • 7:01 pm Azimio calls for the resignation of Political Parties Registrar Ann Nderitu. 
  • 6:25 pm Court releases ex-Mungiki sect leader Maina Njenga after surrendering himself to police. 
  • 5:53 pm NTSA says 1,600 people have been killed in road accidents this year. 
  • 5:25 pm Agriculture CS Mithika Linturi says Kenya will import 180,000 tonnes of sugar to cushion Kenyans from high prices. 
  • 4:50 pm President William Ruto discloses that 5,000 of the country’s 7,000 government services have been digitized so far. 
  • 3:35 pm  Tharaka Member of Parliament George Murugara wants more funds allocated to prisons.
  • 3:08 pm Former minister Prof Amukowa Anangwe appointed Chairperson, University of Nairobi Council. 
  • 2:44 pm Education CS Ezekiel Machogu appoints Dr Sarah Ruto as the chair, Kisii University Council. 
  • 1:03 pm KeNHA announces plans to modify various sections of the Nairobi Expressway.
  • 12:16 pm Interior CS Kithure Kindiki says plans are underway to upgrade Identification Cards (IDs) by introducing more biometric features like facial recognition.
  • 11:44 am Ex-Mungiki leader Maina Njenga surrenders himself to the authorities at the Nakuru Law Courts.