News Tracker

Mon, 30 January 2023

  • 6:21 pm Military airlifts teachers working near Boni forest to schools as learning resumes. 
  • 5:54 pm Ex-CJ David Maraga-led taskforce starts sittings at Bomas of Kenya; National Police Service presents memorandum.
  • 5:30 pm Kenya's Central Bank retains benchmark rate at 8.75 per cent, last time rate was retained was in July 2022.
  • 4:41 pm President William Ruto says individuals financing demonstrations in plot to evade tax will not succeed. 
  • 4:00 pm CJ Martha Koome says Sexual and Gender Based Violence Courts will be rolled out across the country.
  • 3:28 pm DP Rigathi Gachagua holds consultative meeting with top government officials on the drought situation in the country.
  • 2:23 pm Interior CS Kithure Kindiki to launch a new police unit known as the Water Protection Unit.
  • 1:32 pm DCI officers arrest Korogocho MCA Absalom Matakwey Mobimba after being summoned by NCIC over incitement.
  • 12:28 pm President William Ruto tells off ODM leader Raila Odinga over claims of a secret visit by former IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati.
  • 12:06 pm Sports CS Ababu Namwanbwa reiterates ministry's commitment to lift sports to unprecedented levels.
  • 11:43 am President William Ruto praises the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution for the milestones realized.
  • 11:22 am Matatu Owners want Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja to halt removal of PSVs from the CBD as part of the decongestion strategy.
  • 10:46 am President William Ruto attends Africa Prosecutors Association Conference in Mombasa.
  • 10:19 am Central Bank of Kenya publishes list of 12 more approved mobile lenders.
  • 9:28 am Political Analyst Herman Manyora says a deal between President William Ruto and Raila Odinga is inevitable.
  • 8:30 am Junior Secondary Schools reopen across the country.
  • 7:59 am Suba Churchill calls on KeMU and University of Eldoret to withdraw dress codes guidelines imposed on students.
  • 7:00 am Veteran Sunday Nation columnist Yusuf Dawood dies at 94.

Sun, 29 January 2023

  • 8:18 pm Former ICT CS Joe Mucheru lands international job after being appointed President of UK Fintech Firm. 
  • 7:45 pm Former Mukurweini MP Kabando wa Kabando warns Kakamega senator Bonny Khalwale against being a sycophant.  
  • 7:16 pm President William Ruto to open the National Assembly Post Election Seminar (PES) for members in Mombasa.
  • 6:52 pm Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka says Azimio remains focused on peacefully pursuing justice. 
  • 6:02 pm Jubilee Secretary General Jeremiah Kioni rules out the possibility of a handshake between President William Ruto and Raila Odinga. 
  • 5:16 pm KURA announces 3-day traffic disruption along Eastern Bypass starting Monday, January 30.
  • 4:23 pm Azimio leader Raila Odinga claims former IEBC commissioners, Wafula Chebukati, Abdi Guliye, and Boya Molu visited him.
  • 3:47 pm Azimio Leader Raila Odinga calls for an end to ‘punitive’ taxes, likens President William Ruto to biblical Zacchaeus. 
  • 2:45 pm Isiolo Governor Abdi Guyo, elected under Jubilee Party pledges to work with President William Ruto's government. .
  • 2:05 pm Azimio Leader Raila Odinga says DCI cannot conduct investigations because they are under President William Ruto. 
  • 1:47 pm Kajiado governor Joseph Ole Lenku affirms his commitment to working with President William Ruto's administration. 
  • 1:38 pm Kakamega governor Fernandes Barasa says Matunda hospital will be upgraded to a level four hospital.