- Ruben Amorim says he never lost hope in a Manchester United comeback against Lyon after being inspired by watching back the famous 1999 Champions League final win ahead of the Europa League quarter-final second leg. United produced a turnaround to rival any other in the club’s history in extra-time…
- The Trump administration has unveiled its plan to impose port fees on Chinese ships as it tries to revive shipbuilding in the US and challenge China’s dominance of the industry. The US Trade Representative’s (USTR) announcement is less severe than a plan floated in February to hit Chinese vessels…
- There are 309 criminal gangs in the country with Mombasa and Nairobi having the highest number -73 and 56, respectively –of such gangs. A recent survey by the National Crime Research Centre (NCRC) released on Wednesday says the gangs are distributed across the counties variably in terms of growth…
- For decades, they have been the quiet custodians of Kenya’s community life, mediating conflicts, guiding moral conduct, and holding families together with nothing more than wisdom, respect, and a deep sense of duty. Kenya’s village elders have long served as the unspoken foundation of grassroots…
- Sudan’s is witnessing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. The war entered its third year on April 15, displacing more than 11.3 million people internally, according to International Organisation of Migration. An additional 3.9 million have fled across borders into neighbouring countries in the…
- Kenyans should brace for tougher times as the cost of essential food items is expected to rise this month. Data from Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) points to a looming increase in the prices of cereals and vegetables, a move that could burden households amid reduced disposable incomes and weakened…
- Sudan has implored MPs to use their constitutional mandate to stop President William Ruto from interfering with its internal affairs. Sudan, while lamenting the hosting of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), alleged that Kenya is set to invite the paramilitary force to Nairobi once again. The country…
- Zambia on Thursday confirmed its second mpox-related death as the cumulative cases reached 49 in the southern African country. Minister of Health Elijah Muchima said the second mpox-related death, involving a 10-year-old child, was recorded in Mpika District, Muchinga Province. The country recorded…
- The Trump administration is appealing efforts by two judges to investigate whether government officials defied their rulings over the deportation of migrants to El Salvador, escalating a confrontation between the executive and judicial branches On Wednesday night, the Justice Department said it…
- Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has appointed an Independent Expert Committee to conduct a comprehensive audit of kidney transplant services at all Mediheal Group of Hospitals. On Thursday, April 17, 2025, the Ministry of Health shared a statement in which the CS announced that the committee…
- A section of Nairobi County Members of Parliament (MPs) has exposed internal struggles with their relationship with Governor Johnson Sakaja. Speaking during a joint live TV interview on Thursday, April 17, 2025, the MPs revealed that the governor has persistently turned down their gestures to work…
- Westlands MP Tim Wanyonyi has claimed that his withdrawal from the Nairobi gubernatorial race at the request of the Azimio coalition ahead of the 2022 general election played a major role in Governor Johnson Sakaja’s victory. Speaking to a local TV station on Thursday, April 17, 2025, Wanyonyi said…
- President William Ruto declined to assent to the Conflict of Interest Bill of 2023 on Thursday, April 17, 2025, and instead sent it back to Parliament for adjustments. Speaking at the State House, Ruto observed that the bill, which set out to impose stringent penalties on public officials illegally…
- A section of politicians from Kirinyaga County on Thursday, April 17, 2025, decried what they termed as state-sponsored attempts aimed at harassing and intimidating former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. Led by Governor Kamau Murango and the area’s Women Representative, Njeri Maina, the leaders…
- President William Ruto has challenged the newly sworn-in Cabinet Secretaries to bring their skills and expertise to the fore while serving Kenyans in their new capacities. Speaking during the swearing ceremony of Hanna Cheptumo and Geoffrey Ruku at State House on Thursday, April 17, 2025, the…
- Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has accused brokers and middlemen dominating agricultural markets of exploiting farmers while pocketing disproportionate profits. Kagwe singled out the Miraa trade, expressing outrage over the wide profit margins earned by brokers exporting the crop to…
- Kenya’s Under-20 national team captain Baron Ochieng has declared the squad ready to face Africa’s football heavyweights at the upcoming Confederation of African Football (CAF) Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, boldly stating that they “don’t fear anyone” ahead of their historic debut in the…
- Kenya’s national 3×3 basketball teams, both men’s and women’s, are gearing up for a two-pronged campaign at the upcoming FIBA 3×3 Youth Nations League (FYNL) 2025 in Benin, from June 3-9. They are determined to reclaim the country’s number one ranking in Africa, which was lost last year due to…
- Agriculture Cabinet Secretary (CS) Mutahi Kagwe on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, held a meeting with Iranian business groups to deliberate on lifting the current ban on Kenyan tea exports to Iran. Speaking after the meeting, Kagwe through a statement shared via the ministry’s official X handle,…
- The business environment is going through a rough patch, and the effects are hitting young people the hardest, as companies shut down every other day. While a few companies are trying to set up shop or scale up operations, the reality is that more businesses are either leaving the country,…
- Dagoretti South Member of Parliament (MP) John Kiarie has termed a crucial infrastructural development as the secret behind the extracurricular success of schools in the region. Speaking during a live TV interview on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, Kiarie, who rose to fame as a member of the acting crew…
- The National Assembly has paused the VAT (Amendment) Bill 2025, a government-backed proposal meant to correct a printing mistake in a previous law. The error led to 14 manufacturing companies receiving VAT exemptions worth Sh15 billion. The companies have investments in Kenya valued at about Sh93.…
- The Ministry of Lands, Public Works and Housing has teamed up with the Nairobi County Government to hasten the transformation of the filthy Nairobi River, which will also result in the building of social and affordable housing and other infrastructure along the waterways. In a plan seen by People…
- Margaret Waithira (pictured)from Mathioya Murang’a is seeking for government’s intervention to have the body of her husband which has been lying in the morgue for over two years released. Waithira said her husband died in October 2022 but they have not been able to bury her after the hospital…
- Geoffrey Ruku and Hanna Cheptumo have been sworn in as Public Service, Human Capital Development & Special Programmes, and Gender, Culture, the Arts, and Heritage Cabinet Secretaries, respectively. The two, alongside appointed Principal Secretaries, took their oaths of office at State House on…
- Sports enthusiasts will be waiting with bated breath for this evening’s 21st edition of the Sports Personality of the Year Awards (SOYA) gala set for the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi. Sports personalities will be rewarded in 11 categories, including Sportswoman of the…
- Civil Society Organisations on April 16, 2025, raised a red flag on Kenyans returning home after years of failed search for greener pastures abroad as most of them end up in slavery and other illicit activities, calling for targeted support. Confessions by some of the returnees show a lot that end…
- Kisumu County Senator Tom Ojienda has explained why the Members of Parliament (MPs) should not be in charge of the National Government-Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF). The first-term senator says the MPs should be solely doing what they were elected to do as per the provisions in the…
- Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has announced plans to lift a 10-year moratorium on licensing new commercial banks, citing an improved legal and regulatory environment. The apex bank said the moratorium, which started on November 17, 2015, after a wave of problems hit the banking sector will be lifted…
- Geoffrey Rigathi Gachagua, that former District Officer who clocked just one term in Mathira as a Member of Parliament, somehow pulled a magic trick and became Deputy President. And when he did, he embraced the perks like a long-lost lover. Yes. He enjoyed them. Thoroughly. He savoured every last…
- Every year, billions of Christians and Muslims embark on two significant spiritual journeys – Lent and Ramadhan. Both are meant to be periods of reflection, self-restraint and devotion. However, a closer examination reveals that Ramadhan stands out as a more holistic and superior mode of…
- Individuals who finance terrorism activities will be liable, upon conviction, to a term not exceeding 20 years or a fine not exceeding Sh20 million following the passage of a bill to contain the menaces. The Anti-Money Laundering and Combating of Terrorism Financing Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2025,…
- The government will incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into learning in schools, Information Cabinet Secretary William Kabogo has said. This is even as he acknowledged that ChatGPT is becoming part of daily engagement and that his ministry is working with the Communications Authority to…
- Opposition leader Raila Odinga decision to work with the Kenya Kwanza administration is a boon for national stability and President William Ruto’s re-election prospects in 2027, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has said. Yesterday, speaking to People Daily from London where he is attending…
- Opposition leader Raila Odinga decision to work with the Kenya Kwanza administration is a boon for national stability and President William Ruto’s re-election prospects in 2027, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has said. Yesterday, speaking to People Daily from London where he is attending…
- Siaya Governor James Orengo is under fire from some members of the Orange party following his remarks on the broad-based government formed by President William Ruto and his party leader Raila Odinga. Orengo, who has been Raila’s ally for decades, seems to be breaking away from supporting what his…
- Siaya Governor James Orengo is under fire from some members of the Orange party following his remarks on the broad-based government formed by President William Ruto and his party leader Raila Odinga. Orengo, who has been Raila’s ally for decades, seems to be breaking away from supporting what his…
- Here is what you need to know to keep up to speed with today’s happenings IEBC selection panel interviews The interviews for the prospective members of the Independent Electoral and Boundary Commission (IEBC) will proceed on Thursday, April 17, 2025. The Nelson Makanda-led commission is scheduled…
- Lawmakers have ordered a forensic audit on the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) following revelations it has not paid employees since 2013 when it got a university charter. The audit, which will be carried out by Auditor General Nancy Gathungu, will take three months and will cover the years…
- President William Ruto has formally announced the appointment of two new Cabinet Secretaries and 14 Principal Secretaries. In a Gazette Notice dated Wednesday, April 16, 2025, the president named Geoffrey Ruku and Hanna Cheptumo as Public Service, Human Capital Development & Special Programmes…
- President William Ruto yesterday responded strongly to the debacle that befell this year’s Kenyan Drama and Film Festival when the courts ordered the staging of the aborted Butere Girls’ High School play Echoes of War by Cleophas Malalah. The President warned that the school drama as well as music…
- Rising Stars head coach Salim Babu has named the final squad that will head to Egypt for the U20 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals. Acknowledging how tough Group B will be, Babu said he has hopes that his players can fight and progress into the later stages of the tournament nonetheless. The…
- Social media has become a cornerstone of mainstream communication, allowing sharing of information, connection and self-expression. Even as Apps like WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram provide users with platforms to connect and share their lives, police detectives also get a lot of…
- Hundreds of prospective students who had enrolled in a private college in Eldoret City lost money, running into millions of shillings, after it emerged that the institution was not registered by the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA). Some of the distraught students reported having…
- Women’s rights defenders have asked President William Ruto not to appoint Gender Cabinet Secretary nominee Hannah Wendot Cheptumo. Representing 15 organisations under the Coalition against Sexual Violence, the activists said Cheptumo’s remarks on femicide during vetting were “worrying”. MPs…
- As expected, members of the National Assembly unanimously endorsed the appointment of Hannah Wendot Cheptumo as Gender, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet Secretary, despite her repugnant belief that victims of femicide are “money-minded” girls. The 13th Parliament has earned itself the ignominious tag…
- The Nairobi Government has rejected the closure of Lang’ata Cemetery, saying the decision can only be made by City Hall when an alternative burial site is provided. Reacting to the recent findings by the Ministry of Health that the facility has deteriorated, Public Health Chief Officer Tom Nyakaba…
- Lawmakers yesterday told off National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi over his explanations that ‘liquidity’ challenges are to blame for the delays in releasing the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF). This is after Mbadi, a former ODM MP, revealed the default in the…
- Health Cabinet Secretary (CS) Aden Duale has announced a raft of measures aimed at enhancing service delivery the country’s health care sector. Speaking from parliament on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, Duale disclosed that the government will now ensure monthly payouts for all health facilities;…
- A notorious paramilitary group fighting against the Sudanese military announced that it was forming a rival government, which will rule parts of the country controlled by the group including the western Darfur region where the United Nations says recent attacks by the group have killed over 400…
