KENYA NEWS

ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has revoked a gazette notice that announced the reappointment of a dead person to the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB).  CS Mucheru had reappointed former MP Robert Kochalle to serve in the KFCB board of directors for three more years but the decision…

ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru is under fire from Kenyans online for allegedly reappointing a deceased man to Kenya Films Classification Board (KFCB). In a gazette notice dated October 17th, CS Mucheru reappointed Robert Kochalle to serve in the KFCB board for three more years effective October…

London’s Metropolitan Police have released an e-fit image of a stowaway who fell from a Kenya Airways flight heading to Heathrow Airport on June 30th, 2019. The body of the unidentified male fell in a garden in the Borough of Lambeth, South London minutes before the aircraft landed at Heathrow…

The government on Friday rolled out a free cervical cancer immunization program to young Kenyan girls countrywide. This makes Kenya the 16th nation in Africa to administer a vaccine against the cancer-causing Human Papillomavirus (HPV). The vaccination drive, which is mainly funded by the Global…

President Kenyatta has cracked the whip on Kenya Ferry Services (KFS) board following an accident that claimed the lives of a Kenyan woman and her daughter.  35-year-old Mariam Kighenda and her 4-year-old daughter Amanda Mutheu died after their car rolled from a ferry midstream and plunged…

Nominated Senator Isaac Mwaura has written a protest letter to the United States authorities following the alleged mistreatment by Secret Service agents in New York last month. Senator Mwaura delivered a formal complaint against the Secret Service agents in charge of presidential protection to the…

An investigation into multi-million-shilling assets owned by members of the Ngirita family has concluded that they are proceeds of crime.  This comes after the family, which is accused of illegally receiving millions of shillings from the National Youth Service (NYS), failed to demonstrate how…

Thirdway Alliance party leader Ekuru Aukot’s Punguza Mizigo Bill is officially dead after it failed to garner the support of the minimum 24 counties to proceed for debate in the National Assembly and Senate. By Thursday, 31 out of 47 county assemblies had rejected the bill on various grounds among…

Kenya’s total public debt is currently Sh100 million shy of hitting the Sh6 trillion mark even as President Kenyatta's administration appetite for borrowing continues to increase. The amount is projected to grow further in the coming months after it emerged that 44 new foreign loan agreements have…

President Kenyatta has trashed claims that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) is meant to create a position for him after the expiry of his term in 2022. Kenyatta, who spoke during the commissioning of JKIA-Westlands expressway on Wednesday, insisted that he will retire from politics once his…