The Executive Office of the President at State House, Nairobi, has invited Kenyans to apply for short-term consultancy positions. In a notice on Monday, November 11, President William Ruto’s office outlined that the consultants will help advance the government’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda. The consultancy services will primarily focus on macroeconomics, including areas such as…
Hooded Police officers in plain clothes remove road barricades along Outer Ring Road in Pipeline Estate during violent antigovernment protest that saw locals and police engage in push and pull on July 23, 2024. [File, Standard] They arrived in unmarked cars with faces concealed behind masks. In broad daylight, without a word, they would snatch young Kenyans off the…
The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced he will step down from his role following a damning report into a prolific child abuser associated with the Church of England. The review found that Justin Welby, 68, “could and should” have reported John Smyth’s abuse of boys and young men to police in 2013. In a statement,…
President William Ruto welcomes Mr. Li Xi, a senior member of China’s Communist Party, at State House Nairobi. The recent visit by Li Xi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, to Kenya marks…
Leaders who gathered at the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday rallied a call, linking peace and security to ending chronic hunger in the region. They spoke at the ‘World Without Hunger’ Conference where they used the occasion to also call for collaboration in the use of new technology, capable of producing food in the…
South Sudan and Kenya had good plans to build roads linking them, targeting to boost cross-border trade by reducing travel time and distance. But this has yet to be achieved. When the Nadapal–Nakodok project was first mooted in 2015, the 11-kilometre road was meant to be completed in three months. It was to be part of the…
Prime Cabinet Secretary and CS for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Musalia Mudavadi, represented President William Ruto at a high-level event on Africa’s energy future, held alongside climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan. The side event, titled ‘Africa’s Green Momentum’, gathered global leaders to chart Africa’s path in the global energy transition. The discussions emphasized the ‘Nairobi…
President William Ruto has on Tuesday met the steering committee on the regeneration of the Nairobi Rivers Basin at State House Nairobi. The committee reported that the programme is progressing well and has hired 20,000 young people a month, 10,000 every fortnight since it began in October 2024. Loads of garbage have been cleared in…
Former IEBC Chairperson Isaac Hassan. PHOTO//Courtesy President William Ruto has nominated former IEBC Chairman Isaac Hassan as Chairperson of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) in new appointments to various government agencies. In the announcement, President Ruto also nominated seven other members to IPOA, including Ann Wanjiku Mwangi, Micah Onyiego Nyakego, Boniface Kipkemoi Samati, Annette…
Dr James Mwangi, Equity Group CEO. PHOTO | Courtesy Equity Group made Ksh 40.9 billion in net profit during the first nine months of this year driven by an 11PC growth in interest income. However, gross non-performing loans and advances increased by 0.7pc to Ksh 125.3 billion while non-funded income increased…
Former IEBC Chairman Isaack Hassan at County Hall, Nairobi. [Boniface Okendo, Standard] President William Ruto has nominated former IEBC boss Ahmed Issack Hassan as the Chairperson of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) Board. If confirmed, Hassan will lead the seven-member board, which includes nominated members Ann Wanjiku Mwangi, Micah Onyiego Nyakego, Boniface Kipkemoi Samati,…
President William Ruto on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, nominated various persons to fill vacant positions in the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA), the Commission On Administrative Justice (CAJ), the National Gender and Equality Commission and the Second Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). For the IPOA chairperson post, the Head of State…
President William Ruto on Tuesday hosted MPs from Nairobi County at State House, Nairobi, to discuss progress of the rehabilitation of Nairobi River. The President urged the lawmakers to shun politics and support the project that he says will change the face of status of the capital city. Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja, Interior Principal Secretary (PS) Raymond…
Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya has stated that former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was removed from office for appearing to undermine his superior, President William Ruto. Natembeya contends that although Gachagua faced 11 impeachment charges before the National Assembly and the Senate, the underlying reason for his removal was a perception that he was sabotaging…
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has dismissed reports that they blocked former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from attending a church service at Priesthood Church in Kahawa West, Nairobi. In a statement issued on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the DCI hit out at one of the local dailies over a report that its detectives in…