The education sector has been rocked by a bombshell revelation: 50,000 students in secondary schools have been flagged in the government’s ongoing data verification exercise, raising concerns over massive ghost enrollments that could have siphoned billions of taxpayers’ money.
The...
Kenya’s devolved units have become engines of transformation, and at the helm of this progress are visionary governors reshaping their counties. A new Kenya Track Survey released on September 17, 2025, crowns Kirinyaga’s Anne Waiguru, Murang’a’s Irungu Kang’ata, and...
Only in Nairobi can a barber’s clippers cut deeper than the Central Bank. Today, the city’s courts hosted John Jebose, a flamboyant barber accused of taking the phrase “clean shave” a little too literally by allegedly shaving Sh450,000 off...
A powerful watchdog has raised concern over persistent delays in settling bills owed to the Government Advertising Agency (GAA) by ministries, departments, and state agencies (MDAs), warning that the trend risks crippling service delivery.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), chaired...
The Royal Thai Embassy in Nairobi is at the centre of a storm after explosive documents revealed a murky dispute over unpaid travel bills and a bitter attempt to silence whistleblowers. What began as a trade mission to Bangkok...
County Assembly Speakers are central to Kenya’s devolved governance, guiding legislation, fostering accountability, and ensuring that assemblies meet their oversight mandates. The Kenya Track Survey, released on September 8, 2025, highlights the top-performing speakers who have made remarkable contributions...
For more than a decade, Mandera has stood on the fault line of East Africa’s most complex security puzzle. At the heart of it is Jubaland, the semi-autonomous Somali state that Kenya once helped build to serve as a...
Murang’a County, the heartbeat of Mount Kenya politics, is already shaping into a hotbed of activity two years before the 2027 general elections. Known for producing influential leaders who often dictate national political currents, the county’s seven constituencies remain...
Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has emerged as Kenya’s best-performing county boss in the latest 2025 Governors’ Performance Index, cementing her place as a transformative leader in the devolved space. Scoring highest nationally, Waiguru’s development agenda, anchored on economic empowerment,...
The latest Kenya Track survey, released on September 1, 2025, has highlighted the top-performing Cabinet Secretaries whose leadership and policy interventions have significantly shaped public service delivery and national development. The survey places Geoffrey Ruku (Public Service and Human...
