As Kenya goes to the polls, Jubilee and NASA are both promising to offer completely free secondary education. We totted up the numbers on what this entails.

The joke doing the rounds after the launch of the multi-billion-shilling Standard Gauge Railway on June 1 was that the beach is now only four hours away from Syokimau, on the outskirts of Nairobi.

It is none of your business! National Assembly Speaker and Majority Leader tell off Senate boss over proposed changes at the Parliamentary Service Commission

Jubilee promised to deal with corruption, shore up the economy, create jobs. Here is a review five years later.

From Kanu to Jubilee, the President has passed through people’s sacrifices to finally make it to State House.

As Jubilee struggles with current food crisis, economists predict tough times ahead of election because of campaign billions, rise in oil prices, army worms and Kenya’s Sh4 trillion debt.

Final battle looms between Senate and National Assembly over new PSC Bill as vicious battle rages within parliamentary bureaucracy over money and power

Minister is seeking to pick appointees to two crucial boards that have final say on government procurement disputes.

They only matter when parties are desperate for votes. But, the risk is they have to beg the big parties to appoint them to House committees or even get foreign trips. If they win as governors, they are hostages of MCAs allied to big parties.

At least 20 MPs are staring at job losses following their defection from parties that sponsored them to Parliament. The MPs defected to vie as independent candidates or to join parties popular in their constituencies.

Speaker mulls last-ditch legal shortcut to pave way for Parliament to pass law on two-thirds gender principle.

But after nearly seven years of missed deadlines, failed amendments and legislative dithering, it appears that implementing Article 81(b) of the Constitution to ensure that “not more than two-thirds of the members of elective public bodies shall be of the same gender” is harder than anticipated, especially for the National Assembly and the Senate.

The first time she hit the headlines in a notorious manner was when news filtered one morning five years ago that an assistantminister had beaten up her husband.

After captivating the country with eye-popping details about how a colossal Sh1.4 billion was stolen from the National YouthService (NYS) and part of the loot carted away in gunny bags, MPs do not have the time to debate the explosive report of the Public Accounts Committee!

The Parliamentary Budget Office – the experts in economics and finance who advise lawmakers on the national budget—has exposed the National Treasury for failing to declare a Sh155 billion rise in debt interest and repayments.

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich will on Thursday, March 30 read Kenya’s national budget amid dim warnings of an economic slowdown in an election year.

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich will on Thursday, March 30 read Kenya’s national budget amid dim warnings of an economic slowdown in an election year.

At least six years before Jomo Kenyatta died, America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had prepared a thorough assessment of the political succession in Kenya, complete with possible successors, their chances and competence, and how they would affect the country’s relations with the United States.

These legal amendments are contained in the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bill – usually called the Omnibus Bill as it carries with it changes to dozens of laws.

In a new Bill headed to the Government Printer for publication, the MPs have proposed tough new rules to guide the Government on where State agencies will bank, for how long, and the threshold of interest to warrant banking with commercial banks.

As the National Assembly resumes on Tuesday, one of its first agenda is an amendment of the Constitution to entrench the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) into the country’s supreme law.

Ahead of the next General Election, the President and his deputy have moved out of their offices, and using all State power, are camping in their strongholds begging their supporters to enroll as voters.

Whether in tight jeans, knee-high boots or in figure-hugging dresses or with shiny lip-gloss, colourful lipstick and heavy make-up, or perhaps long weaves on their heads, the campaign for Nairobi County woman representative’s seat is turning into a contest about beauty, politics and policies.

Kenya is worried over a possible withdrawal of US support for its campaign in Somalia, following a series of questions sent by incoming President Donald Trump’s team to the State Department.

The biggest news in Kenya‘s New Year agenda is the August 8, 2017 General Election. It is a political watershed moment that will bring the curtains down on a 50-year political rivalry involving sons of Kenya‘s independence-era politicians.

In a secluded corner on the First Floor of Kenya’s Parliament Buildings, there’s a four-roomed office that serves as the Office of the Majority Leader.

National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi has blamed radicalisation of youth in Kenya on impunity and corruption in government.

Parliament is piling pressure on the government to surrender an expansive swathe of forest land to the Somali community in Ijara, Garissa County.

Eight former MPs including Opposition chief Raila Odinga are on the spot after the Auditor General’s report exposed fraud during their tenures.

Key projects in many constituencies were abandoned when former MPs lost their seats even after millions had been pumped into them.

In what could turn out to be classic cases of outright theft of millions of public funds, the Auditor General has exposed hundreds of ways Kenyans lose money to non-existent or abandoned projects at the constituency level.

Kenya’s annual budget for military and spy operations has doubled in the five years the military has been fighting Al Shaabab militants in Somalia.

Hidden in the 306 pages of the Kenya Defence Forces’ official account of Operation Linda Nchi is what the military authors call the “Ugali strategy.”

Kenya’s former Foreign Affairs minister, Moses Wetang’ula, who is today an opposition senator has asked President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration to end the military incursion in Somalia and “bring the boys back home.”

Chief Justice Willy Mutunga, his deputy Kalpana Rawal, and judge Philip Tunoi are assured of good financial packages as they exit the Judiciary.

A new poll shows seven out of 10 Kenyans believe replacing top bosses would increase confidence in the electoral agency.

The electoral commission has embarked on a Sh4.5 billion upgrade programme for all its election technology.

The International Criminal Court has rejected a call by Deputy President William Ruto to have a special prosecutor investigate officers working for Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda regarding their handling of the crimes against humanity cases in Kenya.

Kenyan diplomats abroad are forced to pretend that they are not Kenyans so as not to bring shame to the country, a parliamentary committee was told.

National Assembly’s Education Committee Vice Chairman Julius Melly (Tinderet) said the country had a total shortage of 80,000 teachers.