Dan Nyamanga
Boaz Owino was employed as a teacher in 1988, a journey that has taken three and half decades to finish.
He held the position of Chief Principal, the most prestigious position in the lower education teaching profession. Recently, the long journey came to an end, thirty-four years later, on his retirement.
In 2011, Mr. Owino was awarded a Head of State...
Well known performing schools were outshone in the recently released Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results.
County and sub-county schools had to celebrate their performance.
Most of them registered a positive deviation from 2020's examination results.
Nyakeore SDA Secondary School, a sub-county school in West Mugirango constituency, Nyamira County, caught Education CS Prof. George Magoha's eye during the release of the...
It was a flight of death for a strange bird believed to have crossed boundaries from Germany to Kenya.
The over 6,000km journey terminated in Irianyi-Omogonchoro village of Nyamira County.
Kefa Obaga, who was the custodian of the bird upto it's death, said he picked it from the nearby garden as he headed home at around 9pm on 7th April.
He said...
Cardinal Otunga High School Mosocho was established following a request from the then Kisii Diocese Bishop, His Eminence Maurice Cardinal Otunga in 1957.
It was meant to host missionaries teaching in the new diocese carved out of Kisumu in 1960.
The school is located in Mosocho along Kisii-Kisumu Highway, Kisii County.
The school started in 1960 and its first patch of candidates...
The race to unseat the North Mugirango Constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Joash Nyamoko in the August 9th general election has gained momentum.
This is after a renowned career educationist Isaac Nyang'au Atebe who is the son of the constituency’s longest serving MP, Livingstone Atebe, joined the race.
Mariita served as MP between 1969-1988 and 1992-1997 before he retired.
He was the...
Over 2,000 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Nyamira County since the first case was detected in there in June 2020.
According to the county’s health chief officer Dr. Jack Magara, 58 of the 2,064 cases health workers.
One health worker lost the fight from severe effects.
A total of 33 people have since lost their lives from the disease among...
Over 2,000 youths drawn from Nyamira County have vowed to support the Azimio la Umoja's Raila Odinga who is running for president.
The youths who converged at Viongozi Pastoral Centre in Kebirigo town Monday, noted that it was only Raila who meant well for the country and there was need to support his bid.
Led by ODM youth president John Ole...
Police in Nyamira on Monday exhumed the body of a man whose family says was hurriedly and secretly buried by his second wife two days after he died in unclear circumstances.
Ezekiel Omao died 6th January and his body was hurriedly buried two days later in Irianyi village, Kemera ward of Kitutu Masaba Constituency.
A court sitting in Nyamira granted orders...
Nyamira County Women representative seat could be among the most competitive in the August polls as more aspirants join the race.
The latest entrant is Dr. Emily Nyagarama Matoke, a daughter of the first governor, the late John Nyagarama.
Addressing the media in Ikonge town in North Mugirango constituency Monday, Dr. Nyagarama highlighted why she decided to run for the seat.
She...
Agriculture Cabinet Secretary (CS) Peter Munya has retaliated that the implementation of the ongoing tea reforms will not stop until sanity is restored in the sector.
Speaking in Nyamira on Thursday, Munya noted that the government had sacrificed a lot to bring the changes and that there was no way it could retreat.
He said that the Kenya Tea Development Agency...
