Jackson Bare

Even as the country seems to be moving to contain the spread of the corona virus, teachers in Nakuru county now want the ministry of health to send its officials to schools to enable them get the Covid-19 jab. Teachers who spoke to scholarmedia.africa, said that majority of them have not been vaccinated even as schools reopened for the third...

Nakuru’s  Afraha Stadium is set for a major facelift and upgrade following  a ground breaking of its renovation by Nakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui. The 73 year old sporting facility is set to undergo a major transformation that will see it rise to international standards. The Ksh 4 billion World Bank project is set to be undertaken in five phases in the next...

Literacy and entrepreneurship skills among youth in Nakuru county are set for a major boost following a new partnership between Stanbic bank and the  County Government of Nakuru Through the partnership, the youths will benefit from training on basic computer knowledge, online product marketing, digital finance management and business scaling. The digital training program will be run through the 5  digital...

In a bid to fully automate data collection and storage within  its health facilities, the County Government of Nakuru has signed a memorandum of understanding with a private firm to help streamline the management  of health data. The agreement between the devolved unit and Elephant Healthcare Turnkey Solution will enhance proper management of health data. The technology company equips governments, partners...

The county government of Nakuru has boosted the early childhood development education (ECDE) sector with a Ksh 7.7 million worth of reading material. The money has been used to procure 30, 000 ECDE textbooks which will be distributed across all the public ECDE centers within the county. In phase one, the county is distributing environmental and mathematics text books targeting pupils...

A change of guard, albeit in acting capacity at Egerton University is expected to turn around the dwindling fortunes of the institution. Started off as a premier agriculture training institution, the university has been in focus due to allegations of misuse of funds and mismanagement under the troubled leadership of immediate former Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof Rose Mwonya. Prof Mwonya who was...

A public special school in Nakuru is appealing to well-wishers to aid in creating a peaceful environment for its population of mentally challenged pupils. The board of management at Pangani Special School says that allocations being given by the government are too little to guarantee the students a comfortable stay at the school. The school’s Board chairman Elijah Njoroge says as...

When learning activities resumed in the country after an unusually long break occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, it was expected that learners would take time to transition from the holiday mood back into the classroom environment. Learners had been away from the mentorship and monitoring of teachers for a long period of time and cases of indiscipline were expected somehow. Since the reopening of...