2023 Intake Open University of Kenya
2023 Intake Open University of Kenya

Nemuel Oboiko

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Sarah Munyi, President, Youth in Africa, during a past event. PHOTO/Courtesy.
International Women’s Day is celebrated worldwide on March 8 every year. It aims to create awareness of multifaceted challenges and discrimination facing women. The theme for 2023 is Innovation and technology for gender equality.  Despite the efforts put in by the international community to achieve equality, more discrepancies are notable. However, there is an equal opportunity for all, as indicated by Amb....
Evans Machera (center), a Nairobi-based city lawyer, addressing the First KUTRRH Annual Health Conference 2022 at the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral & Research Hospital, two years after undergoing successful chemotherapy sessions at the health facility. PHOTO/Courtesy.
In Kenya, cancer is the third leading cause of death and ranks as the second leading cause of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) after cardiovascular diseases, as research depicts. In 2018, a whopping 47,887 cases were reported in Kenya, with a mortality of 32,987. Late diagnosis has been cited as the major challenge to the successful battle against cancer.  In 2020, 42,116 cases...
Over 200 individuals recently obtained diplomas and degrees in health sciences from Amref International University, AMIU. The 221 graduates were among those who participated in the university's third graduation ceremony. Also, the university conferred master's degrees to their first cohort of post-graduate students. The graduation ceremony was held on the university's main campus grounds, along Lang'ata Road, Nairobi. It was a day of...
The wave of unrest in schools made its way through Buruburu girls’ High School causing serious damage to a dormitory and left 63 students hospitalised. The fire incident led the 'indefinite' closure of the institution and parents were asked to take their children home. But the school reopened on Monday 8th November 2021 with a payment of Ksh.1500 from parents to...
Students in secondary schools in Kenya will have a mid-term break between November 19-23, 2021. The three day break comes as many schools fall victim of students unrest destroying infrastructure and threatening life. The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education Dr. Julius Jwan’s communication to the county directors of Education on November 1, 2021 seems to be a move...
Education stakeholders are worried of a new wave of arson targeting secondary schools. The incidents have damaged dormitories and students' belongings. The repercussion has seen the affected schools closed indefinitely. In the most recent incidents, a dormitory was set ablaze in Buruburu Girls, Nairobi County, Gendia High school in Homabay and Dr. Krapf Memorial in Kilifi among others. Molo Academy in Nakuru was...
The year 2021 is a crucial year in fighting climate change. 2020 was hijacked by Covid-19 and efforts were directed to mitigating the ravaging pandemic as other activities got affected in one way or the other. So is to say that climate change was not addressed fully as anticipated in the year 2020. Many programmes were halted to look into the ‘immediate...
They say when it rains it pours. The world is wrestling with the COVID-19 pandemic. Neither is Kenya an exception. The education sector is the worst hit. For nine months, the sector was grounded. Learning came to a halt and many public and private schools closed. The reopening of schools for the 2021 academic calendar after a long ‘holiday’ is...