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

Kiambu County

Kiambu County – 022

Aquacheck soil moisture probe device. PHOTO/Crop Nutrition Services Ltd.

Aquacheck, the new technology helping farmers save irrigation water amid drought

One year ago, James Nderitu, a farmer, would spend about KSh1300 as labor costs for irrigating his 5-acre farm where he grows vegetables. Nderitu says his farm would consume about 50,000 liters of irrigation water...
The missionary PCEA church in Thogoto, Kikuyu, where the cradle of education found its bearing and home. PHOTO/Njoroge Njuguna, The Scholar Media Africa.

Reminiscing Thogoto, Kenya’s cradle of education

Thogoto, a quiet, cool and moderately populated village in the heart of the Kikuyu area, was not the original name of the village that now boasts tens of learning and other institutions distributed in...
Michael Kariuki, second from right, with other students, listen to an address by the school leadership at the school grounds shortly after the release of the 2022 KCPE results. The school performed excellently. PHOTO/Njoroge Njuguna, The Scholar Media Africa.

Sun of excellence shines in the Sunrise Children School

There was once a Biblical garden of Eden whose location remains a mystery! Young Michael Kariuki, a jovial, confident, inquisitive, amiable, and avid book lover, was brought to another type of garden by his parents...

Why Kenyan graduates feel let down by government

Many people go to school in the hope that education will offer them a better future.  Even so, the level of joblessness is going up as time keep on clicking. David Muiruri, one of the...

UNEARTHED: Detectives show fraudster who is smarter

Fraudsters are becoming smarter in their evil ways even as Kenyan detectives pursue them. Police say criminals are improvising new ways of robbing, maiming and killing their victims. They are also hacking sites and unlawfully obtaining...

FEATURE: Kiambu youth makes kill from tattooing

Art is the expression of an individual’s skill in either painting or sculpture and is intended to convey a message. Tattooing is one of those artsand is greatly admonished by sections of religion and does...

FEATURE: Testing HIV/AIDs positive is not end of reproductive life

“Learning that you are HIV positive can be one of the most difficult experiences in life. You may feel scared, sad or even angry. This is okay and a completely natural part of coping...