“The university has registered commendable gains under my leadership. This bears testament to the resilience and innovation of the university and by default, its management,” Mbithi said in the seven-page letter to the UoN Council. “If reappointed, I will continue to work closely with the Council to catapult the university…
Brian Bera Kibet, a 5th year Mechanical Engineering student at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (JKUAT) intruded the State House premises armed with a knife. This happens almost 4years after a man was arrested in 2015 within State House compound and when challenged to explain his mission…
Launch of Mulla, a financial literacy segment on the Wednesday Campus Radio Breakfast. In partnership with finance coach Susan Nyakiamo, online radio station Campus Radio Kenya will be running a financial literacy segment called Mulla on Wednesday mornings during the Campus Radio Breakfast show hosted by Disi Mugoa. The segment…
The Vice Chancellor, University of Nairobi (UoN) Prof. Peter Mbithi was recently accused by the staff union of corruption, abuse of office, incompetence and running down the premier institution. The Universities Academic Staff Union, UoN chapter, demanded that Prof Mbithi quits office within three months, failure to which he would…
As reported by the Daily Nation, lecturers in public universities have suffered a major blow in their push to be ranked higher than administrative staff in their institutions after the Labour Court in Nairobi dismissed their case. The Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) had challenged a job evaluation report by…
72-year-old action star, Sylvester Stallone, spoke about his legendary career at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. Stallone did not mince words when it came to his fictional boxing opponent, Ivan Dragon, from the 1985 sequel. He says he knew he had met his match the second he locked eyes…
In world news, a man set himself on fire in a park near the White House yesterday. Luckily, cops saved him by quickly surrounding him and extinguishing the fire. He was taken down by cops while fully engulfed in flames. However, it appears he might have been wearing some sort…
The University of Nairobi fraternity continues to mourn the death of 23 year old Geospatial Engineering student, Peter Kahogi Maina, alias Poppy, whose body was found dumped by the road on the Globe Cinema roundabout two days ago. Peter was strangled and his head hit with a blunt object according…
The Higher Education Loans Board last month gave beneficiaries of the State student loans since 1975 up to mid-May to confirm their repayment status, setting the stage for listing defaulters on credit bureaus. However, more than 65,000 beneficiaries of the Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) were unmoved by the threat…
If you are a student in any Kenyan University, you probably have heard of a popular political activist who goes by the name Ndege Sirkal. He has been a long term SONU political wheeler-dealer. Being an alumnus of Kanga High school, Fredrick Ndege scored a clean A in the KCSE…