On Friday June 21, 2019, JKUAT Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Mathu Ndungu conferred degrees and awarded diplomas to 3545 graduands during the institution’s 33rd graduation ceremony 118 were awarded doctorate degrees In the backdrop of such enviable achievements, the University’s attention has been drawn to news items, commentaries and opinions in…
“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…
Former Kiambu governor William Kabogo is contemplating suing telcos over expiry date for data bundles. He said that he had contracted lawyers to draft a plan on the intended litigation with a view of freeing consumers from what he views as economic servitude. “You cannot sell me sugar and then…
Russia’s inDriver, a venture-backed ride-hailing service with $10m in funding has launched in Nairobi, Kenya, making it the second city after it launched in April this year in South Africa and in October last year in Arusha, Tanzania. inDriver, a five-year-old company which is live in 9 other countries across South…
The Nairobi Innovation Week through its ‘Nairobi Innovation Challenge’ programme has unveiled the 6 Kenya’s Most Promising Startups of 2019. The startups participated in the Nairobi Innovation Challenge as part of the top 30 startups who pitched to a panel of judges. Due diligence was conducted to determine and ascertain…
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…
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…