What next? Collapse of Ruto funding model fails students, varsities
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/education/what-next-collapse-of-ruto-funding-model-fails-students-varsities-5536706
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What next? Collapse of Ruto funding model fails students, varsities
Three years after launch, rising debts and student hardship force government to abandon university funding model.
Weightloss surgery and the silent burden that no one talks about
https://nation.africa/kenya/life-and-style/saturday-magazine/weightloss-surgery-and-the-silent-burden-that-no-one-talks-about-5536806
https://nation.africa/kenya/life-and-style/saturday-magazine/weightloss-surgery-and-the-silent-burden-that-no-one-talks-about-5536806
Daily Nation
Weightloss surgery and the silent burden that no one talks about
Surgery, cost about Sh800,000, increasingly becoming a solution for people struggling with excess weight.
Ringlight, camera, action: So this is how Kenyan girls make money?
https://nation.africa/kenya/life-and-style/saturday-magazine/ringlight-camera-action-so-this-is-how-kenyan-girls-make-money--5536562
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Ringlight, camera, action: So this is how Kenyan girls make money?
My mouth is forming an 'O' and it feels like I have been living in a different, sheltered Nairobi.
Prof Kiama: The lies and betrayals that led to my exit as UoN boss
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/prof-kiama-lies-and-betrayals-that-led-to-my-exit-as-uon-boss-5536478
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Prof Kiama: The lies and betrayals that led to my exit as UoN boss
Prof Stephen Kiama details the dramatic months before his removal as Vice-Chancellor.
Why clubs want independent body to run Kenya’s top football league
https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/football/why-clubs-want-independent-body-run-kenya-top-football-league--5536776
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Why clubs want independent body to run Kenya’s top football league
Federation and clubs agree to form a seven-member transition committee to steer the process.
Pension funds eye special T-bond to recover Sh71bn
https://nation.africa/kenya/business/pension-funds-eye-special-t-bond-to-recover-sh71bn-5536684
https://nation.africa/kenya/business/pension-funds-eye-special-t-bond-to-recover-sh71bn-5536684
Daily Nation
Pension funds eye special T-bond to recover Sh71bn
The proposal is among measures by pension schemes to get the deducted but unremitted money.
David Aduda: enya’s foundational learning reforms bearing fruit
https://nation.africa/kenya/blogs-opinion/blogs/kenya-s-foundational-learning-reforms-bearing-fruit--5536590
https://nation.africa/kenya/blogs-opinion/blogs/kenya-s-foundational-learning-reforms-bearing-fruit--5536590
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Kenya’s foundational learning reforms bearing fruit
Renewed push to revamp basic literacy in the early years of schooling beginning to yield positive results.
Editorial: Resolve dispute over UK military training in Kenya
https://nation.africa/kenya/blogs-opinion/editorials/resolve-dispute-over-uk-military-training-in-kenya-5536760
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Daily Nation
Resolve dispute over UK military training in Kenya
What is needed is accountability, as this military training pact is crucial.
International Criminal Court dismisses prosecutor Karim Khan
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/world/international-criminal-court-dismisses-prosecutor-karim-khan-5536866
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Daily Nation
International Criminal Court dismisses prosecutor Karim Khan
Khan strongly denies any wrongdoing and plans to challenge the lawfulness and fairness of his dismissal.
The murder trial of former Migori Governor Okoth Obado, his former personal assistant Michael Oyamo and former county employee Caspal Obiero lasted seven years and 10 months, during which prosecutors called 42 witnesses to reconstruct the events leading to the killing of university student Sharon Otieno.
Although dozens of witnesses testified, the case ultimately turned on the evidence of a handful of key witnesses whose accounts linked the three men to the murder and persuaded the court that they had acted in concert.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/how-key-witnesses-cornered-obado-in-sharon-murder-case--5536730
Although dozens of witnesses testified, the case ultimately turned on the evidence of a handful of key witnesses whose accounts linked the three men to the murder and persuaded the court that they had acted in concert.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/how-key-witnesses-cornered-obado-in-sharon-murder-case--5536730
The suits, official motorcades and political meetings will give way to prison uniforms, regimented routines, headcounts and nights in a ward shared with up to 60 other inmates.
Inmates are assigned accommodation based on a security and risk assessment.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/what-awaits-ex-migori-governor-okoth-obado-in-prison--5536766
Inmates are assigned accommodation based on a security and risk assessment.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/what-awaits-ex-migori-governor-okoth-obado-in-prison--5536766
The family of Sharon Otieno, who was killed by her boyfriend and father of her unborn child, Okoth Obado, along with his two aides, is happy with the court verdict that found the former Migori governor guilty of murder, noting that this marks a new beginning for them.
Family says they had finally found justice for their late daughter.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/we-got-justice-sharon-otieno-family-speaks-obado-verdict-5536676
Family says they had finally found justice for their late daughter.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/we-got-justice-sharon-otieno-family-speaks-obado-verdict-5536676
The conviction of former Migori governor Okoth Obado, his former personal assistant Michael Oyamo and Caspal Obiero in the murder of Sharon Otieno once again put the spotlight on Kenya's Witness Protection Agency.
Witness protection encourages people with crucial information to come forward by assuring them of State protection from retaliation.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/explainers/explainer-kenya-s-witness-protection-plan-and-how-it-works-5536804
Witness protection encourages people with crucial information to come forward by assuring them of State protection from retaliation.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/explainers/explainer-kenya-s-witness-protection-plan-and-how-it-works-5536804
When the government introduced a new funding model for higher education in 2023, it promised to achieve two goals: ensure that no deserving student was denied access to university because of poverty and rescue public universities from a financial crisis that had pushed many to the brink.
Three years after launch, rising debts and student hardship forced the government to abandon the university funding model.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/education/what-next-collapse-of-ruto-funding-model-fails-students-varsities-5536706
Three years after launch, rising debts and student hardship forced the government to abandon the university funding model.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/education/what-next-collapse-of-ruto-funding-model-fails-students-varsities-5536706
For thousands of people undergoing bariatric surgery, that daily—or sometimes weekly—pill routine becomes as permanent as the surgery itself. Yet it is one of the least discussed parts of life after dramatic weight loss.
Surgery costs about Sh800,000 and is increasingly becoming a solution for people struggling with excess weight.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/life-and-style/saturday-magazine/weightloss-surgery-and-the-silent-burden-that-no-one-talks-about-5536806
Surgery costs about Sh800,000 and is increasingly becoming a solution for people struggling with excess weight.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/life-and-style/saturday-magazine/weightloss-surgery-and-the-silent-burden-that-no-one-talks-about-5536806
In the final part of the Nation’s exclusive serialisation of ‘Dancing with the Devil’, Prof Stephen Kiama details the dramatic months before his removal as Vice-Chancellor.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/prof-kiama-lies-and-betrayals-that-led-to-my-exit-as-uon-boss-5536478
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/prof-kiama-lies-and-betrayals-that-led-to-my-exit-as-uon-boss-5536478
For more than five years now, officials of clubs featuring in the Football Kenya Federation Premier League have been unanimous in their call for the competition to be run by an independent body or company.
Their push received a major boost on Thursday after the federation and club officials agreed to form a seven-member transition committee to steer the process.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/football/why-clubs-want-independent-body-run-kenya-top-football-league--5536776
Their push received a major boost on Thursday after the federation and club officials agreed to form a seven-member transition committee to steer the process.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/football/why-clubs-want-independent-body-run-kenya-top-football-league--5536776
Pension funds are pushing for the issuance of a special Treasury bond to recover more than Sh71 billion in unremitted deductions, as mounting arrears by county governments and other agencies rattle the stability of retirement savings.
The proposal is among measures by pension schemes to get the deducted but unremitted money.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/business/pension-funds-eye-special-t-bond-to-recover-sh71bn-5536684
The proposal is among measures by pension schemes to get the deducted but unremitted money.
Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/business/pension-funds-eye-special-t-bond-to-recover-sh71bn-5536684