Sacred Heart Mukumu Girls’ High School in Kakamega County has closed indefinitely following the deaths of two students in a case of suspected food and water poisoning resulting in bacterial infection. The school says one of the student hails from Bungoma and another from Navakholo in Kakamega County. It is reported that more than 500 […]
Healthy kids and teenagers will not receive Covid19 vaccine according to the World Health Organization. This they said is because this group is considered low priority. This decision was reached after vaccine experts revised global Covid-19 vaccination recommendations. The low priority group includes healthy children and adolescents who are aged 6 months to 17 years […]
A Form 3 student is nursing injuries after he was shot by anti-riot police during Azimio demonstration in Homa Bay town on Thursday. The student was caught in a standoff between demonstrators and police in the Shauri Yako estate within the town “I was hit when some police officers repulsed protesters who were throwing stones […]
Two weeks ago the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine to Russia. According to Ukraine more than 16,000 children have been illegally transferred to Russia or Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine. In addition, a U.S.-backed report […]
A grade four pupil from Riang’ombe Primary School, Nyamira County is nursing serious injuries after a teacher gave him 107 cane strokes. The matter came to light after it was highlighted by social media users using the hashtag ‘Justice for Grade 4 Pupil’ demanding for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the teacher in question […]
An autopsy conducted on the body of Emmanuel Kimtai has revealed that the he was sodomised before being choked to death. The 12-years old grade two pupil was dumped by a speeding car at Koilel area in Ainabkoi constituency on March 23. The main suspect Eric Kiptoo Kipsang dropped off a sack with the body […]
At least 124 students from Scared Hearts Mukumu Girls’ High School in Kakamega County have been hospitalized with diarrhea and food poisoning symptoms. Although it was not immediately established what the students suffered from, initial tests by public health officials ruled out Cholera. The girls were admitted to the Kakamega County General Hospital and are receiving treatment […]
Three children were on Monday killed after a shooter opened fire at a private Christian grade school in Nashville, Tennessee USA. The suspected shooter was fatally shot by police at Covenant School in the city’s Green Hills neighborhood, authorities said. The victims have been identified as 9-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney. Three […]
Early Bird primary school has emerged winners of the just concluded Schools Skating Championship held at the school located at Kathome in Machakos County Mr. Stephen Kioko Early Bird couch said the teams won Trophy and several medals thus emerging the winner. He urged students to pursue extracurricular activities in which they have comparative advantage. […]
Following the mysterious disappearance and murder of at least 10 street children in Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu County, the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) is investigating three police officers suspected of committing the murders. Human rights groups have termed this as extra-judicial killings saying they have so far documented five street children’s deaths in three […]