About 44.3 percent of adolescents in Kenya have had a mental health problem while one in eight met criteria for a mental disorder in the past 12 months. This is according to National Adolescent Mental Health Survey published by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), University of Queensland and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School […]
Tanzania President Samia Suluhu has urged Tanzanians to take up birth control measures as she raised concerns over the high number of births the country is experiencing. She said this over the weekend while visiting the western region of Geita where she reported that one health centre in Buselesele ward produces 1,000 children a month. […]
About 40 percent of food in Kenya is lost from the farm gate to the family table according to a resent Food and Agriculture Organization FAO report. With this, on average every Kenyan throws away an average of 99 kilograms of food every year with the country wasting a total of 5.2 tonnes of food […]
Students in areas stricken by drought and famine in Tana River will be admitted in low-cost boarding schools to mitigate pupils dropping out of due to migration of families. This was said by county Director of Education Khalif Sheikh adding that Children were reported dropping out of school in Tana North,Bura and Upper Galole sub-counties. […]
Air pollution can lead to fetuses developing black carbon particles in their organs as early as in the first trimester according to a new research. The research indicated that pregnant mothers who are exposed to air pollution, specifically black carbon nanoparticles birthed babies with the same degree of black carbon particles. In addition the newborns […]
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua yesterday said the government will not scrap the competency-based curriculum (CBC). This has come after long speculation on what would happen to the curriculum pioneered by the previous government. He was speaking at the Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (CEMASTEA) in Karen, Nairobi during the induction of 49 members […]
Munira Abdifatah Abdi, 15, a student at Mus’ab Educational Centre based in Nairobi’s Eastleigh yesterday won Sh2 million after emerging top ten in the 2022 Quran recitation championship held in Dubai. She emerged number eight out of 300 competitors across the world in an event held on 12 October 2022. She was sponsored by Shekhah […]
Kenya National Hospital, KNH, has denied negligence claims made against it following the death of a two and half years old Travis Maina, who died due to a head injury. Through a statement issued on Wednesday by George Ooko, the chairperson of the KNH Board of Management, the hospital acted swiftly to save the boy’s […]
Using Sofia, a Chinese fertility drug, can led to newborns and children developing secondary sexual features according to the Ministry of Health. In essence they develop and show signs of puberty. In addition, breastfeeding children of mothers taking the pill develops swollen feet, Knock-knees, painful muscles and slurred speech. Further the Ministry said girls experience […]
Most of us if not all have gone through the hands of teachers who molded us into wonderful human beings by doing tremendous and tedious work. Although they are paid, it can never be enough as they do more than they are paid for. Their commitment and zeal to bring out the best in our […]