Kuti says he remain focus to deliver to Isiolo people The Mountain Journal Battle for Isiolo Governorship has kicked off with Sakuye community leaders endorsing Governor Mohammed Kuti to run. The elders endorsed Dr Kuti to defend the slot for a second term and face other candidates who include the former Governor Godana Doyo, former EACC…
The Mountain Journal A seven-member committee of a coffee cooperative society in Murang’a was voted out after it emerged it has failed to comply with statutory requirements. The management at the troubled Muruka Farmers Cooperative Society led by Nelson Nyoike Ng’ang’a was voted out, and replaced by Simon Kigo ,who was elected by the farmers….
Members assurance to get return of their investment The Mountain Journal The Broad Borders Housing Cooperative Society has emerged in the top list among the players in real estate who have issued titles to their members. This week, the society issued 1,064 documents to the members and self help groups for their parcels of land in the…
Advance payment of Sh50 per kg of cherry described unsustainable, as a bank withheld farmers Sh60 million payment The Mountain Journal The seven members who were in charge of the troubled New Murarandia Cooperative Society, misappropriated Sh21.2 million among other irregularities, an inquiry report reveals. The ousted members of the executive committee after the inquiry into the…
By James Wakahiu Mount Kenya University (MKU) has launched a health and wellbeing project for its students in partnership with theUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The programme, a collaboration that involves the University of Nairobi (Uon) that is set to be spread to other colleges in Kenya and in the region, is…
The Mountain Journal Lamu Senator Anwar Loitiptip will be arraigned before Nanyuki court to face counts of misuse of firearm and assault. The senator who has been on the run since the Sunday morning incident surrendered at Nanyuki police station after 4. 30 pm where he was interrogated by the DCI unit. The grilling session…
The Mountain Journal in Nanyuki town Kenya and British authorities will work together towards unraveling the brutal murder of Agnes Wanjiru that occurred in Lions Hotel in Nanyuki 10 years ago. The murder of Wanjiru then 21, allegedly by a British soldier who was undergoing military training in Kenya was discovered on March 31,2012 by a…
The Mountain Journal A proposal has been fronted by the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA to erect museums along the 540 kilometres stretch Mau Mau road as a way to commemorate independence war veterans. The road agency has written to stakeholders to identify locations where the museums will be established along the road which…
KARATINA UNIVERSITY CHARTS COURSE TO PRODUCE INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS. By James Wakahiu Karatina University is shoring up to its academic programmes so as to produce business-minded graduates ready to explore self-employment in an economy where thousands of graduates remain jobless several years after graduation. In a programme supported by DAAD that also involves…
By James Wakahiu Mount Kenya University in Partnership with UNESCO and the University of Nairobi (UoN) are implementing a students’ empowerment project dubbed, “Our Lives, Our Rights, Our Future (O3 Plus)”, which was recently launched at UoN, where MKU was auspiciously represented. The goal of the 03 Plus project is to provide support to students in…
