More than 500 cane cutters contracted by Nzoia Sugar Factory in Kanduyi Constituency Bungoma County on Tuesday held peaceful protests over unpaid dues. The enraged workers sang protest songs while holding pangas and machetes outside the factory for more than two hours demanding their five week’s pay. They said that efforts to have them get […]
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Bungoma County Commissioner Samuel Kimiti has called for a multi-agency approach in addressing and ending teenage pregnancy cases in the county that have reached alarming proportions. According to data from the Ministry of Health, some 23,221 teenage pregnancies were recorded in the county in the year 2018, 14,473 (2019), 13,376 (2020) and 3,948 between January and […]
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A Kibabii University student who side hustles as a bodaboda operator was electrocuted, Wednesday afternoon next to a well at Zerozero area in Kanduyi along Malaba Kanduyi Highway, Bungoma County where he had stopped to wash his motorcycle. A wire had been cut off from a nearby electricity pole by a passing lorry on Monday and was left […]
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Angry students of St Paul’s Diploma Teachers Training College in Bumula Constituency, Bungoma County, took to the streets to protest the killing of a third-year student at the institution by unknown assailants. The irate students say the body of their colleague was discovered along the railway line, a few meters from the main college on […]
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Friends School, Teremi Boy’s High School in Kabuchai Constituency, Bungoma County old boys have expressed concern at the dilapidated infrastructure in the school. Led by Eng. Boniface Munyole, the alumni are demanding that students’ welfare in their once prestigious school be improved to boost morale and enhance the school’s performance in national examinations. According to them, the […]
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