Aggrey Karani

By: Aggrey Karani December 31st 2021 For one night, the world comes together to celebrate a new beginning. In the midst of a pandemic, people around the world are eagerly waiting to say goodbye to what has been a tough year to most and welcome a new year with renewed hopes. Traditionally, the countdown to a new year begins just before midnight across the world. But sadly, not everybody will be ushering in the New Year at the same time. According to the Gregorian calendar; almost all the countries of the world celebrate New Year at an interval of 364/365 days on the 1st of January every year.   This is due to differences in time zones. In some parts of the world, people will have to wait as long as 20 hours before they could jump into celebration post-New Year’s Eve. Kenyans, for example, will cross over to 2022 at exactly Friday midnight. Interestingly, by the time you will be counting down to the clock, to welcome the elective year, in some parts of the world, they will be 10 hours in...

With the festive season already in place now and people are traveling from all parts of the country to either the villages for this season then the driver's on the roads should keep their concentation on the roads. Without WHO statistics standing at approximately 1.3 million people die out of road accident each year as a result of road traffic crashes and more than half of the road traffic deaths are among the vulnerable road uses as the pedestrians, cyclists and motorcycle. In Kenya with more than 3663 people lossing their lives each year in the country thus this is a period we should take care. Thus with this December starting with a bad footh, from the Enziu River tragedy where the killer bridge took the lives of 23 people drowning on the river after the bus they were traveling in was swept away by the waters of the river claiming the lives of this innocent individuals going for a marriage ceremony then came the mombasa High on the 11th of December where several people were fear...

With the Christmas being an annual festival that is always celebrated to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. This ceremony is mostly cerebrated on the 25th of December as religious and cultural celebration which is celebrated with billions of people around the world. This holiday was first started in the mid-1500s with people thus celebrating it as the birth of Jesus and also it was introduces in the calendars. With popular customs being the exchange of gifts between friends and family members and also spending time together with also exchange of ideas and sharing. Decorating of Christmas trees all around the houses and malls with the attendance of the church thus being the main theme of this day, eating with family and friends with the arrival of Santa claus with gifts also. This holiday has always been mostly known as spreading of joyfulness atmosphere with a atmosphere filled of positive and reliving of stress of the whole year whole preparing of another year. This also leads to ...

With the WHO statistics saying that over 37.7million people are living with the HIV virus and more than 1.7 million children. This means that the prevalence of the HIV virus is 0.77% among the adults population, since the start of this epidermic the estimated HIV infection has been 79.3 million and 36.3 million people have died of this virus and with the majority of the people living with the virus are found in the sub-saharan region of Africa. With the reduction of the mother to child infection due to the implementation of the free maternity care which has reduced the traditional brith of the children at home thus reducing the mother to child infection, the other step has been the manufacturing for preventive drugs against the virus which a mother takes when she is pregnant thus greatly reduced the mother to child transmission, not forgetting the able doctors who have been able to prevent the transmission of mother to child due to their improved and experience. Thus the introduction ...

Stress is a feeling of emotional or physical tension . It can come from any event or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, or nervous. With teenagers it is a normal part of their lives even in beneficial situation. But it is very common in school going children with lately being from the secondary level. With stress being a health concern for young children, recent studies have also should that 45.9% of the Kenyan youths are under depression symptoms with 38% having anxiety concerns. This concerns of depression are majory due to the educational pressure from the education system which is very compacted with studies and less holidays and also from he other sides the teachers and parents also expecting good results. With the WHO ranking Kenya the sixth in the case study on depression thus more has to be done from the government to the private stakeholders and the parents on this issues of stress on teenagers. Teen stress is also due to lack of time to play with friends and relax...

Jamhuri Day is a national holiday in Kenya, celebrated on 12 December each year. With Jamhuri being a swahili word for "republic " and the holiday is meant to officially mark the date when Kenya became a republic on 12 December 1964, one year and six months after gaining its internal self-rule on 1st June 1963 from the United Kingdom. And making its self a self ruled state with elected positions. Being 57 years since Kenya gained independence it will hold this year’s Jamhuri day fete at Uhuru Gardens, which is a commemorative park erected in the remembrance of the country’s transformation into a republic, breaking the traditional of its annual celebrations always being held at the Nyayo National Stadium where is usually celebrated. With the parading of the trops of Colour of the Kenya Defence Forces(KDF) takes place every Jamhuri Day. The ceremony begins at about 11:30 after the Presidents arrival in the stadium and he takes the national salute, and inspects the parade of hon...

Jamhuri Day is a national holiday in Kenya, celebrated on 12 December each year. With Jamhuri being a swahili word for "republic " and the holiday is meant to officially mark the date when Kenya became a republic on 12 December 1964, one year and six months after gaining its internal self-rule on 1st June 1963 from the United Kingdom. And making its self a self ruled state with elected positions. Being 57 years since Kenya gained independence it will hold this year’s Jamhuri day fete at Uhuru Gardens, which is a commemorative park erected in the remembrance of the country’s transformation into a republic, breaking the traditional of its annual celebrations always being held at the Nyayo National Stadium where is usually celebrated. With the parading of the trops of Colour of the Kenya Defence Forces(KDF) takes place every Jamhuri Day. The ceremony begins at about 11:30 after the Presidents arrival in the stadium and he takes the national salute, and inspects the parade of hon...

Every year on the 18th December, the international community Joins hands to protect the rights of the migrants, migrant workers and their families life. Thus one the 4th of December 2000, the UN general assembly taking into action to the increasing number of migrants made this day a international holiday to celebrate them and build up laws with are to protect them from attacks and treats. With their being an increasingly high number of the international migrants of estimated 175 million in the years 2000 to an estimately 272 million migrants this 2021, with this years theme being Together We Heal, Learn and Shine, with no one is safe till everyone is safe and able to live in their own countries having peace.  UNESCO with assotiation with UN partnering through the globle  migrants Group is committed to a 2030 agenda of sustainable development by providing quality eduaction to refugees and protecting their himanitarian needs and advancing with sustainable development and protecting the r...

This Conservation for gas and oil week is celebrated every year by the Petroleum Conservation Research Addiction (PCRA) under the agencies of the ministry of the ministry of petroleum and natural gas with this week having stated on 1991 to spread messages of fuel conservation among the public through various campaigns, seminars, discussions and training programs for effective fuel and petroleum use and for a clean environment. With this years theme being a Green and clean energy. Oil conservation is necessary to be celebrated to raise awareness about saving petroleum products among people who use products like fertilizer, private transport sector, domestic and power plant sector. With this demand for products bring increasingly on a higher demand thus the topic of a green and clean energy system cames into the mind, but still the big question remains how to reduce the pollution effects on the environment that is affecting the living things and the environment im general with the chan...

With more and more people finding themselves as victims of the locally manufacted breweries thus this has increased the number of people who are taken to the hospital and others being buried. With 2.8 million deaths each year worldwide. Globally, one in three people drink alcohol which is an equivalent to 2.4 billion people, and 2.2% of women and 6.8% of men die from alcohol-related health problems each year. In Kenya the president has signed into law a bill which legalises the traditional home-brewed spirit Changaa. The alcoholic drinks control Bill is partly intended to stop people from dying after taking this changaa.With this Changaa normally made from millet or maize it's contents are sometimes funny with the inclusion of Jet fuel, Embalming Fluids as ethanol and other containers having clothes in them, shoes which sometimes worries people their use in this Changaa. This alcohol mostly causes deaths, disability related effects, in a youthful age group of 20-39 years that is 13...

With the CBC standing for the Competency Based Curriculum, it os the newest system in the education system set to replace the 8-4-4 system. It was introduced in the year 2017 and after being researched and developed by the Kenya Institute Of Curriculum Development (KICD) it is now in the progress of dismantling the 8years of the primary education into 6 years term. With this year's Workshop of the school of education on the Competency Based Curriculum with the theme of Leaving No One Behind: Transforming training and assessment of this curriculum with the workshop's facilitators being by lectures; Dr. Karen Ayiengo, Dr. Elizabeth Khalili and Dr. Jane Kembo. With the curriculum providing leaders with the values of love, responsibility, respect, unity, peace, patriotism and integrity. Thus the competency based curriculum has been divided into three levels and as Rongo university the strategy has been set to teach a detailed of 2-6-6-3 design with pre-primary, lower primary, uppe...

With informatics being the study of the structure, behaviour and interactions of natural and engineered computational system thus with the compination of Hackathon which is the coming together with one one aim to solve problems thus this 3rd Health Informatics Hackathon held at Rongo University on the 9th of June 2021 with a mind of world class Technology-Driven university and practices of Learning. With the Health informatics being a field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data, which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic health records , diagnostic test results, medical scans. Thus with this health domain providing an extremely wide variety of problems that can be tackled using computational techniques, thus with the Hackathon events becoming increasing more popular in the generating enthusiasm for user-centered innovation, Rongo university has a mission to fo...

With more and more people finding themselves as victims of the locally manufacted breweries thus this has increased the number of people who are taken to the hospital and others being buried. With 2.8 million deaths each year worldwide. Globally, one in three people drink alcohol which is an equivalent to 2.4 billion people, and 2.2% of women and 6.8% of men die from alcohol-related health problems each year. In Kenya the president has signed into law a bill which legalises the traditional home-brewed spirit Changaa. The alcoholic drinks control Bill is partly intended to stop people from dying after taking this changaa.With this Changaa normally made from millet or maize it's contents are sometimes funny with the inclusion of Jet fuel, Embalming Fluids as ethanol and other containers having clothes in them, shoes which sometimes worries people their use in this Changaa. This alcohol mostly causes deaths, disability related effects, in a youthful age group of 20-39 years that is ...

With the emergency of the new corona virus named as Omicron from South Africa, and with statistics from WHO showing that the worlds weekly New case stands at 3,811,551 with 47,931 Weekly death cases and 2,951,138 weekly recovery thus the Citizens should take into account the instructions given to them by the Kenyan Government in association with the Ministry Of Health on Vaccination being a must for every Kenyan, thus this is not something the MOH should strangle to implement, let the Citizen have a will to get Vaccinated and reduce the heavy load in the hospitals for the doctors and nurses. Getting vaccinated has a milarge of advantages from reducing the risk of getting and spreading the virus that causes the COVID 19, as it also helps the children and adults from getting seriously I'll even if they do get the covid 19, although civic tends to be milder in children than adults, it makes children also sick and they also die thus others having underlying medical conditions that also...

Each year on the 1st of December, the world joins hands to commemorate world AIDS Day. With people all over the world unitting to show support for people living with HIV and those who have died also from this disease. With 37.7 Million people in the world living with HIV by 2020 and 73% of the people living with HIV had access to antiretrorial therapy and 16% of all people living with HIV did not know that they have it this the theme of this year is End Inequalities. End AIDS. End Pandemics as it joins the growing list of the challenge the world AIDS day has alerted people grobally. With its first ever world AIDS day being in 1988, this year will be the 33rd celebration as every year the United Nation agencies, governments and civil society joins together to campaign to and this disease. With its main aim is for the UNAIDS to highlight the urgent need to end the inequalities that drive AIDS and other pandemic around the world with this has come the challenge that can lead to it missing...