COUNTY NEWS

SPEECH by His Excellency Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta, C.G.H., President of the Republic of Kenya and Commander in Chief of the Defence Forces DURING THE KIBABII UNIVERSITY GRADUATION CEREMONY IN  BUNGOMA COUNTY DATE: 22ND NOVEMBER, 2019                     Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education and Other Cabinet Secretaries present, Principal Secretary, State Department for University Education and Research and Other Principal Secretaries present, Governors Present, The Kibabii University Council, Vice Chancellor, Kibabii University and Other Vice Chancellors present, Graduands, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, It gives me great pleasure to join you today to preside over the 4th Graduation Ceremony of Kibabii University. We are here to celebrate the academic achievement by these young men and women, who have dedicated themselves, their energies and their time, to transform their lives and their future....

    SOCIAL MEDIA TURNED INTO A DEN OF SCAMMERS Online International Companies agents in social media especially in Facebook have become rampant. In almost all Facebook groups, one won’t scroll for five posts without noticing a post announcing for an online business slot for a `few available people’. Whether the people behind these posts are genuine or not, it remains a matter to find out. County News correspondent came across a university lady who had an unpleasant memorable encounter with these online company agents. Pauline which is not her real name, explains how she came across a post in a Facebook group that read, ``Stop wasting data on Facebook but instead use it to earn up to Ksh 5000 in a day, if interested reply how’’.Eager to know how one could make such an amount of money by just using a phone, she got into a serious conversation on what’s app after being provided with an account to use. Pauline did not know that she was just engaging to a scammer in the skin of...