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The University of Nairobi usually organizes for prayers yearly.  This year's prayer will be held on Thursday, July 23, 2020, from 9.00 am to 10.30.30am.  The prayers will be online and all staff, students, and stakeholders are invited and encouraged to join the congregation by login on the University website as provided.  http://www.uonbi.ac.ke/livestream.  Due to the COVID 19 outbreak, these prayers will be online to be able to maintain social distancing and to prevent the spread of the virus as we were instructed by the ministry of held that there should be no face to face meetings.

The University of Nairobi constituted several committee to foresee the issues of corruption and report to the EACC.  The Central Units corruption committee comprises of the 22 units of central administration.  This committee is chaired by the University Finance Officer.  They usually hold quarterly meetings to deliberate on issues of corruption in their units and forward a report to university corruption committee which compiles all the reports submitted from colleges and central units then re-submit the same report to EACC. 

The Vice Chancellor Professor Kiama will tomorrow Friday June 26, 2020 at 2.00 p.m address the students, staff and stakeholders.  This is to invite all of you to this virtual address to hear what our Vice chancellor will be sharing with us.  He has good news that we are all patiently waiting to hear from him. 

Sports are generally recognised as a system of activities which are based on physical activities or games, which through casual or organised participation aim to use, maintain and improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to the participants.  The University of Nairobi held its sports ceremony today, at Taifa Hall, which happened virtually because of the pandemic.  Men and women who have been participating vigorously in various sports at the University were awarded trophies and certificates for their hard work. 

It has been 100 days since the first Corona Virus case was reported in Kenya.  The cases for those infected by the virus has reached 5,000.  The cases have been increasing on daily basis but in the month of June the numbers reported have been very high with many wondering what could have triggered the numbers to increase that much. Most people have been seen not wearing the face masks and others though wearing the masks, are doing it wrongly by either covering the head or the chin for others. This could be one of the reasons why the rate of infections are escalating. 

University of Nairobi, office of the Director Career Services in collaboration with Unilever Academy invites all the staff and students pursuing Mass communication to a Webinar online presentation by the Unilever Academy on Friday June 26, 2020 at 2.00 p.m to 3.00 p.m.  The topic of discussion will be Mastering the Art of Communication by Joseph Sunday Director of Sustainable Business and Communications Unilever East Africa.  The Venue shall be Cisco Webex Live and the Webinar Link is https://uonbi.webex com/uonbi/onstage/g.php?MTID=ed392c5f50fc7039991698cf4c82869ca and the password to conn

All members of staff are hereby requested to forward their current telephone numbers and personal Identification numbers through their head of section, department and principal's of colleges to Registrar Administration for processing and forward the same to the University of Nairobi Chief Medical Officer.    The National Hospital Medical scheme is a social Health Insurance operated by NHIF.  The scheme commenced its outpatient services in July 2015.  The scheme seeks to ensure that every individual or family of the contributor enjoy the inpatient and out-patient covers to save them from the

The University of Nairobi wishes to report that it had a successful teaching and Examination online.  The Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Affairs in his memo to staff extended his gratitude by thanking the Director ICTC and Director ODel for ensuring that the teaching and examinations are held as planned without hiccups.

The Education Cabinet Secretary Professor Magoha reported that he has been touring various schools in the country to assess how conducive facilities are for the health and safety of the children, teachers and other staff in education institutions.  Adding that most schools seem to be congested  and will have to adhere to the rules of social distancing when they reopen, therefore urging management of these schools to construct additional classrooms to cater for those students safety while learning. 

In the month of June 2020, Kenya has been reporting higher numbers from covid 19 infections.  These numbers are quite alarming.  When other African countries are planning to reopen schools and other businesses that had been put on hold due to the pandemic like hospitality industries and transportation Kenya remains uncertain on when to resume normal operations completely.