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The Vice chancellor University of Nairobi Prof. Stephen Gitahi Kiama PHD has appointed Dr. Lucy Muhia-Ndahi Ag. Chief Medical Officer (CMO) University Health Services.

Until her appointment she was Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMO) University of Nairobi health services in charge of Student Health

University of Nairobi (UON) is the most sought after higher learning institution in the country.

Top performing students in the last years Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) have earned places in the much sought after courses of medicine and Engineering faculties at the University of Nairobi.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted healthcare professionals physically and psychologically. Healthcare workers are more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection than the general

The new Confucius Institute Building located on Arboretum Drive, has officially been handed over to the University of Nairobi. The ceremony was presided over by the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Prof. George Magoha, who praised the good relationships between Beijing and Nairobi.

Constructed at a cost of 1.4Billion shillings, the new Confucius Building hosts a number of lecture halls, conference facilities, accommodation facilities, staff offices and Chinese Language research offices and language libraries.

Testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for coronavirus has been halted because of safety fears, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. According medical journal The Lancet, there were no benefits to treating coronavirus patients with hydroxychloroquine, and that taking it might even increase the number of deaths among those in hospital with the disease. Hydroxychloroquine is safe for malaria, and conditions like lupus or arthritis, but no clinical trials have recommended its use for treating Covid-19.

The University of Nairobi in collaboration with the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kenya intends to hold African Cartoon Festival on COVID-19. This festival is solely for African and Iranian cartoonists. The secretariat will receive the artworks of the cartoonist from all over Africa.

PROF. Stephen Kiama Gitahi, Vice Chancellor of the University of Nairobi while at #NMGLeadershipForum panel discussing the impact of #COVID19 on education in Kenya, said the "main source of revenue for the University of Nairobi is the fee-paying students. This accounts for about 75 per cent of our budget, the government provides the remaining 25 per cent. He also said he would not propose to have tertiary institutions open first. We would propose we begin with lower primary or secondary schools especially those doing day schooling. Tertiary institutions should be the last to re-open.