Irene Mugo

Nairobi

Journalist at Daily Nation

A journalist. I write on matters Agriculture and Health primarily but pretty much anything for Nation Media Group

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Muthoni wa Kirima: Mau Mau Field Marshall who wore independence struggle dreadlocks for 70 years

Sep 7, 2023 | nation.africa | Irene Mugo

Muthoni wa Kirima, the only female leader with the rank of Field Marshall in the Mau Mau, and who died this week, has been celebrated as a true freedom fighter who stood for the liberation struggle long after independence. The 92-year-old was born in Tetu, Nyeri County. While other women were assigned spy roles or to deliver food to the Mau Mau fighters, Muthoni stayed on the frontline, taking on the British colonisers, thanks to her knowledge of the terrains and sharpshooter skill.
Mukami wa Kirima: Mau Mau Field Marshall who wore independence struggle dreadlocks for 70 years

Sep 7, 2023 | nation.africa | Irene Mugo

Muthoni wa Kirima, the only female leader with the rank of Field Marshall in the Mau Mau, and who died this week, has been celebrated as a true freedom fighter who stood for the liberation struggle long after independence. The 92-year-old was born in Tetu, Nyeri County. While other women were assigned spy roles or to deliver food to the Mau Mau fighters, Muthoni stayed on the frontline, taking on the British colonisers, thanks to her knowledge of the terrains and sharpshooter skill.
Mukami wa Kirima: Mau Mau Field Marshall who wore independence struggle dreadlocks for 70 years

Sep 7, 2023 | htsyndication.com | Irene Mugo

Nairobi, Sept. 7 -- Muthoni wa Kirima, the only female leader with the rank of Field Marshall in the Mau Mau, and who died this week, has been celebrated as a true freedom fighter who stood for the liberation struggle long after independence. The 92-year-old was born in Tetu, Nyeri County.
Do you pop multivitamin pills? Watch out!

Aug 22, 2023 | nation.africa | Irene Mugo

What you need to know:There is a worrying trend where supplements have been touted as a solution to medical conditions. But doctors warn that unnecessary intake is harmful to overall human health. For the last five years, Lynn Mbithe,28, has religiously swallowed five different types of micronutrient supplements every day to ‘maintain and improve her health’. It is now part of her lifestyle.
Pomp and colour as historic Kagumo School turns 90

Aug 13, 2023 | nation.africa | Irene Mugo

What you need to know:The colonial-era school based in Kiganjo has produced renowned technocrats, scholars and leaders, including ministers Njuguna Ndung’u, Mutahi Kagwe and James Macharia; cardiologist Dan Gikonyo and Equity CEO James Mwangi. Kagumo High School, founded in 1933 and among the first schools in the country to allow Africans sit their national examinations, marks its 90-year anniversary next month with a rich history of success and an impressive list of alumni.
Why Macadamia farmers are hawking their produce in funerals

Aug 7, 2023 | nation.africa | Irene Mugo

All is not well for macadamia farmers in Central region as prices continue to plummet at the backdrop of global economic recession and overproduction. Farmers have now started uprooting the trees wishing to replace them with other lucrative crops saying the government has relegated them by failing to secure a market for their produce. Some are grinding the nuts in animal feeds factories for their dairy and chicken while others are selling them in tea factories for combustion.
County mulls over selling Nyeri coffee as one

Aug 7, 2023 | nation.africa | Irene Mugo

Nyeri governor Mutahi Kahiga want coffee produced within the county marketed as one to leverage on the economies of scale in a new partnership with New Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (NKPCU). This, the governor said would ensure that farmers have a better bargaining power in marketing and purchasing of farm inputs as well as boost their value for money of their products.
Solio landowners forced to become casual labourers

Jul 18, 2023 | nation.africa | Irene Mugo

By Irene MugoReporterNation Media GroupMore than a decade after thousands of people were settled in the Solio Settlement Scheme, they have found no respite in their quest to use the land donated to them by the government. Some of the more than 1,500 households settled there have resorted to leasing their plots to multinational companies that grow horticultural products while others have resigned themselves to fate.
Onion prices rise due to reduced imports drop from Tanzania

Jul 16, 2023 | nation.africa | Irene Mugo

Kenyans are grappling with the high cost of onions as traders are hit by a shortage of the commodity, which is now trading at Sh150 per kilo due to reduced imports from Tanzania. The shortage has also been exacerbated by a decline in production by farmers, who cite high costs of production and drought in the country in recent years. Compared to recent months, onion prices have shot up by as much as 87.5 per cent from Sh80 per kilogram in March, depending on the variety of onion.
Embrace dialogue, Archbishop Muheria tells Ruto, Raila over protests

Jul 16, 2023 | nation.africa | Irene Mugo

The Catholic Archbishop of Nyeri, Anthony Muheria, has called for dialogue between President William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to bring an end to the violence witnessed in parts of the country last week. He noted that a meeting between the two leaders would offer a forward approach to issues affecting Kenyans and prevent loss of life and destruction of property in the anti-government demonstrations.