Eagle's Eye

  By Glen Don THE MEDIA COUNCIL’S VISIT TO KISII UNIVERSITY The Kisii University Media students on Saturday 10, February will have the privilege of meeting their umbrella body, the Media Council of Kenya (MCK). The MCK’s official visit will commence tomorrow Saturday until Monday 12, February with various activities set to take place within the period of the visit. In the schedule, on Saturday the opening activity will be Students' talk and career guidance, on Sunday it will be sports day where Kisii Journalists will have a match against Kisumu journalists and on Monday there will be a separate round-table meeting with the lecturers, training for the journalists, lecturers and students then finally training for communication team and journalists on access to information. This will mark the end of their three-day visit to Kisii. Apart from these, the MCK is expected to aid the students who have qualified to be media practitioners and communication experts in obtaining thei...

   THE E-CITIZEN MIGRATION Last week, the Government through the Ministry of Education’s Principal Secretary gave a directive to the national school principals to initiate the fee payment on the eCitizen platform. Ecitizen Platform is a Government-owned online platform that offers about 5,000 services and now the payment of school fees joins these services. This now means that the parents and or guardians at national high schools will have to abjure to going to the banks affiliated with the various schools, money orders, mobile transactions such as M-Pesa, and direct hand-to-hand payment of school fees. In the circular that was circulated to the national school principals, they (principals) were directed to provide their school’s bank account name, Account numbers, branch, and branch code. This initiative just like a coin has two faces; the head and the tail, while to the context the tail is the disadvantage and the head is the advantage. In defense of the progra...