Few figures in KANU-era Kenya wielded as much influence as Nicholas Biwott. Known as the “Total Man” during President Daniel arap Moi’s administration, Biwott built a business empire that stretched across real estate, energy, aviation, and agriculture—making him one of the country’s wealthiest and most secretive figures.
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Mogo and ZTE partner to offer smartphones on Sh100 daily repayments
Kenyans can now purchase ZTE smartphones on credit through Mogo Kenya, with deposits from Sh2,500 and daily repayments from Sh100.The device financing firm has partnered with RSC Limited, ZTE's national distributor in Kenya, to enable customers buy the phones through Mogo's network of about 3,000 dealers and retail outlets across the country.
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Roy Keane warned Man Utd not to sign flop and suggested two world-class stars instead
Roy Keane demanded Manchester United sign two players in the summer of 2023 – but where are they now?
Keane made the comments at the end of the 2022/23 campaign, which saw Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City win their third Premier League title in a row on the way to a historic treble.
As for United, they enjoyed a respectable first season under Erik ten Hag’s leadership, finishing third in the league and runners-up in the FA Cup after losing to City in the final.
Ahead of the season, Antony and Lisandro Martínez arrived from Ten Hag’s former club Ajax, while Casemiro signed from Real Madrid.
Tyrell Malacia and Christian Eriksen also signed for the Old Trafford club. Despite qualifying for the Champions League, United were heavily linked with then-Chelsea star Mason Mount, Spurs forward Harry Kane and West Ham central midfielder Declan Rice.
Offering his opinion on the three players when speaking to Sky Sports at the time, Keane said: “They have to get a world-class striker, but it’s going to be difficult because City are brilliant with a great, great manager.
“I wouldn’t be so sure about Mount.
“They’re going to be linked with lots of players, but the one that would excite you really is Kane.”
After fellow Sky Sports pundit Micah Richards questioned Keane’s stance on Mount, Keane added: “He’s just gone off the boil a little bit. I know he can bounce back and he’s got qualities, and I was raving about him a few years ago.
“He’s just gone missing the last year or two, had one or two injuries, and the fact he can’t get in a bad Chelsea team.
“I wouldn’t be hanging my hat too much on him in terms of improving United and closing the gap; I think he’s a good player, but would he improve United? I’m not so sure.
“I think Rice would, he would be a decent signing, but in terms of the excitement and goalscoring, they’ve got to go for Kane, but can you see Spurs selling to United? Very, very difficult.”
Now, more than three years later, Keane’s comments have aged well, with Mount yet to sustain a solid run of form in a United shirt after his £55million move from Chelsea.
In 80 appearances, Mount has produced just eight goals and two assists, and he has yet to receive an England cap since joining the Old Trafford club.
Mount’s arrival has coincided with United finishing eighth in 2023/24, 15th in 2024/25 and third in 2025/26 – although he played just 23 league games last term.
Meanwhile, Rice and Kane’s careers have followed an almost constant upward trajectory since May 2023.
Rice lifted the Conference League with West Ham in 2022/23 before going on to sign for Arsenal in a £105million deal that summer.
The Englishman has since become a stalwart in Mikel Arteta’s side, helping them win the 2025/26 Premier League title and reach the Champions League final in the same campaign.
On the international stage, Rice has become one of the first names on England’s team sheet, playing a leading role as the side reached two Euros finals – in 2021 and 2024 – and the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup, before finishing third in the 2026 edition.
As with Rice, Kane’s decision to avoid signing for United has proven to be the correct one. He decided to up sticks and leave Spurs to sign for Bayern in 2023.
The England skipper failed to get his hands on silverware during his first season in Bavaria as Bayer Leverkusen won the Bundesliga, despite Kane netting 36 goals in 32 games.
But since then, the 33-year-old has helped Bayern to back-to-back Bundesliga crowns and the 2025/26 DFB-Pokal.
From a personal point of view, Kane’s German adventure could hardly have played out better, with the Englishman pipping Kylian Mbappé and Lamine Yamal to the 2026 Ballon d’Or and effectively being crowned the best active footballer on the planet.
Rice has also picked up several individual honours, including Arsenal’s Men’s Player of the Season awards for 2024/25 and 2025/26, the club’s Goal of the Season award for 2024/25, the Football Supporters’ Association Men’s Player of the Year award in 2024 and the Premier League Player of the Year award at the 2024 London Football Awards.
The 27-year-old was also named in the Premier League Team of the Year for 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26, as well as the Champions League Team of the Season for 2024/25 and 2025/26.
So, it’s safe to say Keane was spot on back in 2023, with the pair now worth a combined £150million, according to Transfermarkt’s valuation.
Speaking after Arsenal’s 1-0 win over Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday (November 1), ex-Reds defender Jamie Carragher dubbed Rice the Premier League’s best midfielder by a long way, with the Gunners star providing the pass to set up Kai Havertz’s strike.
"He's one of the best midfield players Arsenal have ever had," Carragher said.
"They've obviously had some great ones. He's right up there with the best of them. He's the best midfield player in the Premier League by a long way. It's not even a debate."
Is Jamie Carragher right about Rice being the best midfielder in the Premier League?
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African banking giants build war chest for Kenya takeover deals
Half of the top 20 African banks are building a multi-billion-shilling war chest for Kenya's banking industry in the race to grab a share of one of East Africa’s most profitable financial services markets.
The lenders are injecting fresh capital into their Kenyan subsidiaries, seeking stakes in local banks or closing buyout deals, enabling local shareholders to pocket billions of shillings in the high-stakes battle.
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NSE Reconfigures Two Key Market Indices
The NSE (Nairobi Securities Exchange) Plc has informed the investing public and market participants of changes to two of its market indices: the NSE Banking Index and the NSE Bond Index (NSE-BI).The changes comprise the inclusion of Family Bank Limited in the NSE Banking Index following the fulfilment of the prescribed eligibility period, and the transition of the NSE Bond Index to a total return methodology to provide a more comprehensive measure of the performance of Kenya Government bonds.
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Denise Richards shows off Halloween costume following $200,000 facelift compared to ‘head transplant’
Denise Richards has rolled back the years with her Halloween costume as people said she looked 'exactly how they remembered' from movies she was in decades ago.
Halloween has been and gone and plenty of celebrities take the chance to put some effort into dressing up, though Heidi Klum is surely the final boss of distinctive costumes as this year she went as her own severed hand.
Richards, 55, went for a more feline look as she had her hair done and donned a pair of cat ears, showing off the results to her followers on social media.
It's led to people telling her she looks like she's 'aging backwards' and 'looks 23 again', and though the folks doing her hair and makeup deserve some of the credit the $200,000 facelift she had last year also warrants a mention.
Others told her that she still looks the same as she did in the 1997 movie Starship Troopers, where she appeared alongside Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer and Neil Patrick Harris as part of a cast that has aged phenomenally well.
Richards explained that she'd had the facelift in June 2025, the month before ex-husband Aaron Phypers filed for divorce.
She told The Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg Show she was 'so glad' she'd been open about the facelift and keeping people in the loop about the change in her appearance.
“I didn't know how people would react, but I think I want to know what everyone's doing. What's peptides, what's this, what's that,” she said.
The actor had previously told Allure that she'd always told herself she'd never get one because her image was 'how I make my money' and she was 'always scared of a facelift' because it was the part of the body that couldn't be covered if it went 'a little sideways'.
It took two years of deliberation before she decided to do it and went through with the surgery.
While movie fans will know her from the likes of The World Is Not Enough or Love Actually, these days she's appearing on TV in The Bold and the Beautiful, and last year announced that she'd joined OnlyFans to follow in her daughter's footsteps.
That latter decision is something her ex-husband picked at when filing for divorce, as he called for spousal support which would have meant her giving him some of her revenue from the website.
He'd cited 'irreconcilable differences' and as well as a monthly stipend he'd also asked for his power tools and a motorbike.
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Longest game of Football Manager lasted 535 years and included five clubs
No matter how much you intend on getting stuck into the Football Manager game, it will take some serious FM bashing to come anywhere close to the record for the longest save in history.
Football Manager 27 is free to play until 3 November before the game's official release – with players able to continue their saves from the exact point where they left off following the early access.
But however long anyone's save ends up being, it is near-on impossible that it will surpass the incredible run FM fanatic Sepp Hedel achieved.
The German went into the Guinness World Records after completing a whopping 535 seasons in one continuous save.
He played the majority of the game while working in Africa, beginning in December 2017.
The record was first celebrated in 2019 when he got to 333 seasons, beating Michal Leniec, a 38-year-old man from Poland, who managed for 221 seasons and claimed the award in December 2018.
In 2022, he was knocked off his perch by Paweł Siciński after his save lasted 416 seasons.
But Hedel kept on playing and reclaimed his record in June 2025 in Diebelstadt, Bavaria, Germany.
In total, his real-life playing time came to a staggering 146 days in real-time and spanned five different clubs.
The stats behind Football Manager record-breaker's
He kicked off his managerial career with FC United of Manchester, a breakaway Non-League club set up by Manchester United fans in protest to the Glazer family takeover.
Hedel then went on to travel the world, taking charge of Bengaluru Football Club, Hereford FC, LA Galaxy and Tai Po FC.
During his original record of 333 seasons, where he did not do any simulation or in-game vacations, he won nearly 1000 trophies.
In this period, he scored 42,672 goals in 15,768 matches and signed a total of 684 players for a combined total of £9.41 billion.
Fernando Robles, an FM regen, proved to be his trusty talisman, scoring 427 times in 587 games. The updated statistics including the second record-break have never been released but it has been verified by Guinness World Records and Hedel has the certificate to prove it.
"My favourite part of the game was to develop smaller clubs, so I started with FC United of Manchester who had their first Premier League win in 2037 after six second places! That was a special moment," Hedel reflected on his heroics.
"After 50 years in Manchester I had won everything, so I decided to try something new and signed with Bengaluru FC of India.
"Eventually I returned to the Premier League with Hereford FC in 2277. However, I realized how insanely strong I developed FC United and it was even harder to beat my former club, but I finally managed to in 2289.
"I think the first win against the big clubs Manchester City and Manchester United with FC United of Manchester was very special. Of course, the first Premier League title and the first win of the UEFA Champions League against Atletico Madrid in 2037 was also a big deal too."
We await to see what damage he can do on Football Manager 27.
Multiple retailers have Football Manager 27 available for pre-order for your XBox or PC.
At full price, the game costs £49.99, but there's currently 16 percent off on the Fanatical website. And you can snag an additional five percent off with our exclusive code SPORTBIBLE5, bringing the cost down to £39.89.
Anyone that pre-orders the game will be able to access the title after the five-day free preview ends on November 3, 2026 and before general release on November 9, 2026.
You can apply the code to checkout here.
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Beyond the Mic: Nonini, Music Ownership and the Business of Protecting a Legacy
From multimillion-shilling court judgments to the growing commercial use of Kenyan music in advertising, the Genge pioneer is putting creative ownership, intellectual property and artist compensation at the centre of the entertainment business conversation.A hit song can outlive its release date by decades. It can become a cultural reference, soundtrack a generation, find a second life on social media or give a brand the perfect musical backdrop for selling its next big idea.
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Medical bills set to rise 13pc, signalling higher premiums
Medical bills are expected to rise 13 percent next year, beating the global average and Kenya's inflation in a forecast that is set to put pressure on insurers to raise premiums.
London-headquartered professional services firm Aon says in its 2027 Global Medical Trend Rates Report that medical inflation in Kenya will reach 13 percent next year, moderating from 13.5 percent this year but remaining above the global average of nine percent.
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KCSE 2026: Insecurity Along Kenya-Ethiopia Border Forces Relocation of Marsabit Exam Centres
KCSE 2026 Begins in Earnest as CS Ogamba Reports Seamless Exam Season, 1,048,355 Candidates in 10,693 CentresNAIROBI. The 2026 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination moved into its main phase today, Monday 2nd November, as candidates sat the compulsory, large-candidature papers.