Stanbic Bank is bringing Ne-Yo to Nairobi on Mashujaa Day, 20th October 2026, as title sponsor of One Night Only: Brunch Edition. The concert runs from 3pm to 11pm at the Ulinzi Sports Complex, and Gold tickets cost KES 15,000. Ne-Yo has won three Grammy Awards and was last in Kenya in 2015, for the third season of Coke Studio Africa, so this is his first Kenyan appearance in 11 years.
A title sponsor is the main backer whose name goes on the event. The organisers are Fenon Premium Productions and Radio Africa Group, in collaboration with the spirits maker Pernod Ricard, and the show is billed as “powered by Stanbic Bank”. It is not the bank’s first One Night Only. Stanbic was also a sponsor of last year’s edition, Kenny G’s first concert in Kenya, at KICC on 27th September 2025.
If you plan to go, move quickly. Tickets went on sale on 12th September, and the cheaper ones are gone. The Early Bird Gold ticket at KES 7,500, the Wave 2 Gold ticket at KES 10,000 and the individual Platinum seat at KES 40,000 are sold out. As of 1st October the ticket page still sells Gold at KES 15,000 and a Gold Couple or Friends package of two tickets at KES 20,000, which is KES 10,000 a head. Platinum tables are listed at KES 160,000 for four seats and KES 320,000 for eight. Tickets are paid for by M-Pesa or card, and each one arrives as a QR code that is scanned at the gate.
The bank gives two reasons for the sponsorship.
- The first is to give its clients “a distinctive, high-value experience”.
- The second is to support the artists, producers, technical crews, hospitality providers, suppliers and small businesses that make a large live event happen.
Chief executive Michael Mutiga, whose appointment we reported in July, says the support goes beyond the performance itself. The bank also points to the size of the creative sector. A study by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Kenya Copyright Board put copyright-based industries at 5.32% of GDP, though its data is from 2007.
The release does not give the sponsorship amount the bank has invested, the number of local acts or suppliers involved, or what Stanbic customers get from attending.
For ticket buyers, the facts that matter are the date, the KES 15,000 Gold price and the fact that the cheaper tiers are gone. For the bank’s claim about local businesses, the number that would settle it is one Stanbic has not shared.
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