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The Premier League Herald

1 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Adama Goïta is the division’s leading scorer

4 goals in 3 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Remo Stars have the man every defence in the division is planning around.

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Adama Goïta is the division's player of the month — 8.41

A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Remo Stars man on 8.41 with 5 goal contributions.

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Terms done: Sodiq Oshidero is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Kun Khalifat waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Remo Stars is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

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Adama Goïta is the month's best young player — 8.41

The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 8.41 over the month and 5 goal contributions, from a Remo Stars player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.

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Emmanuel Onu puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at El-Kanemi Warriors, and it is not being withdrawn.

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The division’s top provider is Saidu Salisu — 7.38

3 assists across the month from a Barau player marked 7.38. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.

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Warri Wolves turn down AS Police for Uche Sabastine

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

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Only the photograph left for Najib Yusuf

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Najib Yusuf will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Barau the goodbyes have quietly begun.

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Still scoring: Shuaibu Ibrahim

3 in 3 for Wikki Tourists. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Joseph Atule is right behind him

4 goals in 3 appearances for Barau, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Qamar Adegoke keeps the pressure on

3 goals in 3 appearances for Shooting Stars leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Umar Ada makes the list

3 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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The Premier League Herald

1 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Samuel Anakwe is the division’s leading scorer

5 goals in 5 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Remo Stars have the man every defence in the division is planning around.

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Player of the month: Samuel Anakwe — 7.86

Everybody in the division was measured and a Remo Stars man came out on top: 7.86 across the month and 7 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.

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Young player of the month: Adama Goïta — 7.65

7.65 across the month and 5 goal contributions from a Remo Stars player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.

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Terms done: Stanley Amon is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Aduana Stars waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Bayelsa United is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

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Orji Kalu hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Barau can pretend not to have heard.

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Not going: Junior Aliyu stays at Kano Pillars

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Barau had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

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Antonio Galeano leads the division for assists — 7.51

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Remo Stars player marked 7.51, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Remo Stars turn down Djoliba for Sodiq Oshidero

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Remo Stars man

Samuel Anakwe averaged 7.86 over 5 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

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Adama Goïta keeps the pressure on

3 goals in 5 appearances for Remo Stars leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Samson Obi up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Katsina United — 3 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Still scoring: Gideon Monday

3 in 4 for Plateau United. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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The Premier League Herald

1 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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1 months and counting on Aniekeme Okon

Still no offer on the table, and Aniekeme Okon’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

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King Osanga told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” King Osanga has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Nasarawa United.

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Samuel Mathias placed on the list

Barau have made Samuel Mathias available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.