From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Nasarawa United.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Marked 7.66 across it, 3 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Kun Khalifat have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Kun Khalifat
Joseph Abah was marked 7.66 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Sep 2028
Sunday Megwo 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 Abia Warriors can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Sep 2028
The offer from Kwara United for Ali Ishaku was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Nobody made more than Mustapha Lawal this month
2 assists, 7.51, and a Shooting Stars player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Joseph Abah is the division's best-marked player — 7.66
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 7.66 across 4 matches for Kun Khalifat.
Market1 Sep 2028
Petróleo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Barau they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
4 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
2 goals in 4 appearances for Rangers International leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
4 appearances, 2 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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From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
Paul Samson tops the scoring charts
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 4 appearances for Abia Warriors.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
Marked 8.03 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Abia Warriors have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
Idris Ajiya is the month's best young player — 7.02
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.02 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Rivers United player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Aug 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Aug 2028
The bid was some way short and Ikorodu City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
Emmanuel Olisa leads the division for assists — 7.36
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Enyimba player marked 7.36, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
Highest marks in the league belong to a Remo Stars man
Adama Goïta averaged 8.21 over 2 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.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
Adama Goïta up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Remo Stars — 3 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
5 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
4 goals in 5 appearances for Bendel Insurance, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Niger Tornadoes.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
Marked 7.73 across it, 2 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Enyimba have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Shooting Stars U18
Toheeb Adebayo was marked 7.44 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Jul 2028
Silas Nwankwo 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 Shooting Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jul 2028
The offer from Warri Wolves for Silas Nwankwo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
Divine Chidera leads the division for assists — 7.35
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Rangers International player marked 7.35, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Jul 2028
Add another name to the list: Enyimba have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Handsome Surveyor. The answer from Rivers United has not changed — yet.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
Issah Mohammed is the division's best-marked player — 7.73
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 7.73 across 3 matches for Enyimba.
Market1 Jul 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Katsina United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
2 goals in 4 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.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
2 in 4 for Nasarawa 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.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
2 goals in 4 appearances for Wikki Tourists leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
Suraju Lawal is the division's player of the month — 8.08
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 Rangers International man on 8.08 with 6 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
Abdullahi Mohammad is the month's best young player — 7.30
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.30 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Kwara United player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Jun 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
Emmanuel Olisa leads the division for assists — 6.93
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Enyimba player marked 6.93, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Jun 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Enyimba is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
Suraju Lawal is the division's best-marked player — 8.08
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.08 across 4 matches for Rangers International.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
3 in 4 for Remo Stars. 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.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
Paul Samson up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Abia Warriors — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
3 goals in 4 appearances for Kwara United, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 5 goals in 5 appearances for Rangers International.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Timothy Zechariah is the division's player of the month — 7.86
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 Nasarawa United man on 7.86 with 6 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Kun Khalifat
Joseph Abah was marked 7.21 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 May 2028
“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 Katsina United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
3 assists, 7.86, and a Nasarawa United player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 May 2028
Only the photograph left for Umar Ada
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Umar Ada will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nasarawa United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Highest marks in the league belong to a Nasarawa United man
Timothy Zechariah 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.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
3 goals in 5 appearances for Remo Stars leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
5 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
5 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Ali Ishaku makes the team of the month — 7.05
Eleven names, chosen against everybody in the division who plays where they play. The Abia Warriors man is one of them on 7.05 from 5 matches, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a harder one to argue with.
Market1 May 2028
Ibrahim Obansa is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Remo Stars has been clear about where Ibrahim Obansa stands, which is more than many ever get.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Joseph Abah tops the scoring charts
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Kun Khalifat.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Marked 7.66 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Kun Khalifat have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Kun Khalifat
Joseph Abah was marked 7.66 and had a hand in 4 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Apr 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nasarawa United can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Chinonso Romanus leads the division for assists — 7.15
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 2 of them made by a Kun Khalifat player marked 7.15, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Apr 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ikorodu City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Highest marks in the league belong to a El-Kanemi Warriors man
Daddy Abdulrahman averaged 8.14 over 3 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.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
2 goals in 4 appearances for Bendel Insurance leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
3 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Gafar Saka keeps the pressure on
3 goals in 4 appearances for Plateau United leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Joseph Kemin up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Barau — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Market1 Apr 2028
Sodiq Oshidero is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Remo Stars has been clear about where Sodiq Oshidero stands, which is more than many ever get.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Enyimba.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
Marked 7.56 across it, 3 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Plateau United have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
David Eke is the month's best young player — 6.95
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.95 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Enyimba player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Mar 2028
Taiye Murtala 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 Katsina United can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Mar 2028
Only the photograph left for Williams Yikat
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Williams Yikat will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kano Pillars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Mar 2028
The deal that would have taken Emmanuel Mathias to Warri Wolves has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Ikorodu City with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
Ozovehe Adeiza leads the division for assists — 7.22
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Katsina United player marked 7.22, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Mar 2028
The offer from Nasarawa United for Yusuf Maigoro was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
Albert Hilary is the division's best-marked player — 7.56
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 7.56 across 4 matches for Plateau United.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
2 goals in 4 appearances for Niger Tornadoes leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
Gideon Monday up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Plateau United — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
2 goals in 4 appearances for Plateau United leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 5 appearances for Kwara United.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
Marked 7.62 across it, 1 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Bayelsa United have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Kwara United
Somtochuwku Ezenabo was marked 7.35 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Feb 2028
“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 Shooting Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Feb 2028
The bid was some way short and Shooting Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
Chisom Chiaha leads the division for assists — 7.24
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Barau player marked 7.24, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Feb 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Enyimba is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Feb 2028
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Bendel Insurance moved on, Eromosele Zibiri reports back to Warri Wolves, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
Highest marks in the league belong to a Kwara United man
Johnmark Atule averaged 7.66 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.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
Adama Goïta up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Remo Stars — 2 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
5 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
3 in 5 for Abia Warriors. 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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Market1 Jan 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Katsina United can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jan 2028
Colo-Colo come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rangers International did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Jan 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nasarawa United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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Steady
Market1 Dec 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Dec 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Plateau United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Dec 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Uzochukwu Ezeobi has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Barau.
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Market1 Nov 2027
“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 Shooting Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Nov 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Shooting Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Nov 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Suleiman Nasiru has his answer from Ikorodu City; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
The month closes with Chinonso Romanus out in front — 3 goals in 3 games, and Kun Khalifat have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Chukwuemeka Obioma is the division's player of the month — 7.44
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 Abia Warriors man on 7.44 with 3 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Shooting Stars
Moruf Umar was marked 7.41 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Oct 2027
“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 Barau, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Oct 2027
The offer from Tigres for Sadiq Auwal was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market1 Oct 2027
Williams Yikat has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kano Pillars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Oct 2027
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Saidu Salisu reports back to Barau with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Nobody made more than Nurudeen Badmos this month
2 assists, 6.82, and a Kwara United player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a Kwara United man
Mustapha Gbolahan averaged 7.82 over 3 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.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
A productive month at Abia Warriors — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
2 goals in 3 appearances for Bendel Insurance leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
A productive month at Kwara United — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.