The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for El-Kanemi Warriors
1‑1 against Kwara United, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ibrahim Iddrisu decides it from twelve yards
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Usman Audu could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.21
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.21, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Zakka John at 21 — 7.68
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Zakka John did not need any: 7.68, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ismail Mukhtar runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
Bunu Sale 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 El-Kanemi Warriors can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to El-Kanemi Warriors's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at El-Kanemi Warriors has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at El-Kanemi Warriors
Gideon Iliya was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market24 Aug 2026
Niger Tornadoes watching Risilanu Ismail
The interest is real enough to have reached print. El-Kanemi Warriors have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
In brief
- Squad Words at El-Kanemi Warriors training over how hard people work
- The terraces El-Kanemi Warriors supporters have found a favourite in Risilanu Ismail
- Squad The manager makes an example of Bilal Yakubu