The Barau Courier
Match12 Aug 2026
Barau out of the cup
Abia Warriors ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Emeka Nwabulu is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Emeka Nwabulu: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Market17 Aug 2026
Bayelsa United watching Chisom Chiaha
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Barau have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market17 Aug 2026
Barau say no — this time
The offer from St. Andrews for Samuel Mathias 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Stanley Oganbor
Marked 8.13 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
One of those days for Ahmadu Liman
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ikorodu City snatch it back from Barau
A goal on 95 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Match15 Aug 2026
Barau and Ikorodu City take a point apiece
It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Chukwudi Nwaodu misses from twelve yards
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Barau
- Market Zemun expected to open talks for Abdulmajid Aminu
- The dugout Moses Tsehuan gets it from the manager