Marked for Shodeinde Moses
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Gideon Manaseh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Chineme Chinonso falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
16 appearances at Medeama and the goals keep coming. Ikorodu City are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Michael Atata
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Oladimeji Dada's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Daniel Idoko knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Daniel Idoko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tosin Oyedokun and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Malik Afoke and Ikorodu City agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Chineme Chinonso was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kelechi Onwe, and the manager let it.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
13 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Steady
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ikorodu City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ikorodu City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Ikorodu City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chineme Chinonso is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
10 appearances at Medeama and the goals keep coming. Ikorodu City are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Shodeinde Moses asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Uzoma Chinonso is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Katsina United waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ikorodu City is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ikorodu City have done the hard part with Nasarawa United, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tosin Oyedokun and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Isaac Ekong has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Abdullahi Onyeka has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kelechi Lookman has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Musa Malik and Ikorodu City agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.