Oke Kayode

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Bendel Insurance
15 Aug 2026
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Marked for Oke Kayode

2 Edition

The Bendel Insurance Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market10 Aug 2026

Anthony Cletus agrees terms with Ikorodu City

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Bendel Insurance people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market10 Aug 2026

Victor Torisheju turns Unisport Bafang down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Wisdom Udom, 20, steals the show — 7.75

Marked 7.75 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market10 Aug 2026

Elmer Arunta has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bendel Insurance they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Elmer Arunta has agreed to leave Bendel Insurance for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Oke Kayode in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bendel Insurance this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match8 Aug 2026

Abia Warriors take the points off Bendel Insurance

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market10 Aug 2026

Bendel Insurance promote Chinedu Umar from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Chinedu Umar 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.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Emmanuel Dung

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Bendel Insurance Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match1 Aug 2026

Nowhere to hide for Bendel Insurance

0‑3 against Rivers United, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Emmanuel Ofori keeps Bendel Insurance in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Oke Kayode signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oke Kayode commits to Bendel Insurance for another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Bendel Insurance

Oke Kayode 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Emmanuel Nwokeji 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Eyes on Kelvin Akinmola again

The phone has started ringing about Kelvin Akinmola again, and this time the name on the line is MB Rouissat. Bendel Insurance are listening politely and promising nothing.

Boardroom3 Aug 2026

Nobody left the Bendel Insurance dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market3 Aug 2026

49 months and counting on Oke Kayode

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

The dugout3 Aug 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Chidozie Bassey left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief