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Marked for Sunday Dapma

43 Edition

The Barau Courier

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market24 May 2027

Joseph Atule asks to leave Barau

“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.

Player ratings24 May 2027

Nobody could get near Joseph Atule

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 May 2027

Sunday Dapma keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Barau may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

In brief

Back issues
39 Edition

The Barau Courier

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market26 Apr 2027

Uzochukwu Ezeobi puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Barau, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Adamu Ibrahim says Barau went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Words at Barau training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tony 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.

Squad26 Apr 2027

No hiding place for Tony

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tony, and the manager let it.

Match24 Apr 2027

Barau come up short against Rangers International

Rangers International left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings26 Apr 2027

Nobody could get near Joseph Atule

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

6 Edition

The Barau Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market7 Sep 2026

Abdulbari Nura asks to leave Barau

“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.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Joseph Atule

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match5 Sep 2026

Barau get the job done against Rangers International

A 2‑0 win over Rangers International, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Chukwudi Nwaodu at his very best

Marked 8.07. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Barau.

Squad7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Jimmy Ambrose

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jimmy Ambrose, and the manager let it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Mike Zaruma signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mike Zaruma commits to Barau for another 2 years.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Adamu Umar 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 Barau this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Barau training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sunday Dapma 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.

Market7 Sep 2026

Still no ink between Barau and Orji Kalu

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Barau, another week without a signature from Orji Kalu.

In brief

5 Edition

The Barau Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Joseph Atule

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match29 Aug 2026

The wait goes on for Barau

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market31 Aug 2026

Adamu Ibrahim 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 Barau can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom31 Aug 2026

Ibrahim Nura has agreed to leave Barau 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Barau

Adamu Umar 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Stanley Oganbor gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Sunday Dapma 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Mike Zaruma signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mike Zaruma commits to Barau for another 2 years.

Market31 Aug 2026

Bendel Insurance are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Barau will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief