Vincent Temitope

Left Midfielder - Plateau United
31 Aug 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Vincent Temitope

4 Edition

The Plateau United Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from John Amah

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

Plateau United bow out of the cup

Bendel Insurance go through and Plateau United go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Gimba Ajiji scores twice — 8.41

Two goals and a mark of 8.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Maren Kefas at 20 — 8.00

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Maren Kefas did not need any: 8.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Dasok Nanribet asks to leave Plateau United

“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 ratings

Nobody could get near Gideon Monday

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Plateau United

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad

Tempers go at Plateau United

Victor Dawa 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.

Match

Gimba Ajiji the difference as Plateau United beat Shooting Stars

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Gimba Ajiji. 4‑3 against Shooting Stars, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Plateau United Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Agwar Micheal could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.35

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.35, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Player ratings

Both of them Kazeem Adeyanju's — 8.28

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Maren Kefas, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.76

A mark of 7.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Vincent Temitope runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Victor Dawa 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 Plateau United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Kazeem Adeyanju among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Kazeem Adeyanju on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Plateau United and Wikki Tourists.

The terraces

Plateau United supporters have found a favourite in Kazeem Adeyanju

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Kazeem Adeyanju has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Words at Plateau United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tarabina Biweribo 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.

Squad

Jonathan Okechukwu 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Plateau United Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Mafeng Pam runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Victor Dawa 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 Plateau United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Chinemerem Ugwueze 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.

Market

The Domnan Panse conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Platinum Stars will make the call about Domnan Panse this week. Plateau United have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Market

48 months and counting on Gideon Monday

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

Match

Gideon Monday rescues a point for Plateau United

It needed Gideon Monday to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Niger Tornadoes, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

Plateau United pick somebody else ahead of Gafar Saka

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market

Still no ink between Plateau United and Ossy Martins

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

Squad

Vincent Temitope finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Plateau United have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

1 Edition

The Plateau United Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Plateau United throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Nasarawa United the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Plateau United will enjoy reviewing.

Squad

John Amah keeps Plateau United in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

A brace, and Gideon Monday takes the afternoon — 8.32

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gideon Monday provided it, and the 8.32 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Maren Kefas at 20 — 7.88

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Maren Kefas did not need any: 7.88, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mafeng Pam

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Victor Dawa signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Victor Dawa and Plateau United agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Plateau United

Victor Dawa 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.

Market

Platinum Stars watching Domnan Panse

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Plateau United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Vincent Temitope 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.

In brief