The Rivers United Herald
Match1 Aug 2026
Rivers United win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Bendel Insurance will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aniekeme Okon signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aniekeme Okon commits to Rivers United for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aniekeme Okon 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 Rivers United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Aug 2026
Rivers United see off Bendel Insurance
Three points for Rivers United, 3‑2 the final word against Bendel Insurance in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market3 Aug 2026
ASO Chlef join the queue for Handsome Surveyor
Add another name to the list: ASO Chlef have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Handsome Surveyor. The answer from Rivers United has not changed — yet.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
Rivers United supporters have found a favourite in Maclyn Biokpo Jenewari
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Maclyn Biokpo Jenewari 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Aniekeme Okon
Still no offer on the table, and Aniekeme Okon’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Žiga Pečjak is in the works
Rivers United have made the call to Olimpija Ljubljana. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad3 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Rivers United are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- The dugout A satisfied Jamilu Olagunju
- Market Still no ink between Rivers United and Alex Oyowah
- Squad A row about effort at Rivers United