Akpos Godbless

Striker - Warri Wolves
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Akpos Godbless

7 Edition

The Warri Wolves Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cruel end for Shooting Stars as Warri Wolves pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Warri Wolves scored in the 91th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings

Innocent Orukpe runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Othuke Egbo 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.

Match

Warri Wolves get the job done against Shooting Stars

A 1‑0 win over Shooting Stars, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

Still no ink between Warri Wolves and Desmond Ojietefian

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

The dugout

Warri Wolves keep their word to Othuke Egbo

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad

A falling-out at Warri Wolves

Akpos Godbless and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Ezekiel Oroh takes the honours

Marked 7.64 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Warri Wolves had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Oghenekaro Collins, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Warri Wolves Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Warri Wolves

2‑3 against Ikorodu City, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

Kammonke Willie wins it after the whistle should have gone

90 minutes played. Kammonke Willie found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Kano Pillars went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Kammonke Willie at 18 — 7.74

The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kammonke Willie did not need any: 7.74, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Transfer targets

Warri Wolves bid $23.0K for Uche Moses

The offer went to Barau this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Words exchanged at Warri Wolves

Desmond Ojietefian 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.

Match

Warri Wolves find a way past Kano Pillars

Kano Pillars made Warri Wolves work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Kammonke Willie

At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

Vincent Edafe 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.

Player ratings

Amatesiro Shemayi was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.03. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

2 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A debut Don-Pedro Samuel will not forget — 7.79

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.79 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Market

Not going: Stanley Amon stays at Bayelsa United

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Gor Mahia had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Don-Pedro Samuel

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Bayelsa United see off Warri Wolves

Three points for Bayelsa United, 1‑0 the final word against Warri Wolves in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Nupe Godstime was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Bayelsa United

Pinna Sagbamaowei 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.

Squad

Solomon Wegba stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Solomon Wegba and Bayelsa United agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Nupe Godstime 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.

The dugout

Osayi Sadiq: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief