Ibrahim Obansa

Central Defender - Remo Stars
3 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ibrahim Obansa

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The Remo Stars Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put Remo Stars out

Out, 0‑0 to Niger Tornadoes, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Alladoum Kolimba decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Adama Goïta at 20 — 8.19

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Adama Goïta did not need any: 8.19, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Jérôme Bonou 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 Remo Stars can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Olalekan Adeleye

Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

Samuel Anakwe 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 Remo Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Ahmed Akinyele

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Olamilekan Adedayo 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 terraces

Remo Stars supporters have found a favourite in Biola Sabitu

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Biola Sabitu 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.

In brief