The Ikorodu City Chronicle
Squad4 Jan 2027
A one-man rearguard from Michael Atata
There were 8 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Chidera Oparaocha asks to leave Ikorodu City
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tosin Oyedokun 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 Ikorodu City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
1 academy graduates step up at Ikorodu City
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Market4 Jan 2027
Kammonke Willie returns a better player
17 games and 8 goals away from here, and a man the manager did not have last summer. The loan did what loans are supposed to do and almost never do.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Musa Malik was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Samuel Ezekiel attracts admirers
The name of Samuel Ezekiel has come up in conversations Ikorodu City were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market4 Jan 2027
One of our own: Ndidi Obi joins the Ikorodu City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ndidi Obi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Ikorodu City sign off a bigger ground
A capacity of 2787 on the plans. A decision judged twenty years from now, by people who were not in the room and will have opinions anyway.
In brief
- Squad Malik Afoke signs on for more
- Match Honours even between Ikorodu City and Plateau United
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Kammonke Willie