Malik Afoke

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Ikorodu City
25 Jan 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Malik Afoke

23 Edition

The Ikorodu City Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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.

Market

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 ratings

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Boardroom

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

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7 Edition

The Ikorodu City Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Chidera Oparaocha takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings

Naheem Odugbemi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Chidera Oparaocha

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.82, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Ikorodu City see off Niger Tornadoes

Three points for Ikorodu City, 3‑1 the final word against Niger Tornadoes in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

One of their own: Kelechi Onwe

He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

One of our own: Stephen Akpan joins the Ikorodu City first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stephen Akpan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Match

Ikorodu City hit back inside 1 minutes

Niger Tornadoes held the lead for 1 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Ikorodu City answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.

Squad

Ikorodu City lose Malik Afoke

16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Tempers go at Ikorodu City

Gideon Manaseh 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.

In brief