Malik Afoke

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Ikorodu City
20 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Malik Afoke

29 Edition

The Ikorodu City Chronicle

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Both of them Chidera Oparaocha's — 9.17

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.17, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Samuel Ezekiel has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ikorodu City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Ikorodu City count the cost of losing Dennis Oduya

32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match

Ikorodu City cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ikorodu City

Tosin Oyedokun 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

Ikorodu City find a way past Bayelsa United

Bayelsa United made Ikorodu City work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Rasheed Owolabi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Naheem Odugbemi

At 23 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Naheem Odugbemi

Marked 8.25 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Ikorodu City Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Ikorodu City

Tosin Oyedokun 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

Ikorodu City count the cost of losing Gbenga Opamoye

33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Malik Afoke stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Malik Afoke and Ikorodu City agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief