The Bendel Insurance Post
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Bendel Insurance
Oke Kayode 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Bendel Insurance training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Onyia Henry is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Emmanuel Akpan signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emmanuel Akpan and Bendel Insurance agree another 4 years.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Christian Molokwu has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Bendel Insurance will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market28 Dec 2026
The Oke Kayode talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bendel Insurance know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Stanley Okorom knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Stanley Okorom trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Uche Collins’s exile
- The dugout Emmanuel Ofori has been promised minutes
- The dugout The manager comes out for Christian Molokwu
- Squad Welcome back, Onochie Chukwu