The Wikki Tourists Herald
Market24 Aug 2026
The unthinkable, invoiced: Abdullahi Usman sold
Pardubice arrived with $330.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Wikki Tourists
0‑0 against Rangers International, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match22 Aug 2026
Wikki Tourists throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Plateau United the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Wikki Tourists will enjoy reviewing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Chizoba Okoh wins the shoot-out
1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ahmad Lamido, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.81
A mark of 7.81 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
A $330.0K sale, and a town that did not want it
Abdullahi Usman has gone, the accounts have $330.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Wikki Tourists training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sani Ibrahim 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nickson Ironsi was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 18. 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
From twelve yards, and Saifullahi Yusuf misses
A penalty is the one moment in football with nowhere to hide, and he did not score it. The walk back was long and the week will be longer.
In brief
- Match Wikki Tourists share the spoils with Plateau United
- The dugout Anthony Akinola: “We have to be better”
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Mohammed Faisal