Abu Tatu

Central Defender - Katsina United
2 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Abu Tatu

22 Edition

The Katsina United Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Akpos Godbless 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 Katsina United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Samson Obi

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Abba Dali falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

No place for Praise Chimechetam in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Katsina United are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

Moses Adikwu has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Katsina United 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.

The dugout

Akpos Godbless knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Katsina United, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

  • Squad Abu Tatu has had enough of the bench
  • The dugout Abba Dali has been promised minutes
Back issues
18 Edition

The Katsina United Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Abu Tatu keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Katsina United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Katsina United

Musa Sulaiman 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

Words at Katsina United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abba Dali 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.

In brief