Usman Audu

Defensive Midfielder - El-Kanemi Warriors
24 Jun 2028
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The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Dec 2027

Tempers go at El-Kanemi Warriors

Azubuike Casmir 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.

Squad20 Dec 2027

Words at El-Kanemi Warriors training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Risilanu Ismail 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.

The dugout20 Dec 2027

When it matters, Yakubu Abbas plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

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The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Risilanu Ismail, 20, 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 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

The dugout16 Aug 2027

Nathaniel Asibe says El-Kanemi Warriors went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match14 Aug 2027

Nobody wants to play El-Kanemi Warriors right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Match14 Aug 2027

Emmanuel Jonas the difference as El-Kanemi Warriors beat Nasarawa United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Emmanuel Jonas. 3‑1 against Nasarawa United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad16 Aug 2027

A row about effort at El-Kanemi Warriors

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Risilanu Ismail was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets16 Aug 2027

Door shut on Ejike Opara

El-Kanemi Warriors asked and Vitoria Guimaraes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces16 Aug 2027

The crowd has taken to Risilanu Ismail

At 20 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 ratings16 Aug 2027

Ninety minutes of Tosin Olawale at his very best

Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at El-Kanemi Warriors.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Ninety minutes of Emmanuel Jonas at his very best

Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at El-Kanemi Warriors.

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The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Dec 2026

Risilanu Ismail 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.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

No hiding place for Joke Efevwerha

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joke Efevwerha, and the manager let it.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Michael Iremitide stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Michael Iremitide and El-Kanemi Warriors agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Words exchanged at El-Kanemi Warriors

Zakka John 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.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

Ismail Mukhtar has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at El-Kanemi Warriors 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.

Market7 Dec 2026

The Risilanu Ismail talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. El-Kanemi Warriors know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

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