Sunusi Audu

Striker - Bendel Insurance
21 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process
67 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Haruna Abubakar gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Loan watch

Sunusi Audu has seen enough of Bendel Insurance

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Nasarawa United, and 2 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Sanusi Sani stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sanusi Sani and Nasarawa United agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
63 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Abubakar Garba is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.04 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Nasarawa United know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Anderson Pere

“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.

Loan watch

Sunusi Audu has seen enough of Bendel Insurance

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Nasarawa United, and 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

57 Edition

The Bendel Insurance Post

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

12 matches without a win for Bendel Insurance

The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Bendel Insurance are no longer polite ones.

Market

Bamidele Adeniyi asks to leave Bendel Insurance

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Miswar Saputra stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Miswar Saputra and Bendel Insurance agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Chisom Chikatara

“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.

Loan watch

10 goals on loan for Uche Collins

34 appearances at Katsina United and the goals keep coming. Bendel Insurance are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Squad

Onyia Henry 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 Bendel Insurance, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Experience through the door at Bendel Insurance

Bolu Sholumade arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Match

Bendel Insurance draw a blank against Wikki Tourists

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Wikki Tourists defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Squad

Somebody is after Julius Emiloju Junior’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Julius Emiloju Junior suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Bendel Insurance have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

55 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Darlintin Ovunda keeps Nasarawa United in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Awal Auta: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nasarawa United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Nasarawa United

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

At 21, Abubakar Garba is already the best thing here

An average of 7.03 in a first team he is several years too young for. Nasarawa United have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Market

Plateau United watching Sunusi Audu

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Nasarawa United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Anderson Pere

“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.

Market

Barau expected to open talks for Collins Onovughe

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Nasarawa United will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match

Nasarawa United and Bendel Insurance take a point apiece

It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Market

Anderson Pere joins Nasarawa United on a free

No fee and no drama: Anderson Pere has signed at Nasarawa United, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

In brief

53 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Kun Khalifat come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Nasarawa United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Nasarawa United

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Mansur Barhama signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mansur Barhama commits to Nasarawa United for another 4 years.

Squad

Chukwudi Okoro gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Warri Wolves are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Nasarawa United will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Match

Nasarawa United draw a blank against Plateau United

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Plateau United defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

51 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

6 matches without a win for Nasarawa United

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Nasarawa United are no longer polite ones.

Market

Ifeanyi Okechukwu hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nasarawa United can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Izuchuckwu Chimezie: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nasarawa United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Rivers United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Nasarawa United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Abubakar Garba is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.02 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Nasarawa United know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Market

Barau expected to open talks for Collins Onovughe

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Nasarawa United will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

49 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Darlintin Ovunda hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nasarawa United can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Mansur Barhama gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Nasarawa United and Qudus Akanni are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Ameh Godwin lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Market

Wikki Tourists are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Nasarawa United will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Match

Honours even between Nasarawa United and Abia Warriors

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

48 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Hassan Adamu: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nasarawa United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Nasarawa United turn down Warri Wolves for Sunusi Audu

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Nasarawa United lose Chidera Nduka

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

45 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

6 matches without a win for Nasarawa United

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Nasarawa United are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Pam Samuel: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nasarawa United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Mansur Barhama gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

43 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

4 matches without a win for Nasarawa United

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Nasarawa United are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Abubakar Garba is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.00 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Nasarawa United know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Abubakar Abdullahi

“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.

In brief

42 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Chukwudi Okoro hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nasarawa United can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Sunusi Audu is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nasarawa United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Chukwudi Okoro 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 Nasarawa United, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

38 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Sunusi Audu has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Hussaini Mubarak gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

A bad afternoon for Nasarawa United against Katsina United

0-1 to Katsina United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

34 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Sunusi Audu has one foot out of the door

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

Match

Nasarawa United see off Plateau United

Three points for Nasarawa United, 2-1 the final word against Plateau United in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Eshimitu Gomino Eya attracts admirers

The name of Eshimitu Gomino Eya has come up in conversations Nasarawa United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Awal Auta

“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

Segun Adekunle finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Nasarawa United have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Squad

Mansur Barhama asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

30 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Sunusi Audu has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ameh Godwin

“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.

Match

Nasarawa United come up short against Abia Warriors

Abia Warriors left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

28 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Chukwudi Okoro says Nasarawa United 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.

Market

Sunusi Audu attracts admirers

The name of Sunusi Audu has come up in conversations Nasarawa United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Mansur Barhama gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Plateau United expected to open talks for Eshimitu Gomino Eya

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Nasarawa United will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match

Nasarawa United share the spoils with Remo Stars

A 1-1 draw with Remo Stars leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Imo Ikemdinachi 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 Nasarawa United, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

27 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Darlintin Ovunda asks to leave Nasarawa United

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

A bad afternoon for Nasarawa United against Barau

0-2 to Barau, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Hussaini Mubarak

“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.

Market

Wikki Tourists expected to open talks for Sunusi Audu

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Nasarawa United will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

Mansur Barhama 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 Nasarawa United, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Window shut, Benjamin Jack still here

Nasarawa United spent the window trying to move Benjamin Jack on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.

In brief

5 Edition

The Nasarawa United Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ameh Godwin keeps Nasarawa United in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 14 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Cup progress for Nasarawa United

A 1-0 win over Rivers United, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

Idris Ajiya hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nasarawa United can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Luka Ngwei moves on

El-Kanemi Warriors pay $95.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Bright Ihionu

“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

Chidera Nduka asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief