The Barau Courier
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Joseph Atule
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Emeka Nwabulu
46 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barau lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Aug 2026
Barau bow out of the cup
Enyimba go through and Barau go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market24 Aug 2026
Mike Zaruma asks to leave Barau
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Najib Yusuf 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 Barau this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
Barau find a way past Kano Pillars
Kano Pillars made Barau work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Barau training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Uzochukwu Ezeobi 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
Stanley Oganbor in the eights
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market24 Aug 2026
Bayelsa United watching Adamu Hussaini
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Barau have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Adamu Umar
- Market Dynamo Douala expected to open talks for Joseph Kemin
- Market The shop window has Orji Kalu in it