The Abia Warriors Post
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Paul Samson
Successful dribbles: 53. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Okiemute Odah decides it from twelve yards
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Abia Warriors
A 1‑1 win over Barau, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
John Mmesoma could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.98
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.98, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Market17 Aug 2026
Al-Batin come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Abia Warriors did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Abia Warriors
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Abia Warriors are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Chukwuemeka Obioma 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 Abia Warriors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Seun Ogunribide 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 terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to John Mmesoma
At 19 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.
In brief
- Market Kano Pillars join the queue for Egbeoluwa Emmanuel
- Market Abia Warriors and Temple Emekayi are talking past each other
- Market Abia Warriors buy the years ahead of Adam Khan