Promise Daniel

Central Midfielder - Bayelsa United
24 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Promise Daniel

22 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Peter Ebimobowei breaks a bone — 84 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 84 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Gabriel Biriduba 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

Don-Pedro Samuel comes back from a loan that worked

14 appearances and 9 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.

Squad

A falling-out at Bayelsa United

Ebiabowei Baker and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Bayelsa United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chinedu Onyinjekwu 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 dugout

Nupe Godstime knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nupe Godstime trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The small margins put Bayelsa United out

Out, 0‑3 to Wikki Tourists, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Peter Ebimobowei scores twice — 9.02

Two goals and a mark of 9.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The terraces

A cup embarrassment at Wikki Tourists follows Bayelsa United home

0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Chinedu Onyinjekwu at 21 — 7.91

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Chinedu Onyinjekwu did not need any: 7.91, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Warri Wolves come back empty-handed

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

Match

Bayelsa United find a way past Enyimba

Enyimba made Bayelsa United work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Transfer targets

Rangers International tell Bayelsa United: Divine Chidera is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Business is business: Akpos Godbless goes

Mtarfa paid $16.0K and Bayelsa United took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Player ratings

Promise Daniel did the work nobody counts — 6.81

12 combined actions and 6.81. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

In brief