The Bendel Insurance Post
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Anthony Cletus is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Bayelsa United waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Bendel Insurance is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market10 Aug 2026
Victor Torisheju turns Esenler Erokspor down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Israel Odedele has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bendel Insurance they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Israel Odedele signs for Warri Wolves while still at Bendel Insurance
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Israel Odedele has agreed terms with Warri Wolves for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Oke Kayode 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 Bendel Insurance this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Bendel Insurance training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Nwokeji 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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Emmanuel Dung was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Abdullahi Ejuke joins the Bendel Insurance first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Abdullahi Ejuke is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match8 Aug 2026
Bendel Insurance refuse to lose to Rivers United
A point taken on 89 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
In brief
- Squad Bamidele Adeniyi signs on for more
- Match Bendel Insurance share the spoils with Rivers United
- The dugout No hiding place for Julius Emiloju Junior