The Nasarawa United Gazette
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A brace, and Sunusi Audu takes the afternoon — 8.16
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sunusi Audu provided it, and the 8.16 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Luka Ngwei is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Wikki Tourists waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Nasarawa United is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market10 Aug 2026
Austin Onyemaechi 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Abubakar Garba at 20 — 7.76
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Abubakar Garba did not need any: 7.76, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bendel Insurance 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Nasarawa United
Umar Ada and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
One of their own: Sunusi Audu
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market10 Aug 2026
Calvin Ejuke steps up from the Nasarawa United academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Calvin Ejuke has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bright Ihionu 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.
In brief
- Squad Austin Onyemaechi signs on for more
- Match Nasarawa United rescue it on 91 minutes
- Match Sunusi Audu rescues a point for Nasarawa United