The Nasarawa United Gazette
Squad3 Jan 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Darlintin Ovunda
33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nasarawa United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad3 Jan 2028
A fracture rules Bright Ihionu out for 68 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nasarawa United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market3 Jan 2028
Shooting Stars 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.
Market3 Jan 2028
Akanni Lawal puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nasarawa United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings3 Jan 2028
Up for the corner, and Abubakar Abdullahi delivers — 7.61
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Abubakar Abdullahi scored, was marked 7.61, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
Luka Ngwei says Nasarawa United went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Nasarawa United
Umar Ada and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Nasarawa United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Chukwudi Okoro 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
- Market Nasarawa United promote Emmanuel Onyeka from within
- Market One of our own: Ola Eze joins the Nasarawa United first team
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Austin Onyemaechi