Gabriel Ogunjobi

Striker - Warri Wolves U18
27 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Gabriel Ogunjobi

30 Edition

The Warri Wolves Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Gabriel Ogunjobi out for 33 days

33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Warri Wolves lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

The wait goes on for Warri Wolves

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Chisom Ogbun pops up at the right end — 7.19

7.19, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market

Godstime Edewor is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Warri Wolves is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Warri Wolves

Abdulrafiu Taiwo 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.

Player ratings

Igbunu Evwierhurhoma beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Warri Wolves refuse to lose to Bendel Insurance

A point taken on 94 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.

Match

Chisom Ogbun rescues a point for Warri Wolves

It needed Chisom Ogbun to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Bendel Insurance, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

No hiding place for Amatesiro Shemayi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amatesiro Shemayi, and the manager let it.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Squad Justus Ohanu falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Market No place for Chibueze Lambert in the plan
Back issues
29 Edition

The Warri Wolves Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gabriel Ogunjobi

42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Warri Wolves lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

Ademola Adebambo: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Warri Wolves have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

The wait goes on for Warri Wolves

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A falling-out at Warri Wolves

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

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Joshua Ajayi was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Warri Wolves dressing room was either.

Squad

A row about effort at Warri Wolves

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alimi Adebayo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Alimi Adebayo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alimi Adebayo, and the manager let it.

Match

Warri Wolves and El-Kanemi Warriors cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. El-Kanemi Warriors came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Looking ahead

Prince Ebhohon goes back to face Bendel Insurance

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Prince Ebhohon’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Warri Wolves needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief