Chidera Nwankwo

Defensive Midfielder - Niger Tornadoes U18
23 Aug 2026
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The Niger Tornadoes Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Clinton Jephta

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Niger Tornadoes pay Nasarawa United $96.0K for a proper upgrade

Nasarawa United did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $96.0K for Luka Ngwei, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Squad

Mohammed Aliyu 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 Niger Tornadoes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

$96.0K for Luka Ngwei, and Niger Tornadoes supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Luka Ngwei from Nasarawa United for $96.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad

Words at Niger Tornadoes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Roa 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.

Match

Niger Tornadoes get the job done against El-Kanemi Warriors

A 1‑0 win over El-Kanemi Warriors, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

El-Kanemi Warriors watching Daniel Godwin

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Niger Tornadoes have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Player ratings

Yusuf Omotayo takes the honours

Marked 7.69 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Niger Tornadoes had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

5 new faces, and Niger Tornadoes are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief