The Kano Pillars Gazette
Match11 Sep 2027
Kano Pillars taken apart
0‑3 to Remo Stars, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Mustapha Jawad beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 33. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market13 Sep 2027
Zayyad Musa 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 The request is on a desk at Kano Pillars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market13 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Imrana Ahmad
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Imrana Ahmad will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kano Pillars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Aminu Mohammed 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 Kano Pillars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
Too dear: Kano Pillars walk away from Godwin Obaje
$8.0K was the most the club would pay and Rangers International were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
Door shut on Evans Oppong
Kano Pillars asked and Great Olympics said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market13 Sep 2027
One of our own: Sunday Ihenacho joins the Kano Pillars first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sunday Ihenacho is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market13 Sep 2027
One of our own: Peter Eze joins the Kano Pillars first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter Eze is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Chiedozie Okorie
- Boardroom Doors closed at Kano Pillars
- Squad Salihu Nasiru signs on for more