Peter Abacha

Left Midfielder - Retired
25 May 2032
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231 Edition

The Ikorodu City Chronicle

30 Dec 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad30 Dec 2030

Words exchanged at Ikorodu City

Shodeinde Moses 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.

The dugout30 Dec 2030

Taiwo Alao has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ikorodu City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout30 Dec 2030

The manager makes an example of Peter Abacha

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market30 Dec 2030

The Gift Udoh question follows Ikorodu City around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Gift Udoh’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout30 Dec 2030

The manager makes Oscar Destiny a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Ikorodu City. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout30 Dec 2030

Jérôme Bonou knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ikorodu City, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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222 Edition

The Ikorodu City Chronicle

28 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market28 Oct 2030

Only the photograph left for Shodeinde Moses

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Shodeinde Moses will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ikorodu City the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout28 Oct 2030

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Squad28 Oct 2030

Tempers go at Ikorodu City

Shodeinde Moses was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout28 Oct 2030

The manager makes an example of Oscar Destiny

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market28 Oct 2030

No place for Peter Abacha in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Peter Abacha has his answer from Ikorodu City; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout28 Oct 2030

When it matters, Timothy Atamenwan plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market28 Oct 2030

Oscar Destiny runs his contract down

3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Ikorodu City money.

Market28 Oct 2030

The Tosin Oyedokun talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Ikorodu City know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout28 Oct 2030

Ebere Abdullahi knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ikorodu City, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

221 Edition

The Ikorodu City Chronicle

21 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Oct 2030

Tempers go at Ikorodu City

Shodeinde Moses was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market21 Oct 2030

Ikorodu City sign Ricardo Brooks, one for the future

Ricardo Brooks is 19, and Ikorodu City have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout21 Oct 2030

Onyeuche Ujunwa has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ikorodu City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market21 Oct 2030

The Joseph Arumala story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Joseph Arumala signs something — a contract at Ikorodu City or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad21 Oct 2030

Somebody is after Taiwo Alao’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Taiwo Alao suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Ikorodu City have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

Market21 Oct 2030

Still no ink between Ikorodu City and Ricardo Brooks

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Ikorodu City, another week without a signature from Ricardo Brooks.

In brief

215 Edition

The Ikorodu City Chronicle

9 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings9 Sep 2030

Taiwo Alao scores twice — 8.75

Two goals and a mark of 8.75 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market9 Sep 2030

Peter Abacha hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ikorodu City can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings9 Sep 2030

Naheem Odugbemi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market9 Sep 2030

Only the photograph left for Ospina Egbe

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ospina Egbe will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ikorodu City the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad9 Sep 2030

A falling-out at Ikorodu City

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

Transfer targets9 Sep 2030

Vincent Edafe stays at Warri Wolves as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Ikorodu City will try again when the window opens; Warri Wolves may not be selling by then.

Match7 Sep 2030

Ikorodu City find a way past Nasarawa United

Nasarawa United made Ikorodu City work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces9 Sep 2030

Ikorodu City supporters have found a favourite in Onyeuche Ujunwa

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Onyeuche Ujunwa has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout9 Sep 2030

The manager makes an example of Abraham Nwankwo

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief