The Wikki Tourists Herald
Market3 Jan 2028
Shuaibu Ibrahim asks to leave Wikki Tourists
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match1 Jan 2028
Wikki Tourists make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Wikki Tourists have 5 straight wins of it.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Wikki Tourists
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
Words at Wikki Tourists training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saifullahi Yusuf 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.
Market3 Jan 2028
Wikki Tourists promote Gabriel Okocha from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabriel Okocha has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market3 Jan 2028
One of our own: Etebo Akinola joins the Wikki Tourists first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Etebo Akinola is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market3 Jan 2028
One of our own: Daniel Okereke joins the Wikki Tourists first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Okereke is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match1 Jan 2028
Shuaibu Ibrahim sends Wikki Tourists past Bayelsa United
It finished 1‑0, and it was Shuaibu Ibrahim’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Wikki Tourists.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Wikki Tourists sign off a bigger ground
A capacity of 9393 on the plans. A decision judged twenty years from now, by people who were not in the room and will have opinions anyway.
In brief
- Boardroom A promise the Wikki Tourists board did not keep
- Player ratings Shuaibu Ibrahim takes the honours
- The dugout Wikki Tourists keep their word to Mahmood Aliyu