Lobi Stars F.C. 1985. There was another change again when state-owned Lobi Bank acquired the club in 1990 and named it Lobi Bank Football Club. In 1999, the Nigeria Football League was played in a new format which saw the top four teams squaring up in a knock out Super League at the National Stadium, Surulere. Lobi Stars won the maiden edition of the Nigerian Super League under coach Godwin Koko Uwua's management. Lobi Stars won its first and only FA Cup title in 2003 after beating Sharks FC, In 2005 they reached the finals of the domestic FA Cup where they lost
Lobi people of the white man in the area. During the twentieth century some migrated into Côte d'Ivoire. The Lobi are well documented for their animist beliefs, which involves regular interaction with ancestral and other types of spirits such as "thila" and "kontuoursi". Interaction with these spirits commonly takes place in a "thilduu" (domestic shrine room), "dithil" (village shrine), and at other places in nature inhabited by spirits. Christian missionaries working in southern Burkina Faso have reported that an elderly man in a Lobi village once renounced the spirits in favor of Christianity by discarding his fetishes in a nearby lake. As