Nigerian top-flight side Ifeanyi Ubah have fired Former Hearts of Oak coach Kenichi Yatsuhashi barely a one month in charge of the NPFL club following a string of poor results.

The Japanese trainer was shown the exit together with his Ghanaian assistant Yaw Preko for the side's bad performances since taking over, having lost 2-1 to Wiki tourist in their first match, and lost 2-0 against 10-man River United in the second game.

Kenichi was accused of being overly physical in his training approach which the players complained of and affected their performance.

"We feel like the best way to change things going forward for the team is to make a change in this role," a club source said.

"While we're confident that we have many of the pieces in place to improve and will see improvement, we felt that, in order to continue to push forward and make improvements, we needed to make a change and have a different voice as the head of the technical crew."

Yatsuhashi was appointed last month to steer the club in place of Bulgarian tactician Mitko Dobrev, who led the team to historic Federation Cup feat last season.