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  • Orji assures teachers, artisans, others on welfare

    Abia State Governor  Theodore Orji has  assured teachers, artisans and professionals  of the protection of their welfare, saying it remains one of the priorities of his administration.

    Speaking at a parley with heads of primary schools and National Union of Teachers NUT), integrated trade groups and Nigerian Association of Small-Scale Industrialists (NASSI) in the state in Umuahia, Orji said that welfare of every worker was important.

    The governor promised that he will not toy with the interest of the groups, saying that he once taught for six months before venturing into the civil service.

    He said he was on the same pedestal with teachers.

    He also said that whatever concerns teachers and the various other groups in the state are of paramount concern to him and attributed the downturn in the economy as hampering some of his plans for them.

    Orji said that he showed his love for teachers in the state by promoting them to the next grade level on assumption of office and ensuring that they reach grade level 17 something he said is peculiar to Abia State alone.

    The governor urged the teachers to bear with his government as it has their interest at heart and advised them not to listen to the opposition which he said has nothing to offer.

    He said that the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu who is a teacher will continue from where he will stop and correct whatever mistake he (Orji) may have made in office.

    Earlier, the Abia PDP governorship candidate, Dr. Ikpeazu who said that every teacher in the state would retain his job if he wins and promised to provide the enabling environment for teachers and pupils to excel.

    Speaking at the occasion, the state Chairman, Association of Primary School Head Teachers of Nigeria, Comrade Ekweghiam Christian pledged that the teachers will support the PDP but appealed to the governor to address some of their needs.

    In her speech, the Dean of Education Secretaries, in state, Mrs. Elizabeth Uhuegbu noted that teachers welfare have received great boost under Governor Orji, maintaining that it is under him that all teachers were promoted to the next grade level.

    Uhuegbu said that teachers now enjoy level 17 and promised that teachers in the state are happy with the governor and will support the candidature of Dr. Ikpeazu and other PDP candidates from state to national levels.

     

  • ‘Samsung, others disobeyed court order in contract deal’

    Samsung Heavy Industry Nigeria Limited and Total Upstream Nigeria Ltd are still working on multi-million dollar contract for the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit in Egina Field within OML 130, despite an order that parties maintain the status quo.

    Mr Olukayode Enitan, counsel to the plaintiff John Owubokiri, told Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Lagos, at the resumed hearing that despite the order, Samsung Heavy and Total Upstream Nigeria were still constructing the project.

    Justice Abang said if Enitan was sure that the defendants flouted the order, he should take the necessary steps.

    Samsung Heavy is contending that the court cannot hear the case.

    The court adjourned till February 26 for hearing of all applications.

    Other defendants include the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF); National Petroleum Investment Management Services, NPIMS; Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board, CDMB; Samsung Heavy and Total Upstream.

  • Anyiam-Osigwe, K.O.K, others canvass peaceful election

    Anyiam-Osigwe, K.O.K, others canvass peaceful election

    A new Non Governmental Organisation, NoBaga, which said it is committed to promoting the culture of nonviolence and free and fair elections, held its Town Hall meeting, at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Tuesday, urging Nigerians to embrace peace in the forthcoming general elections.

    The meeting which was presided over by Nollywood actor, Kanayo O. Kanayo, was attended by entertainers, students of  tertiary institutions, journalists, as well as NoBaga ambassadors, who were dressed in white Tee-Shirt with the ‘Vote, Not Hate’ inscription.

    In his address, K.O.K noted that the meeting was not a political campaign, but a clarion call to Nigerians to shun violence and focus on crucial issues. He explained that Baga, being the last community in Borno State to come under insurgent attacks, is being used as the group’s name.

    “The point we are trying to make is you have a choice to vote for whoever but we must not fight about it. I’m a very big optimist. I am not predicting that there will be war, but we must not encourage those who are beating the drums of war,” said the actor, who revealed that he was only seven years old when he witnessed the Nigeria/Biafra war. He recounted his ordeals, sayings that those who are fuelling violence and making inciting comments have their visas intact, while their children also school abroad. “This is not about Jonathan or Buhari. Your love for Nigeria should be paramount. This is what is called patriotism,” he said.

    Founder of the group, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, said the idea of NoBaga is a way of taking a stand against violent killings in the country. She revealed that it was a day after Baga attack that she lost her brother, Michael Anyiam-Osigwe, who was killed by gunmen during a rampage which took over 20 others lives. She said she has not stopped grieving and this has made her to realise how families of those Nigerians who have lost their lives in the series of insurgent attacks truly feel.

    “NoBaga, means ‘No More Killings,” she said. “The people dying in the North are Nigerians. We are supposed to be our brother’s keeper. Is it because it is not happening to us? I don’t know what it will take for Nigerians to have compassion. Inciting hate in the manner it has been going on in the nation because of election is a deadly thing. America has predicted that Nigeria will break by 2015. Do you want that prophesy of America to come to reality? Who I am going to vote for is a personal decision, but I’m not going to follow the hate campaign. Vote based on your conviction, vote who you like.”

    She said in addition, the group is organising a forum called Unity Day, having reached out to displaced people from the crisis areas. “This Saturday, February 7, we are going to have what is known as a unity day. It is a day of prayers and a day we are going to remember our brothers and sisters who died in the North East.”

    Nollywood actress, Nkiru Umeh, also urge all to embrace peace, even as notable comedian, Okey Bakassi, noted: “All your aspiration will come to nothing if by February 14, there is war. We are building hate that is gradually crossing the lines of friendship. I have said to myself, I’m not going to lose any of my friends to politics because these politicians were not there when these friendships were formed”.

    Also speaking, Joshua Okoluwa, a student of University of Lagos, advised the youths not to allow themselves to be used as political tugs. According to him, “These politicians do not like us. They say we are leaders of tomorrow, let’s form our own political party then and rule Nigeria. Why can’t we be the politicians ourselves?”

  • Encomiums as UNN honours Azinge, others

    Encomiums as UNN honours Azinge, others

    The University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) has conferred the honourary doctorate degree on Dr Valerie  Azinge.

    She was secretary of the National Conference held last year.

    Dr Azinge obtained an LL.M from the London School of Economics and Political Science and received her Ph.D in Law from the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma in 1990.

    She followed in the footsteps of her father, the late father Dr. John Nwodo who was also conferred with an honourary doctorate degree.

    Dr Azinge was honoured along with the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and  the Tetufund Chairman,  D. Musa Babayo.

    After the event, the honouree entertained her guests at the Ukehe residence of her brother, the former Minister of Information,  Chief John Nnia Nwodo.

    Nwodo,  while breaking the traditional Kola nut, recalled that her father moved the motion for the establishment of the University and was subsequently conferred with an honourary Doctorate Degree.

    Former  Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) Prof Epiphany Azinge (SAN) said of his wife:  “I feel elated, excited and exceedingly grateful to God for the honour done to my wife,  Dr. Valerie Azinge and through her to my  family. This honour coming years after her late father  was conferred with the same honorary degree, by the same university,  is truly a cause for celebration by the  Nwodo’s and Azinge’s  respectively

    “She feels highly fulfilled and has a sense of fulfillment and accomplishment that she could walk on the footprints of her father. But more significantly, it is gratifying to note that her contributions to humanity and her country are well recognised and appreciated

    “Few months ago, she was conferred with the national honor of Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR).This recognition, undoubtedly, will motivate and propel her to continue to serve her country selflessly and with patriotic zeal and enthusiasm.”

    A former Presidential Candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) Dr. Joe Nwodo said people could not fully understand and appreciate Dr. Azinge  without recourse to her role in the just concluded National Conference.

    “The conference at every level paraded some of the best brains available in our country.  The success of the conference is the result of a collective intellectual endeavor by all the participants which makes it difficult to compartmentalise the general success into individual achievements

    “At the level of the Secretariat of the conference,  we had exceptionally well qualified and non- partisan political leadership. This leadership had no secret agenda to manipulate the explosive proposals that arose on the floor of the conference to achieve prior determined objectives. The conference secretariat was in fact, formidable.  It consisted of Justice I. L.  Kutigi  as chairman, erudite  Professor Bolaji Akinyemi as vice- chairman and the amazon,  Dr. Valerie  Janette Azinge  as Secretary

    “The secretariat will go down in history as the most successful one that organised a politically explosive conference which eventually emerged with positive conclusions for our future. Even though in the development of the work of the conference, there were elements of the traditional North South division, but in the end those elements did not percolate into its major conclusions,” Dr. Nwodo said.

    On what made the conference unique, and  the peculiar contributions of  Dr  Azinge, Dr. Nwodo said: “The conference achieved two results hitherto thought impossible in Nigeria. To begin with, it was the first conference in our history to emerge with one unanimously agreed document with no dissenting opinions or report on its conclusions. This looks unbelievable and  sounds like a Nigerian political miracle. For a Nigerian conference to emerge with an unanimously  agreed document on inflammatory and explosive issues that had hitherto  divided our nation, is an achievement which cannot be easily quantified. And by this success we have moved our national struggle to another level.”

    He continued: “Before,  it was difficult to agree, the problem now however,  is no longer that we cannot reach agreement. Our present problem is now the political will to implement the decisions which our leaders freely arrived at during the conference. The conclusions of the conference have presented us with a comprehensive political manifesto on the future Nigeria  of our dream,  it is  now for our leaders to create  the political will  to implement it

    “Perhaps the most interesting contribution of the conference lay in its deliberate drive to create a finally Federal Republic of Nigeria consisting of 54 States made up of nine equal  states in the six geopolitical zones. The drive for  a true Federal Republic of Nigeria has for a longtime been obstructed by the primordial and perennial tripartite struggle for ethnic hegemony

    “In coming to this bold and novel decision, the conference came to a landmark decision of great historic proportions. They rejected the existing 36 military created, haphazard and unequal states, they equally rejected the division of Nigeria into equal geopolitical zones

    “In creating nine equal states in the each geopolitical zones, the conference  disregarded  the usual division of Nigeria into major and minor ethnic groups and by so doing,  the conference laid the proper foundation for the  building of a truly Federal Republic of Nigeria that liberated all the groups clamouring for political emancipation and self determination irrespective  of whether or not they belonged to a major or minor ethnic  group

    “If the is realized,  there will  only  be two tiers of government under the Federal constitution, the states will  be allowed to make their own constitutions  and to create their own local governments  which will  no longer come under the Federal constitution. In this way,  each of the fifty-four states will be forced to pursue earnestly   their political and economic self interest as opposed to the amorphous and nebulous  self interest of major or minor ethnic groups. Equally the dangerous and destructive struggle for tripartite ethnic hegemony will be reduced into manageable proportions. The unity of Nigeria will be enhanced and there will be a great natural leap forward

    Asked how  Dr. Valerie Azinge came into all these discourse, Dr. Nwodo said: “ She organized and  effectively managed the secretariat which was the engine room of the conference,  She designed an operational template for the management and direction  of the work of the conference consisting of  20  Committees which delved into the areas of our acute national problems and challenges. Her close interaction with the daily work of these committees created the ensuing operational framework for  the deliberation of these committees which provided for  the gigantic  success  recorded

    Giving insight into the background of Dr. Azinge which enabled her to achieve this monumental feat, Dr. Nwodo said: “  Dr. Azinge comes from a renowned political family in the south East. Secondly she is married to a brilliant intellectual, Prof. Epiphany  Azinge (SAN),  who as  Director-General,  Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal  Studies (NIALS)  master minded far-reaching reforms  in Nigerian law, little wonder he has been  described as a Five Star legal scholar.

    Above all, she studied  in the  famous London School of Economics and  Political Science  which is well known for producing products who are undertaking far  reaching social and political engineering reforms in several countries  of the world” Dr. Joe Nwodo concluded

    Former Governor of Enugu State, Okwsilieze Nwodo  commended Dr. Azinge for this great feat.

    He said: “ This is a great honour and recognition by the first indigenous University in Nigeria which is also my Alma Mater

    Dr. Valerie Azinge is fully deserving of the award,  She is an erudite lawyer with a Ph. D,  She is a very brilliant lady and a sagacious politician

    “All these qualities she used recently in the discharge of  her duty as  Secretary to the just concluded National Conference.

    Valerie is a dutiful wife and a consummate mother, she is a bundle of talents waiting to explode. I thank the University of Nigeria for discovering her and showcasing her to Nigerian womanhood for emulation” Okwesilieze said.

     

     

     

     

  • Edo College old boys honour Alegeh, others

    Edo College old boys honour Alegeh, others

    The Chairman of Edo College Old Boys Association (ECOBA), Lagos Branch, Mr. Godwin Ize-Iyamu, has described the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) president Mr. Augustine Alegeh and other members honoured by the association as worthy ambassadors of the college that is based in Benin City, the Edo State capital.

    Mr. Ize-Iyamu spoke during the first meeting of the association in Magodo, Lagos.

    In a statement, the Publicity Secretary of ECOBA, Lagos, Mr. Charles Igbinidu, stated that the Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (Nimasa), Mr Ziakede P. Akpobolokemi,who was the key ote speaker at the event was also honoured.

    According to Mr. Ize-Iyamu, “the association is always very meticulous in choosing members to be honoured annually. The criteria used include integrity, handwork, excellence in various aspects of life and display of all the positive values inculcated in us in Edo College”.

    During its Annual Dinner and Dance at Ruby Gardens, Lekki, Lagos, ECOBA gave an award to the NBA President for excelling in the legal profession. Other awardees were the Chairman of Grenigas Limited  Emmanuel Aguele, who was bestowed with ‘The Life Time Achievement Award’, while the Country Senior Partner for PwC Nigeria, Mr. Uyi Akpata and an Executive Director with Ecobank Mr. Kingsley Aigbonkhaevbo were honoured for outstanding performances in their professions.

    While further commending the awardees, Mr. Ize-Iyamu implored them to continue to keep the flag of Edo College flying. He urged the younger ones to emulate their exemplary performance and character.

    Speaking on some achievements of the association, he said: “One of the major goals of ECOBA is to revive educational excellence at Edo College.  We are happy to report that in 2014, we financed the relaunch of the Annual Prize Giving Ceremony at Edo College.

    “Through the generous donations to the Education Fund by members, an initial principal sum has been invested and the interest income used to fund monetary prizes and Plaques to the best students in 11 subjects selected by Ecobites /donors.”

     

     

  • Alake, others back Amosun for second term

    Alake, others back Amosun for second term

    THE Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, the Ndigbo, the Hausa communities and Monsur Hassan-Satoke have rated the performance of Governor Ibikunle Amosun high, saying he has earned their support for his re- election.

    Oba Gbadebo and others said the governor had done well and deserved a second term for the continuity, consolidation and sustenance of the progress Ogun State has witnessed in the last three and half years.

    They spoke separately yesterday at Panseke, Abeokuta at the site of the proposed light rail project of Amosun’s administration.

    It was during the governor’s tour of the Abeokuta South Local Government Council.

    Oba Gbadebo praised Amosun for what he described his transformation of the state through infrastructural development and urban renewal.

    He urged him to strive towards completing all the ongoing projects as well as improve more on the state’s water situation.

    Hassan – Satoke, a House Representatives aspirant for Abeokuta South Federal Constituency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said he was encouraged to aspire for an elective office in 2015, following Amosun’s good work.

    Also, in his address, the Eze Ndigbo of Ogun State, Eze Willy Ejimnkonye, said: “The tremendous infrastructural development, employment generation, healthcare delivery and making Ogun State the choice destination for foreign direct investments is a testament of the governor’s quality leadership and good governance.”

    Chairman of Ijebu North East Local Government Area Chief Femi Odufowokan has said the ongoing councils’ assessment tour embarked upon by Amosun will bring out positive performance in the councils.

    The APC chieftain, who spoke yesterday on the governor’s visit to the council area today, said: “As a responsible government, when you are administering an organisation or territory, it is normal for you to assess what you are doing so that you can continue in the direction you are pursuing or make some amends.

    “Besides, don’t forget we are in a federal system. To that extent, local governments are part and parcel of the state government and are under the direct control of states. So, the governor as the head of that government should and must monitor the activities of the local governments.

    “This, I believe will bring out positive performance from the local governments.

    “We all know that our governor is not an “arm chair governor”; he always go out to inspect projects being done by him. He never assumes or takes things for granted.”

    Odufowokan noted that all is set for the governor’s visit to his council today.

    He added that the tour was not for project inauguration, but for assessment.

  • $62million war chest against Ebola in Nigeria, others

    $62million war chest against Ebola in Nigeria, others

    Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen have donated over $60 million to contain Ebola in West Africa.  Allen is donating $9 million,  in addition to the earlier  $2.8 million to the American Red Cross for its work on the outbreak. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $50 million to the United Nations.

    Microsoft Corp  co-founder, Paul Allen, is donating $9 million to support the fight against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, just a month after donating $2.8 million to the American Red Cross for its work on the outbreak.He joins the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has pledged $50 million to United Nations agencies and other international groups to purchase supplies, such as protective gear for healthcare workers treating Ebola patients, and to expand the emergency response.

    Allen’s gift to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention comes at a time when international groups, including Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organisation, have said resources to contain the epidemic and treat those affected are falling tragically short.

    “The tragedy of Ebola is that we know how to tackle the disease, but the governments in West Africa are in dire need of more resources and solutions,’ Allen said in a statement. ‘The developed world needs to step up now with resources and solutions.”

    Allen said the donation from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation will help CDC establish emergency operations centers in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where the worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed about 2,300 people and shows no sign of slowing six months after it began.

    U.S. President Barack Obama asked Congress for $88 million in new Ebola funding, including $25 million for CDC, but this week congressional leaders said they would provide no more than $40 million.

    Allen said his foundation’s gift would help CDC establish and equip emergency operations centers in the three most-affected countries, focusing on public health, not patient care.

    The centers will use ‘data management and communication systems for disease and patient contact tracing, to detect and stop the disease from spreading,’ Allen said.

    They will also expand lab testing to identify new outbreaks, and disseminate information about the epidemic to the public.

    ‘A winnable battle should never be lost,’ Allen said.

    CDC has just more than 100 public health experts in the Ebola zone, and plans to send more.

    ‘Ebola is raging through parts of West Africa like an out-of-control forest fire but it can be controlled if the world comes together,’ CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said in a statement.

    The CDC Foundation, which was established by Congress in 1994 to raise funding to augment what CDC gets from Congress, recently committed $1 million to the Ebola response, including money for computers, personal protective equipment and thermal scanning thermometers for airport screeners, and training for healthcare workers.

    Since resigning from Microsoft in 1983, Allen has become a prominent philanthropist, supporting scientific research through the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

    He also owns the Seattle Seahawks football team and the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team.

    The donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will also support emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa — and represents the charity’s largest donation to a humanitarian effort.

    ‘It became clear to us over the last seven to 10 days that the pace and scope of the epidemic was increasing significantly,’ said Chris Elias, president of global development for the world’s largest charitable foundation.

    The Seattle-based foundation said the money will go to the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the CDC and international organizations involved in fighting transmission of the virus.

    The money will be used to purchase supplies and to develop vaccines, therapies and better diagnostic tools.

    ‘By fighting Ebola now, we can make sure it doesn’t become an endemic in (West) Africa,’ Gates tweeted on Wednesday.

    The foundation wants to help stop the outbreak as well as accelerate development of treatments and improve prevention.

    Elias said foundation officials have been talking to its partners around the world to assess the best use of its dollars and could not say yet how much would be spent on the emergency response and how much on research and development.

    ‘One of our key advantages is flexibility,’ he said.

    Global health and development dominate the work of the foundation, which has given away $30 billion since 1997.

    The foundation formed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife reported an endowment worth $40billion as of March 2014.

    The foundation was particularly influenced by the request on Friday by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for $600million to fight the Ebola outbreak.

    Ban said efforts in the next few weeks would be essential to stopping the virus that has killed more than 2,000 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

    The $50million includes $10million the foundation previously committed for emergency operations, treatment and research. Of that money, $5million went to the World Health Organization for emergency operations and research and development.

    Another $5million went to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to support efforts in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to purchase medical supplies, coordinate response efforts and spread information.

    Some of the $50million will support strengthening existing health care systems in the countries affected by the outbreak, the foundation said.

  • Duke, others charge women on skills acquisition

    Duke, others charge women on skills acquisition

    Life of the former Governor of Cross River, Mrs. Onari Duke, has called on Nigeria women to tap into their natural creative talents to succeed in their chosen profession.

    Duke said this at the 2014 Women in Business and Leadership Summit organised by GLEEDH Foundation in Lagos recently.

    The programme, tagged: ‘Women Transforming Communities, Developing Economics’ brought together hundreds of women from the public and private sectors, government functionaries, small business owners, educationists, civil society groups, media experts.

    According to her, there are immense opportunities for women who can tap into their natural skills, acumen, talents and experience in the development of our country.

    “We have women in government who should see themselves as role models and are serving the people not because they are women but because they have the skill, experience and expertise needed for the position,” she said.

    Also speaking, the special Adviser to the Ogun State Governor on Millennium Development Goals, Mrs. Hamsfat Abiola-Costello, said that women can make a lot of changes in public sector if they are committed to service.

    She cited countries such as China, India, Japan and other world powers who invested so much in the development of their public service and have attained greater level of success.

    Earlier in her opening speech, the Chief Executive Officer, Centre For African Culture and Development (CEFACD), Professor Sophie Oluwole, challenged Nigerian women to be actively engaged in governance at all levels.

    In his welcome address, Africa Director, GLEEHD, Dayo Israel, said that the summit is aimed at addressing the importance of networking within professional fields and focus on the role of women in developing, transforming and sustaining Africa’s economies and communities.

  • 3SC’ Amaniyi, 9 others join Kaduna Utd

    3SC’ Amaniyi, 9 others join Kaduna Utd

    The management of Kaduna United have beefed up the squad with  an additional 10 players ahead of the kick off of the Glo Premier League on Sunday.

    The club’s media officer, Uba Ibrahim, who disclosed this to SportingLife, said the decision was taken to address the dwindling situation in the club.

    Kaduna United is currently occupying 18th position on the log, the situation, according to Uba, did not go down well with the club’s management.

    The new players are David Amaniyi (3SC), Sumaila Sulaiman (Gombe United), Arinze Nwaogwu (Bayelsa United), Solomon Bitrus (Plateau United) and Emeka Ekueme (Akwa United).

    Others are Musa Sulaiman (FC Taraba), AbdulRasaq Yahyah (former player), Nasiru Shehu (Spotlight), Nasiru Jarmai (feeder team) and Collins Amadi (South Africa club).

    Uba informed SportingLife that the new players are the last of the registered players for the first stanza.

    “We have 10 new players in the team now. We registered 32 for the first stanza instead of 42 players. So we have the remaining players to complete the number. We are doing everything within our capacity to ensure that we change the situation in the team.

    Uba also disclosed that the club are yet to release any players due to the fact that the club still owes them.

    “Ordinarily, when you bring in new players you are supposed to allow some players to go but in our own situation we are yet to do that. We still owe them and it will be unfair to now ask them to go,” Uba said.

  • Warri Wolves sign Ede, six others

    Warri Wolves sign Ede, six others

    • Drop three

    Warri Wolves  have  confirmed  the signing of CHAN Eagles’ star Ifeanyi Ede and six others ahead of the Glo Premier League second stanza which kicks off on July 27.

    The Seasiders also announced the sack of three players to make way for the newly acquired ones.

    A top official of Warri Wolves, who disclosed this to SportingLife, said everything had been put in place to ensure that the club  bounce back in style in the second stanza.

    Warri Wolves will open their second stanza league adventure at home to Kaduna United on Sunday.