Impressed by the performance of the team in the ongoing 2012/13 season of the Globacom Premier League, the Borno State governor Alhaji Kashim Shettima has ordered the payment of 50 percent sign on fees of the players of El Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri.
Governor Shettima, who gave the order last Sunday after watching the team wallop Warri Wolves
3-0 in a match day 27 tie also ordered the increment of the players' winning bonuses for the encounter from 30,000 naira to 100, 000 naira.
The governor's presence at the stadium gingered up the coach Zachari Baraje tutored boys who lived up to the occasion by pummeling the visitors, thus recording their second straight wide margin victory having beaten Nembe City by the same margin on match day 25Speaking after the match, governor Shettima praised the players for their doggedness which assuring them of more support from his government.
El Kanemi Warriors who returned to the elite league this season after years of sojourn in
the lower division are presently share the third position with Kwara United as both sides have 44 points from 27 matches each.
