Rotary Club of Ikeja gets first female President

Plans have been concluded for the investiture ceremony of the 50th President of Rotary Club of Ikeja, Rotarian Olaitan Ojuroye, and the induction of the Board of Directors for the 2016/2017 Rotary Year.
In a press statement, the Directorate of Public Relations, Rotary Club of Ikeja, District 9110 Nigeria, also announced that the event is particularly monumental because the new president doubles as both the first female president and the 50th president of the Club.
The event, which expects a guest speaker, Sir Festus Oluremi Omotoso, Chairman, Standard Chartered Bank Limited, will hold on August 7, 2016 by 2p.m.
All stakeholders will gather at Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Mobolaji-Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos for the investiture ceremony.
Other special guests of honour include Olufunke Iyabo Osibodu, the Managing Director, Benin Electricity Distribution Plc, as Mother of the Day; and Oba Adedapo Tejuoso, Karunwi III, the Oranmiyan Osile of Oke-Ona, Egba, as the Royal Father of the Day.
Oba Tejuosos is also a member of Rotary Club of Ikeja.
According to the Chairman, Investiture Planning Committee, Rotarian Goke Olayinka: “The entire Rotary family is excited about this event. This is because the investiture is remarkable in the history of Rotary Club of Ikeja, District 9110. Rotarian Ojuroye will be our first female president and also the 50th President of the District.
“We also celebrate the fact that touching lives runs in her blood. Her father was actually a Rotarian past president. Her younger brother was also a past president of the Club.”
In furtherance to keeping to its promise to continuously offer humanitarian services and advance goodwill around the world, Rotary Club of Ikeja, District 9110 had donated gift and relief materials worth over N1 million to special Nigerians.
To the beneficiaries of the gesture, the Nigerian Airforce Officers Wives’ Association, six artisans and one disabled person, Rotary Club International has validated the practicality of its humanitarian offerings.
Expressing gratitude at the maiden visit of the District Governor, Rotarian Pat Ikheloa, to the Rotary Club of Ikeja, the highly satisfied beneficiaries extolled the Club, saying, they are proud to go home with the items which included, sewing machines, shoe making/maintenance equipment and grinding machines.
The beneficiaries included Amaechi John, who came to the event on clutches.
John got the shoe-making equipment, while appealing to other special people not to hit the streets begging.
Admas Aina went home with the grinding machine.
Temitope Akinduyite received vocational materials and equipment on behalf of NAFOWA among other recipients.
Supporting and empowering the less privileged has always been the focus of the Club.
With this commitment, according to the Acting President of the District, Rotarian Olaitan Ojuroye, the Club will continue to execute programmes designed to change and touch lives positively.