Rotary District 9110 has announced that the 2024 edition of its Rotary Information and Awareness Activities Program will be holding on Saturday January 27th, 2024, at the prestigious Rotary Centre, Ladoke Akintola Street, Ikeja GRA, Lagos.
The event, with the theme “CREATE HOPE IN THE WORLD”, and which is billed to start at 11am, will be veritable platform to really showcase Rotary club’s tradition of bringing together, people across generations who wish to create lasting change in the world, in their communities, and in themselves, as well as how Rotary and Rotaract members around the world strengthen their connections to friends and neighbors by taking action through service.
The panelists of the special annual event are PDGs Bola Onabadejo, Wale Ogunbadejo, Kola Sodipo, and Bola Oyebade.
Rotary District 9110 which has the dynamic and innovative Rotarian Ifeyinwa Ejezie has its district governor, has already recorded many successes despite year 2024 being less than a month gone.
Rotary International, District 9110 in collaboration with the Lagos State Sports Commission kicked-off a first of its kind Rotary Sports Festival; (ROSFEST) 2024, with the Director General, Lagos State Sports Commission, Mr Gafar Oluwatoyin and his team in attendance. The highlight of the event however, was how District Governor Ejezie formally kicked-off the contest with a scrabble game contest which she played against the LSSC DG.
Governor Ejezie also held a strategic business meeting with the Honourable Special Adviser on Works to Mr. Governor of Lagos State at the State Administrative Secretariat recently where she engaged the Lagos State Government and requested that the Government should provide an enabling environment for Rotary in the discharge of Rotary’s humanitarian activities, as well as appealed that the Government should provide a situation where the ease of doing its business will be seen to be seamless without stringent Government policies and protocols that will be hindering the discharge of service to humanity. She also espoused the need for the Lagos State Government to assist District 9110 on the quest for landed property for a structural place to nurse the newly born Rotary District 9112 on the Lagos Island corridors.
Another notably achievement is Rotary Youths Leadership Academy RYLA 2023; an annual Rotary International programme organized by Rotary International District 9110; which brings together teenagers and youths of various tribes from across Lagos and Ogun states. This year’s week-long edition kicked-off on Sunday, January 7, 2024 at National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camp in Iyana Ipaja, Lagos, with talented veteran Nollywood Actor Odunlade Adekoya as the Guest Speaker who delivered a speech on “Time”, Attitude” and “Respect.”
According to the Chairperson of the Rotary Awareness Committee, PP Salau Funke Doris, and its able Secretary, PE Bolatito Olaboye, the essence of the Rotary Information and Awareness Activities Programme is to discover more about Rotary and witness the accomplishments of Rotary Clubs over the past six months in terms of Projects.
