In a bid to continue the bountiful achievement of Rotary Club of Ikoyi, the Board has successfully installed Ifeyinwa Rita Ejezie as the 10th President of the club at the 10th year of its existence. According to sources from the board management, her outstanding contribution towards the success of the club since she became a rotarian gave her the mandate without reservations.

In her address Ejezie reiterated her enthusiasm to serve the club with full commitment and she pleads for the supports of her fellow rotarians.

At the same time, her installation as the rotary’s 10th President became a new relief to humanitarian organisation both within and outside the country when she announced the club’s readiness to set up a brychytherapy centre at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital for the treatment a silent killer virus in our society, cervical cancer. In the same vein, she solicited for support of members and the public to procure a recommended equipment with an estimated value of N80 million naira for installation. She added that the cost will cover provision for maintenance, installation and train medical practitioners for at least a period of 5 years, all targets to reducing the number of deaths from cervical cancer.

Determined to earn more credibility and to maintain rotary’s theme for the year, “reach within to embrace humanity,” she said, the club would support in equipping a teaching hospital that services over 18 million residents in Lagos and its environs.

Itemizing the achievements of the rotary in giving soccour to the needy and the less privileged in our society and its eagerness to continue, Ejezie said, rotary club of Ikoyi metropolitican is a member of rotary international, the biggest humanitarian organisation committed to providing to the needy the world over and has been in existence for over 100 years.

“We have been actively involved with the rest of Rotarians all over the world in the fight for eradication of polio and with thanks to kind hearted people like you round the wold who continually donate generously.

“During the past years, we have donated medical equipments to hospitals, provided food and relief materials to orphanages, provided water by sinking boreholes in different communities, awarded scholarship to indigent students to mention but a few.

She advised that by the time we pull together the little resources to make a difference the less privileged in our society who cannot afford the luxury of going abroad for treatment will be treated here and more lives will be saved.