Rotary club gets first female president

Rotarian Hajia Zainab Omowunmi Owonikoko has emerged as the first female club president of the Rotary Club of Abuja Garki Neighbourhood.

In her address during the official flag-off of the Rotary year 2022-23 in Abuja, Rotarian Owonikoko said the club’s areas of focus include promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, saving mothers and children, supporting education, growing local economies, and protecting the environment.

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Owonikoko, who will within the period pilot the affairs of the District 9125 Nigeria of the club, said her programmes for the year include family health outreach programs, vocational/career talk & quiz competition for schools in FCT; organizing polio /COVID-19 seminars, rallies, road shows as well as sponsorship of 20 youths to Rotary Youth Leadership Academy (RYLA).

She also listed the donation of wheelchairs to the school of the blind, donation of exercise books to school and donation of laboratory equipment to sponsored schools, among others.