The District Governor of Rotary club, District 9125, Rotarian Felix Obadan, says the club has spent over a billion naira on the eradication of polio in Nigeria.

Speaking with journalists after his visit to Kwara State, Obadan said that the club, in partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Federal Government of Nigeria, was involved in providing funds for the vaccines and logistics for the vaccinators in the battle to eradicate polio in many parts of the country.

He also said that rotarians were not only involved in funding immunisation and its logistics, but they participated as members during immunisation exercise.

Obadan, who decried the listing of Nigeria as one of the three remaining polio-prone countries in the world, said the remaining countries are Pakistan and Afghanistan as India had been certified as polio-free.

He said Nigeria still records incidence of polio because of the gap in funding, adding that, "a lot of kids that are supposed to get the vaccines are missed out. Some are due to ignorance and local beliefs, but the advocacy of the traditional rulers is helping now," he said.

Obadan also said that the humanitarian activities of the club put it in the forefront of polio eradication because, "polio is bad, unless it is totally wiped out, the whole World is in danger. It is contagious and spreads fastly."

He said the club is a non-political, non-religious, and non-racial and with about 143 million members in over 200 countries worldwide.

In her contribution, the past President of Ilorin Rotary Club who is now the Assistant District Governor in charge of Ilorin and Ogbomoso, Chief (Mrs.) Jumoke Bamigboye, disclosed that Rotary club of Ilorin has been in the forefront of selfless service, giving gifts to motherless homes at Ilorin, vocational items to the medium prison at Mandala, counselling as well as donations to the leprosarium at Oke-Igbala, among others.

She disclosed further that the club made a discovery at Isolo-Opin when they went on advocacy campaign to Omu-Aran.

The club discovered that a senior secondary school at Isolo-Opin,Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, had two rooms labeled as Chemistry and Biology, Laboratories without any equipment and no library. As part of its community service, Rotary Club has decided to build a library and provide all the needed equipment for the laboratories to make them a standard one for students.