The President of Rotary International, Mr Gordon Mclnally is expected in Nigeria on a three-day working visit from March 15 to March 17.
Prof. Emmanuel Lufadeju, the Co-coordinator, Rotary International Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the visit, revealed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
He said that Mclnally may likely have audience with President Bola Tinubu to discuss on assistance on disease control and child and maternal health during the visit.
According to him, the visit would enhance existing ties between the Federal Government and the Rotary International.
“The visit is to cement the already existing bond between the federal government, the WHO, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and other stakeholders.
”Nigeria is the awardee of the 2nd ‘Programme of Scale (PoS)’ a 2 million dollar grant, for the improvement of maternal and child health code named; ‘Together for Healthy Families in Nigeria’.
Recently, a new grant amounting to 14 million dollars was given by Rotary, through the WHO to the Government of Nigeria to enable WHO provide technical assistance on polio surveillance.
“The grant was also a support to avert a resurgence of wild polio as well as to eradicate the Circulating Variant Poliovirus Type 2 (CVPVD2) in the country,” he said.
Lufadeju said that Nigeria was a priority nation to Rotary International, because it was a priority country in Africa and indeed in the world.
Chinedum Anayo