Vanguard: Offor donates $1m to Rotary’s polio eradication
The following article by Emeka Aginam was published by Vanguard on June 25, 2013. To see the original article, please click here. Offor donates $1m to Rotary’s polio eradication By Emeka Aginam, in Lisbon, Portugal In his committed effort to join in the total eradication of Polio globally, especially in Nigeria, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Chrome Group, Sir. Emeka Offor yesterday at the ongoing 2013 Rotary International Convention in Lisbon, Portugal announced additional donation of $1 million to Rotary International. Currently, Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan are the countries where the wild polio virus has never been stopped. In his presentation yesterday during a PolioPlus workshop, at the convention, he told the gathering that a defining moment for him was when he received confirmation from Rotary that his initial $250,000 contribution to PolioPlus was used immediately in the campaign …
