The Rotary Club of Ikeja (District 9110) will induct Sola Akinsiku as its 55th president alongside the new board of directors for the 2022/2023 rotary year on Sunday, July 10 at the Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja.
Akinsiku is a fellow of the registered practitioners in adverting in Nigeria, born in 1958 in the prominent Erinketa quarters of the Ondo Kingdom to Adeniyi Moses Akinsiku and Mogbonjubola Beatrice Akinsiku.
His investiture which will also double as a fundraising occasion for the club’s humanitarian projects is expected to host Rotimi Akeredolu, the executive governor of Ondo State, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, Biodun Shobanjo, the chairman of Troyka Group, Michael Ade-Ojo, the founder of Elizade University, and Victor Ademefun Kiladejo, the Osemawe of Ondo kingdom, among others.
According to a statement signed by Segun Adebowale, the club’s director of public image the Rotary District 9110 will be bestowing awards of recognition for commitment to humanitarian activities on Akeredolu, Shobanjo, and Dangote at the event which will have Austin Avuru, the pioneer managing director of Seplat Nigeria Limited and executive chairman of AA Holdings, as the guest speaker.
Besides, the club would confer honorary membership on other eminent personalities like Smith Ezenagu, the managing director/ chief executive officer of Esso Nigeria Limited, Idris Salihu, Emmanuel Ajufo, and Emeka Okeke.
Rotary is an organisation of business and professional people united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
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Akinsiku, the incoming president has identified basic education and literacy, maternal and child care, peace and conflict resolution, environment, economic empowerment, and water and sanitation as some of the focus areas for the 2022/2023 rotary year.
He reiterated that the club was committed to developing the mind of school children, insisting that there was a need to make education interesting and conducive for children across the board.
“At Rotary Club of Ikeja, we are always committed to renovating schools, building blocks of classrooms, donating books, laboratory equipment, and an ICT laboratory,’’ he said.
Furthermore, he explained that the interventions highlighted earlier are necessary to take out-of-school children back to school.
“Do you know that some children stopped going to school because there are no classrooms? They get to school and sit under the tree to learn. So, Rotary steps into such situation build a block of classroom and this way, keep them in school,” he noted.
Moreover, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) English Language graduate promised that the club would also promote a sustainable environment for the society.
According to Akinsiku the environment is the nation’s heritage, “It is our future. The way we treat our environment is how we would be treated by the same environment tomorrow.
“We engage in tree planting and sanitation to ensure that the environment is properly taken care of. We also organise seminars, and workshops on climate change and how to make the environment friendly.”
Akinsiku began his advertising career journey in 1992 at Rock Forte Advertising Limited as a client service executive and later became a senior client service executive.
The enterprising Akinsiku joined the Research and Public Relations department of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria in 1994 and was later moved to the highly demanding Vetting & Inspectorate department and as secretary to the Advertising Standards Panel (ASP).
Having had a fulfilling career in APCON, under the leadership of Josef Bel-Molokwu a thoroughbred gentleman, Akinsiku moved over to the marketing/customer service department of Optimum Exposures Limited, one of the leading Out-of-Home Advertising media firms in Nigeria, and a member of the Troyka Group.
Akinsiku is married to Damilola Mercy Akinsiku with children. He started private practice in Out-of-Home media in 2001 when he co-founded KOK Visibility Edge with two of his cousins (Adegunloye Gilbert Robert and Adebayo Folasele Felix).
Today, KOK is a leading member of the Outdoor Advertising Association of Nigeria (OAAN) and operates in six geo-political zones of the country.
