{"id":74557,"date":"2025-08-30T11:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74557"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:29:10","slug":"tinubu-hails-babalolas-election-as-rotary-international-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/30\/tinubu-hails-babalolas-election-as-rotary-international-president-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Hails Babalola\u2019s Election as Rotary International President-Elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Nigerian engineer Olayinka Babalola on his historic election as the 2026\/2027 President of Rotary International.<\/p>\n<p>Babalola, of the Rotary Club of Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt, becomes only the second Nigerian and African to lead the 120-year-old global humanitarian organization.<\/p>\n<p>He was elected by the Rotary International Board of Directors and will assume office on July 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by his Special Adviser, Bayo Onanuga, President Tinubu described Babalola\u2019s election as a reward for his years of selfless service and commitment to humanitarian causes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis elevation is a testament to his relentless pursuit of projects that have positively impacted lives,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu expressed confidence that Babalola\u2019s achievement would inspire millions of Nigerians, particularly the younger generation, and assured him of government support during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>He wished him a successful term and renewed strength in his service to humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Nigerian engineer Olayinka Babalola on his historic election as the 2026\/2027 President of Rotary International. Babalola, of the Rotary Club of Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt, becomes only the second Nigerian and African to lead the 120-year-old global humanitarian organization. He was elected by the Rotary International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74559,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74557\/revisions\/74559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}