Nigeria, July 1 -- As the 2025/26 Rotary year draws to a close today, 30 June, I find myself pausing to reflect - not just on the programmes and projects, but on the deeper meaning of what it means to serve through an institution that has, for over a century, quietly changed the world, one community at a time.

My Rotary journey began towards the end of 2018, a deliberate and intentional decision that I count among the best I have ever made. Rotary International, founded in Chicago in 1905 by lawyer Paul Harris and three colleagues, is today one of the world's largest humanitarian service organisations, with over 1.4 million members across more than 46,000 clubs in 200 countries. Its foundational ethic - service above self - is not merely...