Rotary Club GRA, Ilorin has presented a 500-capacity examination/assembly hall renovated at the cost of N3.5 million to Community Senior Secondary School, Isolo-Opin, Ekiti local government Area of Kwara State. The presentation ceremony was witnessed by scores of members of the community.

Speaking at the event, outgoing president of the club and former military administrator of Bauchi and Osun states, Colonel Theophilus Bamigboye (retd), painted a deplorable picture of the building before the club's intervention. Bamigboye, who said that the club had adopted the community as a global village, added that "the next project is your health centre. We will rehabilitate it to world standard for other communities and villages to envy and emulate."

The former military administrator further said, "I recall that the first time we came here, everywhere was dusty. The ceiling of the hall had been blown off, the walls were not plastered and there was no door or window. Today, we are celebrating Rotary and humanity. I, therefore, urge the students to take good care of the facility." In his remarks, the Asolo of Isolo-Opin, Oba Raphael Are, was full of praise to the almighty God for making the event happen in his time.

"Only God knows why Rotary adopted our community as a global village. But for the club, many things would have happened negatively. Now, I can proudly invite people to my community's school. Interestingly, the community made no financial input in all the projects so far executed in the school," the royal father said.

Also speaking, the Vice President of Isolo-Opin Development Association (IDA), Mr Michael Adewunmi, appreciated the humanitarian gesture of the club, adding that but for the club's intervention, the community secondary school's laboratory would have been complete a write-off lacking in facilities and reagents. Earlier, the school's principal, Mr Ayo Abegunde, said the "club's intervention in the school was divine and timely.

Said he: "Were it not for the club's intervention, this place would have been an eyesore; hitherto the laboratory was no laboratory at all. For all this, we are grateful and indebted to the club. We pray and hope the plan by the club to build an administrative block for the school will be realised very soon."