Jonathan B. Majiyagbe, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, is principal counsel in J.B. Majiyagbe & Co., with a wide commercial law practice in Nigeria. Born in Lagos, he is a graduate of the University of London.

Mr. Majiyagbe is a member of the Honourable Body of Benchers, a former member of the interim judicial service committee, Kano State, a past vice president of the Nigerian Bar Association, and a member of the International Bar Association. He has served as a trustee of the Kano Lebanon Club and the Kano Club. He was a long-time Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Kano and is currently the Chairman, Nigerian Red Cross Society, Kano Branch. Mr. Majiyagbe is also a member of the Kano Chamber of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture.

A Rotarian since 1967, Mr. Majiyagbe is a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Kano. He has served Rotary International as district governor, International Assembly instructor, committee member, director and trustee of the Rotary Foundation. He is a recipient of the Rotary Foundation Meritorious Service and the Distinguished Service Awards.

As Chairman of the African Regional PolioPlus Committee and member of the International PolioPlus Committee, Mr. Majiyagbe is dedicated to the global effort to eradicate polio. Rotary's PolioPlus program, launched in 1985, is an aggressive public/private partnership to assist international health agencies and governments to certify the world as polio-free by the year 2005, Rotary's centennial anniversary. By that year, Rotary will have committed nearly a half billion US dollars to the eradication effort. To date, more than two billion children have been immunized against the deadly poliovirus.