By The Metro 
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday received the President-elect of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mrs Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, during a courtesy visit at the State House, Abuja.
Badejo-Okusanya was accompanied by the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Caleb University, Prof. Foluke Dada-Lawanson; the President of the International Federation of Women Lawyers, Mrs Ezinwa Okoroafor; the FCT Lead of the NBA Women Forum, Princess Hadiza Afegbua; and the BBold Campaign Team Publicity Lead, Mrs Ramlat Ridhwan.
The visit came ahead of Badejo-Okusanya’s assumption of office as the next president of the NBA.
Badejo-Okusanya was recently elected as the 33rd President of the Nigerian Bar Association after polling 9,891 votes in the association’s national election.
She becomes the second woman to lead the NBA after Chief Priscilla Kuye, who served as president from 1991 to 1992.
She will succeed Afam Osigwe, SAN, at the NBA’s Annual General Conference scheduled to hold in Enugu next month, when she will formally assume office for a two-year tenure.