VIDEO: President Tinubu Receives Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, NBA President-Elect at State House

• President Bola Tinubu has received Nigerian Bar Association President-elect Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya and members of her delegation at the State House, weeks before she makes history as the association’s first elected female president.

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday received Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, the President-elect of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), at the State House in Abuja ahead of her inauguration next month.

Badejo-Okusanya, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), was accompanied on the courtesy visit by prominent female legal professionals, including Foluke Dada-Lawanson, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Caleb University; Ezinwa Okoroafor, President of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Nigeria; Hadiza Afegbua, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Lead of the NBA Women Forum; and Ramlat Ridhwan, Publicity Lead of the BBold campaign team.

The visit comes just weeks before Badejo-Okusanya assumes office as the 33rd President of the Nigerian Bar Association.

On July 19, Badejo-Okusanya made history by becoming the first woman to be elected president of the NBA.

She is, however, the second woman to lead the association after Priscilla Kuye, who served as NBA president between 1991 and 1992.

Badejo-Okusanya is expected to officially take over from Afam Osigwe during the NBA’s Annual General Conference scheduled to hold in Enugu next month.

She will begin a two-year tenure, becoming one of the most prominent figures in Nigeria’s legal profession and leading the country’s largest association of lawyers.

Her emergence has been widely hailed as a landmark moment for gender inclusion and leadership within the Nigerian legal community.

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VIDEO: President Tinubu receives Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, NBA president-elect, at State House pic.twitter.com/KJ0I7KLBNS— TheCable (@thecableng) July 28, 2026