Nigeria, July 20 -- Kemi Pinheiro, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and legal scholar, has urged the president-elect of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, to make reconciliation and unity the defining priorities of her administration as she prepares to assume leadership of Africa's largest association of lawyers.

Mr Pinheiro made the call in a congratulatory statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday following Mrs Badejo-Okusanya's historic election as the first woman to be directly elected president of the NBA by the association's membership.

Describing the president-elect as an accomplished lawyer and consensus builder, Mr Pinheiro stated that her emergence represented a defining moment for bo...