{"id":125008,"date":"2024-07-21T11:54:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T10:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/afam-osigwe-emerges-new-nba-president"},"modified":"2024-07-21T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T12:02:50","slug":"afam-osigwe-emerges-new-nba-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/afam-osigwe-emerges-new-nba-president","title":{"rendered":"Afam Osigwe emerges new NBA president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Afam Osigwe, has emerged as the president-elect of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Osigwe, the former Secretary-General of NBA, got the highest number of votes for the position of the president from the results of the 2024 NBA election held online.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Mrs Bridget Ijeoma Edokwe emerged as the Publicity Secretary of the association.<\/p>\n<p>The voting, which started at 12am on Saturday, ended at 1.59pm with the live results for all positions displayed real-time.<\/p>\n<p>Osigwe secured 20,395 votes, defeating his closest rival and chairman of the NBA Institute of Continuing Legal Education Governing Council, Tobenna Erojikwe, who scored 10,970 votes, while former chairman of NBA Lagos Branch, Chukwuka Ikwuazom, SAN, got 9,007 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Osigwe will take over from the outgoing president of NBA, Yakubu Maikyau, SAN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Afam Osigwe, has emerged as the president-elect of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. Osigwe, the former Secretary-General of NBA, got the highest number of votes for the position of the president from the results of the 2024 NBA election held online. Similarly, Mrs Bridget Ijeoma Edokwe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":125007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[14177,2983,254],"class_list":["post-125008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-afam-osigwe","tag-nba","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Afam Osigwe emerges new NBA president - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Afam Osigwe, has emerged as the president-elect of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/afam-osigwe-emerges-new-nba-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Afam Osigwe emerges new NBA president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Afam Osigwe, has emerged as the president-elect of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/afam-osigwe-emerges-new-nba-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-21T10:54:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-21T12:02:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1721550502.230737.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"871\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"499\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/afam-osigwe-emerges-new-nba-president#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/afam-osigwe-emerges-new-nba-president\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Afam Osigwe emerges new NBA president\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-07-21T10:54:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-21T12:02:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/afam-osigwe-emerges-new-nba-president\"},\"wordCount\":146,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/afam-osigwe-emerges-new-nba-president#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1721550502.230737.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Afam Osigwe\",\"nBA\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/afam-osigwe-emerges-new-nba-president#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/afam-osigwe-emerges-new-nba-president\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/afam-osigwe-emerges-new-nba-president\",\"name\":\"Afam Osigwe emerges new NBA president - 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