2 Nigerian Women Make Forbes List of '100 Most Powerful Women 2015'

Yes! Just as we have powerful men, we also have powerful women making giant stripes all over the world cutting across the continents. Africans, especially Nigerian women are not left out in this transitional trend to reshape the world. Our own sisters and mothers are indeed making names for themselves. Two outstanding Nigerian women made it to the world's elite group of Most Powerful Women in the world list as released by Forbes. They are: the enigmatic Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Oil tycoon and Billionaire, Folorunsho Alakija, taking position number 48 and 87 respectively.

                                                                                                                              

 

1. Angela Merkel   Germany 

2. Hillary Clinton   United States

3. Melinda Gates United States

4. Janet Yellen         United States

5. Mary Barra         United States

6. Christine Lagarde    France

7. Dilma Rousseff         Brazil

8. Sheryl Sandberg         United States

9. Susan Wojcicki United States

10. Michelle Obama         United States

11. Park Geun-hye South Korea

12. Oprah Winfrey United States

13. Ginni Rometty United States

14. Meg Whitman United States

15. Indra Nooyi         United States

16. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Argentina

17. Irene Rosenfeld         United States

18. Ana Patricia Botín    Spain

19. Abigail Johnson         United States

20. Marillyn Hewson        United States

  21. Beyoncé Knowles            United States

22. Marissa Mayer United States

23. Helen Clark         New Zealand

24. Safra Catz         United States

25. Angela Ahrendts        United States 

26. Ellen Kullman United States

27. Michelle Bachelet     Chile

28. Anna Wintour   United States

29. Ursula Burns United States

30. Arundhati Bhattacharya  India

31. Sri Mulyani Indrawati Indonesia

32. Ruth Porat         United States

33. Lucy Peng         China

34. Loretta Lynch United States

35. Chanda Kochhar   India

36. Federica Mogherini Italy 

37. Gina Rinehart Australia

38. Nancy Pelosi United States

39. Adena Friedman        United States 

40. Ewa Kopacz        Poland

41. Queen Elizabeth II United Kingdom

42. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi United Arab Emirates 

43. Ho Ching                 Singapore

44. Laurene Powell Jobs United States

45. Renée James   United States

46. Drew Gilpin Faust United States

47. Ertharin Cousin         United States

48. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Nigeria

49. Samantha Power United States

50. Ellen DeGeneres     United States

51. Amy Hood         United States

52. Bonnie Hammer         United States

53. Mary Callahan Erdoes     United States

54. Angelina Jolie United States

55. Beth Comstock United States

56. Phebe Novakovic      United States

57. Sofía Vergara Colombia

58. Donna Langley United Kingdom

59. Sheikh Hasina Wajed       Bangladesh

60. Katie Jacobs Stanton United States

61. Arianna Huffington       United States

62. Margaret Chan China

63. Mary Jo White United States

64. Taylor Swift         United States

65. Rosalind Brewer         United States

66. Nemat (Minouche)           Shafik United Kingdom

67. Lubna S. Olayan         Saudi Arabia

68. Peng Liyuan China

69. Zhang Xin         China

70. Güler Sabanci Turkey

71. Elvira Nabiullina         Russia

72. Elizabeth Holmes   United States

73. Tory Burch         United States

74. Dana Walden United States

75. Diane von Furstenberg United States

76. Carol Meyrowitz         United States

77. Mary Meeker United States

78. Solina Chau         Hong Kong

79. Miuccia Prada Italy

80. Katharine Viner         United Kingdom

81. Shakira Mebarak Colombia

82. Yao Chen         China

83. Fabiola Gianotti         Italy

84. Padmasree Warrior United States

85. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw India

86. Kaci Kullmann Five   Norway

87. Folorunsho Alakija     Nigeria

88. Judy Faulkner United States

89. Patricia Harris United States

90. Gwynne Shotwell United States

91. Sara Blakely         United States

92. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey       United States

93. Shobhana Bhartia India

94. Beth Brooke-Marciniak   United States

95. Weili Dai                United States

96. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf      Liberia

97. Raja Easa Al Gurg United Arab Emirates

98. Jenny Lee        Singapore

99. Greta Van Susteren        United States

      100. Lee Boo-Jin                  South Korea