Two strong Nigerian women have made the list of Forbes '100 Most Powerful Women'and you can take a wild guess who those women are.
Forbes has released their 100 most powerful women in the world list and Nigeria’s billionaire Folorunsho Alakija & Outgoing Minister of finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala are on the list, which also includes Michelle Obama, Beyonce, Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift, Hilary Clinton, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and many others.
According to Forbes, This is a definitive annual audit of the foremost heads of state, iconic entrepreneurs and CEOS, celebrity role models, billionaire activists, and pioneer philanthropists, all ranked by money, media momentum, spheres of influence and impact
Okonjo-Iweala is number 48 this year (#44 in 2014) & Alakija who is worth $2.1 billion is number 87 (#96 in 2014)
Full List:
1. Angela Merkel
2. Hillary Clinton
3. Melinda Gates
4. Janet Yellen
5. Mary Barra
6. Christine Lagarde
7. Dilma Rousseff
8. Sheryl Sandberg
9. Susan Wojcicki
10. Michelle Obama
11. Park Geun-hye
12. Oprah Winfrey
13. Ginni Rometty
14. Meg Whitman
15. Indra Nooyi
16 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
17. Irene Rosenfeld
18. Ana Patricia Botín
19. Abigail Johnson
20. Marillyn Hewson
21. Beyoncé Knowles
22. Marissa Mayer
23. Helen Clark
24. Safra Catz
25. Angela Ahrendts
26. Ellen Kullman
27. Michelle Bachelet
28. Anna Wintour
29. Ursula Burns
30. Arundhati Bhattacharya
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Ruth Porat
Lucy Peng
Loretta Lynch
Chanda Kochhar
Federica Mogherini
Gina Rinehart
Nancy Pelosi
Adena Friedman
Ewa Kopacz
Queen Elizabeth II
Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi
Ho Ching
Laurene Powell Jobs
Renée James
Drew Gilpin Faust
Ertharin Cousin
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Samantha Power
Ellen DeGeneres
Amy Hood
Bonnie Hammer
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Angelina Jolie
Beth Comstock
Phebe Novakovic
Sofía Vergara
Donna Langley
Sheikh Hasina Wajed
Katie Jacobs Stanton
Arianna Huffington
Margaret Chan
Mary Jo White
Taylor Swift
Rosalind Brewer
Nemat (Minouche) Shafik
Lubna S. Olayan
Peng Liyuan
Zhang Xin
Güler Sabanci
Elvira Nabiullina
Elizabeth Holmes
Tory Burch
Dana Walden
Diane von Furstenberg
Carol Meyrowitz
Mary Meeker
Solina Chau
Miuccia Prada
Katharine Viner
Shakira Mebarak
Yao Chen
Fabiola Gianotti
Padmasree Warrior
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Kaci Kullmann Five
Folorunsho Alakija
Judy Faulkner
Patricia Harris
Gwynne Shotwell
Sara Blakely
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Shobhana Bhartia
Beth Brooke-Marciniak
Weili Dai
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Raja Easa Al Gurg
Jenny Lee
99. Greta Van Susteren
100. Lee Boo-Jin