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

Date: 27-10-2015 1:21 pm (8 years ago) | Author: Bayo Nelson
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Forbes presents the most powerful women in the world making outstanding leaps and achievements in their chosen careers. Interestingly, Nigerian women are not left out as two of our very own make the powerful list .

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

Posted: at 27-10-2015 01:21 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- chealseafc at 27-10-2015 01:57 PM (8 years ago)
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and they want to stone her to death in that ZOO.
tribalism and discrimination has made us not to appreciate our own.
congrats my dear.
Posted: at 27-10-2015 01:57 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- freethinker at 27-10-2015 02:13 PM (8 years ago)
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Quote from: chealseafc on 27-10-2015 01:57 PM
and they want to stone her to death in that ZOO.
tribalism and discrimination has made us not to appreciate our own.
congrats my dear.
DON'T MIND FOOLS
Posted: at 27-10-2015 02:13 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- saviourekpe at 27-10-2015 02:25 PM (8 years ago)
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Gud to hear
Posted: at 27-10-2015 02:25 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
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- satsaver at 27-10-2015 02:31 PM (8 years ago)
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At least Nigerians are there.
Posted: at 27-10-2015 02:31 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Spatacuss at 27-10-2015 02:44 PM (8 years ago)
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OJORO dey this list as Mama peace(GEJ Wife) name no Join...
Posted: at 27-10-2015 02:44 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
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- winace at 27-10-2015 02:52 PM (8 years ago)
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Congratulations to them and am proud to be a nigerian. We don't value our own so other countries will value her.
Posted: at 27-10-2015 02:52 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- akhaifo at 27-10-2015 04:48 PM (8 years ago)
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Where that thief name? Allison...they don comot her name?
Posted: at 27-10-2015 04:48 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
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- elchymo at 27-10-2015 05:44 PM (8 years ago)
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Patience Jonathan nko? Is she not powerful? As far as am concerned dis list is fake.. Roll Eyes
Posted: at 27-10-2015 05:44 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- zoe61 at 27-10-2015 08:54 PM (8 years ago)
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 Cool Cool Cool
Posted: at 27-10-2015 08:54 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- stella1981 at 27-10-2015 09:22 PM (8 years ago)
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Naija no dey carry last
Posted: at 27-10-2015 09:22 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
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- aspeng007 at 27-10-2015 10:41 PM (8 years ago)
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Hmm,k
Posted: at 27-10-2015 10:41 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
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- dickieponga at 27-10-2015 11:08 PM (8 years ago)
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Wetin dem don do for naijas...?
Posted: at 27-10-2015 11:08 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- factfinding at 28-10-2015 07:38 AM (8 years ago)
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I don't see any reason why Taylor swift as a musician and Angelina Julie an actress should make the list of most powerful women in the world, maybe someone should explain to me, as far as i am concern this is the Top 50 list of most powerful women in the world in 2015,



Germany Angela Merkel

United States Hillary Clinton

United States Melinda Gates

France Christine Lagarde

Brazil Dilma Rousseff

United States Michelle Obama

South Korea Park Geun-hye

Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Spain Ana Patricia Botín
#   Individual   Office / Position
1 Steady   Germany Angela Merkel   Chancellor of Germany
2 Increase   United States Hillary Clinton   Presidential candidate of the United States
3 Steady   United States Melinda Gates   Co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
4 Decrease   United States Janet Yellen   Chair of the Federal Reserve of the United States
5 Increase   United States Mary Barra   CEO of General Motors
6 Decrease   France Christine Lagarde   Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
7 Decrease   Brazil Dilma Rousseff   President of Brazil
8 Increase   United States Sheryl Sandberg   COO of Facebook
9 Increase   United States Susan Wojcicki   CEO of YouTube
10 Decrease   United States Michelle Obama   First Lady of the United States
11 Steady   South Korea Park Geun-hye   President of South Korea
12 Increase   United States Oprah Winfrey   Television personality and businesswoman
13 Decrease   United States Virginia Rometty   CEO of IBM
14 Increase   United States Meg Whitman   CEO of Hewlett-Packard
15 Decrease   United States Indra Nooyi   CEO of PepsiCo
16 Increase   Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner   President of Argentina
17 Decrease   United States Irene Rosenfeld   CEO of Mondelēz International
18 Increase   Spain Ana Patricia Botín   CEO of Santander Group
19 Increase   United States Abigail Johnson   CEO of Fidelity Investments
20 Increase   United States Marillyn Hewson   CEO of Lockheed Martin
21 Decrease   United States Beyoncé Knowles   Singer-songwriter
22 Decrease   United States Marissa Mayer   CEO of Yahoo!
23 Steady   New Zealand Helen Clark   Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
24 Steady   Israel Safra Catz   Co-CEO of Oracle
25 Increase   United States Angela Ahrendts   Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Sales of Apple Inc)
26 Increase   United States Ellen Kullman   CEO of DuPont
27 Decrease   Chile Michele Bachelet   President of Chile
28 Increase   United Kingdom Anna Wintour   Editor-in-chief of Vogue
29 Decrease   United States Ursula Burns   CEO of Xerox
30 Increase   India Arundhati Bhattacharya   Chairperson of State Bank of India
31 Increase   Indonesia Sri Mulyani Indrawati   Managing-director of World Bank Group
32 Increase   United States Ruth Porat   CFO of Google
33 Increase   China Peng Lei   Co-founder of Alibaba Group
34 Increase   United States Loretta Lynch   United States Attorney General
35 Increase   India Chanda Kochhar   CEO of ICICI Bank
36 Increase   European UnionItaly Federica Mogherini   European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
37 Decrease   Australia Gina Rinehart   Chairperson of Hancock Prospecting
38 Decrease   United States Nancy Pelosi   Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives
39 Increase   United States Adena Friedman   Co-president of NASDAQ OMX Group
40 Increase   Poland Ewa Kopacz   Prime Minister of Poland
41 Decrease   United Kingdom Elizabeth II   Queen of the United Kingdom
42 Increase   United Arab Emirates Lubna al-Qasimi   Minister of Foreign Trade of the United Arab Emirates
43 Increase   Singapore Ho Ching   Spouse of the Prime Minister of Singapore
44 Decrease   United States Laurene Powell Jobs   Widow of Steve Jobs (Former CEO of Apple)
45 Decrease   United States Renée James   President of Intel
46 Decrease   United States Drew Gilpin Faust   President of Harvard University
47 Decrease   United States Ertharin Cousin   Executive director of the World Food Programme
48 Decrease   Nigeria Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala   Finance Minister of Nigeria
49 Increase   United States Samantha Power   United States Ambassador to the United Nations
50 Decrease   United States Ellen DeGeneres   Television personality
Posted: at 28-10-2015 07:38 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Trueyarn at 28-10-2015 11:19 PM (8 years ago)
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Congratulobia.
Posted: at 28-10-2015 11:19 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- mary11 at 29-10-2015 11:52 AM (8 years ago)
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That's very good,congratulations to the great woman ngozi okonju iweala but belle people will always hate while she will continue to move higher
Posted: at 29-10-2015 11:52 AM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- mary11 at 29-10-2015 11:53 AM (8 years ago)
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Also a big congratulation to Folorunsho Alakija,she is a great woman,am very happy for her
Posted: at 29-10-2015 11:53 AM (8 years ago) | Hero
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