100 Leading Women to be published on International Women’s Day

By Nicholas Kalu, Abuja

The annual biographical compendium that explores the intersection of accomplishment and impact of distinguished Nigerian women, “Nigeria Women Annual: 100 Leading Women in Nigeria”, is being compiled and would be published March 8, 2021 as part of the activities to mark the International Women’s Day.

These profiles will be published as a pull-out in livesnews.net as the most qualitative biographical profile on Nigeria’s 100 most inspirational and influential women.

This year’s list includes innovators, barrier-breakers, activists, top bureaucrats, captains of industry, and celebrities. These are women, some of whom may have less fame but great force, in the power of their transformation ideas, innovation, the scale of their ambitions, the genius of their solution to societal problems.

The Nigeria Women Annual: 100 Leading Women is a gender-specific biographical compendium that responds to existing gender gaps in Nigeria biographical documentation and leadership.

This biographical compendium, jointly put together by Profiles & Biographies in collaboration with Gender Perspective, captures stories of women that are meant to inspire women to accomplish more in life.

“Coming from a year that was extremely challenging including a global pandemic which led to the world losing legends, heroes, family and friends, it is imperative that we found new ways to share stories of those have made outstanding accomplishments in a year of extraordinary tumult and disruption”, the Project Director of Nigeria Women Annual, Kammonke Abam, said.

“Telling the stories of outstanding achievers is part of our new ways of promoting our rich values, thinking about the future, and connecting with each other.”, Abam said.

Profiles & Biographies and Gender Perspective have carefully selected these outstanding and Nigerian women who have “broken the glass ceiling”, defied the odds, scaled over their limitations, and reached heights that are extraordinary, and through all these, have contributed to shaping our dear country, Nigeria, and immensely contributed to its development.