Category: Iconic Women

She is also the first and only woman (to date) to chair the Nigeria Joint Tax Board (JTB) between 2004 to 2012.

I was only concerned of what will be the aftermath for those to come if I were never called to the bar with my hijab.

I was only concerned of what will be the aftermath for those to come if I were never called to the bar with my hijab.

Maimuna Dada-Sare Abdullahi (1918-1984) was a Northern Nigerian writer, a nurse, a teacher and an administrator.

“I am the first female of northern extraction to be promoted to the rank of a General in the Nigerian Navy,” Malafa said

She believes that corruption must be eradicated and the battle must be fought, this she has said both in private spaces and public functions.

Her work as an Islamic scholar proved that women have a scholarly role to play in the spread and teaching of Islam.

During her first professional years, the traditional cultural environment moved her to produce pottery pieces that were influenced by the Gbagyi tradition and accentuated with personal idioms.

Even in death queen Amina’s story and legacy have remained an inspiration to a lot of women.

In speaking about the importance of considering LGBT rights in human rights at the 4th UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, she became the first openly lesbian to do so.