Meet the 4 women that will join Buhari in Governing Nigeria (+Photos)

2. Hadiza Bala Usman

After the seizure of more than 200 schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok in April 2014, Hadiza Bala Usman, a Nigerian activist and rising star of politics, found that she could not sleep. The girls, who were grouped together to sit exams, were abducted from their dormitories in the dead of night by Boko Haram militants.

She is one of the founders of the BringBackOurGirls campaign and one of the most vocal women in the presidential campaign that produced Buhari.