BUHARI, OBY EZEKWESILI, CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE MADE IT TO TIME MAGAZINE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE

President-Elect of Nigeria, Buhari, former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, best selling author, Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie and Boko Haram Leader, Abubakar Shekau made the list of Time Magazine 100 most influential people.
Below is their profile of as written by Times Magazine

Muhammadu Buhari- A new choice for Nigeria (by Aryn Baker)
Muhammadu Buhari made history in March by becoming the first candidate to oust a sitting Nigerian President through the ballot box. Now he has to live up to voter's expectations.
From battling the Boko Haram indurgency to tackling endemic corruption, Buhari has many challenges ahead. The greatest may be overcoming his past as a military ruler who seized power in 1983. Already the born-again democrat is demonstrating the inclusivity necessary to lead a nation driven by ethnic and religious tensions.
"We must begin to heal the wounds and work toward a better future" he said in his April 1 victory speech. "We do this first by extending a hand of fellowship and conciliation across the political divide". It's a promising start for a President-to-be who wants to leave a legacy to mstch the historic conditions of his election.

Oby Ezekwesili (by Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe)
Like northern Uganda, where I live, northern Nigeria is very isolated. For many years, the women who were abducted from our region remained invisible.
So although I have not met Obiageli Ezekwesili, I know the #BringBackOurGirls campaign that she championed is very important. It would have taken a long time to raise awareness about the girls taken by Boko Haram without her using her platform as a former Minister of Education.
 We need to remember that these girls are undergoing psychological and maybe physical torture. So I love that the campaign says, "Bring  back our girls,", not "Bring back my child". Everybody is in unison with the parents and the relatives. Everyone wil be ready to embrace the girls and offer them care and compassion if they are rescued or manage to escape.
It has been a year, and the girls haven't been rescued, but she has made a difference by speaking about it. Not just speaking but shouting. I know some people will say she id too loudmouthed. The loud mouth is needed. People hear it.

Chimamanda Adichie- Conjurer of character (by Radhika Jones)
It's the rare novelist who in a space of a year finds words sampled by Beyonce, optioned by Lupita Nyong'o and honored with the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.
But the Nigerianwriter, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is just that sort of novelist.
A MacArthur 'genius' grant recipient, Adichie writes of the complex aftermath of Nigeria's colonial history and her nation's rise to promise in an era when immigration to the West no longer means  a one-way ticket. With her viral TEDxEuston talk, "We Should All Be Feminists" she found her voice as cultural critic,
 (You can hear it rising midwsy through Beyonce's woman-power anthem'Flawless')
She sets her love stories amid civil war(Half a Yellow Sun) and against a backdrop of racism and migration (Americanah). But her greatest power is a creator of characters who struggle profoundly to understand their place in the world.

Other Nigerian that made it to Times Magazine 100  most influential people is the scourge of Africa, Abubakar Shekau who heads the dreaded Boko Haram who have killed, kidnapped and maimed people in the north eastern part of Nigeria.