What is the name of the female president in Africa?

Samia Suluhu Hassan is the first acting female President of Tanzania and joins the ranks of Sahle-work Zewde as the only other current female President on the continent. She was sworn into office on March 19, 2019 after the sudden passing of the former Tanzanian President, John Magufuli.
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How many African presidents are female?

Clockwise from top left: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Joyce Banda, and Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila. There have so far been 22 women heads of state in Africa.
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Which African country had first female president?

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born Ellen Eugenia Johnson, 29 October 1938) is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
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Who is female president?

Chief Justice of India K. G. Balakrishnan administering the oath of office to new President Pratibha Patil. December 19, 1934, is the 12th President of India. She is the first woman and the first Maharashtrian to hold this post.
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Who is the world's first female president?

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

Finnbogadóttir's election made her Iceland's first woman head of state, and the first woman in the world to be elected president of a country. With a term length of exactly 16 years, she also became the longest-serving woman head of state in any country in history.
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What is the name of the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria?

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian activist, feminist, and the first woman in Abeokuta to drive a car. She is recognized as the first female Nigerian political activist.
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Who is the first female senator in Nigeria?

Franca Afegbua is a Nigerian beautician and politician who represented Bendel North in the Nigerian Senate in 1983. Elected as a National Party of Nigeria (NPN) senator, she was the first elected woman senator in Nigeria. Afegbua was born in Okpella, Edo State.
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Who is the youngest governor in Nigeria?

Political career

On 16 November 2019, Bello was elected to a second term after he defeated PDP nominee Musa Wada by over 200,000 votes. Bello is the youngest governor in Nigeria and the only governor to be born after the Nigerian Civil War.
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Who was the first woman?

EVA, EVE is the first woman. There are two stories of the creation of Eve and Adam.
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Who is the first woman in Bible?

The first woman according to the biblical creation story in Genesis 2–3, Eve is perhaps the best-known female figure in the Hebrew Bible. Her prominence comes not only from her role in the Garden of Eden story itself, but also from her frequent appearance in Western art, theology, and literature.
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Who was the first Nigeria to speak a foreign language?

Oba Esigie was the first Nigerian to speak a foreign language. He spoke Portuguese in the 15th century.
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Who is the oldest Governor?

State governors

In terms of age, Alabama governor Kay Ivey (born 1944) is the oldest governor, and Florida governor Ron DeSantis (born 1978) is the youngest.
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How many states are in USA?

United States: The 50 States and the District of Columbia. Continental United States: The 49 States (including Alaska, excluding Hawaii) located on the continent of North America, and the District of Columbia.
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Who is the youngest governor?

The youngest current state governor is Ron DeSantis of Florida who was born on September 14, 1978.
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Can governor be removed by President?

Removal. The term of governor's office is normally five years but it can be terminated earlier by: Dismissal by the president at whose pleasure the governor holds office. Dismissal of governors without valid reason is not permitted.
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Who is the 1st female governor?

Sarojini Naidu was the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state. She governed Uttar Pradesh from 15 August 1947 to 2 March 1949. Her daughter, Padmaja Naidu, is the longest-serving female governor with almost 11 years tenure in West Bengal.
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What is the motto of Nigeria?

Nigeria is located on the west coast of Africa and is the most populous black country in the world, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Benin and Cameroon. Nigeria covers 356,668 sq miles (923,7770 sq kilometers).
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Who brought English to Nigeria?

The use of the English language in Nigeria dates back to the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century when British merchants and Christian missionaries settled in the coastal towns called Badagry, near Lagos in the present day South Western Nigeria and Calabar, a town in the present day South Eastern Nigeria.
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Who is the first person to speak English in the world?

Answer. There was no first person to speak English, English is a language that has evolved from many different languages like it has accepted words from French, Spanish, even Hindi. It was first spoken by people living in England known as Angels.
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How many languages is in Nigeria?

There are over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language of Nigeria is English, the language of former colonial British Nigeria.
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Who is Satan's wife?

Lilith is a powerful sorceress in the Madō Monogatari series, where she was the wife of Satan until she lost her physical body when using the artifact known as Seraphim Orb to create the Madou World, of which she is now the guardian. She is also very similar to the protagonist Arle.
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