Nigeria, Feb. 21 -- Nigeria's Minister of Women Affairs, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, had been in office for just a few days when she cradled a terrified 4-year-old girl-shaking, traumatized-after surviving brutal abuse.

That moment, she says, changed everything.

"I looked into her eyes, and I knew-this cannot be business as usual," Mrs Sulaiman-Ibrahim told reporters in Abuja during a briefing marking her first 100 days in office under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's administration. "The time for slow progress is over. It is Women O'Clock in Nigeria."

And she's not kidding.

In just over three months, Mrs Sulaiman-Ibrahim has rolled out an ambitious plan to economically empower 10 million Nigerian women by 2027, overhaul child protection law...