Hajiya Sa’adiya Abdullahi Dikko is the wife of the Ex-Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Ex-President of Customs Officers; Wives Association (COWA). She is a woman with passion for alleviating the sufferings of the less privileged, especially the widows and children. This is an inherent quality. And as such an opportunity came for her to touch more lives with the appointment of her husband as the CG of Customs in 2009. She, with the support of her husband, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko Inde founded COWA, the same year.

With over 2,500 members, COWA with the collaboration of numerous agencies and institutions such as the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has empowered over 500 men and officers’ wives through different types of skill acquisition and provision of soft-loans towards achieving self-sufficiency. COWA also engaging in vices and corrupt practices.

Hajiya Sa’adiya Abdullahi Dikko, after her primary education, schooled at Government Girls College Kawo, Kaduna for her secondary education between 1979 and 1983 from where she gained admission into Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, first for preliminary studies in the College of Arts and Science (CAS) and later went for a degree programme, graduating with Bachelor I Education.

She believes in good home management and impactful leadership through women at family level, a factor which also drives her passion for selflessness and capacity building. For providing succor for the hopeless, Hajiya Sa’adiya has earned herself a place in the MMS Plus’ Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.