Nigeria is a country that is known for wealth and riches despite it still under development. There are several persons from Nigeria that is very popular globally because of the fame their wealth brought them . Today, we shall be sharing with you the top 10 must successful Igbo billionaires in Nigeria 2018.

The names you shall be seeing here are only restricted to entrepreneurs only, politicians and other individuals whose source of wealth/income cannot be traced are not included in this list. There are a lot of wealthy folks in Nigeria whose source of wealth remain a misery to us all, they are not going to be given credit for what we know nothing about .

Nigeria is one of the largest country in Africa with a population of over 160 million inhabitants and millions of business men and woman . We are going to be checking out the few Igbo entrepreneurs that was able to take advantage of lucrative businesses and become wealthy and most influential people in the country today. These Igbo Billionaires (entrepreneurs) has written their names in the history book of the Igbo Billionaires of all time.


Top 10 Richest & Most Successful Igbo Business Men in Nigeria


1. Orji Uzor Kalu

Orji Uzor Kalu is the chairman and founder of Slok Holding, a West African conglomerate with interests in shipping, banking, oil trading, manufacturing and the media. He is also the chairman of the Daily Sun and New Telegraph newspapers in Nigeria, he was the former governor of Abia State, Nigeria from May 29, 1999, to May 29, 2007. Before he became a Governor, he was the chairman of the Borno Water Board and the chairman of the Cooperative and Commerce Bank Limited.

He ventured into business at the age of 19 when he got expelled from the University for leading students into series of riots in the school. He started with furniture manufacturing and transportation and started getting money at the age of twenty years old.


2. Cosmas Maduka

He is the owner of Coscharis Group (Automobile, manufacturing) . He started his business with little capital and he is now the owner of Multi Million dollar business . He is into automotive spare parts, technology, medical equipment and agriculture.


3. Pascal Dozie

Pascal Dozie is the Co-Founder, Partner, and Non-Executive Partner at African Capital Alliance. He is the Founder of Kunoch Limited. He is the owner of Diamond Bank PLC which is now one of the best bank in Nigeria recently. Mr. Dozie served as the Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Bank Plc. Mr. Dozie serves as the Chairman of MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd. He once served as the President at the Nigeria Stock Exchange.


4. Chief Cletus Ibeto

Chief Cletus Ibeto is the head of The Ibeto Group, the largest business enterprise from Nnewi, a city unique for its entrepreneurial mind. Ibeto Group is into trading, manufacturing, oil & gas.


5. Tony Ezenna

Tony Ezenna is the owner of Orange Group, a company into Pharmaceutical, oil & gas. He started his business with a family chemist shop, Eastern Industrial Chemist in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State .


6. Leo Stan Ekeh

Leo Stan Ekeh owns the company called Zinox and they are into Computer and other kind of technology. Mr. Leo-Stan Nnamdi Ekeh as he is mostly called was once the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Zinox Technologies Ltd. He was also the fore-runner of Buyright Africa Dotcom Limited.


7. Sir Emeka Offor

Once served as the Chairman of the Board of GUINEA INSURANCE PLC and also the Group Executive Vice Chairman of Chrome Group. He has interest in in oil and gas, insurance, power sector, telecommunications and logistics.


8. Chief Arthur Eze

Chief Arthur Eze is a Founder, Owner and serves as Chairman of Atlas Petroleum International Ltd which has assets in Nigeria, Liberia, Guinea, and the Gambia. Chief Arthur Eze doesn’t just own businesses in Nigeria and abroad, he is also one of the richest men in Africa.


9. Vincent Amaechi Obianodo

He is the owner of one of the most popular transport company in Nigeria, The Young Shall Grow Motors. He is also the owner of RockView Hotels , his main interest is in Transportation, hotels. He is the Chairman of YSG Transport, Rockview hotels, YSG Dredging, Vineegas, Vineeoil, and YSG properties.


10. Tony Elumelu

Tony Elumelu is one of the most successful Nigerian entrepreneur . He is into hospitality, agriculture, oil production and power generation. He is the Chairman of Heirs Holdings, the United Bank for Africa, Transcorp and founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation. He was recently listed as one of the most influential people in Africa by New African magazine.

SOURCE: http://job-recruitment.com.ng/top-10-richest-successful-igbo-business-men-nigeria/

What about Innocent Chukwuma (Innoson) and Ifeanyi Ubah?

Where's is Dr. ABC Orjiakor. The list is out of it. Ifeanyi Ubah and the rest nko.

Outdated old list, seeing Young shall grow means that you still dewell it 1992, What happened to the likes of Obijackson, Bishop Okonkwo,

only Igbo men are rich, how about their women

Sir Emeka offor? Abeg remove this Obasanjo errand boy from the list assap.