Meet The New Richest Igbo Man In The World

Chief Orji Uzor Kalu is the chairman of SLOK Holding who served as the governor of Abia State, Nigeria from May 29, 1999, to May 29, 2007.
He started his life through hard work and determined to follow his dreams. Below are some of his unequal achievements:
Chief Orji Uzor Kalu

He was Student Union President University of Maiduguri at age 22.
Chairman Borno Water Board at 25
Chairman Cooporative and Commerce Bank at 27
Chairman Imo State Marketing Agency at 28
The Youngest Governor in Nigeria till date at 39
The 4th Richest Billionaire in Nigeria
The Richest Igbo man in the world (Source: Forbes)
Chief Orji with Dangote (the richest black man) and Delta State Governor

Chief (Dr,) Orji Uzor Kalu is the chairman of SLOK Holding comprising of the listed companies below;
*SLOK Airlines
*SLOK Shippings
*SLOK Oil & Gas
*SLOK Manufacturing
*SLOK Telecoms
*SLOK Engineering / Constructions
*SLOK Hotels & Estates
*SLOK Import & Export
*SLOK Financing
*First International Bank FIB
*The SUN Publishing
*The NEW Telegraph Publishing

SLOK Holding has presence in Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Togo, Benin, Cameroon, Ivory coast, Sierra leone, Gambia, Guinea, Botswana, South Africa, Singapore, China, UK, USA.

Here are more detail about him from Forbes:

Orji Uzor Kalu is new to Forbes list of Africa's 50 Richest this year. He is the founder of Slok 

Holding, a $2.5 billion (annual revenues) West African conglomerate with interests in shipping, banking, oil trading, manufacturing and the media. He got his start in business at age 19 after being expelled from a Nigerian university for spearheading a series of student riots. He then took a $35 loan from his mother and started trading commodities like palm oil, rice, sugar, salt and flour. He diversified into furniture manufacturing and transportation and became a millionaire by the time he was 20. He hit the big time in the early 80s when the Nigerian military government awarded him lucrative contracts to import and supply arms and ammunition to Nigeria's military and defense forces. He was previously a governor of Abia state in Nigeria's southeast.

Source: Savanah Times, Wikipedia, Forbes, Facebook