4. Jowi Zaza (Net worth, $2 Billion)
Jowi Zaza is an Igbo born and also one of the youngest billionaires in Nigeria, he is 35 years old and originally from Anambra State. Real name, Joseph Eze Okafor, Jnr, popularly called Jowi Zaza, is one of the youngest billionaires in Nigeria. He has so much wealth at the young age of 36.
His billionaire dad created the businesses and has since passed them over to him. He is not just a billionaire but a socialite known within elite Nigerian circles. The billionaire businessman is the chief executive officer of Jezco Oil Nigeria Ltd, a multi-million dollar oil and gas firm founded by his father in 1980.
After eight years of its establishment, the company became a fully licensed oil service company and an independent marketer of petroleum products in 1988. Joseph Eze Okafor: Jowi Zaza’s father, Joseph Eze Okafor Snr, is a business magnate from Anambra and the founder of Jezco oil.
The original owner of Jezco Oil, Chief Joseph EzeOkafor Snr, is the dad of Nigerian entrepreneur and socialite Jowizaza. In the past, Mitsubishi Motors has given Jezco Oil Nigeria Limited an award of appreciation for Jezco Rosy’s special lubricants. He is said to own a factory that makes gasoline dispensers.
Chief Joseph Okafor is currently worth $2 Billion and is blessed with two sons and five daughters. Jowizazaa is the Jezco Oil former boss’s successor and new Managing Director. His father founded the famous oil and gas firm Jezco Oil and Jezco Lubricants in the 1970s. The company currently operates filling stations with retail stores across the country.
