In South East occupied by the Igbo stock in Nigeria, are a countless number of successful families scattered across the five states of the zone. Here, we’re going to state fifty of such families in Enugu, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi and then Imo State. Consideration are family size, academic resourcefulness, business and cycle of scions that are traced to such families from ages to ages.
1. The Eze family of Ukpo, Anambra State
2. The Nnaji family of Nike, Enugu State
3. The Ogah family of Ikwo, Ebonyi State
4. The Nwodo family of Ukehe, Enugu State
5. The Umeh Ezeoke family, Anambra State
6. The Ohuabunwa family of Abia State
7. The Anyaehie family of Imo State
8. The Mbadiwe family of Imo State
9. The Ugochukwu family of Umunze, Anambra
10.The Mgbada family of Ezza, Ebonyi State
11. The Ekwueme family of Oko, Anambra State
12. The Edeoga family of Ehamufu, Enugu State
13. The Obioha family of Arondizuogu, Imo State
14. The Nwachukwu family of Umunya, Anambra
15. The Onoh family of Ngwo, Enugu State
16. The Azikiwe family of Onitsha, Anambra State
17. The Chime family of Udi, Enugu State
18. The Uba family of Uga, Anambra State
19. The Ojukwu family of Nnewi, Anambra State
20. The Ikpeazu family of Onitsha, Anambra State
21. The Odua family of Ogbaru, Anambra State
22. The Ogbaekirigwe family of Izia, Ebonyi State
23. The Okigbo family of Ojoto, Anambra State
24. The Erinne family of Okija, Anambra State
25. The Orizu family of Nnewi, Anambra State
26. The Modebe family, Anambra State
27. The Iweka family of Obosi, Anambra State
28. The Onyeama family of Udi, Enugu State
29. The Nwankwo family of Izzi, Ebonyi State
30. The Ogah family of Abia State
31. The Metu family of Nnewi, Anambra State
32. The Oselebe family of Ngbo, Ebonyi State
33. The Nwuruku family of Ikwo, Ebonyi State
34. The Ajanwachukwu family of Okposi, Ebonyi State
35. The Ekuma Nkama family of Edda, Ebonyi State
36. The Idike family of Izzi, Ebonyi State
37. Enwo Igariwe family of Afikpo, Ebonyi State
38. The Chukwu family of Afikpo, Ebonyi State
39. The Nnamani family of Agbani, Enugu State
40. The Njemanze family of Owerri, Imo State
41. The Ikoku family of Abia State
42. The Tabansi family of Nnewi, Anambra State
43. The Udeoji family of Ozubulu, Anambra State
44. The Umeorji family of Ezinifite, Anambra State
45. The Ekwerekwu family of Onitsha, Anambra State
46. The Okpaga Elechi family of Izia, Ebonyi State
47. The Mbanefo family of Anambra State
48. The Wabara family of Abia State
49. The Chima family of Onueke, Ebonyi State
50. The Okongwu family of Anambra State.
The above families and more embody generational influence in their respective Igbo domains.