John Obaro

**John Tanimola Obaro ì chẹ ẹna**  Nigerian kì chì technology entrepreneur, kìa kóla ówo‘ja,kpaì  ùn chì-ẹtá yà ì SystemSpecs efu Naijẹria Limited.

## Abàkwéné ilẹ wǹ kpaì ùkocha kì chè .
John Obaro chì  Kogi State ì kwo-ì. Ì chì yé í  Okun ì chẹ efú  Nigeria, kpaì má bì efú ochú Ẹ̀kẹ́lẹ̀ nólu mẹ̀gwẹ̀lá efu ọdọ, 1958. Ì chá gbojìle efú ọdọ lẹa efú èwo  Kano kpaì Ilorin, Kwara State, ùgbo kì nyì ùkocha ísakulu ẹdọ mẹfa -ùń . Raphael Awoseyin "unconsciously influenced" Obaro's chá chùlùka kì chùkoca yé ì  Computer Science. Obaro ì nì cártìfìcatì ísakulu ẹdọ mẹ̀fa-ùn gbì ísakulu yá bátìze kì dì efú  ìlórin, kpaì yà nì ísakulu ẹdọ megwẹ́gí un kpá kwì ísakulu yá gomenti ẹdọ megwẹ́gí kì dì efú, Ilorin kwì efu ọdọ  1970  tẹfu odo  1974. Ẹ̀mì kì dẹ̀ì ùn Awoseyin, cbì ùkolo akònè-ẹ̀wn ẹgba pẹ̀ẹ̀ efì ísakulu., ì chá kì amì  Obaro's efú clássì mátch .ì chẹ ewǹ edo ẹbọ ùn Obaro's alù kì chewǹ ibẹ ùn kìa akocha efú yé ìsujẹctì ., tọdu abalẹ ñu (Obaro) dábì rì‘bẹ dar kì chù kocha ìmátch kpaì ìcọ̀pùtàr saìencì.efu yé uníbacítí . Obaro ñõ tatogba lọ́ tì kwárá státì cọ̀llẹ̀gì  yà ì Technology, ábájòì má  mò‘du+ùn dù rìoda tì  Kwara State Polytechnic yà kù má nẹ nì diploma. Ì lọ tì ùnyì yà í ìsakulu  Ahmadu Bello University ùgbo kì chẹ́kpa dufu kpì second class upper dìgìrì efu yà í  Mathematics kpaì Computer Science efì ọdọ  1979.ì ñọ́ chì ẹrá-tógba lọ yà nì  MBA kwì yé í University of Lagos efú ọdọ  1981.oń chì  alumnus yẹ̀ ì  Lagos Business School (LBS),ì chì  Chief Executive Programme gbì yà ì Pan-African University, Nigeria, Lagos.

## Career
Obaro ì chẹ ùkolo pẹpẹ̀ra kì ná nì ọ́kó kwì ùgbo kù má dù kì chùkolo kùbì kì ná chì part-time kì ná áchùkolo àkónẹ-ẹwnù tá‘bálẹ ì ná tẹnẹ ùkọló yà í  MBA. ì chẹna  professional career-ùn  kpì ẹna kìa tì  computer  kpì  Leventis kwì efu ùjo kì ló nyà kẹrabùma  United Bank for Africa kì gbà ọnà k‘óda kù má lẹ̀bo efì yà  Systems Development yé ì  financial institution. Éfu ọdọ  1984, ì nyà dàm̀á kpì àbo defunct International Merchant Bank of Nigeria ábájòì, manyú ẹ̀nakaa efú àbo eju-odudu Naijẹria kìa chì  investment banks, úgbo kìa kwánẹ nyate kìa mù dù àgbòjì yà Information Systems. Efu ẹña lẹ , he led a team that implemented Nigeria's first international banking application on a network linking Lagos and four other states. With this feat, John led a team that pioneered Nigeria's online real‐time banking.

He moved on to found SystemSpecs Nigeria Limited, a company he nurtured from a 5-man partner agent of Systems Union, (now Infor) in 1991 to a financial technology company. Prominent among the solutions SystemSpecs has developed are Remita, HumanManager among others.

## Advocacy, courses and services
He is committed to promoting and advancing of local software development. He has given presentations and speeches advocating youth empowerment and IT entrepreneurship. Obaro has served on the boards of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Information and Communication Technology, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), Nigerian Information Technology Policy Drafting Committee, Governing Council of the National ICT Incubation Programme and others.

## Honours and recognition
Obaro was recognised as the "Software Personality of the Year" at the Nigeria Communication Week's Beacon of Information and Communications Technology (BoICT) Awards in Lagos on April 23, 2016. He had earlier led his company to Glasgow, Scotland, where SystemSpecs was bestowed with "Leadership in Technology" award hosted by the Africa Forum Scotland for the use of Remita "as a tool of national and economic development."

He was conferred a "fellow of the Centre for African Policy, Development and Research, Scotland," and had a research centre after him. In 2015, he emerged winner of 'Engineer Simeon Agu Prize for Best Software Entrepreneur' at the National Information Technology Merit Award (NITMA), an annual event organised by Nigeria Computer Society (NCS). He was awarded Nigeria's IT Personality of the Year at the same NITMA in 2013.

He emerged as the 2018 FATE Model Entrepreneur of the Year based on his work as an entrepreneur and a solution provider with SystemSpecs was agreed by many to be deserving of the award.  His company received the 'Next Bull’ award at the 5th Nigerian Stocks Exchange/ BusinessDay Top CEO awards in Lagos on May 10, 2019.

On October 25, 2024, he was given an honorary Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree by Kings University, Odeomu, Osun State at the school's joint 5th and 6th Convocation Ceremony for his outstanding pioneering influence on technological innovation within the technology industry.

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