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John Obaro Biography
John Obaro is from Kogi State. He is of the Okun tribe in Nigeria, and was born April 19, 1958. He had his formative years in Kano and Ilorin, Kwara State, where he had elementary education. Raphael Awoseyin “unconsciously influenced” Obaro’s decision to study Computer Science. Obaro had his primary education at Baptist School in Ilorin, and his secondary, at Government Secondary School, Ilorin from 1970 to 1974. It was here that Awoseyin, then a temporary teacher in the school, taught Obaro’s class mathematics. It stimulated Obaro’s interest in the subject, to the point that he (Obaro) decided to study mathematics and computer science in the university. Obaro proceeded to Kwara State College of Technology, now renamed Kwara State Polytechnic for a diploma. He attended the Ahmadu Bello University where he graduated with a second class upper degree in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1979. He proceeded to have an MBA from the University of Lagos in 1981. He is an alumnus of Lagos Business School (LBS), Chief Executive Programme at the Pan-African University, Nigeria, Lagos. Obaro was accepted into Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, a program which “serves promising companies in developing countries by providing business training and onsite coaching.”
Obaro had his first stint in formal employment as a part-time teacher while he was pursuing his MBA. He started his professional career as a computer salesman at Leventis Group from where he moved to United Bank for Africa to take up a role in Systems Development of the financial institution. In 1984, he joined now defunct International Merchant Bank of Nigeria, one of the Nigeria’s earliest investment banks, where he rose to become the Head of Information Systems. In that position, 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.
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.
What's John Obaro Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
John Obaro Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
| Mother's Name | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Available |
| Childrens | Not Available |
