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| A cross section at the Night of Tribute of Late Engr Chijioke Simeon Agu |
The Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) has called on the Federal Government to establish the National Software Engineering Academy (NSEA) in honour of its late pioneer president, Engineer Chijioke Simeon Agu, popularly known as CSA.
Engr. Agu slept in the Lord after a brief illness in Lagos on Sunday,
July 8, 2012 is the founder of CSA Software now known as Neptune.
President of
ISPON, Chief Chris Uwaje made this call in his address at a ‘Night of Tributes’
to late Agu who passed on recently, also urged the Federal Government to honour
late Engr Agu with a befitting posthumous award in recognition of his excellent
contribution to the Nigeria nation, especially by establishment of this
academy.
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| Chris Uwaje, ISPON president with wife of late Agu, Stella |
He commended
late Engr. Agu for the steps he took in repositioning the software industry in
the country, declaring he did it right in his life time.
He,
therefore enjoined the family to stand tall and be proud of his achievement,
while inviting all Information Technology (IT) professionals to emulate his
footstep by doing things right for the software industry in Nigeria and Africa
as a whole.
In his
tribute, former president of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), Dr. Chris
Nwannenna said that late Agu was a lover of anything software, but it was
unfortunate that Nigeria lost him at this time of the history.
According to
him, the role late Agu played cannot be filled easily by anyone within the
industry, because he took a lot of risk in effort to reposition the software
industry and prayed that his soul rest in peace.
DigitalSENSE
News recalls that Engr. Chijioke Simeon Agu was born in Jos, Plateau State into
the family of Agu-Nwanyaba on November 13, 1944. In 1958, he obtained his First
School Leaving Certificate at Government School Awka and went on to become a
senior prefect in Dennis Memorial Grammar School (DMGS) Onitsha.
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| A cross section at the Night of Tribute of Late Engr Chijioke Simeon Agu |
A graduate
of University of Science and Technology (UST) Kumasi, Ghana, CSA, as he is
fondly called won the Professor Jeroch prize for the best graduating Electrical
Engineering student and the Datu Otama Brand prize for telecommunications.
His marriage
to Mrs. Stella Uzoamaka Agu in 1975 was blessed with six children, namely
Nnenna, Ogochukwu, Chinelo, Nwamaka, Chukwuka and Amuchechukwu.
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