The Board of Wema Bank Plc has appointed Engr. Wilson Chiedu Agu as an Independent Non-Executive Director, effective March 3, 2026, following approval from the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The appointment brings to the bank’s board a technologist and infrastructure entrepreneur with more than three decades of professional experience across engineering consultancy, information technology, cybersecurity, and strategic business development.
Engr. Agu earned a bachelor’s degree in Civil/Structural Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1990. His early career was shaped by his role at Project Development Consortium (PDC), where he served as Partner and Resident Engineer from 1993 to 2007. During this period he oversaw several major engineering assignments, including the structural design of Orient Bank and the National Maritime Resource Centre, projects that contributed to Nigeria’s banking and maritime infrastructure development.
In 2000, Agu founded I-Sixty Nigeria Limited, a diversified engineering and technology enterprise. Through the company, he has delivered a range of landmark projects across Nigeria’s public infrastructure and cultural sectors, including the NIMASA Maritime Museum, the Nigerian Navy Dockyard Museum, and the beautification of eleven renovated airports nationwide.
Beyond engineering and infrastructure, Agu has played an active role in Nigeria’s technology governance ecosystem. He served on the Governing Board of the National Information Technology Development Agency from 2013 to 2015, where he chaired the Committee on Standards, Guidelines and Regulations. In that capacity, he supported the implementation of the National IT Policy and the COBIT 5 framework, which was adopted to strengthen governance, risk management, and compliance standards across Nigeria’s information technology sector.
Between 2018 and 2020, he collaborated with Precise Financial Systems on banking automation solutions aimed at improving operational efficiency and technology integration within financial institutions.
He currently leads Eagle Industrial and Energy Limited, a company focused on developing industrial parks and free trade zone infrastructure. One of its flagship initiatives is the Enugu Tech Market project, designed to support innovation clusters and technology-driven industrial development in southeastern Nigeria.
In recognition of his contributions to public administration and corporate development, Agu received a Professional Fellowship Doctorate from the Institute of Corporate and Public Administration of Nigeria in 2021. He is also a member of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, reflecting his longstanding involvement in Nigeria’s technology and digital-governance ecosystem.
His appointment adds multidisciplinary expertise in engineering, technology systems, and infrastructure development to the board of Wema Bank, one of Nigeria’s oldest commercial banks and a pioneer in digital banking through its ALAT platform. The bank has reported strong financial momentum in recent years, including pre-tax profit of ₦222.07 billion for 2025, more than doubling the previous year’s performance as lending activity and interest income expanded.
