EBASI extends its heart-felt condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Founding Council Member Professor James Okoye Chukwuka Ezeilo who passed away in January of 2013. Professor Ezeilo was a very animated, enterprising, philosophical but pragmatic man with plenty of ideas. He was a brilliant mathematician and fun to be around and will be greatly missed by all who knew him. We, the members of EBASI, are deeply saddened by his death.