Ernest Osemeka is recorded as a Nigerian student who graduated with an architecture degree from the Northern Polytechnic, now University of North London, before returning to Nigeria where he was employed by the Eastern Region's Ministry of Works, in the early 1960s, based in Enugu. In late 1963 the Eleti Ofe newspaper noted how he, along with three other Nigerian architects from the Ministry of Works (Adeleki Adebiyi, Samuel Ajayi and Ekiel Fakoya), had been dispatched to London for six months of postgraduate study at the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Tropical Studies. The newspaper notes that the students had been funded through the Nigerian / British Technical Assistance scheme. Whilst at the AA, Osemeka chose to join the inaugural year of the Educational Building course, within the Tropical Department, graduating with a Diploma in February 1964 and returning to Nigeria. Few details are yet known to us regarding his subsequent career but it appears that he returned to the Ministry of Works, in Enugu - the Official Gazette of the Federal Republic of Nigeria recording him registered as an architect in their employ in 1970.

Sources

• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 16th March, 1964. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership List, 1969, 1979
• ‘Nigerians Study Tropical Architecture’, Eleti Ofe, Vol. XIV, No. 892, Oct.-Nov. 1963
• Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette, Vol. 57, No. 40, 9th July, 1970, p.935