George Chukwuji Ashibuogwu was born in Nigeria and educated at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he graduated with a B.Arch, in 1964. He then worked for the Lagos Executive Development Corporation for period before travelling to the UK and enrolling in the 1966-67 postgraduate ‘Housing’ course run by the Architectural Association’s Department of Development and Tropical Studies, in London. He successfully completed his studies and was awarded the AA postgraduate Diploma in Tropical Studies. Ashibuogwu appears to have returned to Nigeria soon afterwards and by 1969 was giving a corresponding address in Apapa. By 1972 George had established his own practice in Lagos, Ashibuogwu Design Associates, Chartered Architects and Planning Consultants and was starting to gain large projects, including being commissioned by the Ministry of Works and Transport, in Benin City, to design the Headquarters for Niger Agencies International Limited (1974). While Ashibuogwu Design Associates submitted preliminary plans for this particular project, it is unclear whether the design was eventually built and there was a legal dispute in the 1980s over payment of his professional fees. Further details of George’s career are not yet known to us, beyond the fact that Ashibuogwu Design Associates continued to practice through into the 1990s.

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• Architectural Association Student Register, 1945-71. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 24th July, 1967. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership Register, 1969. AA Archives
• The Kalendar of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1965, RIBA, 1965 p250
• ‘Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette’. Federal Republic of Nigeria, Lagos, 30 September 1976.
• ‘George C. Ashibuogwu V. The Attorney-General, Bendel State & Anor (1988) LLJR-SC’ Law Global Hub, database, 2003. Accessed 25th November, 2025: https://www.lawglobalhub.com/george-c-ashibuogwu-v-the-attorney-general-bendel-state-anor-1988-lljr-sc/