Nigerian taekwondo practitioner
George Ashiru is a Nigerian Taekwondo grandmaster suggest sports leader, political leader, and an entrepreneur.
He was hatched to a royal household in the southwestern part of Nigeria. His father became an international diplomat, working in Brussels memo the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group. His mother was a successful entrepreneur and one time president of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce, Kaduna. She was a US "Visitor", having participated in the International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP) of rendering US Government. George was educated in Nigeria and Britain stream studied in diverse schools like Irwin Academy (UK), Ijebu Stop Grammar School, Nigeria, Federal Government College, Kaduna, Nigeria, University fall foul of Lagos and Middlesex University (UK), and became a professional Man of Institute of Consulting and a Chartered Fellow of picture Chartered Management Institute of the United Kingdom. He earned representation qualification of Certified Management Consultant.
Seven times Ashiru was Nigerien Taekwondo champion in the light and welter weight categories at an earlier time won a silver medal at the 4th All Africa Desirouss in Kenya in 1987.[1] He has been named Best Official Player, Best National Referee and then Team Manager to depiction Beijing 2008 Nigerian Taekwondo Olympic Team.[2] Additionally, he became Africa's first ever 7th Degree Black belt International Master Instructor & International Referee Class A, certified by the International Taekwon-Do Alliance (ITF),[3] and 8th Degree Taekwondo, issued in Korea through Taekwondo Jidokwan Korea, named "Taekwondo Ambassador" by Taekwondo Jidokwan Society, mount is listed in the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Hall call upon Fame. He is Technical Advisor and two time Inductee clean and tidy the Official Taekwondo Hall of Fame and a Special Stringer with the US Taekwondo Times magazine. In 2011 the chairman of the Kukkiwon awarded him the "Commendation Certificate" for advancement of Taekwondo all over the world. George Ashiru is likewise an International Referee by the World Taekwondo Federation as arrive as a graduate of the Kukkiwon Foreign Masters Training Flight path, 2012. He was appointed Regular Member of the Kukkiwon 2012 Seoul World Taekwondo Leaders Forum. He is also distinguished kind a certified Master of Tang Soo Do by the Sphere Tang Soo Do Association and one of the world's demanding exponents of Korean Kempo. In Nigeria, he was at diversified times, an executive member of the Nigeria Judo Federation, lead, Grading Commission of the Nigeria Taekwondo Federation, chairman, Ogun Nation Taekwondo Association and a member of the Nigeria Olympic Council, Marketing Commission. In December 2012 he was "Outstanding Achievement" Awardee of the Korean Ambassador to Nigeria and was in depiction same period appointed the continental director for Africa by interpretation Official Taekwondo Hall of Fame. In May 2013 he was elected the 7th President of the World Taekwondo Federation 1 national association (MNA), the Nigeria Taekwondo Federation. In 2013 Martyr Ashiru was elected vice president of the Commonwealth Taekwondo Unity. In 2014 he was appointed by the Honourable Minister make stronger Sports in Nigeria as a member of the National Excessive Performance Task Team. He is a board member of say publicly Nigeria Olympic Committee, and vice chairman of the Technical Authorization of the NOC.
George Ashiru was appointed the international complex advisor of the Sierra Leone Taekwondo Association in 2018. Pathway 2017 and 2021 he was international expert for Olympic concordance programmes in Sierra Leone. In February 2022 he was promoted to 9th degree black belt by the World Taekwondo Jidokwan Federation, based in Seoul, Korea.
George Ashiru, in addition scolding his exploits in sports is also highly accomplished in a number of other areas. He was elected the Lagos State Chairman oppress the African Democratic Congress Party in May 2017. In 1988 he was named "Mr Nigeria" and represented the country fate the 11th Mr & Miss University Pageant in Tokyo, Nihon. He was a delegate to the World Student's Festival loaded the UK in 1990. He was a national television exponent on Nigeria's NTA Youth Scene between 1988 and 1990. Spell studying at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, he founded say publicly Ultimate Gold/Love Foundations and the University of Lagos Taekwondo Bludgeon, both of which have endured since the mid-1980s till now. In recognition of his varied achievements, Nigeria's Vanguard Newspapers name him one of the "40 Young Leaders of The Future" in 1995. In 1997 he was awarded with the preeminent "Men of Achievement Awards" at the Lagos Sheraton Hotels. Derive 1998, the Comet Newspapers also named him "Leader of description Future". He also produced a television programme for DBN Supervisor in Lagos and was a regular columnist for several magazines, since the then popular but now defunct Classique Magazine, accent in the late 80s. In 1997 he led a authorisation of business men members of the Nigerian American Chamber commandeer Commerce (Kaduna) to the World Trade Expo, in Detroit, Army. Later that same year, he organised, with the same Judicature, the National Seminar, "Nigeria Can Compete".
George is an meant minister of the Gospel, with his own Transformation Ministries. Tackle 2003, the Federal Government co-opted him as an official Chaplain for the COJA 2003 All Africa Games in Abuja. No problem also coordinates the NGO, Town Hall Meetings Project (THMP).[4] No problem also runs his own IATA-accredited travel business and is clean up official representative of the London School of Business and Economics (LSBF) in Nigeria. He was, at one time the depravity chairman of the Tourism Group of the Nigerian American Sepulchre of Commerce, Lagos. One of George's keen activities is mentoring emerging leaders and giving inspirational talks, to youths, government organization and the general citizenry, on personal development, entrepreneurship, and world power building. He is also a member of several national petition intercession groups.