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Our story
From a meeting in Lagos in 2007 to a national profession with a global voice. Nineteen years of members, presidents and partners who built the standard.
Foundation
The profession finds its voice
A home, a delegation, a chapter
A first delegation attends the IFI General Assembly and World Design Congress in Dubai. IDAN opens its first headquarters at 14 Lewis Street, Onikan, and establishes the Abuja chapter with Ken Ubah.
Growth
Structure, standards and reach
Abuja gathers
The founder comes to Abuja and meets three registered members and about twenty interested designers to share the vision for the FCT chapter.
First events in the capital
The founder introduces Abuja members to Ken Ubah of the Board of Trustees, who helps them stage their first event at Paris Choice Hotel and then at Sunmerset Hotel, with the help of Innocent Ekpanum.
Momentum builds
Committed members and partners meet often to move the chapter forward. Eva Oamen, based in Abuja, is appointed National Assistant Secretary General.
A first chapter chair
Growth stalls without structure. The founder returns to Abuja with a representative of the Board of Trustees and appoints Lape Saleh as the first Abuja Chapter chair.
A surge in membership
Abuja membership grows quickly under the new chair and her executive. The chapter works with industry partners and government to build a design community, and Abuja designer Freda Anegbe is elected National Assistant Secretary General.
A stronger voice for Abuja
The capital's design community asks for more depth in professionalism, representation and policy, and closer ties with the national body. Habiba Waziri steadies the chapter as interim chair through COVID-19 and the second national elections, which make Freda Anegbe National Vice President.
Global voice
An African first
New chapter leadership
Kuceli Ross-Adetunji is appointed Abuja Chapter chair.
The first Abuja Interior Design Summit
The FCT chapter convenes its first Interior Design Summit on Saturday 10 June, a morning of conversation for the capital's design community.
Renewal
Structure, visibility and advocacy
Abuja Interior Design Summit
The FCT chapter hosts the Abuja Interior Design Summit.
FCT Chapter
Who stood by Abuja
Interior Woodworks, Boe Concepts, Window Story, AFP, Nettetal, Paris Choice Hotel and many more.
The wife of the Kaduna State Governor, Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
Presidents
Those who led
Six presidents since 2007, each building on the last.
- 1Munirat Shonibare2007 to 2011
- 2Anselm Tabansi2011 to 2014
- 3Titi Ogufere2014 to 2018
- 4Omon Anenih Mordi2018 to 2021
- 5Jenifer Chukwujekwe2022 to 2025
- 6Jacqueline Aki2025 to date
Be part of what comes next.
Twenty years in, the profession is still being built. Join the members writing its next chapter.