Brigadier George T Kurubo was the third Commander of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), the first indigenous to hold the post.

From 1954 to 1955, he attended Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, then the Young Air Infantry Officers' School in 1956, then Senior Air Infantry Officers' School in 1961, and finally Command and Staff College, Quetta, Pakistan in 1964.

In 1964, he moved from Lt-Col in the Army to the newly formed Nigerian Air Force in 1964.

Serving as the Eastern commander of logistics, Kurubo defected from Biafra to the Federal Government.

[citation needed] In 1977, he served as chairman of the Bonny Local Government Area's Management Committee.