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On April 14, 1912, Capt John Edward Smith, Capt of RMS Titanic ,took his cruise vessel on a mission of no return when the vessel hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. At the end of the Voyage, no fewer than 1,500 lost their lives in a journey that had over 2 ,400 on board. Exactly 106 years later on April 14, 2018,Tony Iju Nwabunike took over 3000 Freight Forwarders on 4 year journey onboard MV ANLCA. At the end of trip, there was hardly any survivor as Capt Tony Iju Nwabunike had abandoned his role as Master even before MV ANLCA got to its final destination. While it is customary for the master to be last to leave the Ship in case of a disaster, the exact opposite was the case in what has been termed ANLCA House of Commotion. There is no better way to capture this scenario than the...

Despite the raging controversy over the propised illegal extension of the current Executive of the Nigeria Association of Customs Licensed Agents , the Secretary General , Alhaji Babatunde Mukaila has insisted that the Tony Iju Nwabunike led Exco would not hand over in April. Mukaila who spoke exclusively to Shipping World said the National Executive Council of the Association was relying on a December 16, 2020 resolution of the General Assembly in Owerri, Imo State, where a purported ammendment to the Constitution was made. " Those insinuating that we shouldn't have benefited from the said ammendment are only economical with the reality on ground. What if we had decided to contest this year and added an additional five years to our tenure, making it a straight nine years? " , he asked...