Tony Iju Nwabunike – Shipping World News Magazine

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...

Following allegations that the President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents , Tony Iju Nwabunike, may have gone on AWOL, Shipping World Magazine engaged a former President of ANLCA, Chief Peter Okocha, in an interview on the State of Affairs of the once very vocal Association . Here are excerpts from the interview: S/W: You were once President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA. What was the vision of ANLCA under your leadership? OKOCHA: Well ,under my leadership then, I was with Otunba Fashawe who was my Vice President.Our vision was to reposition ANLCA and help the sector to reposition itself as the second largest revenue earner ,which it actually is. But our tenure was short lived because our frien...