Management Team

MD/CEO

Ismail Adekola Yusuf

Director/HOD (Freight Forwarding)

Chuka Offor

Operations Manager

Abigail Odetunde

Depot manager (Kano)

Kayode Micheal Kajola

Legal executive/ Company Secretary

Iheme Charles Esq., ACIArb {U.K}

MD/CEO

Ismail Adekola Yusuf

Ismail Adekola Yusuf is the Managing Director of Inland Containers Nigeria Limited. He has over 24 years of experience in Logistics, Finance and Maritime Sector of the economy and he has also worked in Niger River Basin Development Authority, Kaduna Area office.

Ismail holds an HND in accounting from Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna, and an MSc. Banking and Finance from Bayero University, Kano.

He is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, Certified Institute of Shipping of Nigeria.

He is also a fellow of Port and Terminal Management Academy and Institute of Chartered Administrators and Researchers of Nigeria.

Director/HOD (Freight Forwarding)

Chuka Offor

Chuka was formerly a client service manager at Citi Group, a financial services company. He was responsible for identifying and executing key relationships with customers as well as offering holistic needs analysis and consultation to key clients in portfolio management as well as taking ownership of all categories of customer service matters.
He joined Citi Group, from GLC where he was an Assistant manager in  Budapest, Hungary.

He was responsible for the development of strategies to increase awareness of conference and training. He also introduced innovative systems and processes that had positive influence on GLC regional business performance.
He graduated with BSc. in Business Management from Oxford Business University, U.K. In addition to this, he has received managerial trainings from the Asian Institute Management, London City College, and Harvard Extension School. He is also a member of Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Operations Manager

Abigail Odetunde

Abigail Odetunde is a certified shipping maritime expert and a professional custom broker She is a Member of Nigeria institute of shipping, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transportation, Port and Terminal Management and The Certified Institute of Shipping (CIS).

She obtained her first degree in Zoology from university of Ilorin and went ahead to obtain her master’s degree in Transportation Planning & Management from the renowned university of Lagos. She later proceeded and obtain Advance Diploma in Shipping Port Administration and Management from the same University of Lagos and international Advanced diploma in charted institute of logistics and transportation.

She has over 16 years of working experience in the maritime industry and currently the operations Manager of the company where she oversees operational activities in the company.

Her years of experience in maritime industry is unrivalled, she is driven by passion, result oriented and has Zeal for excellence, a good negotiator and customer centric. 

Depot manager (Kano)

Kayode Micheal Kajola

Kayode Kajola is a goal-oriented individual with over 10 years of experience in the Maritime/
Shipping sector with specialization in Bonded Terminal Operations.

His dedication at improving operations and increasing customer traffic, earned him the position of Depot Manager at the Inland Container terminal in Kano where he has proved his excellence over time.

He attended Kaduna state polytechnic and Kaduna state university where he obtained his HND
and Postgraduate degrees, respectively.
Over the years he has attended several trainings on terminal operations and dry port
management.

Legal executive/ Company Secretary

Iheme Charles Esq., ACIArb {U.K}

Iheme Charles Esq., ACIArb {U.K] is a consummate professional with vast experience in diverse areas of law including but not limited to Commercial Law; Criminal Law, Conveyancing, Intellectual Property, Mortgage and Acquisition, Loan Restructuring and Recovery, Energy Law, Oil and Gas, Maritime & Shipping, Labour Law, Arbitration and ADR. He has advised and represented several blue-chip companies in Litigation and Arbitration and also served as the Registrar to several arbitral tribunals in arbitration disputes.

Iheme Charles started his legal practice with the Department of Public Prosecutions, Ministry of Justice, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State before he joined the Law Firm of P.G.U Madu & Associates as an associate where he rose to become a senior associate and head of the ADR Unit. He obtained his LLB from the University of Benin, Benin-City, Edo State in 2007 and was called to the Nigerian bar in 2008.

He is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association [NBA] and an associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators [U.K] Nigeria Branch.

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