Managing Director

Mazi J. C. Nwankwo

Mazi J.C. Nwankwo has had a distinguished career beginning as a Statistician at the Federal Office of Statistics in Lagos in 1979 and as a Lecturer at Methodist College in Uzuakoli the same year. He joined the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) in 1980, starting as a Pupil Traffic Officer in Lagos, then moving through various roles including Traffic & Commercial Officer in Bauchi (1981), Senior Traffic & Commercial Officer in Gombe and Jos (1983), Acting Principal Traffic & Commercial Officer in Kaduna (1986), Assistant Director (Passenger Services) & Chief Marketing Officer in Lagos (1989), Assistant Director (Commercial) in Lagos (1995), Railway District Manager for West in Ibadan (1996), North-East in Bauchi (1997), and East in Enugu (1998). By October 1999, he became the Assistant Director of Operations in Lagos, then Deputy Director of Operations in March 2002, and Director of Operations in September 2002. His career culminated as the Acting Managing Director of the NRC from February 2007 to May 2011.