Access Bank CEO, Herbert Wigwe, Wife, Son, Three Others Die In Helicopter Crash

Access Bank CEO, Herbert Wigwe, Wife, Son, Three Others Die In Helicopter Crash

Access Bank CEO, Herbert Wigwe has reportedly died in a helicopter Crash In California.

 

It was reported that Herbert Wigwe, the co-founder of Access bank and the founder, Wigwe University is dead.

An unconfirmed report indicated that a chopper transporting Wigwe, the CEO of Access Holdings crashed and killed him as well as five others in California.

Sources said the helicopter conveying Wigwe and his family was headed to Las Vegas when it crashed near a border city between Nevada and California on Friday night.

The US government confirmed all onboard dead.

The Federal Aviation Administration said that the Eurocopter EC130 helicopter crashed at around 10 p.m. local time near Nipton, Calif, an unincorporated community about 60 miles south of Las Vegas in eastern San Bernardino County.

Further information has it that the Chairman of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Abimbola Ogunbanjo, was also in the ill-fated flight.

Wigwe, 57, was a Nigerian banker and entrepreneur.

He was also the CEO of Access holdings, the parent company of Access bank.