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Access Bank Plc, has confirmed the death of its Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Herbert Wigwe.
Wigwe died in a helicopter crash on Friday with his wife, son, and a former Group Chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group Plc, Abimbola Ogunbanjo.
The bank in a statement signed by the Company’s Group Secretary Sunday Ekwochi confirmed the unfortunate incident.
They are reported to have been en route to Boulder City, Nevada from from Palm Springs, California, on Friday night when the helicopter conveying them crashed at about 10 pm, near a small town in California’s Mojave Desert.
A total of six people were in the helicopter that crashed near the California-Nevada border. No one survived the crash.
What exactly led to the crash of the Airbus Helicopters EC-130 remains unclear…