Eric Mgele
Herbert Wigwe, the CEO of Nigeria’s Access Bank, one of Africa’s largest banking groups, died in a helicopter crash in California on Friday night.
His wife, child, and a former group chairman of the Nigerian Exchange, which operates the country’s main stock market, were also killed in the crash alongside two others. There were no survivors.
The helicopter, identified by the US Federal Aviation Administration as a Eurocopter EC130, crashed near the border between California and Nevada. The FAA and the U.S. Transportation Safety Agency are investigating the crash.
Wigwe, who was 57, had led Access Bank as CEO since 2014, having taken co-ownership of the bank with his partner Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede in 2002.
The US Federal Aviation Administration released a statement saying that six people were aboard the aircraft when it crashed at around 10 pm near Nipton, California.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organization, in a post on social media platform X, confirmed that the incident had claimed the life of Access Bank Group CEO Herbert Wigwe, along with that of Nigerian Exchange Group’s former Chairman Abimbola Ogunbanjo.
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