Access Bank CEO, Wife And Two Sons Reported Dead In US Helicopter Crash In California

The Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings, Herbert Wigwe had been involved in a plane crash with his family on Friday, February 9, according to SaharaReporters.

His wife and two kids were onboard the helicopter transporting them when it crushed in California near the Nevada border resulting in their death.

There were six passengers on board when the chopper crashed. No survivor had yet been found.

The US government has confirmed all six passengers onboard dead.

 

 

 

According to reports from SaharaReporters, the Access Holdings CEO had left Lagos State, Nigeria, on Wednesday to watch the Super Bowl 58, an American football competition.

The US Federal Aviation Ministry said the Eurocopter EC130 helicopter crashed around 10 pm California time on Friday.

According to Mara Rodriguez, a public information officer with the Federal Aviation Administration, officials at the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department were made aware of the downed aircraft at 10:12 pm, local time.

She added that the scene of the crash was determined to be east of Interstate 15, near Halloran Springs Road.

SaharaReporters had earlier reported that the chopper was headed to Las Vegas when it crashed near a border city between Nevada and California on Friday night.

US officials had said the helicopter crashed near Nipton on the edge of the Mojave Desert late on Friday evening.

Prior to becoming the Group CEO, Herbert Wigwe the deputy managing director at Access Bank from 2002 to 2014. He is also the founder of Wigwe University.

He served as the Chairman of Access Bank (Ghana), Access Investment and Security Services Limited, Central Securities and Clearing System (CSCS) and currently until his death the Chairman of Access Bank (UK) Limited and Unified Payments Services Limited.

 

Below is a release by Access Bank.

Access Bank has confirmed the death of its Group Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Herbert Wigwe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Profile of Herbert Wigwe

Mr Wigwe, 57, was a co-founder of Access Bank, beginning in 2002, after spending years at professional services firm, Cooper & Lybrand, now PwC.

After Cooper & Lybrand, the Chartered Accountant had a stint at Capital Bank, before joining GTBank where he spent over a decade working in corporate and institutional banking, rising to become the executive director in charge of institutional banking.

In 2002, Mr. Wigwe and his business partner, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede bought into what was then a small commercial bank, Access Bank – at the time, the 65th largest of the 89 banks in the country.

Access Bank is now one of the top five banks in Nigeria and ranked among the top 500 global banks according to a 2015 report by The Banker magazine. It currently serves over 6.5 million account-holders, through 350 branches and with more than 1,500 ATMs in major centres across Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa and the UK.

 

 

 

 

 

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