Mediaage NG News – ABUJA, Nigeria
One of Nigeria’s largest banking institutions, Access Bank has made a temporal replacement in the person of Bolaji Agbede for Herbert Wigwe, who died together with five others in a helicopter crash last Friday.
She’s the bank’s most senior founding executive director and according to its parent company, Access Holdings, in a statement, Mrs. Agbede who joined the bank in 2003 will be on an acting capacity.
The late Wigwe’s chartered helicopter was on its way from Palm Springs to Boulder City in Nevada in the US when it went down, about 96km (60 miles) from Las Vegas.
According to Nigerian media, the 57-year-old banker was on his way to Las Vegas to attend Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Wigwe founded Access Bank in 1989. It became the largest bank in Nigeria in 2018 after it acquired its main competitor, Diamond Bank.