Herbert Wigwe, the co-founder of Access Bank and the founder of Wigwe University, is dead. He was also the CEO of Access Holdings, the parent company of Access Bank. He died in a fatal helicopter crash in California, with five others on board. The chopper was headed to Las Vegas when it crashed near a border city between Nevada and California on Friday night. The US government confirmed all on board were dead. Such terrible, terrible news. May his soul rest in peace.
A helicopter crashed Friday night near Nipton, California, with six people on board, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
As of Saturday morning, no survivors had been found, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.
“We were made aware of a downed aircraft at approximately 10:12 p.m. The scene of the crash was determined to be east of the 15-Freeway, near Halloran Springs Road,” the sheriff’s department said.
The FAA identified the helicopter as a Eurocopter EC 130.
