The remains of the late Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe, as well as those of his wife and son, have arrived Nigeria. The corpses of the Wigwes arrived the Port Harcourt International Airport from United States, US, on Friday. The funeral of the trio will hold on Saturday at Isiokpo, his hometown, in Ikwerre LGA of Rivers …

Dr. Herbert Wigwe’s personal and technical assistant, Mr. Olusola Faleye has spoken about how he did not fly with his now late boss in the chopper that led to the death of the former, his wife, son, and friend, Mr. Abimbola Ogunbanjo. At the Night of Tributes for Wigwe on Wednesday, Faleye said he had discussed with his boss that …

Vice President Kashim Shettima on Wednesday led the nation to mourn former Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc, Dr. Herbert Wigwe, and his family, who tragically died in a helicopter crash in the United States of America. In a lyrical eulogy, Shettima described the late Wigwe as an early bloomer who transformed the Nigerian banking industry, recalling his …

Corporate Nigeria and some political heavyweights turned up on Monday to celebrate the life and times of the late Chief Executive Officer of Access Corporation Plc, Dr. Herbert Wigwe who all of them described as a titan. In  an emotion laden ‘Night of Tributes’ with touching memories, dignitaries from the public and private sectors, led by Africa’s richest man, Aliko …

The Chairman and CEO of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has named the “biggest” road network leading to his Lagos refinery after the late Herbert Wigwe. Wigwe died with his wife and son in a helicopter crash in California, the United States of America. Dangote, while paying his tribute to the late billionaire banker in a programme organised in his honour, …

I never met Herbert Wigwe, the late CEO of Access Bank. I didn’t hear his name until now. As a writer, I pen scanty about happenings in the banking sector; a titanic terrain that was Herbert’s career kingdom in Nigeria. Shortly after I left Nigeria for the US 36 years ago, I heard about Herbert’s dad, Papa Shyngle Wigwe when …

I did not set out to write on this; I could not have. I already had something else to write about. But as is always with journalism and opinion writing, never say never. Events conspire to happen in such dizzying fashions that they make nonsense of your plan. And as they happen, you have to respond to what is topical …

The Association of Corporate and Marketing Communications Professionals in Nigeria Banks (ACAMB) has extends its deepest condolences to Access Holdings Group on the tragic passing of its CEO, Dr. Herbert Wigwe. ACAMB also mourns the former Chairman of Nigerian Exchange Group, Mr. Abimbola Ogunbanjo, who was in the ill-fated flight together with Wigwe’s wife and son. In a statement on …

The Lagos State House of Assembly resumed plenary on Monday with a call on colleagues of late banker, Dr. Herbert Wigwe to sustain his legacies. Wigwe, the Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings, lost his life in a helicopter crash in the United States of America. He was with his wife, Doreen, son; and a former Chairman of Nigeria Exchange …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that he is deeply saddened by the death of the Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc, Dr. Herbert Wigwe; his wife, Doreen; their son, Chizi; and former Group Chairman of Nigerian Exchange Group Plc, Mr. Abimbola Ogunbanjo, in a helicopter crash last Friday night in California near the Nevada border, United …