A helicopter bring 6 individuals, consisting of the co-founder of Nigeria’s greatest bank by possessions, crashed in a Southern California desert location near the Mojave National Preserve, authorities stated.
Herbert Wigwe, co-founder of Access Bank, was amongst the victims, relative from his home town of Isiokpo stated.
Abimbola Ogunbanjo, who was president of the National Council of the Nigeria Stock Exchange from 2017 to 2021, and worked as the group chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group Plc from 2021 to 2022, was validated dead by a member of the family in Lagos.
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The Federal Aviation Administration stated a Eurocopter EC helicopter crashed at about 10 p.m. on Friday with 6 individuals on board.
“The scene of the crash was figured out to be east of the 15-Freeway, near Halloran Springs Road,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department stated in an emailed declaration on Saturday. “No survivors have actually lain.”
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