A helicopter carrying six folks, together with the co-founder of Nigeria’s greatest financial institution by belongings, crashed in a Southern California desert space close to the Mojave Nationwide Protect, authorities mentioned.
Herbert Wigwe, co-founder of Entry Financial institution, was among the many victims, relations from his dwelling village of Isiokpo mentioned.
Abimbola Ogunbanjo, who was president of the Nationwide Council of the Nigeria Inventory Alternate from 2017 to 2021, and served because the group chairman of the Nigerian Alternate Group Plc from 2021 to 2022, was confirmed lifeless by a member of the family in Lagos.
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The Federal Aviation Administration mentioned a Eurocopter EC helicopter crashed at about 10 p.m. on Friday with six folks on board.
“The scene of the crash was determined to be east of the 15-Freeway, near Halloran Springs Road,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Division mentioned in an emailed assertion on Saturday. “No survivors have been located.”
