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Just in: Access Holdings CEO, Herbert Wigwe, wife, son dies in helicopter crash

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3 years ago

February 10, 2024

THERE IS NO NEED TO FIGHT OVER HERBERT WIGWE'S WILL By JESUTEGA ONOKPASA I just heard that the parents of our brother, the late Herbert Wigwe, have gone to court to contest his will. Herbert Wigwe would naturally had envisaged that he would bury his parents and not the other way round. Unfortunately, our dearly departed brother died before his beloved parents. In that case, they are entitled to a share of his wealth, being the ones who gave birth to him and made him who he was by the most Divine Grace and Providence of Almighty God. Nothing is more disgusting than people fighting over the property of a diseased person - property they did not earn. We are Niger Deltans and we have a saying that where there is no greed, even the leg of an ant can be shared. The Wigwes are one family and Herbert left far more than enough to go around. I enjoin Herbert's children to embrace their grandparents for they are the ones most solidly on their side at this time. We have culture - we do not fight our parents, not to talk of our grandparents. We do not disgrace our parents, neither do we dishonour our grandparents. May the Good Lord Jesus bring healing, reconciliation and unity to the house of the Wigwes. May Herbert's adorable children be embraced by the Holy Spirit, Almighty God, The Giver of Life - they will live long and be truly blessed and fully alive. The untimely death that took their parents, sibling and family friend will never find them in Jesus Most Holy and Almighty Name. May the souls of the faithful departed, rest in the Most Holy Bosom of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. My dear Wigwes, you are one: please take this unnecessary case out of court and embrace yourselves as the children of God that you are. Onokpasa, a lawyer, writes from Abuja.

The CEO of Access Holdings, Herbert Wigwe, his wife, and his son are believed to be among the six passengers in a helicopter that crashed in the US early Saturday Nigerian time (late Friday local time).

The chopper was headed to Las Vegas when it crashed near a border city between Nevada and California on Friday night.

National Daily learnt that six people were feared dead after the horrific helicopter crash in California marking the state’s second fatal accident in under a week.

Officials said the helicopter crashed near Nipton on the edge of the Mojave Desert late on Friday evening

The helicopter, a Eurocopter EC 130, had been carrying six people onboard at the time of the incident

It comes just days after a Navy chopper carrying five troops crashed during a routine training flight in Pine Valley, California

The helicopter carrying six people crashed in San Bernardino County overnight, with authorities saying they have been unable to locate any survivors.

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said they had been made aware of the downed aircraft near Baker shortly after 10 pm on Friday.

In a statement, they said, “We are not able to confirm how many people were on board or their names. No survivors have been located.”

The FAA confirmed that the Eurocopter EC 130 crashed near Nipton on the edge of the Mojave Desert Preserve, and is east of the 15 Freeway near Halloran Springs.

According to NBC, the helicopter is registered to a Burbank-based tour company called Orbic Air.