Herbert Wigwe, co-founder and CEO of Nigeria's largest bank by assets, Access Bank, tragically lost his life in a helicopter accident in the Mojave Desert in Southern California on Friday, as reported by AP News on Sunday.
Bamofin Abimbola Ogunbanjo, the former chair of NGX Group, the Nigerian stock exchange, also perished in the crash.
According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, "no survivors have been located."