{"id":21019,"date":"2024-03-08T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T16:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/herbert-wigwe-wife-sons-corpses-arrive-nigeria-for-burial-photos\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T16:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T16:02:52","slug":"herbert-wigwe-wife-sons-corpses-arrive-nigeria-for-burial-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/herbert-wigwe-wife-sons-corpses-arrive-nigeria-for-burial-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbert Wigwe, wife, son\u2019s corpses arrive Nigeria for burial [PHOTOS]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The corpses of the Wigwes arrived the Port Harcourt International Airport from United States, US, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral of the trio will hold on Saturday at Isiokpo, his hometown, in Ikwerre LGA of Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>Wigwe, alongside his wife, son, and Abimbola Ogunbanjo, the former group chairman of Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (NGX Group), died in a helicopter crash at the border of Nevada and California in the US last month.<\/p>\n<p>Since their death, tributes have continued to pour in for Wigwe as sympathizers recalled his deeds while alive.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1081551\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/wigwe-corepse.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/wigwe-corepse.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/wigwe-corepse-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/wigwe-corepse-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/wigwe-corepse-80x80.jpeg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><\/p>\n<p>Herbert Wigwe, wife, son\u2019s corpses arrive Nigeria for burial [PHOTOS]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remains of the late Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe, as well as those of his wife&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10487,15,901,4328,761,4610],"tags":[764,10488,180,18,1079,762,1104,3731],"class_list":["post-21019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herbert-wigwe","category-news","category-nigeria","category-son","category-top-headlines","category-wife","tag-headlines","tag-herbert","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-son","tag-top","tag-wife","tag-wigwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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