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Nigeria’s Financial Sector Faces a New Era Following Tragic Loss

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Will McBain

African markets specialist and editor at Allen Dreyfus.
  • Access Bank’s Herbert Wigwe and NGX’s Abimbola Ogunbanjo die in a helicopter crash.
  • Nigeria’s financial landscape at a crossroads as successors step in.

 

The tragic helicopter crash in California’s Mojave Desert, claiming the lives of Access Bank founder and CEO Herbert Wigwe, former Nigerian Stock Exchange Chairman Abimbola Ogunbanjo, and members of the Wigwe family, has sent shockwaves through Nigeria’s financial community.

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