{"id":21212,"date":"2024-02-28T14:59:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T14:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=21212"},"modified":"2024-02-28T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T14:59:28","slug":"funeral-arrangements-released-for-late-access-bank-ceo-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/28\/funeral-arrangements-released-for-late-access-bank-ceo-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Arrangements Released for Late Access Bank CEO, Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family of the late Access Bank CEO, Herbert Wigwe, has reportedly revealed the burial rites, which include a week-long schedule of memorial services, according to several reports.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremonies will commence on Monday, March 4, with a tribute event titled &#8220;Celebrating Herbert Wigwe \u2013 A Professional Legacy&#8221; at the Eko Hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for the funeral proceedings is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Celebrating Herbert Wigwe \u2013 &#8220;A Professional Legacy&#8221;<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Date: Monday, March 4, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Venue: Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos<\/li>\n<li>Time: 2:00 pm &#8211; 6:00 pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Celebrating Chizi Wigwe<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Venue: Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos<\/li>\n<li>Time: 10:00 am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Celebrating Chizoba Wigwe<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Venue: Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos<\/li>\n<li>Time: 5:00 pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Night of Tributes<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Venue: Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos<\/li>\n<li>Time: 5:00 pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Combined Service of Songs<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Date: Thursday, March 7, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Venue: RCCG, Ressurection Parish, 1 Ressurection Drive, 1st Gate, Jakande Estate, Km 15 Lekki<\/li>\n<li>Time: 10:00 am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christian Wake-Keeping<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Date: Friday, March 8, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Venue: Wigwe University, Isiokpo<\/li>\n<li>Time: 6:00 pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Combined Funeral Service<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Date: Saturday, March 9, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Venue: RCCG, Lion of Judah Parish, Isiokpo<\/li>\n<li>Time: 10:00 am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tragic demise of Wigwe, his wife, and his son occurred in a helicopter crash in the United States, alongside former Chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (NGX Group), Abimbola Ogunbanjo, who was also on board the aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of the late Access Bank CEO, Herbert Wigwe, has reportedly revealed the burial rites, which include a week-long schedule of memorial services, according to several reports. The ceremonies will commence on Monday, March 4, with a tribute event titled &#8220;Celebrating Herbert Wigwe \u2013 A Professional Legacy&#8221; at the Eko Hotel in Victoria Island, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-21212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21217,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21212\/revisions\/21217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}