Following the death of the Access Bank's Chief Executive Officer, CEO Herbert Wigwe, the bank has appointed Bolaji Agbede as a replacement.
The bank's parent company, Access Holdings Plc, announced this in a statement.
According to Access Bank, Agbede's appointment to replace CEO Wigwe, who died alongside five others in a helicopter crash last Friday would be for a temporary replacement.
Agbede is the present Access Bank's most senior founding Executive Director.
She will assume the CEO position in an acting capacity, the bank's parent company, Access Holdings Plc, announced in a statement.
Ms Agbede joined Access Bank in 2003 and has nearly 30 years of experience in banking and business consultancy, the company said.
Recall that Wigwe's chartered helicopter was on its way from Palm Springs to Boulder City in Nevada in the US when it went down, about 96km (60 miles) from Las Vegas.
It was gathered that the 57-year-old banker was on his way to Las Vegas to attend Sunday's Super Bowl.
Wigwe founded Access Bank in 1989. It became the largest bank in Nigeria in 2018 after it acquired its main competitor, Diamond Bank. - BBC.
