{"id":176628,"date":"2025-08-28T22:28:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/innocent-ike-succeeds-herbert-wigwe-as-ceo"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:45:18","slug":"innocent-ike-succeeds-herbert-wigwe-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/innocent-ike-succeeds-herbert-wigwe-as-ceo","title":{"rendered":"Innocent Ike Succeeds Herbert Wigwe as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Innocent Ike has been appointed by Access Holdings as the substantive Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment was announced in a statement issued on Wednesday by the company\u2019s secretary, Sunday Ekwochi, following regulatory approval.<\/p>\n<p>Ike assumed the role at Access Holdings more than a year after the death of Herbert Wigwe on February 9, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to welcome Mr. Innocent Ike as we move forward. At the same time, we want to express our deepest gratitude to Ms. Bolaji Agbede,\u201d Ekwochi stated.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Ike\u2019s appointment, Ms. Bolaji Agbede had overseen the affairs of Access Holdings in an acting capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes at a time when Roosevolt Ogbonna resigned as the company\u2019s Non-Executive Director.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there is speculation of a possible internal power struggle within the top leadership of the company, which owns Access Bank.<\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that Wigwe, his wife, his son, and three other passengers died in a plane crash in California, United States, on February 9, 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Innocent Ike has been appointed by Access Holdings as the substantive Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. His appointment was announced in a statement issued on Wednesday by the company\u2019s secretary, Sunday Ekwochi, following regulatory approval. Ike assumed the role at Access Holdings more than a year after the death of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":176627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[12696,18594,254],"class_list":["post-176628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-herbert-wigwe","tag-innocent-ike","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Innocent Ike Succeeds Herbert Wigwe as CEO - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Innocent Ike has been appointed by Access Holdings as the substantive Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Office ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/innocent-ike-succeeds-herbert-wigwe-as-ceo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Innocent Ike Succeeds Herbert Wigwe as CEO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Innocent Ike has been appointed by Access Holdings as the substantive Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Office ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/innocent-ike-succeeds-herbert-wigwe-as-ceo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-28T21:28:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-28T22:45:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756408696.790182.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/innocent-ike-succeeds-herbert-wigwe-as-ceo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/innocent-ike-succeeds-herbert-wigwe-as-ceo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Innocent Ike Succeeds Herbert Wigwe as CEO\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-28T21:28:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-28T22:45:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/innocent-ike-succeeds-herbert-wigwe-as-ceo\"},\"wordCount\":186,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/innocent-ike-succeeds-herbert-wigwe-as-ceo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756408696.790182.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Herbert Wigwe\",\"Innocent Ike\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/innocent-ike-succeeds-herbert-wigwe-as-ceo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/innocent-ike-succeeds-herbert-wigwe-as-ceo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/innocent-ike-succeeds-herbert-wigwe-as-ceo\",\"name\":\"Innocent Ike Succeeds Herbert Wigwe as CEO - 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