Mike Akhigbe's Body Arrives Nigeria Sunday

 

The remains of the late former Chief of General Staff (CGS), Vice-Admiral Mike Akhigbe, would arrive the Nnamidi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja tomorrow.

 The remains of the former number two citizen who gave up the ghost at his New York residence on Monday would depart JF Kennedy International Airport, New York last night.

 According to the report, some of the late Akhigbe’s children, his wife, daughters-in-law and associates who are already in New York would follow the remains to Nigeria in a chartered aircraft.

 The report stated that Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state of Edo state  who will receive the body of the late CGS at the airport in Abuja, had sent a representative of the state government to accompany the remains from New York.

 It would be recalled that Akhigbe, who left a hospital recently,  passed on while receiving visitors in his house, following  some complications in the middle of a conversation with his guests. Efforts to revive him proved abortive and he was later confirmed dead in a New York hospital.