Akhigbe 's Body to arrive on Saturday

The body of late former Chief of General Staff, Vice-Admiral Mike Akhigbe, will arrive Nigeria on Saturday. Nigeria’s Consul-General in New York, Amb. Habib Habu had disclosed this to reporters on Thursday.

He said that, the corpse would leave New York on Friday night for Nigeria.

“Earlier on Friday, a church service in honour of the former Naval chief will take place at the Holy Family Church located at 315E, 47th Street in New York,’’ habib further revealed.

Akhigbe was confirmed dead on Oct 28. He died in New York at the age of 67.

Habu further affirmed that staff of the Nigeria Permanent Representative to the UN and the Nigerian Consulate were all advised to attend the funeral.

The death of the former Chief of Navy staff had generated a lot of controversies, following the family’s denial that he was alive contrary to media report.