Mike Akhigbe’s Body Arrives Today

The remains of the former Chief of the General Staff (CGS), Vice Admiral Mike Okhai Akhigbe, who died of throat cancer in an American hospital, last week, will arrive the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos today aboard a chartered aircraft direct from the US.

The body of Akhigbe, who was also a former Chief of the Naval Staff and a former military governor of Lagos and Ondo states, and who hailed from Fugar in Etsako Central local government area of Edo State, on arrival in Lagos, is expected to be flown to Edo State where he will lie in state before a ceremonial national burial.