10th November, 2013
Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe, Nigeria’s former chief of general staff to the regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar, will be buried on Saturday 23 November.
The burial will take place in his home town,Fugar, Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo state.
The Head of the family and elder brother to the deceased, Chief Joseph Akhigbe-Alemoh, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Fugar on Sunday that the corpse was expected to arrive at Fugar on Friday, 22 November.
He said that Christian wake keep would be held that day, while the funeral Mass at the St. Theresa Catholic Church would be held the next day.
Aikhigbe died in New York on 28 October, at the age of 67. He was chief of staff between June 1998 and may 1999.
He had also served as governor of Lagos and Ondo states during the military era.