SAD NEWS HITS SPORTS PUBLISHING AS OJEAGBASE JOINS ANCESTORS

Dr. Sunny Ojeagbase

"Late Ojeagbase is credited to have contributed immensely to sports journalism, publishing, business mentorship and entrepreneurship in Nigeria."

Top sports publisher and Chief Executive Officer of Complete Sports Magazine, Dr. Emmanuel Sunny Ojeagbase, is dead.

Dr. Emmanuel Sunny Ojeagbase, until demise at the weekend in Atlanta, in the US state of Georgia after a brief illness, was the Executive Chairman, Complete Communications Limited, Publishers of Complete Sports newspapers, SuccessDigest and other online publications.

He was aged 71.

Ojeagbase was the pioneer sports Editor of The Guardian newspapers at the media organisation’s inception in 1983. It was from there that he went on to become the pioneer publisher of sports news in Nigeria when he established Sports Souvenir, a weekly newspaper in 1984.

Late Ojeagbase is credited to have contributed immensely to sports journalism, publishing, business mentorship and entrepreneurship in Nigeria.

Late Dr. Emmanuel Sunny Ojeagbase  was survived by his wife, his children – both biological and adopted – as well as grandchildren and other relatives.

Tributes have been pouring in for late Ojeagbase.

Further announcements concerning his burial arrangements, will be announced soon by the family.

(Text, except for Caption, courtsey of POLITICS NIGERIA)