Background
Sunny was born to Edo State parents in Osogbo, a local government area of Osun State where he completed his basic education at Saint Jame’s Primary School, Osogbo in 1962.
Sunny was born to Edo State parents in Osogbo, a local government area of Osun State where he completed his basic education at Saint Jame’s Primary School, Osogbo in 1962.
He proceeded to be enlisted into the Nigerian Army after working as a printer trainee. He also holds a Diploma in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos. Sunny has worked as a sports reporter for several media houses including Herald Newspaper, Daily Times, Concord Group of Newspapers and the The Guardian.
In 1983, he started publishing a weekly sports newspaper called Sports Souvenir after he quit his job as a reporter for The Guardian and he went on to publish Complete Football with the former becoming the first Nigerian sports newspaper while the later became the first Nigerian all-colour monthly football magazine.
In 1995, he published Complete Sports, a daily sports newspaper and Success Digest Magazine a business establishment guide which has gone on to become one of the most widely read newspaper and magazine in Nigeria.