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Sports Minister Dare commiserates with Complete Communications over founder’s death

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The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has sent a condolence message to the management of sports publishing outfit Complete Communications over the death of its founder, Dr Emmanuel Sunny Ojeagbase.

Dr Ojeagbase passed on in the United States of America at the age of 71 after a brief illness.

He was one of the nation’s foremost sports writers, his career was impactful and fruitful. He worked with such established media houses like The Daily Times, The Guardian and The Concord before launching into the private publication business in 1984 with such popular and widely read titles like Complete Sports, Complete Football, International Soccer Review(ISR) and a motivational journal, Success Digest.

The Minister prays that God will comfort his family, friends and colleagues and give them the fortitude to bear the huge loss which he says is national

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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