Billionaire industrialist and publisher of the defunct Post Express Newspapers, Chief Sunny Odogwu, has died at the age of 87.
According to a family source, Odogwu was said to have died in his Asaba home yesterday.
Born on March 20, 1931 in Calabar, Odogwu hailed from Asaba in Delta state.
Until his passage, he held a high ranking traditional title of Ide Ahaba of Asaba.
He had his secondary school education at Ilesha Grammar School, Osun state and thereafter joined an insurance firm to work as a trainee, before travelling abroad for further studies.
Odogwu established the Sunny Iwedike Odogwu (SIO) Group of Companies, a firm with investments in property development, shipping, finance, industrial relations, allied products.
At the creation of Delta and Edo States from the defunct Bendel State and eventual splitting of assets between the two states, he bought over one of the Bendel Hotel outlets in Asaba which he transformed to Grand Hotels and Resorts, a five star hotel.
He also established Robert Dyson and Diket, an insurance brokerage firm.
He is survived by his wife, Theresa and nine children.
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