The Sun (Nigeria)

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Daily Sun
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TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Founder(s)The Sun Media Group
PublisherThe Sun Publishing Ltd
Editor-in-chiefOnuoha Ukeh
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters Lagos, Nigeria
Website www.sunnewsonline.com

The Daily Sun is a Nigerian daily print newspaper founded and published in KiriKiri Industrial Layout, Lagos, Nigeria. [1] As of 2011, The Sun had a daily print run of 130,000 copies, and 135,000 for weekend titles, with an average of 80% sales. This made The Sun the highest-selling newspaper in Nigeria. [2]

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History & About

The Daily Sun was incorporated on 29 March 2001. It started production as a weekly on 18 January 2003 and as a daily on 16 June 2003. The target audience is young adults in the 18–45 age bracket and in the A, B, and C social-economic classes. [2] The paper is similar in format and logo to a popular newspaper, The Sun , in the United Kingdom, [3] but the two papers are unrelated.

The chairman of the publishing house is Neya Kalu who in May 2022, succeeded her father [4] Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, a former governor of Abia State who currently serves as the Chief Whip of the House of Senate, Federal Republic of Nigeria. The first Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief was Mike Awoyinfa. In January 2010 there was a shake-up in which Tony Onyima succeeded Awoyinfa, and the first Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Dimgba Igwe, was replaced by Femi Adesina. [5] Awoyinfa and Igwe remained as directors on the company's board. Adesina replaced Onyima in December 2013. In June, 2015, Eric Osagie succeeded Adesina as Managing Editor/Editor-in-Chief of The Sun Publishing Limited. On 9 August 2019, Onuoha Ukeh, then Editor Daily, was appointed Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief to replace Osagie. [6]

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