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Sad End of Leadership Newspaper Publisher, Sam Nda-Isaiah

Sam Nda-Isaiah

 

By Our Reporter

This is the indeed a sad news. It is about the death of the publisher of Leadership Newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah. He reportedly died yesterday at about 10.00 pm at the age of 58.

NATIONAL WAVES learnt that he complained of feeling unwell earlier in the day before he breathed his last later in the day..

It will be recalled that Nda- Isaih attended the meeting of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) last week in Lagos.

Nda- Isaih who once aspired to be president of Nigeria on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), hails from Niger State and attended the University of Ife where he studied Pharmacy

He worked briefly as a pharmacist at the Kano Specialist Hospital before moving to General Hospital, Minna.

He began his journalism career as a columnist with The Daily Trust, he was also an  Editorial Board member. He worked as a committee member in the Kano State Government to revive The Triumph, a Kano owned newspaper.

In 2003, he headed Mohammadu Buhari’s presidential campaign publicities. In 2001, Sam Nda-Isaiah founded the Leadership Newspaper Group. He had a weekly column in Daily Trust titled “Last Word and Earshot”. After that, he established the Leadership Newspaper, where the column became one of the most popular in Nigeria.

 

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