A veteran journalist and publisher of Leadership newspaper, Sam Nda- Isaiah, has passed on. He was aged 58.
Sam Nda-Isaiah
Newspot gathered that he died during a brief illness A family source confirmed his death.
NDA-Isaiah was a former presidential aspirant with the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2015.
Sam Nda-Isaiah, a trained pharmacy, worked briefly as a pharmacist at the Kano Specialist Hospital before moving to General Hospital, Minna
He began his columnist work with The Daily Trust Editorial Board as a board member and 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 publicity campaign.
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.
Sam Nda-Isaiah was born May 1 1962
It will be recalled that Nigerian Journalism has lost four of its prominent members this year. Mallam Ismaila Funtua, Mada Waida, Gbolabo Ogunsanwo and Sam Nda-Isaiah.
