Late friday evening, the death of the Publisher of Leadership Newspaper Sam Nda Isiah was announced. He was said to have died at the Gwagwalada isolation centre where he was being treated after complaining of feeling unwell.
His Official Profile
Late Nda-Isaiah was born in Minna, Nigeria. He attended UNA Elementary School before switching to Christ Church School, Kaduna in 1968. He later went on to study at Federal Government College, Kaduna, from 1974 to 1979. After graduating, he was admitted to Obafemi Awolowo University and studied pharmaceuticals. At that time, he participated in the Kaduna State Schools Challenge, a quiz organized by the Kaduna Education Board, and won first prize. He also enrolled in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He completed a mandatory year of the National Youth Services Corps at the Ekiti General Hospital and the Ekiti State Hospital in 1984.
Career
Nda-Isaiah briefly worked as a pharmacist at the Kano Specialist Hospital before moving to General Hospital, Minna. He worked at Pfizer Products Limited from 1985 to 1989. 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 campaign publicities.
He is a member of the Asian think-tank, the Global Institute for Tomorrow in Hong Kong. In 2019 he was appointed board member of the Baze University.
Leadership Newspaper Group
In 2001, he founded the Leadership Newspaper Group. He wrote Nigeria: Full Disclosure: Selected Writings on Governance, Democracy and Statecraft, May 1999 – March 2004 and raised around 17 million naira to fund the 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.
Details later.
