Nigeria: Saraki, Editors Describe NDA-Isaiah As Patriot, Committed Nationalist allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Tobias Lengnan Dapam
The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), said that Sam Nda-Isaiah has left indelible footprints in the annals of the Nigerian media. The NPAN in a statement issued yesterday by Malam Kabiru A. Yusuf, its President, and Alh Mohammed Idris, its Secretary, said, “For us in the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), this huge loss is even more devastating and painful because Sam was not only a colleague but a friend to all in the industry. “His commitment to the values and objectives of the association was unflagging to the very end; he was together with the rest of us only last week in Lagos, when elections into the national executive council of the NPAN were held, and Sam was elected as an ex-officio member.
Chuks Okocha in Abuja
Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and the Nigerian Guild of Editors yesterday described the late Chairman of Leadership Newspapers, Mr. Sam Nda Isaiah, as a patriot and committed nationalist who saw every Nigerian as his brother and sister and therefore related to them based on equality, justice and fairness.
Nda-Isaiah died last Friday in Abuja after a brief illness. He was aged 58.
Saraki in a statement signed on his behalf by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, added that the late publisher was a man who believed that the challenges the country was going through at the moment were temporary setback that could be overcome if the leaders continued to sustain the unity of the country and work to further entrench democracy.
Sam Nda-Isaiah
Rains of tributes and encomiums have continued to pour in for the late Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, the Chairman and Publisher of Leadership Group of Newspapers. Nda-Isaiah died in Abuja on Friday night, after a brief illness.
In a statement issued by Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) and signed by its President, Malam Kabiru Yusuf and Secretary, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, the association said, “this huge loss is even more devastating and painful because Sam was not only a colleague but a friend to all in the industry.
“His commitment to the values and objectives of the association was unflagging to the very end; he was together with the rest of us only last week in Lagos, when elections into the national executive council of the NPAN were held, and Sam was elected as an ex-officio member.”
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