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Tributes have continued to pour in for Sam Nda-Isaiah, publisher of Leadership Newspaper, who died on Friday night at the age of 58.
President Muhammadu Buhari, in his condolence message, expressed shock and sadness at his death, describing him as “a friend and ally.”
The President also condoled with the media, his family, friends and associates.
He said: “The country has lost a man of conviction, a resolute and dogged believer in a better Nigeria. He will be sorely missed. This is a massive fish gone out of the media ocean,” President Buhari said of the pharmacist, renowned columnist, and one-time presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC)…”
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By Abankula Publisher of the Leadership newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah is dead. He was aged 58. He died on Friday after a brief illness, according to multiple sources, who attributed the cause of death to COVID-19. The pharmacist turned newspaperman attended a meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria in Lagos early this week. After […]
•Jonathan, Lawan, Gbajabiamila, Tinubu, governors, NPAN, IPI, others mourn late media mogul
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As tributes continue to pour in for the late Publisher of Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah, who passed away Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, described Nda-Isaiah’s demise as a big fish gone out of the media ocean. Describing him as “a friend and ally”, the president said, “The country has lost a man of conviction, a resolute and dogged believer in a better Nigeria.”
A statement by the president’s spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, said Buhari condoled with the media fraternity, the Nda-Isaiah family, friends and associates of the deceased.
Nda-Isaiah: Buhari, govs, Jonathan, Tinubu, NPAN, others mourn newspaper icon
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President Muhammadu Buhari led as tributes poured in torrents for Mr. Samuel Ndanusa Isaiah, Chairman of Leadership Newspapers, who passed on, on Friday.
Isaiah was aged 58 having been born on May 1, 1962 in Minna, Niger State.
He founded the Leadership Newspaper Group in 2001 and was until his death an ex-officio member of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN).
The deceased also nursed presidential ambition.
Other eminent personalities who paid tributes to Isaiah, yesterday, include governors, former President Goodluck Jonathan, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu and NPAN.
In his tribute, Buhari said the country has lost a man of conviction, a resolute and dogged believer in a better Nigeria.
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