As part of activities marking the 61st posthumous birthday of the late founding chairman of LEADERSHIP Group Limited, Sam Nda-Isaiah, friends and associates
That Sam gave up the ghost after a few hours’ battle against COVID-19 was an indication that the virus may be more deadly than previously assumed.
Now, health experts may have to re-examine the earlier thinking that the virus fights victims in a full circle through high fever, pains, difficulty in breathing, lung infection and triggering off any underlying ailment over an estimated period of 14 days or two weeks.
From Sam Nda-Isaiah, we know COVID-19, or perhaps, a variant of it could take life out of its victims in hours.
Sam Nda-Isaiah left an indelible mark in both the media and political sectors.
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There was no immediate statement from the family but credible sources told our correspondent that Mr Nda-Isaiah, 58, took ill on Thursday and was taken to two different hospitals.
“He developed complications and was first taken to the Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja where he received attention from doctors there,” one of the sources said.
“However, when his condition deteriorated, he was transferred to the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada where he died last night,” the source said.
Mr Nda-Isaiah’s last major appearance was at the Tuesday’s Annual General Meeting of Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) held in Lagos. He was hale and hearty at the event and fully participated in the election of new leaders of the association.
The publisher of Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah is dead.
According to the Managing Director of the organisation Mr. Muazu Elaze, who confirmed the news of his death, Nda-Isaiah died yesterday in Abuja after a brief illness. He was aged 58.
The late publisher will be remembered for his footprints in the Nigerian journalism. Apart from newspaper publishing, he also tried his luck in politics and in 2003, he headed President Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential campaign’s publicities.
Born in Minna, Niger State, Nda-Isaiah attended UNA Elementary School before switching to Christ Church School, Kaduna in 1968. He later went on to study at the Federal Government College, Kaduna, from 1974 to 1979.