Leadership newspaper publisher is dead.
NewsOne Nigeria that the Publisher of Leadership newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah is dead. Multiple sources from his family and the newspaper organisation confirmed that the Leadership newspaper publisher died on Friday, December 11 “after a very brief illness.”
“Yes, it is true. I was just told now,” a family member told the PUNCH newspaper on the telephone on Friday evening.
When asked if the Leadership newspaper publisher had been sick, the source simply said, “Yes, but very briefly.”
Before his death, it was learned that Nda-Isaiah was said to be at his duty post in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital on Thursday during the inaugural meeting of National Economy’s Board of Economists at the corporate head office of the media organisation.
A senior management staff of Nda-Isaiah’s company was said to have broken the sad news of the death of the renowned publisher on the company’s staff WhatsApp , saying “Today is a sad day for Leadership.”
An editor with the Leadership, who spoke to PUNCH newspaper, said the late publisher cum politician did not show any sign of sickness when he appeared at the office on Thursday.
“He did not show any sign of sickness. Definitely, it was not coronavirus that killed him. Maybe it was cardiac arrest. It is indeed a sad day for us.”
The editor said the family and the company would issue a statement to announce the death of the former pharmacist.
Late Nda-Isaiah described himself on his Facebook page, as a leading pro-good governance advocate and a consistent voice on contemporary and domestic policy issues.
The late politician who was a Presidential aspirant at a time in Nigeria, also described himself as “one of the most respected men in the Nigerian media.”
Late Nda-Isaiah was chairman of the Leadership Group and Editor-in-Chief of Leadership newspapers, a daily newspaper organisation that publishes Leadership, Leadership Weekend, Leadership Sunday, Leadership Confidential, Leadership Edge and Leadership Hausa.
Before his death, the publisher turned politician was a member of the Vienna-based International Press Institute; a member of the World Association of Newspapers, Paris, France; and a member of the Institute of Directors.
The late Leadership newspaper publisher died at the age of 58. He was a member of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria; Chairman, Oakhouse Forte Limited; Chairman, Banana Republic; Chairman, Clayfields and Harrow; Director, Empire Securities Limited; Director, Societa Generale Fondazini; Director, Maitama Amusement Park Plc; Member governing council of Kaduna International School; Chairman, Robertsham Hotel and Group Ten Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa.
