Sam nda isaiah biography

Death of A Kinsman: Sam Nda-Isaiah (1962-2020)

Nduka Nwosu

The death of Sam Nda-Isaiah, like the death of any man, has left a profound impact on those he left behind to contemplate its mystery, what at the death of Princess Diana, Time famous essayist Lance Morrow, penned as one poignant moment of universal outpouring of love and communion, from the family of man.

At the death of his mother, 16th century essayist Samuel Johnson presented one of his thought provoking narratives-Rasselas, the Prince of Abbyssinia. It was the story of a prince who, tired of the opulence and beauty of a palace-Happy Valley, desired the ordinariness life offered elsewhere. He left Happy Valley to become a shepherd, a priest and a fisherman at different times but sooner than later realized that each station of life also is betrothed with humdrum and atrophy, which the individual must deal with if he must get to his destination.

When his friend Hon Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi passed on, Sam Nda-Isaiah cried. Amadi had walked into his house to announce his private pain of hosting a terminal disease. By his

Sam Nda-Isaiah

Chairman Leadership Newspaper, Nigerian politician

Samuel Ndanusa Isaiah (1 May 1962 – 11 December 2020), commonly known as Sam Nda-Isaiah, was a Nigerian political columnist, pharmacist, entrepreneur and journalist. He was the founder and chairman of the Leadership Newspaper.[1][2][3]

Background

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.[4][5][6]

Career

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Leadership (newspaper)

Nigerian English daily newspaper

TypeDaily newspaper
Owner(s)Sam Nda-Isaiah
PublisherLeadership Newspaper Group
Editor-in-chiefAzubuike Ishiekwene
Founded2001
LanguageEnglish
Hausa (A Yau)
HeadquartersAbuja, Nigeria
Websiteleadership.ng

Leadership is a Nigerian daily national newspaper. It was established in October 2004 by Sam Nda-Isaiah, a pharmacist cum businessman and politician, and is published by Leadership Newspaper Group based in Abuja, Nigeria.[1] On its website, the paper asserts: "We shall stand up for good governance. We shall defend the interests of the Nigerian state even against its leaders and we shall raise our pen at all times in defence of what is right. These are the values by which we intend to be assessed".[2]

Leadership is better known as Leadership News because of its new offerings which includes Podcast, Fashion Magazine (LeVogue) and National Economy.

History

On 9 January 2007 a dozen State Security Service agents stormed the Leadership offi

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