Tag: Sam Nda-Isaiah
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Buhari mourns Mrs. Eunice, mother of Leadership Newspaper founder
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock and grief over the death of Mrs Eunice Ndanusa-Isaiah, the mother of the Leadership Newspapers founder and publisher, Mr Sam Nda-Isaiah. Recall that Sam Nda-Isaiah died in December 2020. Buhari reacted to the demise of Eunice in a statement issued by the president’s media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, on…
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Photos: Tears, tributes as Leadership Newspaper publisher, Nda-Isaiah is buried in Abuja
The remains of the founder/Chairman of the Leadership Group, publishers of Leadership, National Economy and the first Hausa Daily, Leadership Ayau newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah, were buried on Monday in Abuja amid tears and tributes. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that Nda-Isaiah died on Friday, December 11, 2020 at the age of 58 after a brief illness. The…
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Buhari writes Sam Nda-Isaiah’s family, wants ‘good name’ sustained
President Muhammadu Buhari says the good family name left by the late Publisher, Sam Nda-Isaiah, is worth more than gold, urging the family to do whatever it takes to uphold it. In a letter he wrote to the bereaved family, President Buhari said: “On behalf of the Federal Government and my family, I sincerely express…
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Everybody Knew Sam-A tribute to Nda Isaiah, By Ali M. Ali
By Ali M. Ali This year, 2020 will go down in history as the year I wrote the most tributes-some long, some short to eulogize the departed, not to glorify the living. I am penning one more today on the death of Sam Nda Isaiah, late Publisher of LEADERSHIP newspapers Group. I pray it will…
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Late Sam Nda-Isaiah’s burial rites begin on Wednesday
Activities marking the burial of the Chairman of LEADERSHIP Group, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, will start on Wednesday. Nda-Isaiah, 58, died on Friday, December 11, after taking ill briefly. A statement by his brother, Mr. Abraham Nda-Isaiah, said dignitaries expected to participate in the events, which would commence on by 12noon on Wednesday with virtual tributes,…
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The Sam Nda-Isaiah I knew – Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene I first met him after the 2003 election, which his candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, lost. I was then Editor of PUNCH and Sam Nda-Isaiah, was founding member and Publicity Secretary of The Buhari Organisation (TBO). He came to see me about the coverage of Buhari, which obviously displeased him. He barged into my…
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Sam Nda-Isaiah had strong convictions – Ibori
Chief James Onanefe Ibori has described the late Sam Nda-Isaiah, who died Friday night, as a man with strong convictions and who expressed them passionately. In a press statement signed by Ibori’s Media Assistant, Tony Eluemunor, Ibori said that Nigeria will remember Nda-Isaiah as a man of many parts. He was not just a Leadership…
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Nigeria’s top political class pay glowing tributes to late Sam Nda-Isaiah
Tributes, eulogies are pouring in following the death of Mr Sam Nda-Isaiah, the renowned publisher of Leadership newspapers. Nda-Isaiah died on Friday due to COVID-19 complications. He was aged 58. In a condolence message to his family, the Northern Governors’ Forum (NGF) described the late journalist as a visionary man who believed in the unity,…
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Nda-Isaiah’s death painful, a huge loss – NPAN
Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), has described the death of Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, the Chairman and Publisher of Leadership Group of Newspapers as painful and a huge loss. The association in a statement signed by Malam Kabiru Yusuf and Mohammed Idris, president and secretary respectively said “for us in the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of…