Sam nda isaiah biography
- Samuel Ndanusa Isaiah (1 May 1962 – 11 December 2020), commonly known as Sam Nda-Isaiah, was a Nigerian political columnist, pharmacist, entrepreneur and journalist.
- Nda-Isaiah was born in Minna, capital of Niger State on May 1, 1962.
- Samuel Ndanusa Isaiah, commonly known as Sam Nda-Isaiah, was a Nigerian political columnist, pharmacist, entrepreneur and journalist.
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If I was asked to write a one-liner tribute on Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, publisher of Leadership group of newspapers who died exactly a week ago in Abuja, it will be that he came, he saw, he conquered.
I wanted to write this tribute a day after his death, but could not summon the courage to do so. Whenever I picked my computer to do so, I will burst into tears. Though I resigned from LEADERSHIP on a rather acrimonious note seven years ago, I always regarded Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, the publisher, as my boss and benefactor for life. Unlike many other colleagues who left the services of the publishing giant for one reason or the other, Oga Sam was in far away America when I resigned in 2013. He had no hand in my doing so, and when he heard of it, he called and insisted I withdraw it and carry on with my work. But then, my mind was already made up. and so, I refused to rescind the decision.
Being the man with a large heart, Oga Sam never considered me as enemy, even if he felt the decision I took was a wrong one. Though I moved on to other spheres in journalism, I somewhat became something of
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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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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
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