Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
The publisher of Leadership Newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah, is dead. He was aged 58.
Sources said that Nda-Isaiah passed on at about 10.00pm on Friday after complaining of feeling unwell earlier in the day.
Nda-Isaiah had attended the meeting of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) last week in Lagos.
The Niger State-born attended the University of Ife and once aspired to be president on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
A trained pharmacist, Nda-Isaiah was a politician and newspaper columnist. He was one of the party’s presidential aspirants for the 2015 election.
He alongside former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; former Governor Rochas Okorocha and former Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso among others lost the ticket to Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) who later won the election by beating the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Goodluck Jonathan.
As of the time of filing this report, the deceased’s family and the Leadership newspaper have yet to issue a statement on his death.
