Publisher of ‘Leadership’ newspaper, Nda-Isaiah, is dead.
He died on Friday after a brief illness, according to family sources.
He was 58.
Family sources said the death had nothing to do with coronavirus.
Indeed, the deceased was said to have been at work 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 Punch’ quotes a family source as saying.
Also a politician and former presidential aspirant, Nda-Isaiah was a trained pharmacist from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nda-Isaiah.
He was born in Minna, Nigeria. He attended UNA Elementary School before switching to Christ Church School, Kaduna in 1968. He later studied at the Federal Government College, Kaduna, from 1974 to 1979. After graduating, he was admitted to the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State where he studied Pharmacy.
He also enrolled in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
Nda-Isaiah briefly worked as a pharmacist at the Kano Specialist Hospital before moving to the General Hospital, Minna. He worked at Pfizer Products Limited from 1985 to 1989.
In 2003, he headed Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential campaign publicity.
He was a member of the Asian think-tank, the Global Institute for Tomorrow in Hong Kong. In 2019, he was appointed board member of the Baze University.
