The publisher of Leadership Newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah, has died at the age of 58.
Nda-Isaiah died at about 10.00pm on Friday after a brief illness. No official statement has been issued by his family.
Nda-Isaiah was in Lagos last week to attend the meeting of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN).
A trained pharmacist, Nda-Isaiah ventured into publishing in 2001, when he founded the Leadership Newspaper Group.
He was a former presidential aspirant with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015.