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Some officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Wednesday assaulted three photojournalists in the course of their duties in Abuja.
The assaulted journalists are Olu Aremo of Leadership Newspapers, Olatunji Obasa of Punch Newspapers and Mudashiru Atanda of The Sun Newspapers.
Mr Obasa’s camera was destroyed in the scuffle which occurred at the headquarters of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in Abuja.
Mr Aremo said he and his colleagues visited the NIMC office to cover the ongoing registration of Nigerians and saw an uncontrollable crowd, which led to the closure of the commission’s gate with both staff and those seeking for the registration locked outside.
Ayo Akanji pays tribute to Sam Nda-Isaiah, publisher of Leadership Newspapers who passed at 58
Those at the top are not always ogres, as this writer finds out. Bosses are human, too. I first met the Chairman, (Sam Nda-Isaiah) Kakaki Nupe, as an energetic young lad, freshly out of NYSC and trying to navigate myself around the political climate of Nigeria.
I grew up reading dozens of African pre-independence and post-independence political books in my dad’s library and profoundly admired the art of politicking. I got influenced by them, but had zero chance of having a grip on this dynamic game, until I got a call from Mustapha Sheikh Abdullah, intimating me of a meeting with a certain presidential aspirant from the yet to be registered All Progressives Congress (APC). The negotiation birthing the coalition merger was still in progress even though Chairman was of the Congress for Progressives Change, (CPC bloc). I had to dash out from Zaria to Abuja, telling my dad I would be back i
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Family, friends eulogize Sam Nda-Isaiah at service of songs
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By Omeiza Ajayi
It was an out pouring of emotion yesterday as family, friends and well-wishers paid flattering tributes and related their experiences with the late Chairman of Leadership Newspapers, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, during a virtual service of songs held in his honour in Abuja.
Nda-Isaiah’s immediate younger brother, Joseph,who described him as a blessing, stated that the deceased lived a life of loving deeds and impacted on the lives of all he came across.
Joseph Nda-Isaiah said he felt blessed to have had Sam as a brother, noting that his legacies would live on in his children.
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