Abdulaziz Abdulaziz

Abdulaziz Abdulaziz was born, and schooled to university level, in Kano, Nigeria. He started out as a creative writer and newspaper contributor before he picked his first journalism job in 2007. Since then, he has worked in different roles within the media landscape in Nigeria. Abdulaziz is currently Associate Editor at the online newspaper, PREMIUM TIMES. He has a attended a number of journalism and creative writing workshops, including the British Council writing workshop facilitated by Bernadine Evaristo and Farafina Trust/Chimamanda Adichie workshop (2012). In 2010 he won the short story award in an anticorruption literary competition organised by the Kano State Public Complaints and Anticorruption Commission. In December, Abdulaziz was awarded with the Wole Soyinka Prize for Investigative Reporting for his journalism work exposing fraudulent claims on national service (NYSC) by a sitting finance minister. His poems are anthologised.