One of Nigeria’s finest newspaper cartoonists, Mr Azeez Ozi Sanni is dead.
Sanni, who works with Nigeria’s leading national newspaper, The Nation, died on Monday after a protracted illness.
A serial award winning cartoonist, Sanni has won several Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA), awards, which he won back-to-back for several years, as well as the Diamond Award for Media Excellence (DAME) award.
He is acknowledged as a powerful cartoonist, which has qualified him as one of the few cartoonists who have taken the government to tasks on several occasions for the economic downturn.
Sanni is an accomplished author who has to his credit a published compilation of his published works in the media. His death has continued to draw shock from his colleagues at the newspaper.