On March 1, 2022, Femi Asu, a 2015 winner of the CNN/MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Award (Economics and Business category), will return to BusinessDay, where his full-fledged media career first took off in 2012.

Asu joins BusinessDay as News Editor after over seven years of working with The Punch newspaper, departing as Assistant Business Editor, Energy Editor, and Contributing Member of the Editorial Board at The Punch.

Trained as an accountant at the University of Ado-Ekiti (now Ekiti State University), Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Asu would work as an accountant for about two years before leaving for journalism, his first passion.

From his early teens, he was always a voracious reader, which eventually informed his writing skills. He would later build a personal library at age 17 with the intention to read no less than a book per month.

After leaving the consulting firm he worked with to begin his career in journalism, Asu first served as a correspondent at YourCommonwealth.org, then as an Energy Reporter at BusinessDay. He joined PUNCH Nigeria Limited in September 2014 and worked in different capacities, including as Energy Editor and Assistant Business Editor.

Asu is a Member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). He is a 2021 AfCFTA media fellow and a Media for Oil Reform fellow at the Natural Resource Governance Institute, Nigeria, between 2017 and 2018

Some of his awards are the 2017 Best Journalist in Oil and Gas Reporting, West Africa Media Excellence Awards; 2017 Business Reporter of the Year, Nigerian Writers Awards, and 2015 CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year, Economics and Business category.