Basit Jamiu

Education: Bachelor's degree from Ekiti State University (2018), Google Digital Skills from Google News Initiative (2024)

Experience: Staff Writer, Ikeja Bird (2022), Associate Editor, Prime Progress (2022), Staff Writer, The Movee (2018), politics and current affairs editor, Legit.ng (present)

Awards: Ynaija New Recipient Award (2018), Top Editors from Africa, The Witsprouts (2020), Humangle Best Feature Writer (2022), FIJ Best Writer of the Year (2022)

Basit Jamiu is a journalist with more than five years of experience. He is a current affairs and politics editor at Legit.ng. He holds a bachelor's degree from Ekiti State University (2018). Basit previously worked as a staff writer at Ikeja Bird (2022), Associate Editor at Prime Progress (2022), and Staff Writer at The Movee (2018). He is a 2024 Open Climate Fellow (West Africa), 2023 MTN Media Fellow, OCRP Fellow at ICIR, and Accountability Fellow at CJID. Email: basit.jamiu@corp.legit.ng.

4911 articles published since 28 Feb 2023

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Nigerian lady buys house in Canada, shares her observations after 8 months

Nigerian lady buys house in Canada, shares her observations after 8 months

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a year ago

University of Lagos students spend time at the beach together, reunite with classmates

University of Lagos students spend time at the beach together, reunite with classmates

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a year ago

NYSC: Corper confirms receiving N200,000 promised by Niger governor Bago

NYSC: Corper confirms receiving N200,000 promised by Niger governor Bago

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a year ago

Nigerian man living abroad eats bread on sallah day, shares his bitter experience

Nigerian man living abroad eats bread on sallah day, shares his bitter experience

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a year ago

Nigerian couple open up about their relationship: Supporting each other through thick and thin

Nigerian couple open up about their relationship: Supporting each other through thick and thin

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a year ago

Nigerian couple living abroad joins the Gwo Gwo Gwon challenge in their working uniform

Nigerian couple living abroad joins the Gwo Gwo Gwon challenge in their working uniform

People

a year ago

Nigerian lady who relocated to Canada shares night shift experience, clip trends

Nigerian lady who relocated to Canada shares night shift experience, clip trends

People

a year ago

A Nigerian lady living in Canada showed her night shift routine, starting work at 10:30 pm and performing tasks such as cleaning the office and doing laundry.

Nigerian wife serves sister-in-law different foods during visit, her gesture trends

Nigerian wife serves sister-in-law different foods during visit, her gesture trends

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a year ago

A Nigerian lady shared a video of herself seated and smiling broadly in various outfits while her brother's wife served her an array of delicious meals.

Best graduating student of Pharmacy with 4.83 CGPA from Delta State University gets N500,000

Best graduating student of Pharmacy with 4.83 CGPA from Delta State University gets N500,000

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a year ago

Illebe John who graduated with a first-class degree in pharmacy from Delta State University, achieved cgpa of 4.83 out of 5.0, was happily celebrated by his family.

Little boy and his mother join Gwo Gwo Ngwo challenge, display amazing dance moves

Little boy and his mother join Gwo Gwo Ngwo challenge, display amazing dance moves

People

a year ago

A Nigerian lady and her son participated in the viral gwo gwo challenge, impressively performing the dance moves in perfect sync, clearly having practiced.

Nigerian lady shows happiness as her employees celebrate her new salon in style

Nigerian lady shows happiness as her employees celebrate her new salon in style

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a year ago

A Nigerian lady surprised her employees by unveiling a beautifully decorated new hair salon, capturing their heartwarming reactions as they excitedly celebrated.

Nigerian lady brings grandmother to UK to meet first grandchild, reunites with her at airport

Nigerian lady brings grandmother to UK to meet first grandchild, reunites with her at airport

People

a year ago

A Nigerian lady brings her grandmother to meet her first grandchild, revealing that she successfully applied for the visa on her own and received it within 5 days.

Nigerian man builds new house, shows construction stages from beginning to end

Nigerian man builds new house, shows construction stages from beginning to end

People

a year ago

A young Nigerian man showcases the entire process of his house building from the foundation to completion, celebrating his achievement at such a young age.

Gwo gwo by Michael Ejeagha: Meaning and reason behind the song finally narrated by Nigerian lady

Gwo gwo by Michael Ejeagha: Meaning and reason behind the song finally narrated by Nigerian lady

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a year ago

A Nigerian lady has come out to tell full meaning and reason behind the gwo gwo challenge whose song was originally owned by Michael Ejeagha, a Nigerian musician.

From dream to reality: Young Nigerian man builds new house, shares the beautiful interior

From dream to reality: Young Nigerian man builds new house, shares the beautiful interior

People

a year ago

A Nigerian man who built new house showed the compound, parlour and bedroom after completion and depicted the wonderful work that went into all of it.

Basit Jamiu