Basit Jamiu

Education: Bachelor's degree from Nasarawa State University (2023), Google Digital Skills from Google News Initiative (2024)

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

Awards: Humangle Most-Read Feature Writer (2022), FIJ Best Stories of the Year (2022)

Basit Jamiu is an AFP-certified journalist. He is a current affairs and politics editor at Legit.ng. He holds a bachelor's degree from Nasarawa State University (2023). Basit previously worked as a staff writer at Ikeja Bird (2022), Associate Editor at Prime Progress (2022). He is a 2025 CRA Grantee, 2024 Open Climate Fellow (West Africa), 2023 MTN Media Fellow. Email: basitjamiu1st@gmail.com and basit.jamiu@corp.legit.ng.

5955 articles published since 28 Feb 2023

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2025: Full list of strongest passports by visa-free access in Africa

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Trump administration offers $2,500 to migrant children for voluntary deportation

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Five things to know about Air Vice Marshal Obierika who died in British Airways flight

Nigeria

9 months ago

World Teachers’ Day: List of governors who declared holiday in their states in 2025

Nigeria

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Teacher’s day: Governor Soludo declares school-free day in Anambra

Nigeria

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Recruitment: How to check customs service shortlist 2025, clear guidelines emerge

Nigeria

9 months ago

Certificate forgery: Court rejects minister’s bid to block UNN from releasing his academic records

Education

9 months ago

A Federal High Court in Abuja rejects Minister Uche Nnaji’s bid to stop UNN from releasing academic records amid certificate controversy and legal dispute.

FULL LIST: US H-1B visa approvals for Nigerians since 2018 emerge

Nigeria

9 months ago

Explore the full list of U.S. H-1B visa approvals for Nigerians from 2018 to 2024 amid new $100,000 employer fee announced by President Donald Trump.

Lift in residential building crashes from seven storeys, kills one woman

World

9 months ago

A woman died after a lift plunged seven storeys in Tarsus, Turkey, despite her husband's desperate rescue attempt. Faulty elevator had been reported earlier.

150,000 migrants to be deported annually from UK under Kemi Badenoch’s border plan

World

9 months ago

Kemi Badenoch unveils UK’s Radical Borders Plan to deport 150,000 illegal migrants yearly, overhaul asylum laws, and launch a new US-style Removals Force.

Somtochukwu: Final crying words of Arise TV journalist who died in Abuja as heard by neighbours break hearts

Nigeria

9 months ago

Somtochukwu Maduagwu, 29, died after leaping from her Abuja apartment during a robbery. Her tragic fall highlights the fear women face in moments of danger.

List of top politicians told not to run for 2027 presidential election

Politics

9 months ago

Pressure groups urge Atiku, Tinubu, Jonathan, and Bala Mohammed not to contest Nigeria’s 2027 presidency, citing zoning, strategy, and legacy concerns.

Abuja doctor killed by gunmen who reportedly took away his three children

Nigeria

9 months ago

Ifeanyi Ogbu, Abuja vet doctor, was killed by suspected kidnappers who abducted his three children. His body was found roadside; children still missing.

NAFDAC seals two Chinese-owned supermarkets in Abuja, gives reason

Nigeria

9 months ago

NAFDAC seals Chinese supermarkets and cosmetics shops in Abuja for selling unregistered products with non-English labels, violating safety regulations.

Health workers in Gombe to receive federal-level salaries from October 2025

Nigeria

9 months ago

Gombe State approves CONMESS and CONHESS salary structures for health workers, boosting welfare and aligning pay with federal standards from October 2025.

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