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Joseph Omotayo

Education: Bachelor of Arts Literature-in-English, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife (2012-2016), Google News Initiative (GNI) News Lab Advance digital reporting workshop (2024)

Experience: Critical Literature Review (Head reviewer) 2010-2014, The234Project (Writer) 2016-2017, Coordinator of OAU The234Project Essay contest (2017), Afridiaspora (Chief Reviewer, 2016-2018), Dubawa Fact checking fellow (2022)

Awards: Best editor and writer (Legit.ng, 2020), My Favourite Nigerian Character in a Book Contest (2011), Unoma Azuah’s Edible Bones Book Review Prize (2013)

Joseph Omotayo is a journalist who has been writing on human interest topics since 2019. He graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, with a degree in Literature in English in 2016. He is the head of Human Interest and Diaspora Desk at Legit. He once worked for Afridiaspora, OlisaTV & CLR. He is a 2022/2023 Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking fellow. He can be reached via: joseph.omotayo@corp.legit.ng.

5440 articles published since 08 Jan 2019

Author's articles

Tension as customers storm bank over SMS charges, shout thieves in video, Nigerians react

Tension as customers storm bank over SMS charges, shout thieves in video, Nigerians react

People

4 years ago

I want to look like my dog - Little girl makes up her face in funny video, stirs reactions

I want to look like my dog - Little girl makes up her face in funny video, stirs reactions

People

4 years ago

Little girl breaks Guinness record at age 7, becomes world’s youngest opera singer

Little girl breaks Guinness record at age 7, becomes world’s youngest opera singer

People

4 years ago

You're very honest: Young lady finds wallet on the road, goes on mission to trace owner

You're very honest: Young lady finds wallet on the road, goes on mission to trace owner

People

4 years ago

I was expecting iPhone 13 Pro Max from US, NIPOST gave me empty carton, say they can't find it - Man cries out

I was expecting iPhone 13 Pro Max from US, NIPOST gave me empty carton, say they can't find it - Man cries out

People

4 years ago

I don't want to finish my service like this: Corps member begs for money to renovate government school

I don't want to finish my service like this: Corps member begs for money to renovate government school

People

4 years ago

They thought our relationship will end at school gate - Nigerian man marries girlfriend he dated for 6 years

They thought our relationship will end at school gate - Nigerian man marries girlfriend he dated for 6 years

Wedding

4 years ago

A young man, Abdullahi Mustapha, said he met his wife while they were both polytechnic students in 2016. After dating for six years, both of them got married.

I told her to park well, she laughed & walked away: Lady reveals how driver's vehicle was locked

I told her to park well, she laughed & walked away: Lady reveals how driver's vehicle was locked

People

4 years ago

A young lady went online to speak about how she reported an erring driver who was punished for parking wrongly. The person's car was clamped and many reacted.

Woman who was secretly impregnated by her doctor during insemination 45 years ago gets over N2bn sorry money

Woman who was secretly impregnated by her doctor during insemination 45 years ago gets over N2bn sorry money

People

4 years ago

A woman who was impregnated by the semen of her doctor who did not tell her has been awarded over N2 billion in damages. The doctor's license was also revoked.

Little kid goes to the front of flat screen TV, dances to CKay's Love Nwantiti, video goes viral

Little kid goes to the front of flat screen TV, dances to CKay's Love Nwantiti, video goes viral

People

4 years ago

A kid got thousands of people laughing online as he danced to Ckay's Love Nwantiti. Many people wondered where he learnt to dance from. He has over 1m views.

Low budget hulk: Young man scares stranger with his legs, he gets really angry, throws punch in video

Low budget hulk: Young man scares stranger with his legs, he gets really angry, throws punch in video

People

4 years ago

A popular prankster on Instagram got people's attention when he released a short video showing him pranking a man wearing a hulk costume. The stranger was angry

Little girl gives sterling dance moves in front of people, twerks with her long skirt in video

Little girl gives sterling dance moves in front of people, twerks with her long skirt in video

People

4 years ago

A girl with a long skirt stole the show as she danced hard in front of people who could not stop looking. She made the popular bend-down move in a viral video.

Young man pranks old stranger for content, goes back to him days after, gives him N50k

Young man pranks old stranger for content, goes back to him days after, gives him N50k

People

4 years ago

A young man who pranked an old man has gone back to him with the sum of N50,000 a kind stranger gave him. The pranked man was emotional and happy about it.

Woman creates school for her 3 kids at home, teaches them by herself, photo stirs reactions

Woman creates school for her 3 kids at home, teaches them by herself, photo stirs reactions

People

4 years ago

A young mother of three who acts as a schoolteacher for her children at home has stirred massive reactions. People wanted to know how she keeps it all together.

Luck smiles on young Nigerian boy who hawks bananas on street, he gets private school scholarship

Luck smiles on young Nigerian boy who hawks bananas on street, he gets private school scholarship

People

4 years ago

A 15-year-old boy who hawks banana on the street has found grace after a report done on him went viral. He now has a scholarship for a private school education.

Joseph Omotayo