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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

What's your excuse? Man without 2 legs works as mechanic, fixes car tyres by himself in viral video

What's your excuse? Man without 2 legs works as mechanic, fixes car tyres by himself in viral video

People

4 years ago

50-year-old woman rejoices as she becomes graduate, people celebrate her

50-year-old woman rejoices as she becomes graduate, people celebrate her

People

4 years ago

People thought I was mad - Young Nigerian man who built sports car prototype in Enugu speaks in video

People thought I was mad - Young Nigerian man who built sports car prototype in Enugu speaks in video

People

4 years ago

Supermarket closes for the day, mistakenly locks customer inside, he drinks wine & enjoys himself in video

Supermarket closes for the day, mistakenly locks customer inside, he drinks wine & enjoys himself in video

People

4 years ago

Man who cried to be delivered from drug abuse in 2014 experiences transformation, his new looks surprise many

Man who cried to be delivered from drug abuse in 2014 experiences transformation, his new looks surprise many

People

4 years ago

I've been getting customers daily, shipping out of the country - Shoemaker speaks after he went viral onliine

I've been getting customers daily, shipping out of the country - Shoemaker speaks after he went viral onliine

People

4 years ago

Young man shares emotional breakup story, says girlfriend left him 1 month after he donated kidney to her mum

Young man shares emotional breakup story, says girlfriend left him 1 month after he donated kidney to her mum

People

4 years ago

A TikTok user named Uziel Martinez said he donated a kidney to his girlfriend’s mother, but she ended up dumping him weeks later and got married to another man.

I was happy when my brother's wife dumped him - Young lady says, stirs massive reactions online

I was happy when my brother's wife dumped him - Young lady says, stirs massive reactions online

People

4 years ago

A lady said that she was not in any way sad when her bother's wife left him for another man and remarried. Many people asked why she'd talk about him that way.

Baby with few teeth 'finishes' fried chicken like hungry man in video, empties his plate, many react

Baby with few teeth 'finishes' fried chicken like hungry man in video, empties his plate, many react

People

4 years ago

The video of a kid eating hungrily as he devoured his chicken has gone viral. His mother said that the kid 'cleaned' up his chicken wing better than she would.

It is presently blind: Meet world's oldest living tortoise Jonathan that is 190-years-old

It is presently blind: Meet world's oldest living tortoise Jonathan that is 190-years-old

People

4 years ago

The recognised world's oldest ever living tortoise, Jonathan, is 190 years. Preparations are ongoing to celebrate the animals birthday on an island in the UK.

Let my girlfriend go to her husband: Man funnily writes his will, reveals who should get phone, many react

Let my girlfriend go to her husband: Man funnily writes his will, reveals who should get phone, many react

People

4 years ago

A Nigerian man, Bayo, went online to say that if anything happens to him, he wants his sister to take his phone. He willed his clothes to his junior brother.

What a striking resemblance: Reactions as man shares throwback photo of dad & his present picture

What a striking resemblance: Reactions as man shares throwback photo of dad & his present picture

Family and Relationships

4 years ago

A man left Mzansi in awe after sharing striking similar photos of himself and another his father taken in 1996. Online users said they were a copy and paste.

Lady changes life of 71-year-old man, donates N24.4m to him so he can stop working to make money

Lady changes life of 71-year-old man, donates N24.4m to him so he can stop working to make money

People

4 years ago

A kind young lady has changed the life of a 71-year-old man and given him retirement on a silver platter. She was able to raise thousands of dollars for him.

4 young Nigerians who have built great things bigger than their age, 1 converted bicycle to okada

4 young Nigerians who have built great things bigger than their age, 1 converted bicycle to okada

People

4 years ago

The four Nigerians all have the desire to create things out of discarded materials. All of them never had university education. Many people praised their works.

Father 'beats' son with hand in funny video after he carried his mother up like baby

Father 'beats' son with hand in funny video after he carried his mother up like baby

Family and Relationships

4 years ago

A Nigerian family showed what it means to be truly happy in a short viral video. When a son carried his mother up, the father funnily asked him to put her down.

Joseph Omotayo