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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

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18-year-old Lagos bus conductor who won chess contest gets extra N200k, accommodation promise from kind woman

18-year-old Lagos bus conductor who won chess contest gets extra N200k, accommodation promise from kind woman

People

4 years ago

Nigerian man builds 'wheelbarrow' that can serve as 4 shops at same time, stuns many with his creativity

Nigerian man builds 'wheelbarrow' that can serve as 4 shops at same time, stuns many with his creativity

People

4 years ago

You want to bam bam: Man busts moves to viral song at filling station, dances with petrol attendants

You want to bam bam: Man busts moves to viral song at filling station, dances with petrol attendants

People

4 years ago

Young man twerks hard, dances with great energy in Abuja after graduating, many react to viral video

Young man twerks hard, dances with great energy in Abuja after graduating, many react to viral video

People

4 years ago

Jubilation as woman becomes graduate, finishes from same university where she worked as cleaner

Jubilation as woman becomes graduate, finishes from same university where she worked as cleaner

People

4 years ago

9-year-old kid wows many with his piano playing skills in video, he makes beautiful music

9-year-old kid wows many with his piano playing skills in video, he makes beautiful music

People

4 years ago

Smart students find special way to generate electricity through car's movements on road, video goes viral

Smart students find special way to generate electricity through car's movements on road, video goes viral

People

4 years ago

Students from the Takoradi Technical Institute have created a traffic light system that gets powered with energy generated from the moving of vehicles on ramps

Happy parents frame newspaper's publication announcing their son got job with Microsoft, many react

Happy parents frame newspaper's publication announcing their son got job with Microsoft, many react

People

4 years ago

A young man got people's attention online when he relived how joyful his parents were after he got a job with Microsoft. They framed his newspaper's cutout.

Nigerian man who returned over N11m passenger forgot in his taxi in Dubai gets certificate, many react

Nigerian man who returned over N11m passenger forgot in his taxi in Dubai gets certificate, many react

People

4 years ago

A young man working in Dubai has been honoured for not using the money left in his cab. He returned the sum to the owner. While many praised him, others didn't.

Lady, 22, falls in love with 76-yr-old man she met in church, says nothing people say will change her mind

Lady, 22, falls in love with 76-yr-old man she met in church, says nothing people say will change her mind

People

4 years ago

David and lover Claudine are inseparable despite the stares they get from the public. The Rwandese couple has been together for four years and is madly in love.

Kid wearing angel costume dances with energy during hymn presentation in Catholic church, video goes viral

Kid wearing angel costume dances with energy during hymn presentation in Catholic church, video goes viral

People

4 years ago

A video showing a kid having fun during her group's presentation in the church has stirred massive reactions online. People said they really love her energy.

Man appoints Lagos bus conductor to provide security for his event in Oshodi, peace reigns, no issue recorded

Man appoints Lagos bus conductor to provide security for his event in Oshodi, peace reigns, no issue recorded

People

4 years ago

A young man, Tunde Onakoya, contracted the service of a bus conductor, Dayo, in Lagos to provide security for his event in Oshodi. The man did a fantastic job.

Little girl pretends as if she's spiritual on assembly ground, waves her hands in air, video goes viral

Little girl pretends as if she's spiritual on assembly ground, waves her hands in air, video goes viral

People

4 years ago

A young girl's demonstration during an assembly session in her school has entertained people on social media. The way the kid waved her hands made many wonder.

Cape Coast Technical University builds keke that uses solar, it also has internet, beautiful photos drop

Cape Coast Technical University builds keke that uses solar, it also has internet, beautiful photos drop

People

4 years ago

Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU) has recently shared on their official Facebook page that they have built Ghana's first solar tricycle which has Wifi.

Young university graduate starts hawking pure water on street after years of searching for job

Young university graduate starts hawking pure water on street after years of searching for job

People

4 years ago

An alumnus of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has recently shared his journey to becoming a drinking water seller after school..

Joseph Omotayo