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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

Young Nigerian man builds sports car, reveals the challenges he faced for 4 years

Young Nigerian man builds sports car, reveals the challenges he faced for 4 years

People

4 years ago

Video captures funny moment kid walks like grandpa, bends down & folds hands

Video captures funny moment kid walks like grandpa, bends down & folds hands

People

4 years ago

Nigerian men accuse pastor of stealing their wives, go live on air to report him

Nigerian men accuse pastor of stealing their wives, go live on air to report him

People

4 years ago

Kind businessman helps old man living in dirty house, builds him modern home, paints it

Kind businessman helps old man living in dirty house, builds him modern home, paints it

People

4 years ago

I don't need 2 kidneys: Reactions as photos of N132.6m 3-bedroom house surfaces online

I don't need 2 kidneys: Reactions as photos of N132.6m 3-bedroom house surfaces online

People

4 years ago

My contribution cannot waste: Video shows moment women continue dancing under heavy rain in Delta

My contribution cannot waste: Video shows moment women continue dancing under heavy rain in Delta

People

4 years ago

Grateful son builds mother a house, appreciates her for all she has done for him, shares photos

Grateful son builds mother a house, appreciates her for all she has done for him, shares photos

Family and Relationships

4 years ago

A young South African man paid his mom back for all her hard work by building a house for her. He shared snaps of the home to social media and SA loves it.

Bride makes great statement, video shows her arriving wedding in helicopter

Bride makes great statement, video shows her arriving wedding in helicopter

Wedding

4 years ago

A Ghanaian couple based in Italy stepped it up a notch higher during their white wedding ceremony as the bride arrived at the wedding venue in a helicopter.

Emotional moment students surprise their teacher with new shoe after his old one became bad, video goes viral

Emotional moment students surprise their teacher with new shoe after his old one became bad, video goes viral

People

4 years ago

A man was surprised by his students who pooled resources for him and bought him new sneakers after his old one became bad. The teacher was greatly excited.

Joyous moment son checks his exam result in presence of parents, their reactions in video melt hearts

Joyous moment son checks his exam result in presence of parents, their reactions in video melt hearts

Family and Relationships

4 years ago

A young man brought great joy to his parents' faces after he excelled in school and became a lawyer. When they saw his final bar exam result, thy were glad.

Bank official who stole N88.1m 52 years ago finally found, he stuffed the money inside bag

Bank official who stole N88.1m 52 years ago finally found, he stuffed the money inside bag

People

4 years ago

A man who stole the sum of $215k as a bank worker in his earlier twenties has finally been located over 50 years later. He died at 71 before he was tracked.

Brother reveals how a man approached sister in his presence, gave her N135k to collect her number

Brother reveals how a man approached sister in his presence, gave her N135k to collect her number

People

4 years ago

A young Ghanaian man has recently taken to Twitter to share that a stranger approached his sister at Adjiringanor road in Accra and offered Ghc2k for her digits

Grandma climbs tall platform, 'jumps' inside pool in video, many people react

Grandma climbs tall platform, 'jumps' inside pool in video, many people react

People

4 years ago

A video showed a grandma saying she is going to climb a tall platform and jumped. Many Instagram users who saw her video jumping said the clip seems edited.

3 Nigerians who have built cars by themselves without much support from people

3 Nigerians who have built cars by themselves without much support from people

People

4 years ago

Nigerians are preparing themselves for the future by showing the world that they are abreast of latest technological & mechanical trends. They built sports cars

Funny video captures moment kid walks like grandma, he copies woman's steps after living with her for 3 days

Funny video captures moment kid walks like grandma, he copies woman's steps after living with her for 3 days

Family and Relationships

4 years ago

A kid gave many people much to talk about after he copied his grandma's walking steps. Social media users said his imitation of the old woman is so accurate.

Joseph Omotayo