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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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Nigerian man sees his former schoolmate hustling as keke driver in Lagos, gives him money and makes him smile

Nigerian man sees his former schoolmate hustling as keke driver in Lagos, gives him money and makes him smile

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4 years ago

Man whose phone number appeared in Squid Game movie gets thousands of calls, Netflix reacts

Man whose phone number appeared in Squid Game movie gets thousands of calls, Netflix reacts

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4 years ago

11-year-old boy becomes '1st African' to win spelling contest in Dubai, makes continent proud

11-year-old boy becomes '1st African' to win spelling contest in Dubai, makes continent proud

People

4 years ago

Man with fake long nails teaches women how to defend themselves during fight in viral video

Man with fake long nails teaches women how to defend themselves during fight in viral video

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4 years ago

India shuts down internet as way to curb exam malpractice during teachers' exam, many in blackout

India shuts down internet as way to curb exam malpractice during teachers' exam, many in blackout

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4 years ago

Beauty with brain: Massive reactions as young lady bags degree in engineering

Beauty with brain: Massive reactions as young lady bags degree in engineering

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4 years ago

Student who had 5 A's in WAEC now works on farm because there's no money to pay university school fees

Student who had 5 A's in WAEC now works on farm because there's no money to pay university school fees

People

4 years ago

Alex Kontondaba Lieyuor is from Upper West Region. He passed WASSCE brilliantly but had no help and started farming. Agriaccess Ghana Limited has helped him.

Man sheds tears of joy as Nigerian wife gives him car on their wedding day, video and photos stir reactions

Man sheds tears of joy as Nigerian wife gives him car on their wedding day, video and photos stir reactions

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4 years ago

A woman made her husband cry really hard on their wedding day as she gave him a car. Many people present urged the man to open his eyes and check his gift out.

Woman gives birth to twins after 9 years of waiting, she appreciates God, shares photo of her blessings

Woman gives birth to twins after 9 years of waiting, she appreciates God, shares photo of her blessings

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4 years ago

A Nigerian woman has praised God for the big blessings of twins she had after she had waited to have the children for almost a decade. Many congratulated her.

Woman bags law degree, says she waited months to get her certificate as she gives all the glory to God

Woman bags law degree, says she waited months to get her certificate as she gives all the glory to God

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4 years ago

A Mzansi woman has risen superbly to become among the newest Bachelor of Law with Honours degree graduates, with Saffas subsequently applauding the achievement.

NYSC corps member who was dehumanised and embarrassed by female soldier finally speaks in video

NYSC corps member who was dehumanised and embarrassed by female soldier finally speaks in video

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4 years ago

The lady who was treated shabbily and punished severely by a female soldier has spoken about what happened. She said the officer poured dirty water on her body.

Holy Spirit told us to get married quickly, we had nothing in our room - Nigerian couple speak in video

Holy Spirit told us to get married quickly, we had nothing in our room - Nigerian couple speak in video

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4 years ago

A lovely Nigerian couple spoke about how they were able to pull through the difficulty of getting married at a time they had nothing and slept on a carton.

If a dead body is not given proper funeral, the car carrying it can stop working - Driver makes big revelation

If a dead body is not given proper funeral, the car carrying it can stop working - Driver makes big revelation

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4 years ago

A hearse driver, Emmanuel Ako, has shared why he chose to transport the remains of the deceased from the mortuary to funeral homes and burial sites as a career.

Scammer pretends to be Rihanna, sends man message about needing money to fix laptop before album release

Scammer pretends to be Rihanna, sends man message about needing money to fix laptop before album release

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4 years ago

A local man has the internet laughing after sharing screenshots of the silly DM sent to him by 'Rihanna'. It seems the Mzansi scammer needed some extra cash.

I've been working on it for 4yrs - Man who wants to build helicopter carries out flight test, shares photos

I've been working on it for 4yrs - Man who wants to build helicopter carries out flight test, shares photos

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4 years ago

A 22-year-old man has been working for years to build an aircraft. After testing his fifth prototype in 2021, he said he is happy about the results he got.

Joseph Omotayo