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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

Company will pay over N534k to anybody who can watch 13 scariest movies, tells people how to apply

Company will pay over N534k to anybody who can watch 13 scariest movies, tells people how to apply

People

4 years ago

Stranger makes hungry man cry in video after telling him he will keep buying him lunch every day

Stranger makes hungry man cry in video after telling him he will keep buying him lunch every day

People

4 years ago

5 facts about N823.5m Bentley Bacalar car that has no roof to keep rain and sun away

5 facts about N823.5m Bentley Bacalar car that has no roof to keep rain and sun away

People

4 years ago

Woman with biggest afro in the world breaks record with her full beautiful hair

Woman with biggest afro in the world breaks record with her full beautiful hair

People

4 years ago

Soldier who was once deployed to Sambisa to fight builds chairs, tables for school kids, makes them happy

Soldier who was once deployed to Sambisa to fight builds chairs, tables for school kids, makes them happy

People

4 years ago

Generous woman donates food, school materials to kids, makes them happy

Generous woman donates food, school materials to kids, makes them happy

People

4 years ago

My mum gave me capital: Young man who sold ice cream while in university to pay school fees reveals

My mum gave me capital: Young man who sold ice cream while in university to pay school fees reveals

People

4 years ago

Ebenezer Tetteh has not been spared the stereotypes men in female-dominated businesses face, but he is striving towards success in his ice cream venture. Video.

I never thought this was possible: Joy as young Nigerian man becomes professor at age 32 in America

I never thought this was possible: Joy as young Nigerian man becomes professor at age 32 in America

People

4 years ago

A Nigerian man, Ismai'l, has narrated how he became a professor at the age of 32 even when he thought that such a thing was not possible when he left Nigeria.

Nigerian lady makes fine bags, parents show their daughter big support, model them for her

Nigerian lady makes fine bags, parents show their daughter big support, model them for her

People

4 years ago

A young lady stirred massive reactions on social media after she employed her parents' help to model her new bags. Many Nigerians said they love their vibes.

Gold toilet worth N2.7bn stolen 2 years ago is till missing, there's a reward of N56m for whoever sees it

Gold toilet worth N2.7bn stolen 2 years ago is till missing, there's a reward of N56m for whoever sees it

People

4 years ago

A solid gold toilet worth KSh 660 million stolen from Blenheim Palace, the home of former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, is still missing two years later.

A member who stole in church ran mad - Bishop David Oyedepo says in video, warns youth against devilish act

A member who stole in church ran mad - Bishop David Oyedepo says in video, warns youth against devilish act

People

4 years ago

Bishop David Oyedepo has warned youths against picking what is not theirs in church. The man of God said that someone who did ran mad many years ago at Shiloh.

Man who always last but 10 in class, takes Ferarri to former school, says he's now successful

Man who always last but 10 in class, takes Ferarri to former school, says he's now successful

People

4 years ago

Chairman W.ontumi also known as Bernard Antwi Boasiako said he used to be last but 10 in class. However, he was able to finish Prempeh and become successful.

Lovely husband builds office inside their house for his wife, photo stirs massive reactions

Lovely husband builds office inside their house for his wife, photo stirs massive reactions

People

4 years ago

Social media users from all over the world are praising a loving husband who built a beautiful office for his wife, Christy Coluccio, who is working from home.

Kind young man helps old man whose house was described as the ugliest, he calls people who repaint it

Kind young man helps old man whose house was described as the ugliest, he calls people who repaint it

People

4 years ago

An old man's house was transformed after a man saw passersby talking about the building with worst adjectives. They said it is the ugliest in the neighbourhood.

21-year-old Nigerian man creates smart app that enables lecturers communicate with students without boards

21-year-old Nigerian man creates smart app that enables lecturers communicate with students without boards

People

4 years ago

A young Nigerian saw a need to make student-lecturer relationships modern so he created an app that eases communication without having to rely on noticeboards.

Joseph Omotayo