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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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Kind man pays over N20k luggage fee for oyinbo lady at airport, refuses to get his money back as she cries

Kind man pays over N20k luggage fee for oyinbo lady at airport, refuses to get his money back as she cries

People

4 years ago

Old couple wear the clothes people forget in their shop, model them to become big fashion stars

Old couple wear the clothes people forget in their shop, model them to become big fashion stars

People

4 years ago

Groom and his men rule wedding ceremony with their handkerchief dance moves, Nigerians react to video

Groom and his men rule wedding ceremony with their handkerchief dance moves, Nigerians react to video

People

4 years ago

Nigerian woman turns her home into lesson centre for kids when she realises many in her community can't read

Nigerian woman turns her home into lesson centre for kids when she realises many in her community can't read

People

4 years ago

God is great: Young man gets his first home, shares photos of house keys

God is great: Young man gets his first home, shares photos of house keys

People

4 years ago

I paid her fees from secondary school to higher institution & she cheated on me, got pregnant - Man Laments

I paid her fees from secondary school to higher institution & she cheated on me, got pregnant - Man Laments

People

4 years ago

Drumming gave me more in life than my university certificate - 59-year-old Nigerian man counts his blessings

Drumming gave me more in life than my university certificate - 59-year-old Nigerian man counts his blessings

People

4 years ago

A 59-year-old man has said that drumming made him meet important people in his life. He even placed the usefulness of the art above his university certificate.

Man without arms wins 4 golds at Paralympics in swimming competition, tells daughter he made it without hands

Man without arms wins 4 golds at Paralympics in swimming competition, tells daughter he made it without hands

People

4 years ago

A 30-year-old smart man, Zheng Tao, who has been swimming since the age of 13 wowed the world at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics as he won four gold medals.

Man who returned from abroad broke becomes millionaire in Nigeria after CEO sent him N1.5m

Man who returned from abroad broke becomes millionaire in Nigeria after CEO sent him N1.5m

People

4 years ago

A Nigerian man, Victor Iken, who used all his savings to fund a trip through the desert and was deported, leaving him broke, has got N1.5m from a kind person.

5 young Nigerians who got degrees abroad shares their eye-opening stories

5 young Nigerians who got degrees abroad shares their eye-opening stories

People

4 years ago

Some Nigerians who travelled abroad are not just there to get their degrees, they are working towards getting jobs and staying to better their lives & families.

Na juju we dey use, no be grace - Nigerian man says in video as he sits with other people working on laptops

Na juju we dey use, no be grace - Nigerian man says in video as he sits with other people working on laptops

People

4 years ago

A group of young men has been captured in a short video as one of them boasted about using juju for their success. He said that they are not working by grace.

Man pulls off cloth during wedding ceremony, shows he means business as he dances with beautiful lady in video

Man pulls off cloth during wedding ceremony, shows he means business as he dances with beautiful lady in video

People

4 years ago

A wedding ceremony turned into a full-blown entertainment session after a bridesmaid and a groomsman showed off their dance steps. The man outdanced the lady.

Double blessings: Barely 2 months after getting a good job, man gets married, photo stirs reactions

Double blessings: Barely 2 months after getting a good job, man gets married, photo stirs reactions

People

4 years ago

A man who got a pretty woman to marry after he got a job in the tech sector has gone online to celebrate his success. People congratulated him on the blessings.

Lady cries after uncle threw her, siblings and mother out following dad's death, she asks for help in video

Lady cries after uncle threw her, siblings and mother out following dad's death, she asks for help in video

People

4 years ago

A young lady has cried out after their merciless uncle dispossessed them of their father's property and chased them out the house to seek refuge elsewhere.

Wedding MC impresses bride's father, the Igbo man pulls out bundle of dollars and sprays him in video

Wedding MC impresses bride's father, the Igbo man pulls out bundle of dollars and sprays him in video

People

4 years ago

A bride's father was really impressed that he started raining dollars on the MC that officiated his daughter's wedding. Many said the event host loves money.

Joseph Omotayo