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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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Joy as Nigerian couple celebrate birthday of twins they had after 17 years of long wait, cute photos go viral

Joy as Nigerian couple celebrate birthday of twins they had after 17 years of long wait, cute photos go viral

People

5 years ago

My boyfriend has been giving me flowers weekly since we started dating - Lady shares photo, many react

My boyfriend has been giving me flowers weekly since we started dating - Lady shares photo, many react

People

5 years ago

Young man promotes his mum's biscuit shop on Twitter, Nigerians react to viral video he made

Young man promotes his mum's biscuit shop on Twitter, Nigerians react to viral video he made

People

5 years ago

School stops student from attending graduation ceremony because he wore wrong shoes, teacher saves him

School stops student from attending graduation ceremony because he wore wrong shoes, teacher saves him

People

5 years ago

Great joy as man finally marries lady he met in 2016, their wedding photos wow people

Great joy as man finally marries lady he met in 2016, their wedding photos wow people

People

5 years ago

Nigerian lady who never thought she would get admission 5yrs ago graduates as best student with 4.91 CGPA

Nigerian lady who never thought she would get admission 5yrs ago graduates as best student with 4.91 CGPA

People

5 years ago

5 things to know about Rolls-Royce Boat Tail, the world's most expensive car which sells for N11.4bn

5 things to know about Rolls-Royce Boat Tail, the world's most expensive car which sells for N11.4bn

Money

5 years ago

Rolls-Royce's Boat Tail is not just a car but a vehicle crafted to meet the want of its owners. It took four years of a collaborative effort to birth the whip

Nigerian male nurse makes it in America, shares beautiful photos of his new apartment, many react

Nigerian male nurse makes it in America, shares beautiful photos of his new apartment, many react

People

5 years ago

A young Nigerian man, Samson, has shown people that he is indeed living the American Dream when he shared photos of his new apartment in the foreign country.

He's my first role model: Young lady bags degree, shares lovely graduation moment with brother

He's my first role model: Young lady bags degree, shares lovely graduation moment with brother

People

5 years ago

A stunning graduate has just been awarded her Bachelor of Arts degree from her only brother. The educated siblings both studied at Stellenbosch University.

Young man bags PhD at 31, his achievement inspires many on social media

Young man bags PhD at 31, his achievement inspires many on social media

People

5 years ago

South Africans were inspired by a new PhD graduate, Thapelo Kgabage, from the North West province who has made it at 31 and recently graduated in theology.

Viral video shows baby dancing in her chair to Loui's popular hip hop song Talkin Bout

Viral video shows baby dancing in her chair to Loui's popular hip hop song Talkin Bout

People

5 years ago

A proud TikTok mum recently headed online to share a cute clip of her talented daughter vibing like it's no one's business to a popular Loui and Saweetie's song

Single mother who didn't have bed to sleep on after leaving abusive marriage finally gets help, shares photos

Single mother who didn't have bed to sleep on after leaving abusive marriage finally gets help, shares photos

People

5 years ago

Winfred Mwende has wowed Kenyans again after showing off her furnished bedsitter days after posting photos of her very humble house and beddings on Facebook.

Family gives their triplets nice photoshoot, their pictures make people want to have babies

Family gives their triplets nice photoshoot, their pictures make people want to have babies

People

5 years ago

A black couple with the Twitter handle @SeeAndTPlus3 were congratulated for their triplets once again as photos of the kids resurfaced online after some months.

Caring wife 'buys' playground equipment for her kids, husband enjoys it in viral video, says he's also a baby

Caring wife 'buys' playground equipment for her kids, husband enjoys it in viral video, says he's also a baby

People

5 years ago

A young man has revealed how his wife brought pieces of playground equipment home so that her babies can unwind. He joins the kids in making use of them too.

How does dad feed them? Cute photo of large family of 7 girls, 1 boy with pregnant mom generates reactions

How does dad feed them? Cute photo of large family of 7 girls, 1 boy with pregnant mom generates reactions

People

5 years ago

A photo of a big family has made its way to social media and tweeps had various reactions. The cute family has ten members with one coming to increase the count

Joseph Omotayo