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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

I couldn't believe it: Woman gives birth to triplet after suffering 3 miscarriages

I couldn't believe it: Woman gives birth to triplet after suffering 3 miscarriages

People

5 years ago

Nigerian lady bags 1st class degree, becomes best graduating student in Covenant University with 4.98 CGPA

Nigerian lady bags 1st class degree, becomes best graduating student in Covenant University with 4.98 CGPA

People

5 years ago

Great drama on wedding day as groom is blindfolded, asked to pick his wife among beautiful ladies

Great drama on wedding day as groom is blindfolded, asked to pick his wife among beautiful ladies

People

5 years ago

First class graduate turns bread seller on the street after years of unemployment, her story breaks hearts

First class graduate turns bread seller on the street after years of unemployment, her story breaks hearts

People

5 years ago

Funny moment dad dances during daughter's video recording, unaware she's making class presentation

Funny moment dad dances during daughter's video recording, unaware she's making class presentation

People

5 years ago

Photos of 1 bedroom apartment that goes for N1.6m rent in Abuja stir massive reactions

Photos of 1 bedroom apartment that goes for N1.6m rent in Abuja stir massive reactions

People

5 years ago

Kind Hausa man protects Yoruba man's land for his son for almost 30 years, now he's going back to Kano

Kind Hausa man protects Yoruba man's land for his son for almost 30 years, now he's going back to Kano

People

5 years ago

A kind old man has been protecting his boss' interest for long without collecting any salary in return. Everything he was eating was from produce he farmed.

I was a cleaner with master's degree abroad before I owned houses - Nigerian woman celebrates moving to Canada

I was a cleaner with master's degree abroad before I owned houses - Nigerian woman celebrates moving to Canada

People

5 years ago

A Nigerian risk-taker has said that refusing to settle for what life threw at her in Finland was the greatest decision she made. She now owns many investments.

Joy as young Nigerian lady becomes vice president welfare of students' union in top UK university

Joy as young Nigerian lady becomes vice president welfare of students' union in top UK university

People

5 years ago

Nigerians and many people on LinkedIn have praised a young lady, Aisha Akinola, who became the VP welfare at University of Edinburgh. They said she will succeed

Smart young Nigerian man suspends university education to focus on his pap-making business, gives reason

Smart young Nigerian man suspends university education to focus on his pap-making business, gives reason

People

5 years ago

A young Nigerian man who makes pap for sale said that the business has been good so far. His entrepreneurship spirit has given him awards & taken him to places.

After returning from US, Nigerian man starts airline company, to begin local flight operations

After returning from US, Nigerian man starts airline company, to begin local flight operations

World

5 years ago

A Nigerian man, Babawande Afolabi, took a leap of faith with the Nigerian economy and started an airline company he's planning on launching local operations.

Nigerian man storms bank after 'wrong' N300k deduction, pulls off cloth, says he isn't leaving premises

Nigerian man storms bank after 'wrong' N300k deduction, pulls off cloth, says he isn't leaving premises

People

5 years ago

A video of a Nigerian man saying he would not leave a bank's premises until his issue has been attended to has caused much uproar online about bank services.

Everything's new: Young lady celebrates buying car and house, people praise her

Everything's new: Young lady celebrates buying car and house, people praise her

People

5 years ago

A beautiful young lady recently headed online to celebrate her very beautiful beginnings. In the post, she explains that she just got a new home and a new car.

Anybody wants to serve with me? Nigerian actress shows oversized NYSC trousers she got, stirs funny reactions

Anybody wants to serve with me? Nigerian actress shows oversized NYSC trousers she got, stirs funny reactions

People

5 years ago

A Nigerian lady has caused massive reactions on social media after sharing a clip of the oversized NYSC uniform she got. Many people were amazed by it all.

Young Igbo man from Enugu builds 'aeroplane', flies it in viral video as he begs for govt support

Young Igbo man from Enugu builds 'aeroplane', flies it in viral video as he begs for govt support

People

5 years ago

A 21-year-old Nigerian man, Miracle Onyedikachi, asked for government's support as he spoke about the small aeroplane he built using recycled waste materials.

Joseph Omotayo