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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.

5441 articles published since 08 Jan 2019

Author's articles

Talented Nigerian man draws Davido's A Better Time album cover (see photos)

Talented Nigerian man draws Davido's A Better Time album cover (see photos)

Nigeria

5 years ago

Nigerian lady says man pays for only his food, shuns her after she brought 2 friends to their date (see reactions)

Nigerian lady says man pays for only his food, shuns her after she brought 2 friends to their date (see reactions)

People

5 years ago

18-year-old professional wielder makes gate, photos of his work go viral

18-year-old professional wielder makes gate, photos of his work go viral

World

5 years ago

Mother overjoyed as son buys car, shows the expensive vehicle to her (see photo)

Mother overjoyed as son buys car, shows the expensive vehicle to her (see photo)

People

5 years ago

Check out photos of 'scary' painting this young lady made that got people talking

Check out photos of 'scary' painting this young lady made that got people talking

People

5 years ago

How these 2 dogs bent their heads and 'prayed' to God before eating (see video)

How these 2 dogs bent their heads and 'prayed' to God before eating (see video)

World

5 years ago

Nigerian lady finally leaves the country, goes to Switzerland to do this, many react

Nigerian lady finally leaves the country, goes to Switzerland to do this, many react

World

5 years ago

A Nigerian lady, Temi Orekoya, has gone to Switzerland for her postgraduate programme in business. She said her stay in the school will be very productive.

How man used his own crying to scare baby, keep kid quiet (see video)

How man used his own crying to scare baby, keep kid quiet (see video)

World

5 years ago

A man has adopted a very funny measure to keep his kid quiet and have a good babysitting time. As the baby cried, the man faked his own cry too, surprising her.

After hustling for years, this Nigerian man makes it, shows off his garage of cars (photos)

After hustling for years, this Nigerian man makes it, shows off his garage of cars (photos)

World

5 years ago

A young Nigerian man has shown his good fruits of hard work. In a post on Tuesday, January 19, the man shared a photo of his car, saying he started out small.

Black boy and white lady 'compete' with each other in dance, video goes viral

Black boy and white lady 'compete' with each other in dance, video goes viral

Entertainment

5 years ago

A black kid has shown that he has everything to also go pro as he danced with a white lady. Many said that they both show moves that make for good content.

Son advertises mum's plantain business online, her photos go viral

Son advertises mum's plantain business online, her photos go viral

People

5 years ago

A very resourceful son has deployed the power of social media to make his mum's roasted plantian business better as he advertised for her. Many praised him.

Young lady makes mum cry for joy as she becomes doctor, gets 11 awards (photos)

Young lady makes mum cry for joy as she becomes doctor, gets 11 awards (photos)

People

5 years ago

A young lady, Hyacinth Winnifred Ugochinyere, has generated reactions as she posted photos of the day she graduated from university and got 11 awards in school.

Nigerian man checks out N700k house in Ibadan, discovers short shower (photos)

Nigerian man checks out N700k house in Ibadan, discovers short shower (photos)

Entertainment

5 years ago

A Nigerian man with the Twitter handle @THE_INKSOMNIA has cried out after he discovered a very low hanging shower in a N700k apartment in Bodija area of Ibadan.

Despite delay, woman finally bags PhD, says she didn't fail in life (photos)

Despite delay, woman finally bags PhD, says she didn't fail in life (photos)

Education

5 years ago

Mzansi woman Vuyokazi 'Vuyo' Mntuyedwa shared a heartwarming post in Facebook's ImStaying about how she finally got her PhD after undergoing many challenges.

Photos of Nigerian family with father wearing plaited hair generate reactions

Photos of Nigerian family with father wearing plaited hair generate reactions

People

5 years ago

A cute young Nigerian family has generated amazing reactions on Twitter as people celebrated them, saying they all look cute together in their shared photos.

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