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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.

5939 articles published since 08 Jan 2019

Author's articles

How could these artworks look so real? Reactions as sculptures resembling live animals break the internet (photos)

How could these artworks look so real? Reactions as sculptures resembling live animals break the internet (photos)

Entertainment

5 years ago

Talented Nigerian man builds toilet to generate cooking gas, electricity for home (photo)

Talented Nigerian man builds toilet to generate cooking gas, electricity for home (photo)

World

5 years ago

Meet Azeezat Abiola Amusat, the Nigerian woman who fixed Beyonce's headgear in new album Black Is King (photos)

Meet Azeezat Abiola Amusat, the Nigerian woman who fixed Beyonce's headgear in new album Black Is King (photos)

Nigeria

5 years ago

These animals are in trouble: Funny reactions as UK police put out 'notice' on goats that 'destroyed' its patrol car (photo)

These animals are in trouble: Funny reactions as UK police put out 'notice' on goats that 'destroyed' its patrol car (photo)

People

5 years ago

Do animals also behave like humans? These powerful images show moment newborn gorilla was cuddled by mom moments after delivery

Do animals also behave like humans? These powerful images show moment newborn gorilla was cuddled by mom moments after delivery

Entertainment

5 years ago

This 44-year-old politician was once Miss World winner, her recent cute pictures leave tongues wagging

This 44-year-old politician was once Miss World winner, her recent cute pictures leave tongues wagging

People

5 years ago

Nigeria ranked 3rd best in English proficiency in Africa and 29th in the world

Nigeria ranked 3rd best in English proficiency in Africa and 29th in the world

World

5 years ago

Kenyans are the second-best English speakers in Africa, not Nigerians, according to the latest report by a global private language tutor, Education First (EF).

After this Enugu housewife returned N14m mistakenly paid into her account, this was what her husband did

After this Enugu housewife returned N14m mistakenly paid into her account, this was what her husband did

Nigeria

5 years ago

A woman in Enugu state, Josephine Nchetaka Chukujama Eze, has shown the true meaning of honesty as she returned the sum of N14m wrongly paid into her account.

Mother of 12 children who kept getting pregnant because she wanted a girl cries for joy after she was given over N66k to start a business (photos)

Mother of 12 children who kept getting pregnant because she wanted a girl cries for joy after she was given over N66k to start a business (photos)

World

5 years ago

Mame Panin, a mother of twelve children, has received GHc1,000 to start a business. Mame's heartbreaking economic struggles has been shared in a post online.

Ivanka shares cute snap of Donald Trump and her son, calls it Grandpa and Theo, photo goes viral

Ivanka shares cute snap of Donald Trump and her son, calls it Grandpa and Theo, photo goes viral

World

5 years ago

Ivanka Trump almost broke the internet with a photo she posted on Facebook of her dad, Donald Trump holding her son, Theodore. The post immediately went viral.

Are these animals really richer than most people? List of 7 richest animals in the world revealed (photos)

Are these animals really richer than most people? List of 7 richest animals in the world revealed (photos)

People

5 years ago

Inheritances and wealth are mostly associated with people. Not many times do animals (pets) make headlines for being rich. They own the money through pet trusts

Meet 12-year-old Nigerian girl Favour Adebayo who is making money as a pro tailor (photos)

Meet 12-year-old Nigerian girl Favour Adebayo who is making money as a pro tailor (photos)

People

5 years ago

At a time when adults are looking for new ways to survive in this trying time with the raging pandemic, Favour Adebayo is trying to be financially independent.

This traditional African king has 100 wives, 500 children. How does he take care of them all? (photos)

This traditional African king has 100 wives, 500 children. How does he take care of them all? (photos)

World

5 years ago

King Abumbi II inherited 72 wives from his father when he became king. His palace is said to be one of the endangered sites of the world. He has 500 children.

Kaosarat: Bukola Saraki's wife steps in, reveals why she helped family with blue eyes

Kaosarat: Bukola Saraki's wife steps in, reveals why she helped family with blue eyes

Entertainment

5 years ago

Amazing things keep happening to the family of Kaosarat, the blue-eyed girl, and her family. The wife of the former Senate president, Saraki, has helped them.

Nigerian 12-year-old genius breaks record in UK, receives award for discovering this new maths formula (photos)

Nigerian 12-year-old genius breaks record in UK, receives award for discovering this new maths formula (photos)

Education

5 years ago

A 12-year-old Nigerian Chika Ofili has really made the nation proud as he discovered a new way of divisibility by 7. He came up with it during his homework.

Joseph Omotayo