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

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60-year-old deaf woman breaks record, becomes 1st person to row 3,000 miles across Atlantic

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3 Nigerians who hid in a ship with plan to go to Europe suddenly find themselves in Ghana

Nigeria

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Coronavirus: China's richest man donates N7bn to scientists developing vaccine

World

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Police use popular social media challenge to track down man wanted for crime

World

6 years ago

Fans suspect Chris Brown is still in love with Rihanna after his cryptic Instagram post

World

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Actor Will Smith's son gushes over 'boyfriend' winning Grammy

World

6 years ago

Kim Kardashian ties white wrapper, wears blouse to Sunday service in honour of Kobe Bryant (photo)

World

6 years ago

Popular media mogul and model, Kim Kardashian, wore a white blouse and white wrapper to attend the midnight Sunday Service that was organized in honour of her friend, Kobe Bryant.

Ugandan climate activist cries out after she was edited out of photo with whites by foreign media

World

6 years ago

A Ugandan climate activist has accused the media in Western countries of racism after she was cropped out of a photograph taken with her white peers in Davos, Switzerland.

Continue to move the game forward - One of Kobe Bryant's many inspiring words before his death

World

6 years ago

Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna died hours ago due to a helicopter crash in Los Angeles. The basketball legend’s social media posts before the tragic accident went extremely viral.

Brexit: UK introduces new coin as it gets ready to leave European Union

World

6 years ago

Britain through Chancellor Sajid Javid has unveiled a new coin, 50p, to mark the leaving the European Union in a week’s time. The chancellor held up of the coins as he grinned.

These are the winners of 2020 Grammy Awards (see full list)

World

6 years ago

There were so many must-not-be-missed moments at the 2020 Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, January 26, in Los Angeles as so many music stars were recongnised in the different categories they were nominated for.

Joy as Nigerian CEO Olugbenga raises N12.6bn, plans to expand business operation

Business and Economy

6 years ago

A Lagos and San Francisco-based financial technology startup, Flutterwave, has been able to raise $35 million (N12,652,500,000) as it announced that it will be partnering with World FIS to facilitate payment in Africa.

UK-based group appoints Nigerian activist among 12 ambassadors for global SDGs campaign

Nigeria

6 years ago

Another Nigerian, Abideen Olasupo, has made the nation proud as he was selected as the only person from the country among the 12 global ambassadors for Youth Power Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) campaign initiative.

I cried watching my daughter marry Prince Harry - Meghan's father reveals

World

6 years ago

The father of the Duchess of Sussex, Thomas Markle has revealed that he cried seeing his daughter marry Prince Harry after he was discharged from the hospital.

Meet heroic teacher whose students had same score in their exam

Education

6 years ago

Francis Elive, who is popularly known as The Maths Whisperer, has proved himself a hero to his students after the led them to the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GSCE) exam six months early.

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