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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

Meet 11-year old whizkid who has written 7 books (photos)

Meet 11-year old whizkid who has written 7 books (photos)

Education

6 years ago

24-year-old Ghanaian school dropout coasts to glory, wins N9m with his astonishing picture in photography contest

24-year-old Ghanaian school dropout coasts to glory, wins N9m with his astonishing picture in photography contest

World

6 years ago

Jubilation as homeless man beats all odds, graduates with 1st class degree from UK university

Jubilation as homeless man beats all odds, graduates with 1st class degree from UK university

World

6 years ago

Tyler Perry takes fans on exclusive tour of his multi-billion dollars studio (video)

Tyler Perry takes fans on exclusive tour of his multi-billion dollars studio (video)

World

6 years ago

Meet 1st black woman to get PhD in physics from top Scottish university (photos)

Meet 1st black woman to get PhD in physics from top Scottish university (photos)

Education

6 years ago

Meet 36-year-old Nigerian woman who is building country's 1st gold refinery

Meet 36-year-old Nigerian woman who is building country's 1st gold refinery

Business and Economy

6 years ago

Meet Cynthia, the woman who uses Igbo language to teach dropout kids mathematics

Meet Cynthia, the woman who uses Igbo language to teach dropout kids mathematics

Education

6 years ago

Cynthia Onwuchuruba is contributing greatly to humanity as she uses her special skill with language and mathematics to teach kids from low income families.

Meet Nigerian professor Joseph Balogun who has held admin positions at many world's universities

Meet Nigerian professor Joseph Balogun who has held admin positions at many world's universities

Education

6 years ago

Joseph Abiodun Balogun is one of few Nigerian academics with robust achievements in the academia. Born on January 1, 1955, he is presently a professor in the College of Health Sciences at Chicago State University, USA.

Trevor Noah to make movie on the life of 8-year-old Nigerian chess genius Adewumi

Trevor Noah to make movie on the life of 8-year-old Nigerian chess genius Adewumi

Nigeria

6 years ago

Trevor Noah is set to make a movie about an eight-year-old Nigerian chess genius, Tani Adewumi, who aced the 2019 New York chess championship.

Nigerian makes new scientific discovery in Chemistry, he has published several books

Nigerian makes new scientific discovery in Chemistry, he has published several books

Nigeria

6 years ago

News of Nigerians making great breakthroughs in the field of science has lately been going viral. Another Nigerian scientist, Emmanuel Terhemen Atume, discovered a formula that identifies a boiling point.

Nigerian man hits it big, gets robust oil appointment in the US

Nigerian man hits it big, gets robust oil appointment in the US

Nigeria

6 years ago

Udak-Joe Ntuk, a Nigerian, has been appointed by the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, as the state's oil and gas supervisor, which will be responsible for managing the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR).

El-Rufai gives ultimatum on payment of teachers’ arrears

El-Rufai gives ultimatum on payment of teachers’ arrears

Education

6 years ago

The governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, has taken step to ensure that owned salaries of about 8,500 primary teachers out of the 39,000 are paid this new week.

Meet amazing genius who got her PhD at the age of 23, says she's too scared to go look for job

Meet amazing genius who got her PhD at the age of 23, says she's too scared to go look for job

World

6 years ago

Julia Nepper, is another young genius out there, with an impressive record. At the age of 12, she got into college and got her doctorate degree at 23 from the University of Wisconsin.

Celebrating Kofoworola Ademola, 1st African woman to get a degree from Oxford University

Celebrating Kofoworola Ademola, 1st African woman to get a degree from Oxford University

Education

6 years ago

Ademola, born on May 21, 1913, is the first black woman to attend an American college. Her father, Omoba Eric Olawolu Moore, was a very popular lawyer who married an African American returnee Aida Arabella.

Scientists trace origin of human race to Botswana, Africa

Scientists trace origin of human race to Botswana, Africa

Nigeria

6 years ago

Some scientists have traced the origin of all modern humans to a place that south of the Zambezi River in Bostwanna, Africa’s huge lake called Lake Makgadikgadi.

Joseph Omotayo