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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

All you need to know about Igbo people of Jamaica

All you need to know about Igbo people of Jamaica

World

6 years ago

Historic gold coin linked to site owned by Prophet Mohammed's successor sold for over N1bn (photo)

Historic gold coin linked to site owned by Prophet Mohammed's successor sold for over N1bn (photo)

World

6 years ago

Katsina govt shows commitment on education, pays N400m NECO fee for students

Katsina govt shows commitment on education, pays N400m NECO fee for students

Nigeria

6 years ago

Buhari to attend Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Buhari to attend Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

World

6 years ago

No pay, no work - ASUU goes hot on FG, issues deadline

No pay, no work - ASUU goes hot on FG, issues deadline

Nigeria

6 years ago

Google honours Fela's mother, Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti, with special logo (photo)

Nigeria

6 years ago

How I got broke after I squandered $40m on Bugatti, houses, bad investments - T-Pain reveals (video)

How I got broke after I squandered $40m on Bugatti, houses, bad investments - T-Pain reveals (video)

World

6 years ago

American popular rapper, T-Pain, has shared a great story on The Breakfast Club show about the rough ride he had with his finance.

Oprah Winfrey reacts to Nigerian boy's broken phone, buys him new iPhone (video, photo)

Oprah Winfrey reacts to Nigerian boy's broken phone, buys him new iPhone (video, photo)

World

6 years ago

Oprah Winfrey, the queen of modern media, has just made a Nigerian boy, Olufemi, happy by buying him a new phone after he commented about the broken screen of his phone.

Jubilation as Innoson invites boy who redesigned its company's logo for a meeting (photos)

Nigeria

6 years ago

The chairman of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM), Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma, has asked to meet a boy, Osuolale Farouq, who redesigned the company’s logo.

Just in: Ministers to only fly business class, must submit travel plans to SGF

Just in: Ministers to only fly business class, must submit travel plans to SGF

Nigeria

6 years ago

President Muhammadu Buhari has given approval to a new rule that mandates all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to make a submission of their annual travel schedules to the office of the SGF.

Smart move as actor's mother turned down $2m deal for her child, asked for $100k continuous payment

Smart move as actor's mother turned down $2m deal for her child, asked for $100k continuous payment

World

6 years ago

Jason Weaver, who is the singing voice for Young Simba character for Disney’s The Lion King, has revealed how he turned down a deal from the popular movie company.

Top 5 Africans who got the biggest honour in the world (see full list)

Top 5 Africans who got the biggest honour in the world (see full list)

Ask Legit

6 years ago

Wole Soyinka, Nelson Mandela and three others are among several Africans that have been awarded the Nobel Prize honour since its inception in 1895.

Navy goes hard on smugglers, arrests 4 suspects, seizes 220 bags of rice

Navy goes hard on smugglers, arrests 4 suspects, seizes 220 bags of rice

Business and Economy

6 years ago

The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base in Mbo local government in Akwa Ibom, has made an arrest of four suspects smuggling 220 bags of 50kg rice.

Police chief says death penalty is key solution to fight corruption

Police chief says death penalty is key solution to fight corruption

Nigeria

6 years ago

The commissioner of police in Kaduna, Ali Aju-Janga, state on Wednesday, October 9, asked for the review of the law against corruption in the country, asking that it includes life jail term and death penalty.

Meet Nigerian mathematical genius, Iya Abubakar, who became a professor at 28

Meet Nigerian mathematical genius, Iya Abubakar, who became a professor at 28

Nigeria

6 years ago

Professor Iya Abubakar, a mathematical genius, the third vice chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria was also many times a minister of the federal republic of Nigeria.

Joseph Omotayo