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 has been writing for the human interest desk since 2019 and is currently the head of the desk. He graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, with a degree in Literature in English in 2016. 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.

6165 articles published since 08 Jan 2019

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32-year-old Nigerian doctor receives great int'l award for using medicine in...

Nigeria

5 years ago

21-year-old student works as Queen replica, charges N23k per show (photos)

World

5 years ago

Popular 27-year-old Nigerian robotics engineer visits Nigeria, gets great welcome from Osinbajo (photos)

Technology

5 years ago

Dumped in a dustbin as a baby, man grows up to own over N22bn company (video)

World

5 years ago

Nigerian man makes int'l wave, becomes judge of superior court in US (photo)

Nigeria

5 years ago

Delay not denial! Girl who failed JAMB 1st time emerged best graduating...

Nigeria

5 years ago

Timi Frank gifts Tonto Dikeh expensive wristwatch, luxury apartment in Dubai (photos)

Nigeria

5 years ago

Popular Nollywood actress and media personality, Tonto Dikeh, has received an amazing gift from Timi Frank, a former national deputy secretary of the All Progressives Peoples Congress.

Man marries physically challenged lover after 4 years of dating her (photos)

Nigeria

5 years ago

Love does not know any boundary, it transverses all. Also, no one could really decided who they want to fall in love with, it just happens. This goes to show that most times, falling deeply for someone may be an unconscious thing.

Tiwa playfully slaps Wizkid's head as he draws her closely by the waist (video)

Entertainment

5 years ago

Ever since their love life became public knowledge, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun (known as Wizkid) and Tiwatope Savage (aka Tiwa Savage) has always been in the media for the interesting bits in their relationship.

I am richer than your mother - Wizkid replies fan who mocked his height

Entertainment

5 years ago

There is a video going viral where Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun aka Wizkid, the Joro crooner, gave a savage reply to a friend who tried to mocked his height.

This organisation of black men is doing everything to make people become doctors (video, photos)

World

5 years ago

It is important to always encourage everyone whenever the opportunity calls for it. The obvious reality is that many are doing the little they could to make humanity betters, and every effort matters, no matter how small.

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

Education

5 years ago

Michelle Nkamankeng who became the youngest author from Africa at the age of 7 now has 11 astonishing books at 11, and owns a foundation that is set to provide free books for underprivileged children

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

World

5 years ago

The greatness of Africa is not just in the entity with the name but in the people. A proof of that is in Michael Agboya’s story, a photographer who won the Best Photo of the Year with a whopping prize of $25,000 (N9 million).

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

World

5 years ago

With relentless determination, a young asylum seeker simply identified as Tesfay, who fled to England to seek greener pastures has graduated with a first class degree from the South Bank University.

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

World

5 years ago

Tyler Perry has taken fans on an exclusive tour of his newly built multi-million dollar film studio in Atlanta incollaboration with Architecture Digest.

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