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

Author's articles

16 good Nigerians Buhari met in Japan during TICAD7 summit

16 good Nigerians Buhari met in Japan during TICAD7 summit

Ask Legit

5 years ago

Nollywood actress Omoni Oboli praises Abike Dabiri, narrates family’s pleasant surprise at renewing passport in Canada

Nollywood actress Omoni Oboli praises Abike Dabiri, narrates family’s pleasant...

Nigeria

5 years ago

How US sends its citizens to Nigeria every year to learn Yoruba language (video)

How US sends its citizens to Nigeria every year to learn Yoruba language (video)

Nigeria

5 years ago

Foreign media lists Teni, 4 others as NextGen artists changing music rules in Nigeria

Foreign media lists Teni, 4 others as NextGen artists changing music rules in...

Ask Legit

5 years ago

14-year-old genius Joshua Beckford finally in Nigeria for building project, received by Kaduna state govt

14-year-old genius Joshua Beckford finally in Nigeria for building project,...

Nigeria

5 years ago

Why we closed Nigeria-Benin border - Buhari explains

Why we closed Nigeria-Benin border - Buhari explains

Politics

5 years ago

How the US honoured Zimbabwean scholar with life-sized statue for her inspiring works

How the US honoured Zimbabwean scholar with life-sized statue for her inspiring works

Education

5 years ago

Tererai Trent, a Zimbabwean scholar, has been honoured alongside popular medial personality, Oprah Winfrey, Hollywood celebrities like Nicole Kidman, and Pink, for their positive contributions towards gender equality.

Nigerian Nnimmo Bassey receives doctoral degree from topnotch UK university alongside GOT star

Nigerian Nnimmo Bassey receives doctoral degree from topnotch UK university alongside GOT star

Nigeria

5 years ago

Nnimmo Bassey, a Nigerian architect and environmental rights activist poet, has got an honorary doctoral degree from the University of York, United Kingdom.

Farmer's son from Osun wins big tech grant in US with his startup company

Farmer's son from Osun wins big tech grant in US with his startup company

Nigeria

5 years ago

Nigerian-American agrictech startup, EZFarming, has been selected for the 500 startups accelerator programme in San Francisco, California.

Unilag graduate beats 15 contestants to get $1.5m Lebanese Nigeria Initiative scholarship

Unilag graduate beats 15 contestants to get $1.5m Lebanese Nigeria Initiative scholarship

Education

5 years ago

Ajibola Olubando, a graduate of petroleum and gas engineering in University of Lagos (Unilag), has become the winner of the Lebanese Nigeria Initiate (LNI) scholarship for his academic prowess.

Newspaper review for August 22: Buhari knocked for ordering ministers to report to Kyari

Newspaper review for August 22: Buhari knocked for ordering ministers to report to Kyari

Nigeria

5 years ago

The headlines of mainstream Nigerian newspaper for Thursday, August 22, are focused on the swearing-in ceremony of newly appointed ministers of the federation by President Muhammadu Buhari, among other top stories.

My immediate task is to resolve the implementation of new minimum wage - Ngige

My immediate task is to resolve the implementation of new minimum wage - Ngige

Politics

5 years ago

The reappointed minister of labour and employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has given workers the assurance, that the issues surrounding new minimum wage implementation will soon be resolved.

Wizkid breaks new record, becomes first African to hit 8m monthly listeners on Spotify

Wizkid breaks new record, becomes first African to hit 8m monthly listeners on Spotify

World

5 years ago

Afropop star, Ayodeji Balogun popularly known as Wizkid, has become the first African artist to hit eight million monthly streams on Spotify, the online streaming platform.

Nigerian-American lecturer makes international wave, wins significant award in Canada

Nigerian-American lecturer makes international wave, wins significant award in Canada

World

5 years ago

A Nigerian-American academic, Farooq Kperogi, has won an award at the 102nd annual convention of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Toronto, Canada.

99-year-old dancer to represent Argentina in world's biggest dancing competition

99-year-old dancer to represent Argentina in world's biggest dancing competition

World

5 years ago

James McManus, a dancing OAP, aged 99, will represent Ireland in Argentina at the world’s largest and most popular tango competition.

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