Nurudeen Lawal

Education: Bachelor of Arts Literature-in-English, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife (2012). Google News Initiative (GNI) News Lab: Advanced digital reporting, Experimenting with New Formats, Fighting Misinformation (2024)

Experience: Saraba Magazine (Social Media Intern, 2015), Content Editor/Strategist, Lantern Books (2015-2017), Dubawa fact-checking fellow (2020), Solutions Journalism fellow (2022)

Awards: Best Head of Desk of the Year (Legit.ng 2024), Political Desk Head of the Year (Nigeria Media Nite-Out Award 2023), Top Politics and Current Affairs editor (Legit.ng)

Nurudeen Lawal is an AFP-certified journalist with a wealth of experience spanning over 8 years. He received his B/Arts degree in Literature-in-English from OAU. Lawal is the Head of the Politics/CA Desk at Legit.ng, where he applies his expertise to provide incisive coverage of events. He was named the Political Desk Head of the Year (Nigeria Media Nite-Out Award 2023). He is also a certified fact-checker (Dubawa fellowship, 2020). Contact him at lawal.nurudeen@corp.legit.ng or +2347057737768.

6285 articles published since 05 Dec 2017

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Prominent Wike’s ally Dumps G5 governors, joins Atiku, donates 20 buses for PDP presidential campaign

Prominent Wike’s ally Dumps G5 governors, joins Atiku, donates 20 buses for PDP...

Politics

2 years ago

2023 election: Details emerge as Tinubu meets Niger Delta leaders, promises region's development

2023 election: Details emerge as Tinubu meets Niger Delta leaders, promises regi...

Politics

2 years ago

Just in: Peter Obi’s plane impounded in Abuja? Labour Party reacts as photos emerge

Just in: Peter Obi’s plane impounded in Abuja? Labour Party reacts as photos eme...

Politics

2 years ago

What makes new Naira notes unveiled by Buhari different from old ones? President Reveals

What makes new Naira notes unveiled by Buhari different from old ones? President...

Nigeria

2 years ago

Panic as INEC fails to produce Adeleke’s certificates at tribunal, gives reason

Panic as INEC fails to produce Adeleke’s certificates at tribunal, gives reason

Politics

2 years ago

2023 presidency: NNPP to merge with Peter Obi's Labour Party? Kwankwaso reveals final decision

2023 presidency: NNPP to merge with Peter Obi's Labour Party? Kwankwaso reveals...

Politics

2 years ago

Wike to support Tinubu? Details emerge as Umahi reveals what APC presidential candidate needs from Rivers governor

Wike to support Tinubu? Details emerge as Umahi reveals what APC presidential candidate needs from Rivers governor

Politics

2 years ago

Governor Dave Umahi has said the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, needs Rivers votes, not the logistics support of Governor Nyesom Wike.

Nigerian governor gets emotional, weeps as he performs important state function

Nigerian governor gets emotional, weeps as he performs important state function

Politics

2 years ago

The governor of Katsina state, Aminu Masari, got emotional and wept while presenting the final budget of his administration to the House Assembly on Tuesday.

Peter Obi offered Kwankwaso N40bn to step down for Him? Labour Party presidential candidate opens up

Peter Obi offered Kwankwaso N40bn to step down for Him? Labour Party presidential candidate opens up

Politics

2 years ago

Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi denied the media report that he offered N40bn to the NNPP presidential candidate, Kwankwaso, to step down for him.

Surprise as Peter Obi reveals his position on ESN members in southeast

Surprise as Peter Obi reveals his position on ESN members in southeast

Politics

2 years ago

Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi said on Monday that he can’t condemn the Eastern Security Network (ESN) because he is unsure of their activities.

2023 presidency: Doyin Okupe predicts overall winner, reveals number of states Tinubu, Atiku, Peter Obi will win

2023 presidency: Doyin Okupe predicts overall winner, reveals number of states Tinubu, Atiku, Peter Obi will win

Politics

2 years ago

Doyin Okupe, director-general of the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation, has predicted how Peter Obi of the Labour Party will win the 2023 presidential election.

Chicago State University gives fresh update on Tinubu's academic degree after prominent Nigerian's request

Chicago State University gives fresh update on Tinubu's academic degree after prominent Nigerian's request

Politics

2 years ago

The Chicago State University once again confirmed that Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, indeed attended the university.

BREAKING: PDP has no governorship candidate in Ogun? Supreme Court gives verdict

BREAKING: PDP has no governorship candidate in Ogun? Supreme Court gives verdict

Politics

2 years ago

The crisis rocking the Ogun state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) deepened on Monday with the Supreme Court dismissing an appeal filed before it.

Setback for Tinubu as former governor’s aide, 4,000 APC members defect to PDP in northern state

Setback for Tinubu as former governor’s aide, 4,000 APC members defect to PDP in northern state

Politics

2 years ago

Musibau Esinrogunjo, an APC chieftain and his supporters, numbering 4,000 party members, have defected to the opposition PDP ahead of the 2023 general election.

BREAKING: PDP, APC in fresh trouble as court sacks their candidates in 2 northern states

BREAKING: PDP, APC in fresh trouble as court sacks their candidates in 2 northern states

Politics

2 years ago

The Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked Aminu Kanta as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Babura/Garki Federal Constituency of Jigawa state.

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