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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), Oxford Climate Journalism Network (2025)

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. He previously worked at Lantern Books and Saraba Magazine. Lawal was named the Political Desk Head of the Year (Nigeria Media Nite-Out Award 2023). Lawal is a member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network. He is also a certified fact-checker (Dubawa fellowship, 2020). Contact him at lawal.nurudeen@corp.legit.ng or +2348054399455.

5802 articles published since 05 Dec 2017

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Nigeria Independence Day: Young APC chieftain reveals what youths should do in 2023

Nigeria Independence Day: Young APC chieftain reveals what youths should do in 2023

Politics

3 years ago

Nigeria Independence Day: 3 important sites in Lagos that relive the memories of October 1, 1960

Nigeria Independence Day: 3 important sites in Lagos that relive the memories of October 1, 1960

Nigeria

3 years ago

Nigeria Independence Day: Full text of Tafawa Balewa’s speech on October 1st 1960

Nigeria Independence Day: Full text of Tafawa Balewa’s speech on October 1st 1960

Nigeria

3 years ago

PDP governors who may pull out of Wike’s camp if party’s crisis is not resolved

PDP governors who may pull out of Wike’s camp if party’s crisis is not resolved

Politics

3 years ago

PDP crisis: Why Governor Makinde is the potential biggest loser in Wike's camp

PDP crisis: Why Governor Makinde is the potential biggest loser in Wike's camp

Politics

3 years ago

BREAKING: Appeal Court gives verdict on suit challenging Umahi's emergence as Ebonyi South senatorial candidate

BREAKING: Appeal Court gives verdict on suit challenging Umahi's emergence as Ebonyi South senatorial candidate

Politics

3 years ago

BREAKING: Adebutu loses as Appeal Court gives verdict on Ogun PDP governorship primaries

BREAKING: Adebutu loses as Appeal Court gives verdict on Ogun PDP governorship primaries

Politics

3 years ago

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday set aside an earlier judgment given in favour of a factional guber candidate of the PDP in Ogun state, Oladipupo Adebutu.

Late Queen Elizabeth II’s cause of death finally revealed

Late Queen Elizabeth II’s cause of death finally revealed

Europe

3 years ago

Queen Elizabeth II, the monarch of England, died of old age, according her official death certificate released by the National Records of Scotland on Thursday.

Names of Nigerian lecturers who have died amid ASUU strike

Names of Nigerian lecturers who have died amid ASUU strike

Education

3 years ago

As the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which started in February lingers, 10 lecturers at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) have died

Medical trip? Reason why Tinubu travelled to London revealed

Medical trip? Reason why Tinubu travelled to London revealed

Politics

3 years ago

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has travelled to the UK for a meeting earlier scheduled for last week.

BREAKING: Atiku, Tinubu or Peter Obi? Bloomberg Poll predicts winner of Nigeria's 2023 presidential election

BREAKING: Atiku, Tinubu or Peter Obi? Bloomberg Poll predicts winner of Nigeria's 2023 presidential election

Politics

3 years ago

An opinion poll commissioned by Bloomberg News has tipped Peter Obi of the Labour Party as the favourite candidate to win Nigeria's 2023 presidential election.

Breaking: Tension in APC as Adamu-Led NWC reportedly accuses Tinubu of breaching agreements on campaign council

Breaking: Tension in APC as Adamu-Led NWC reportedly accuses Tinubu of breaching agreements on campaign council

Politics

3 years ago

A fresh crisis is brewing in the APC as the Adamu-led NWC accused the party's presidential candidate, Tinubu, of breaching agreements on the campaign council.

2023 presidency: Economist Intelligence Unit lists 2 major reasons why Atiku may lose as it predicts winner

2023 presidency: Economist Intelligence Unit lists 2 major reasons why Atiku may lose as it predicts winner

Politics

3 years ago

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will lose in 2023, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has predicted.

Trouble for Tinubu as ex-commissioner, other popular APC chieftains defect to PDP in southwest state

Trouble for Tinubu as ex-commissioner, other popular APC chieftains defect to PDP in southwest state

Politics

3 years ago

The immediate past Commissioner for Water Resources, in Ondo State, Yetunde Adeyanju, on Monday, September 26, dumped the ruling APC for the opposition PDP.

Fraudsters hack Nigerian bank, transfer N523m to 225 accounts in deadly 3-day cyber-attack

Fraudsters hack Nigerian bank, transfer N523m to 225 accounts in deadly 3-day cyber-attack

Money

3 years ago

In a three-day cyber attack, some internet fraudsters hacked a customer's bank account and stole over N500 million, transferring the money to over 200 accounts.

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