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 +2348054399455.

6142 articles published since 05 Dec 2017

Author's articles

BREAKING: Court Sacks Former Speaker Dogara from House of Reps

BREAKING: Court Sacks Former Speaker Dogara from House of Reps

Politics

3 years ago

List of members of presidential committee that advised Buhari to pardon Dariye, Nyame

List of members of presidential committee that advised Buhari to pardon Dariye, Nyame

Nigeria

3 years ago

Buhari’s senator dumps APC, defects to PDP in Katsina, gives reason

Buhari’s senator dumps APC, defects to PDP in Katsina, gives reason

Politics

3 years ago

Identities of officers killed in Kaduna aircraft crash revealed

Identities of officers killed in Kaduna aircraft crash revealed

Nigeria

3 years ago

List: 3 commissioners, other appointees in Governor Makinde’s cabinet announce defection, give reasons

List: 3 commissioners, other appointees in Governor Makinde’s cabinet announce defection, give reasons

Politics

3 years ago

Are ApeCoin (APE), Axie Infinity (AXS) & Parody Coin (PARO) driving the NFT market back up again?

Are ApeCoin (APE), Axie Infinity (AXS) & Parody Coin (PARO) driving the NFT market back up again?

Technology

3 years ago

Premium Trust Bank launches in Port Harcourt, promises speedy service delivery; to open 5 additional branches in 60 days

Premium Trust Bank launches in Port Harcourt, promises speedy service delivery; to open 5 additional branches in 60 days

Money

3 years ago

Premium Trust Bank has joined the list of licensed commercial banks in Nigeria. The bank launched and opened its first branch on Tuesday, in Port Harcourt.

What, Why and Which DAO Tokens: Uniswap (UNI), FIREPIN (FRPN), ApeCoin (APE)

What, Why and Which DAO Tokens: Uniswap (UNI), FIREPIN (FRPN), ApeCoin (APE)

Technology

3 years ago

DAO tokens holders are promised to be rewarded with a fixed percentage of the transaction volumes on the exchange. This, in turn, creates a stable token economy

Why the current Crypto dip is an opportunity - Check out Polygon (MATIC), Loopring (LRC), Pac-Man Frog (PAC)

Why the current Crypto dip is an opportunity - Check out Polygon (MATIC), Loopring (LRC), Pac-Man Frog (PAC)

Technology

3 years ago

Polygon (MATIC) is leading Layer 2 (L2) projects built on top of the Ethereum (ETH) network (Layer 1) and aims at enhancing blockchain scalability and speed.

From 7 to 70: Why are they not talking about this? By Femi Adesina

From 7 to 70: Why are they not talking about this? By Femi Adesina

Nigeria

3 years ago

In his latest opinion piece, Femi Adesina, President Buhari's media aide, writes about the achievement of his principal in the local production of fertilizers.

Dbzdutch’s Coucoo fashion line goes from strength to strength

Dbzdutch’s Coucoo fashion line goes from strength to strength

Fashion

3 years ago

In January 2022, Dbzdutch (@dbzdutch on Instagram) and co-creator Aaliyah launched their fashion line, Coucoo. The collection is now available at coucoo.io.

Unveiling Liquorose as Infinix Hot Series Ambassador

Unveiling Liquorose as Infinix Hot Series Ambassador

Business and Economy

3 years ago

Big Brother Naija season 6 star Liquorose has been unveiled as the Infinix Hot series ambassador. The talented star is the embodiment of the Hot series features

Infinix announces Infinix Wallet in partnership with PalmPay

Infinix announces Infinix Wallet in partnership with PalmPay

Technology

3 years ago

Infinix on Thursday launched the Infinix Wallet, a digital wallet app co-developed with PalmPay, to build a digital life ecology for Infinix smartphone users.

“How I became the leading female driver on Bolt in Nigeria” - Aisosa Ekhayeme

“How I became the leading female driver on Bolt in Nigeria” - Aisosa Ekhayeme

Business and Economy

3 years ago

Leading e-hailing platform in Nigeria, Bolt announced four winners in 2022 from its 2021 Driver’s League Challenge. The winners were gifted brand new cars.

2023 presidency: Concerns over credibility of polls as APC puts nomination form at N100m

2023 presidency: Concerns over credibility of polls as APC puts nomination form at N100m

Politics

3 years ago

The ruling APC's NEC on Wednesday, April 20, put the nomination form for the presidential election at N100m. This has raised concerns from various stakeholders.

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