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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.

6033 articles published since 05 Dec 2017

Author's articles

Days after meeting Peter Obi, Obasanjo tells Nigerian youths what to do ahead of 2023

Days after meeting Peter Obi, Obasanjo tells Nigerian youths what to do ahead of 2023

Politics

4 years ago

Trouble for Atiku as 35,000 residents from northern state declare support for Peter Obi

Trouble for Atiku as 35,000 residents from northern state declare support for Peter Obi

Politics

4 years ago

From nightmare to new hope: How corps member’s media advocacy helped construct Ayegbami community’s road taking lives

From nightmare to new hope: How corps member’s media advocacy helped construct Ayegbami community’s road taking lives

Nigeria

4 years ago

CleanUpAyegbami: How corps member’s advocacy on dumpsites clearing helped fight malaria in Kwara community

CleanUpAyegbami: How corps member’s advocacy on dumpsites clearing helped fight malaria in Kwara community

Nigeria

4 years ago

Full list, addresses of centres where Nigerians in US, UK, Canada, Germany, other countries can Enrol for NIN

Full list, addresses of centres where Nigerians in US, UK, Canada, Germany, other countries can Enrol for NIN

Nigeria

4 years ago

Full list of 15,000 centres nationwide where you can enrol for your NIN as telcos bar 72m unlinked SIMs

Full list of 15,000 centres nationwide where you can enrol for your NIN as telcos bar 72m unlinked SIMs

Nigeria

4 years ago

Atiku is a pathological liar, Tinubu says, exposes what happened in 2007 over Muslim-Muslim ticket

Atiku is a pathological liar, Tinubu says, exposes what happened in 2007 over Muslim-Muslim ticket

Politics

4 years ago

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, has faulted the PDP candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar's claim, over a Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2007.

2023: Peter Obi makes huge promise to Nigerians, reveals what he will do within 2 years if elected president

2023: Peter Obi makes huge promise to Nigerians, reveals what he will do within 2 years if elected president

Politics

4 years ago

Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has promised to bring massive development within two years if elected as Nigeria's president in 2023.

Sad day as gunmen in military uniform kill prominent PDP chieftain in Bayelsa

Sad day as gunmen in military uniform kill prominent PDP chieftain in Bayelsa

Nigeria

4 years ago

Gunmen allegedly dressed in military camouflage have shot dead a youth’s leader and chieftain of the PDP in Bayelsa state, Honourable Odeinyefa Ogbolosingha.

Just in: National loss as prominent former minister from southwest dies

Just in: National loss as prominent former minister from southwest dies

Nigeria

4 years ago

Oyekunle Oluwasanmi, a former minister of state for power and steel, is dead. According to a statement by his family, Oluwasanmi died on Thursday, July 21.

Prominent northern APC governor reportedly angry with Tinubu over choice of running mate

Prominent northern APC governor reportedly angry with Tinubu over choice of running mate

Politics

4 years ago

The governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, is allegedly angry with Bola Ahmed Tinubu for not picking as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election.

BREAKING: Governor Wike releases crucial statement on Atiku, PDP

BREAKING: Governor Wike releases crucial statement on Atiku, PDP

Politics

4 years ago

Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, says in a statement on Saturday, July 23, that he will soon break his silence on the recent happenings in the opposition PDP

I didn’t reject Wike, Atiku says, reveals why he picked Okowa as running mate

I didn’t reject Wike, Atiku says, reveals why he picked Okowa as running mate

Politics

4 years ago

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate to the PDP, says has revealed why he picked Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate over Nyesom Wike of Rivers.

Atiku reveals major disagreement he has with Tinubu, speaks on Muslim-Muslim ticket

Atiku reveals major disagreement he has with Tinubu, speaks on Muslim-Muslim ticket

Politics

4 years ago

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, PDP presidential candidate, has revealed why he rejected Bola Ahmed Tinubu when he wanted to be his running mate in 2007.

Popular Lagos APC chieftain defects to Labour Party, collapses structure for new party to challenge Sanwo-Olu

Popular Lagos APC chieftain defects to Labour Party, collapses structure for new party to challenge Sanwo-Olu

Politics

4 years ago

Ahead of 2023, Moshood Adegoke Salvador, a chieftain of the ruling APC, has collapsed his political group into the Labour Party in Lagos to challenge Sanwo-Olu.

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