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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.

5809 articles published since 05 Dec 2017

Author's articles

List of APC presidential spirants who have bought N100m forms as ruling party rakes in N1.95bn

List of APC presidential spirants who have bought N100m forms as ruling party rakes in N1.95bn

Politics

4 years ago

List of 23 APC presidential aspirants who want to succeed Buhari in 2023 and the regions they came from

List of 23 APC presidential aspirants who want to succeed Buhari in 2023 and the regions they came from

Politics

4 years ago

Details emerge as Tinubu, Osinbajo, other APC southwest presidential aspirants meet in Lagos

Details emerge as Tinubu, Osinbajo, other APC southwest presidential aspirants meet in Lagos

Politics

4 years ago

5 major decisions taken as southwest APC leaders meet with Tinubu, Osinbajo, other presidential aspirants

5 major decisions taken as southwest APC leaders meet with Tinubu, Osinbajo, other presidential aspirants

Politics

4 years ago

Arthur Nzeribe: Prominent Nigerian senator instrumental in annulment of June 12 election dies in UK

Arthur Nzeribe: Prominent Nigerian senator instrumental in annulment of June 12 election dies in UK

Nigeria

4 years ago

Governor Ganduje reveals anointed successor ahead of 2023

Governor Ganduje reveals anointed successor ahead of 2023

Politics

4 years ago

2023: Why I can't contest to become Nigeria’s president, Bishop Oyedepo reveals

2023: Why I can't contest to become Nigeria’s president, Bishop Oyedepo reveals

Politics

4 years ago

As aspirants continue to emerge ahead of the 2023 presidential election, Bishop David Oyedepo says he considers vying to become Nigeria’s president as demotion.

Influential PDP senator dumps opposition party, defects to APC ahead of 2023

Influential PDP senator dumps opposition party, defects to APC ahead of 2023

Politics

4 years ago

The lawmaker representing Oyo South senatorial district in the National Assembly on the PDP's platform, Senator Kola Balogun, has defected to APC ahead of 2023.

Woman builds 2 houses from selling northern Nigerian snack 'Masa', sponsors her kids' university education

Woman builds 2 houses from selling northern Nigerian snack 'Masa', sponsors her kids' university education

People

4 years ago

Rebecca Dung, seller of a popular Northern Nigerian snack known as 'masa' has advised the youth and women to go into small business to make themselves relevant.

2023: List of key states PDP may lose if it fields northern presidential candidate

2023: List of key states PDP may lose if it fields northern presidential candidate

Politics

4 years ago

An analytic report has forecasted some states the PDP may lose to the ruling APC if it fields a northern candidate in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election

You shall be hanged until you breathe your last - Court sends Ekiti prince to death, here's his offence

You shall be hanged until you breathe your last - Court sends Ekiti prince to death, here's his offence

Nigeria

4 years ago

An Ekiti state high court has sentenced a 42-year-old prince, Omoniyi Ademola Stephen, to death by hanging for killing a monarch, Oba Gbadebo Ibitoye Olowoselu.

After Tunde Bakare, another popular pastor obtains APC presidential nomination forms

After Tunde Bakare, another popular pastor obtains APC presidential nomination forms

Politics

4 years ago

Nicholas Felix, a US-based Nigerian pastor of the Miracle Church International, has obtained the presidential nomination forms of the ruling APC ahead of 2023.

UTME 2022: List of items candidates are not allowed to bring to exam venue

UTME 2022: List of items candidates are not allowed to bring to exam venue

Education

4 years ago

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the list of items prohibited from being taken to the examination halls by UTME candidates.

Identities of 2 disqualified PDP presidential aspirants finally revealed as appeal panel takes decision

Identities of 2 disqualified PDP presidential aspirants finally revealed as appeal panel takes decision

Politics

4 years ago

The screening appeal panel of the PDP has upheld the disqualification of Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze and Cosmos Ndukwe from vying for the party’s presidential ticket

Nigerian man arrested for selling sawdust, cement, POP powder as herbal medicine for malaria, other ailments

Nigerian man arrested for selling sawdust, cement, POP powder as herbal medicine for malaria, other ailments

Nigeria

4 years ago

A man, Dauda Afolabi, has been arrested in Kwara state for selling a mixture of sawdust, cement and Plaster of Paris (POP) powder as herbal medicine for malaria

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