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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.

5813 articles published since 05 Dec 2017

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2023: Atiku will serve one term if elected president - Prominent PDP chieftain says, unveils 2027 plan

2023: Atiku will serve one term if elected president - Prominent PDP chieftain says, unveils 2027 plan

Politics

4 years ago

Just in: Tension as gunmen blow up Catholic church in Taraba state, photos emerge

Just in: Tension as gunmen blow up Catholic church in Taraba state, photos emerge

Nigeria

4 years ago

List: 5 times former vice president Atiku has contested for presidency

List: 5 times former vice president Atiku has contested for presidency

Politics

4 years ago

Just in: Tragedy as popular Nigerian professor slumps, dies

Just in: Tragedy as popular Nigerian professor slumps, dies

Nigeria

4 years ago

Just In: Former APC chairman, spokesman, deputy Senate president’s supporters, others defect to PDP

Just In: Former APC chairman, spokesman, deputy Senate president’s supporters, others defect to PDP

Politics

4 years ago

Organs missing as 41-year-old man dies in Anambra hotel, family demands justice

Organs missing as 41-year-old man dies in Anambra hotel, family demands justice

Nigeria

4 years ago

What I’ll not do if elected Nigeria's president in 2023, Governor Yahaya Bello makes huge promise

What I’ll not do if elected Nigeria's president in 2023, Governor Yahaya Bello makes huge promise

Politics

4 years ago

Yahaya Bello, the governor of Kogi state, has assured Nigerians that he will not betray their trust if he is elected as the president of the country in 2023.

Hanifa: Kano govt revokes licences of all private schools

Hanifa: Kano govt revokes licences of all private schools

Education

4 years ago

The government of Kano has revoked operating licences of all private schools in the state following the brutal killing of Hanifa Abubukar by a school proprietor

2023: Former president Obasanjo speaks on possible return to PDP

2023: Former president Obasanjo speaks on possible return to PDP

Politics

4 years ago

Nigeria's ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he will never return to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or re-join partisan politics.

Updated: Fuel price may soon rise as NEC reportedly gives new recommendation

Updated: Fuel price may soon rise as NEC reportedly gives new recommendation

Economy

4 years ago

The media report that the FG may increase the price of petrol to N302 per litre in February 2022 as part of the recommendation of the NEC has been debunked.

Good example: Muslim leader sponsors building of secretariat for Christian association in Osun

Good example: Muslim leader sponsors building of secretariat for Christian association in Osun

Nigeria

4 years ago

The commissioner for finance in Osun, Bola Oyebamiji, has sponsored the building of a secretariat for the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Osun state.

Nnamdi Kanu: Full list of amended 15-count charges against IPOB leader as trial is adjourned

Nnamdi Kanu: Full list of amended 15-count charges against IPOB leader as trial is adjourned

Nigeria

4 years ago

The federal government has filed fresh terrorism charges against the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Full letters: Bandits write 9 communities in Zamfara, make crucial demand

Full letters: Bandits write 9 communities in Zamfara, make crucial demand

Nigeria

4 years ago

Bandits operating in Gando forest in Bukkuyum local government, Zamfara state, have written to nine communities asking them to pay their levies or face attacks.

The great Jagaban doing his thing: MC Oluomo says as he shares video of Tinubu dancing with women

The great Jagaban doing his thing: MC Oluomo says as he shares video of Tinubu dancing with women

Politics

4 years ago

Musiliu Akinsanya (aka MC Oluomo), the chairman of the NURTW in Lagos state, says he is solidly behind Asiwaju Bola Tinubu over his 2023 presidential ambition.

Prominent political party suspends national chairman, secretary, gives important reason

Prominent political party suspends national chairman, secretary, gives important reason

Politics

4 years ago

Olu Ogunloye has been suspended as the national chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) by the party's National Executive Committee (NEC).

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