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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.

5822 articles published since 05 Dec 2017

Author's articles

BREAKING: INEC reveals when collation of Anambra governorship election's results will resume

BREAKING: INEC reveals when collation of Anambra governorship election's results will resume

Politics

4 years ago

Anambra Decides 2021: Full list of LGAs won and lost by APGA's Charles Soludo as INEC suspends collation of results

Anambra Decides 2021: Full list of LGAs won and lost by APGA's Charles Soludo as INEC suspends collation of results

Politics

4 years ago

Torsabo Solomon: Crucial update emerges on NAF sergeant reportedly arrested over NDA attack

Torsabo Solomon: Crucial update emerges on NAF sergeant reportedly arrested over NDA attack

Nigeria

4 years ago

Omotade Mack: How 300-level LASU student built fast-growing agribusiness with N100,000 start-up capital

Omotade Mack: How 300-level LASU student built fast-growing agribusiness with N100,000 start-up capital

Industry

4 years ago

Just In: Court sentences President Buhari's ex-appointee to 8 years in prison for money laundering

Just In: Court sentences President Buhari's ex-appointee to 8 years in prison for money laundering

Nigeria

4 years ago

Breaking: Anambra governorship election inconclusive as INEC suspends collation of results, announces date for supplementary poll

Breaking: Anambra governorship election inconclusive as INEC suspends collation of results, announces date for supplementary poll

Politics

4 years ago

Mama came through for me: Soludo hails 102-year-old woman who is backing him to become Anambra governor, shares photos

Mama came through for me: Soludo hails 102-year-old woman who is backing him to become Anambra governor, shares photos

Politics

4 years ago

The candidate of APGA in the November 6 Anambra guber poll, Charles Soludo, has hailed a 102-year-old woman for attending his interaction session in Abuja.

Anambra governorship election 2021: 4 reasons why APGA candidate Charles Soludo may win

Anambra governorship election 2021: 4 reasons why APGA candidate Charles Soludo may win

Politics

4 years ago

Ahead of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra state, Legit.ng examines some reasons why the APGA candidate, Charles Soludo, may emerge the winner.

Good night my brother: Ex-presidential candidate mourns as Femi Osibona's body is recovered from collapsed Ikoyi building

Good night my brother: Ex-presidential candidate mourns as Femi Osibona's body is recovered from collapsed Ikoyi building

Nigeria

4 years ago

Dele Momodu, a former presidential candidate, mourns as the body of Femi Osibona is recovered from the rubble of the 21-storey building which collapsed in Lagos

Full list of successful candidates for recruitment into Nigeria Customs Service released

Full list of successful candidates for recruitment into Nigeria Customs Service released

Nigeria

4 years ago

Nigerian Customs Service has released the final result of its 2021 recruitment exercise. Successful candidates are to report to Abuja starting from November 8.

Abubakar Shekau: He inflicted severe pain on me - Boko Haram leader's mother narrates painful story

Abubakar Shekau: He inflicted severe pain on me - Boko Haram leader's mother narrates painful story

Nigeria

4 years ago

Falmata Abubakar, the mother of the slain Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, said God will judge between her and her son. She said Shekau inflicted pain on her

Ikoyi building collapse: Developer's 26-year-old PA trapped under collapsed high-rise 1 week after employment

Ikoyi building collapse: Developer's 26-year-old PA trapped under collapsed high-rise 1 week after employment

Nigeria

4 years ago

Onyinye Enekwe, a graduate of the Nnamdi Azikwe University and personal assistant to Femi Osibona, is also trapped in the rubble of the collapsed Ikoyi building

Ikoyi building collapse: Full names of survivors released

Ikoyi building collapse: Full names of survivors released

Nigeria

4 years ago

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has named the survivors rescued so far three days after a 21-storey building collapsed in Gerrard Road in Ikoyi area of Lagos state.

Ikoyi: 25-year-old corps member who just returned to site after lunch trapped inside rubble, mother weeps

Ikoyi: 25-year-old corps member who just returned to site after lunch trapped inside rubble, mother weeps

Nigeria

4 years ago

Zainab Sanni, a 25-year-old female National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, is one of those still trapped inside the rubble of the Lagos collapsed building.

DSS, ICPC arrest 48 lecturers, security officers, ICT specialists, summon 3 vice chancellors, give reason

DSS, ICPC arrest 48 lecturers, security officers, ICT specialists, summon 3 vice chancellors, give reason

Nigeria

4 years ago

The ICPC and DSS have arrested 48 individuals for their alleged illegalities in the conducts of the Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board (JUPEB).

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