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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.

6065 articles published since 05 Dec 2017

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Details emerge as southwest governors meet behind closed-doors, visit Tinubu in Lagos

Details emerge as southwest governors meet behind closed-doors, visit Tinubu in Lagos

Politics

5 years ago

Full list: FEC approves NNPC’s request to fix 21 federal roads across 6 geopolitical zones, it'll cost N621bn

Full list: FEC approves NNPC’s request to fix 21 federal roads across 6 geopolitical zones, it'll cost N621bn

Nigeria

5 years ago

Just in: Court freezes bank accounts of northern state government, gives reason

Just in: Court freezes bank accounts of northern state government, gives reason

Economy

5 years ago

Presidency 2023: MURIC releases list of 8 Yoruba Muslims competent to succeed Buhari

Presidency 2023: MURIC releases list of 8 Yoruba Muslims competent to succeed Buhari

Politics

5 years ago

Battle at Synagogue: List of church members under EFCC probe emerges

Battle at Synagogue: List of church members under EFCC probe emerges

Nigeria

5 years ago

Yoruba Nation: Ooni of Ife reveals what Buhari told him about Sunday Igboho

Yoruba Nation: Ooni of Ife reveals what Buhari told him about Sunday Igboho

Nigeria

5 years ago

Breaking: eNaira speed wallet disappears from Google Play Store 48 hours after launch

Breaking: eNaira speed wallet disappears from Google Play Store 48 hours after launch

Technology

5 years ago

The eNaira speed wallet has disappeared from the Google Play Store. This is coming barely 48 hours after President Buhari launched the digital currency in Abuja

Just in: Former governor set to defect to PDP finally revealed

Just in: Former governor set to defect to PDP finally revealed

Politics

5 years ago

Ahmadu Fintiri, the governor of Adamawa state, says the former governor of Ondo state, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, will soon join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

BREAKING: Notorious bandit who burnt resident alive shot dead in northern state

BREAKING: Notorious bandit who burnt resident alive shot dead in northern state

Politics

5 years ago

Damina, a notorious bandit in Zamfara state, has been shot dead. He died from injuries he sustained following a clash between his gang and that of Dogo Gide.

Breaking: Tears in northern state as gunmen kill 17 in mosque during prayer, injure many

Breaking: Tears in northern state as gunmen kill 17 in mosque during prayer, injure many

Nigeria

5 years ago

No fewer than 17 people have been reportedly killed after a group of armed men attacked two villages in Niger state in the early hours of Monday, October 25.

List: 3 key things that happened at Nnamdi Kanu's trial on Thursday

List: 3 key things that happened at Nnamdi Kanu's trial on Thursday

Nigeria

5 years ago

At the resumed trial of Nnamdi Kanu on Thursday, the court rejected the IPOB leader's lawyers' application to transfer him from the DSS custody to Kuje prison.

Baze University convocation: 3 prominent Nigerian politicians who graduated, courses they studied and their grades

Baze University convocation: 3 prominent Nigerian politicians who graduated, courses they studied and their grades

Education

5 years ago

Three Nigerian politicians, Senator Dino Melaye, Senator Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah, and Osita Chidoka, were among the graduates at Baze University's convocation.

Just in: Prominent PDP governor speaks on defecting to APC, joining 2023 presidential race

Just in: Prominent PDP governor speaks on defecting to APC, joining 2023 presidential race

Politics

5 years ago

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has denied plans to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of 2023.

Breaking: PDP reportedly suspends Governor Obaseki's loyalists in Edo

Breaking: PDP reportedly suspends Governor Obaseki's loyalists in Edo

Politics

5 years ago

The Edo state chapter of the PDP has reportedly suspended 10 of its members who are said to be Governor Obaseki's loyalists for alleged anti-party activities.

FG finally dentifies Sunday Igboho’s sponsors, links him to Boko Haram's financier jailed in UAE

FG finally dentifies Sunday Igboho’s sponsors, links him to Boko Haram's financier jailed in UAE

Nigeria

5 years ago

The federal government has again said the self-acclaimed activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, was being mainly funded by a federal lawmaker.

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