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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.

6394 articles published since 05 Dec 2017

Author's articles

Hours after resurfacing in Enugu, Father Mbaka reveals those behind his "disappearance"

Hours after resurfacing in Enugu, Father Mbaka reveals those behind his "disappearance"

Nigeria

5 years ago

Peter Aliyu: Meet the Street Cleaner Who Rose to Become Nigerian Governor's Senior Aide against All Odds

Peter Aliyu: Meet the Street Cleaner Who Rose to Become Nigerian Governor's Senior Aide against All Odds

Nigeria

5 years ago

Just in: Catholic archbishop reveals Father Mbaka's real offence

Just in: Catholic archbishop reveals Father Mbaka's real offence

Nigeria

5 years ago

Insecurity: US finally reacts to Buhari's request to relocate AFRICOM to Africa

Insecurity: US finally reacts to Buhari's request to relocate AFRICOM to Africa

Nigeria

5 years ago

Security operatives repel fresh attack on Imo police station, kill 8 hoodlums

Security operatives repel fresh attack on Imo police station, kill 8 hoodlums

Nigeria

5 years ago

BREAKING: 7 policemen feared killed as gunmen attack stations, security checkpoints in Rivers

BREAKING: 7 policemen feared killed as gunmen attack stations, security checkpoints in Rivers

Nigeria

5 years ago

BREAKING: 6 officers feared killed as gunmen attack Akwa Ibom police station

BREAKING: 6 officers feared killed as gunmen attack Akwa Ibom police station

Nigeria

5 years ago

Gunmen suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, on Saturday launched an attack on Odoro Ikpe police station, in Ini LGA of Akwa Ibom state.

Just in: Sad day as prominent Islamic scholar loses wife

Just in: Sad day as prominent Islamic scholar loses wife

Nigeria

5 years ago

Sheikh Muhammadu Bashir Soliu, the revered Chief Imam of Ilorin Emirate, has lost his wife, Hajia Hafsat Bashir Imam. Her death was made known on Friday, May 7.

BREAKING: Makinde defeated as Supreme Court declares dissolution of Oyo councils illegal

BREAKING: Makinde defeated as Supreme Court declares dissolution of Oyo councils illegal

Politics

5 years ago

The Supreme Court has declared the dissolution of local governments in Oyo state as illegal. It also condemned their replacement with caretaker committees.

This is too painful: Nigerians react as Pastor Adeboye loses 42-year-old son

This is too painful: Nigerians react as Pastor Adeboye loses 42-year-old son

Nigeria

5 years ago

Nigerians have taken to social media platforms to commiserate with Pastor Enoch Adeboye and the RCCG family over the untimely death of Pastor Dare Adeboye.

BREAKING: 14 passengers burnt to death as bus catches fire on Lagos-Ibadan expressway

BREAKING: 14 passengers burnt to death as bus catches fire on Lagos-Ibadan expressway

Nigeria

5 years ago

Fourteen (14) passengers have been burnt to death in an accident along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The accident reportedly happened on Thursday night, May 6.

BREAKING: Tension as policemen, Okada riders clash in Lagos

BREAKING: Tension as policemen, Okada riders clash in Lagos

Nigeria

5 years ago

There is unrest in Ogba, Lagos, in the early hours of Friday, May 7, over the alleged shooting of a motorcyclist also known as Okada rider by a police officer.

Yoruba group stages protest, asks DSS, police to clamp down on Sunday Igboho, gives important reason

Yoruba group stages protest, asks DSS, police to clamp down on Sunday Igboho, gives important reason

Nigeria

5 years ago

Anti-secession groups under the aegis of Yoruba Appraisal Forum on Thursday took over Ado-Ekit to protest against Sunday Igboho and other secession agitators.

Huge crisis in PDP as new splinter group emerges ahead of 2023

Huge crisis in PDP as new splinter group emerges ahead of 2023

Nigeria

5 years ago

Both APC and PDP are dealing with internal crises ahead of 2023. While APC has split into two factions in Bayelsa, a splinter group has emerged from Zamfara PDP

Just in: President Buhari reveals those who contributed to the release of Kaduna forestry students

Just in: President Buhari reveals those who contributed to the release of Kaduna forestry students

Nigeria

5 years ago

President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the release of 27 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna state, on Wednesday, May 5.

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