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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.

6085 articles published since 05 Dec 2017

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GtextHomes Global Brokers Conference to Lift 12,000 Unemployed Youths

GtextHomes Global Brokers Conference to Lift 12,000 Unemployed Youths

Business and Economy

5 years ago

Southwest, south-south governors send urgent message to Buhari, say Nigeria's security architecture no longer works

Southwest, south-south governors send urgent message to Buhari, say Nigeria's security architecture no longer works

Nigeria

5 years ago

Just in: Tragedy, tension in Benue as suspected herdsmen kill man, wife while returning from farm

Just in: Tragedy, tension in Benue as suspected herdsmen kill man, wife while returning from farm

Nigeria

5 years ago

Just in: Abducted students of federal university in Benue regains freedom

Just in: Abducted students of federal university in Benue regains freedom

Nigeria

5 years ago

Father Mbaka speaks on Imo violence, says Governor Uzodinma is making expensive mistakes

Father Mbaka speaks on Imo violence, says Governor Uzodinma is making expensive mistakes

Nigeria

5 years ago

Sheikh Gumi reveals what caused rise in Kaduna killings, abductions, proposes new solution

Sheikh Gumi reveals what caused rise in Kaduna killings, abductions, proposes new solution

Nigeria

5 years ago

Just in: APC defeats PDP as INEC declares result of crucial by-election

Just in: APC defeats PDP as INEC declares result of crucial by-election

Nigeria

5 years ago

The APC has won the Rimba/Ebagi councillorship by-election in the Abaji Area Council of the FCT. The party's candidate, Usman Aminu Yizo, polled 964 votes.

Panic as bandits release video of pregnant student abducted in Kaduna

Panic as bandits release video of pregnant student abducted in Kaduna

Nigeria

5 years ago

A pregnant student, one of those abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna state has urged parents to facilitate their release.

Sheikh Gumi Opens Up on the Outcome of His Negotiation with Bandits

Sheikh Gumi Opens Up on the Outcome of His Negotiation with Bandits

Nigeria

5 years ago

Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, an Islamic cleric, says the armed bandits he recently met with have stopped kidnapping. He also reiterates his call for amnesty for bandits.

Just in: JAMB announces new date for 2021 mock UTME, gives fresh instructions on registration, NIN

Just in: JAMB announces new date for 2021 mock UTME, gives fresh instructions on registration, NIN

Nigeria

5 years ago

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has shifted the 2021 Mock Examination earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday, April 30, to Thursday, May 20.

BREAKING: Tension as gunmen set ablaze Federal High Court in southeast state, photos show ruins

BREAKING: Tension as gunmen set ablaze Federal High Court in southeast state, photos show ruins

Nigeria

5 years ago

The Federal High Court Abakaliki in Ebonyi state, Nigeria’s southeast, has been set ablaze by unknown gunmen. The inferno reportedly destroyed court records.

BREAKING: Gunmen attack IDP camp in Benue, Kill 6

BREAKING: Gunmen attack IDP camp in Benue, Kill 6

Nigeria

5 years ago

Gunmen early hours of Tuesday killed six people in an attack on a camp for internally displaced people in Abagena, along Makurdi-Lafia highway in Benue state.

BREAKING: IDPs stage massive protest, block Benue-Nassarawa highway as suspected herdsmen kill 10

BREAKING: IDPs stage massive protest, block Benue-Nassarawa highway as suspected herdsmen kill 10

Nigeria

5 years ago

Hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have blocked the Makurdi-Lafia highway on Tuesday in protest of the alleged killing of 10 persons by herdsmen.

Nigerian Air Force reacts as reports claim its airstrikes mistakenly killed over 20 soldiers in Borno

Nigerian Air Force reacts as reports claim its airstrikes mistakenly killed over 20 soldiers in Borno

Nigeria

5 years ago

The Nigerian Air Force on Monday, April 26, said it was investigating reports that its airstrikes accidentally killed ground troops in Mainok town, Borno state.

Lagos government reacts to alleged clash between Hausa, Yoruba youths

Lagos government reacts to alleged clash between Hausa, Yoruba youths

Nigeria

5 years ago

The Lagos state government says the clash between Okada riders and NURTW members at Iyana-Iba area on Monday, April 26, did not have any ethnic colouration.

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