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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

BREAKING: Seven COVID-19 patients discharged in Abuja

BREAKING: Seven COVID-19 patients discharged in Abuja

Nigeria

6 years ago

Fact Check: Does 5G network cause coronavirus?

Fact Check: Does 5G network cause coronavirus?

Nigeria

6 years ago

BREAKING: Buhari orders $150m withdrawal from NSIA to augment monthly allocations

BREAKING: Buhari orders $150m withdrawal from NSIA to augment monthly allocations

Nigeria

6 years ago

FG issues clarification on households entitled to N20,000 coronavirus palliative

FG issues clarification on households entitled to N20,000 coronavirus palliative

Nigeria

6 years ago

Lebanon evacuates 140 nationals from Lagos as Nigeria's coronavirus cases hit 232

Lebanon evacuates 140 nationals from Lagos as Nigeria's coronavirus cases hit 232

Nigeria

6 years ago

Hope rises as top Nigerian professor says vaccine for coronavirus treatment will be ready soon

Hope rises as top Nigerian professor says vaccine for coronavirus treatment will be ready soon

Nigeria

6 years ago

Just in: President Buhari approves new appointments

Just in: President Buhari approves new appointments

Nigeria

6 years ago

President Buhari has approved the appointment of new MDs for Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar, Cross River, and Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo, Taraba.

Coronavirus: Test results of Fayose, Obiano announced

Coronavirus: Test results of Fayose, Obiano announced

Nigeria

6 years ago

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state and former governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, have both tested negative for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Coronavirus: Bishop Oyedepo predicts end of COVID-19 in Nigeria

Coronavirus: Bishop Oyedepo predicts end of COVID-19 in Nigeria

Nigeria

6 years ago

The presiding bishop of the Living Faith Church International, popularly known as Winners’ Chapel, Bishop Oyedepo, says coronavirus would soon end in Nigeria.

Coronavirus: 4 ways Nigerians are dealing with COVID-19 lockdown

Coronavirus: 4 ways Nigerians are dealing with COVID-19 lockdown

Nigeria

6 years ago

One of the major ways governments and companies all over the world are dealing with the outbreak is by asking our citizens and employees to work from home.

Lagos COVID-19 patients send important messages to Nigerians (video)

Lagos COVID-19 patients send important messages to Nigerians (video)

Nigeria

6 years ago

COVID-19 patients in the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Yaba, have produced a video to improve awareness about the virus which has killed many across the world.

What Nigerians are saying as coronavirus spreads to another state in south-south

What Nigerians are saying as coronavirus spreads to another state in south-south

Nigeria

6 years ago

Though Nigeria confirmed its first case of coronavirus in Lagos on February 27, via an Italian, Akwa Ibom state had been free of the deadly virus until April 1.

COVID-19 lockdown: Presidency tackles Soyinka, says he is a fiction writer, not medical professor

COVID-19 lockdown: Presidency tackles Soyinka, says he is a fiction writer, not medical professor

Nigeria

6 years ago

The presidency has tackled Nigeria's literary giant and Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka over his comments on President Buhari’s lockdown order over COVID-19.

Breaking: Amid coronavirus pandemic, medical doctor dies of Lassa fever in Edo

Breaking: Amid coronavirus pandemic, medical doctor dies of Lassa fever in Edo

Nigeria

6 years ago

A medical doctor has died of Lassa fever in Edo state, this was confirmed by the president of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Aliyu Sokomba.

Anyone saying COVID-19 does not exist is not worthy of being called scholar - Sultan chides Muslim clerics misleading followers

Anyone saying COVID-19 does not exist is not worthy of being called scholar - Sultan chides Muslim clerics misleading followers

Nigeria

6 years ago

The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has cautioned Islamic preachers against misleading their followers over the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

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