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Ridwan Adeola Yusuf

Education: Higher National Diploma in Mass Communication, The Polytechnic Ibadan (2014), Journalism Clinic’s Fix The Leak masterclass (2021), Google Digital Skills from Google News Initiative (2024)

Experience: Fact-Checking Researcher, Africa Check (2020-2021); Acting Editor of AllNews Nigeria (2020); Editor, Politics Nigeria (2021-2023); Current Affairs/Politics Editor at Legit.ng (2023-present)

Awards: Video Short Feature category (Africa ranking) AIPS awards (2020), Legit.ng's Rookie Reporter of the Year (2023), Legit.ng's Journalist of the Year (2024 & 2025), Legit.ng’s Current Affairs/Politics Editor of the Year (2024)

Ridwan Adeola Yusuf is a content writer with more than nine years of experience, He is also a Current Affairs Editor at Legit.ng. He holds a Higher National Diploma in Mass Communication from the Polytechnic Ibadan, Oyo State (2014). Ridwan previously worked at Africa Check, contributing to fact-checking research works within the organisation. He is an active member of the Academic Excellence Initiative (AEI). In March 2024, Ridwan completed the full Google News Initiative Lab workshop and his effort was recognised with a Certificate of Completion. Email: ridwan.adeola@corp.legit.ng.

7227 articles published since 27 Apr 2023

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List of top 10 best universities in Nigeria in 2023 emerges

List of top 10 best universities in Nigeria in 2023 emerges

Education

3 years ago

Enugu Tribunal Judgement: LP guber candidate's campaign organisation reveals next step after defeat

Enugu Tribunal Judgement: LP guber candidate's campaign organisation reveals next step after defeat

Politics

3 years ago

Mohbad: Police arrest Naira Marley, Sam Larry? Fact emerges

Mohbad: Police arrest Naira Marley, Sam Larry? Fact emerges

Nigeria

3 years ago

Breaking: Tribunal gives judgement on opposition party’s petition against Enugu Gov, Mbah

Breaking: Tribunal gives judgement on opposition party’s petition against Enugu Gov, Mbah

Politics

3 years ago

Lere Olayinka claims Mohbad’s mum abandoned him for 15 years, never looked back

Lere Olayinka claims Mohbad’s mum abandoned him for 15 years, never looked back

Nigeria

3 years ago

BREAKING: Tribunal upholds Peter Mbah's election as Enugu gov, dismisses LP’s petition

BREAKING: Tribunal upholds Peter Mbah's election as Enugu gov, dismisses LP’s petition

Politics

3 years ago

"My trusted partner": Tinubu shares romantic photo to celebrate wife's 63rd birthday

"My trusted partner": Tinubu shares romantic photo to celebrate wife's 63rd birthday

Nigeria

3 years ago

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has wished his wife, Oluremi Tinubu a happy birthday. Legit.ng reports that ‘Remi clocked 63 on Thursday, September 21.

Fact Check: Justice Tsammani asked Nigerians to forgive Tinubu for his ‘drug crime’?

Fact Check: Justice Tsammani asked Nigerians to forgive Tinubu for his ‘drug crime’?

Politics

3 years ago

Social media posts have been sighted alleging that Justice Tsammani, the lead justice of the PEPT, queried Nigerians on their alleged reluctance to forgive Tinubu.

Police declare 24-hour curfew in Kano after governor's sack

Police declare 24-hour curfew in Kano after governor's sack

Politics

3 years ago

A permanent curfew has been declared in Kano state after the verdict of the election petitions tribunal sacking the state governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf.

SDP presidential candidate Adebayo analyses Obi, Atiku’s chances against Tinubu at Supreme Court

SDP presidential candidate Adebayo analyses Obi, Atiku’s chances against Tinubu at Supreme Court

Politics

3 years ago

The SDP presidential candidate, Adewole Adebayo, has asked opposition elements to “save their energy and goodwill” to prepare for the 2027 general elections.

BREAKING: National legal adviser reveals NNPP’s plans as court sacks Abba Yusuf as Kano governor

BREAKING: National legal adviser reveals NNPP’s plans as court sacks Abba Yusuf as Kano governor

Politics

3 years ago

The legal adviser of the NNPP, Robert Hon, has said his party is “not perturbed at all” by the decision of the tribunal to sack Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano state.

Ogun: Lawyer explains what Dapo Abiodun needs to actualise proposed death penalty for Cultists

Ogun: Lawyer explains what Dapo Abiodun needs to actualise proposed death penalty for Cultists

Nigeria

3 years ago

Festus Ogun, a popular lawyer, has said the Ogun government's plan to enact a law pronouncing death penalty on cultists is "a right step in the right direction".

Kano tribunal judgement: “I don’t sympathise with Kwankwaso at all”, Atiku’s loyalist speaks

Kano tribunal judgement: “I don’t sympathise with Kwankwaso at all”, Atiku’s loyalist speaks

Politics

3 years ago

The national publicity secretary of the Atiku Support Organisation (ASO), Victor Moses, has said he holds no sympathy for Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP.

BREAKING: Tension in Kano as traders shut shops after tribunal sacked Abba Yusuf as governor

BREAKING: Tension in Kano as traders shut shops after tribunal sacked Abba Yusuf as governor

Politics

3 years ago

After the Kano governorship election tribunal sacked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, traders across major markets of the capital city shut their shops and rushed home.

Kano tribunal verdict: What Peter Obi’s supporters can learn from NNPP's loyalists, LP chieftain

Kano tribunal verdict: What Peter Obi’s supporters can learn from NNPP's loyalists, LP chieftain

Politics

3 years ago

Stephen Osemwegie, an LP chieftain, has said if supporters of Peter Obi pay attention to the Kano state chapter of the NNPP, they "might learn a thing or two".

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