Victor Duru

Education: B.Sc in Management Studies, Imo State University, 2021, Digital Journalism Certification, Reuters News Agency, 2021, Google News Initiative Workshop, 2024

Experience: Editor, Infoscope Media (2018 to 2021), Chief Correspondent, IMSU Star Newspapers (2018-2019) and SUG Director Of Information, Imo State University (2018-2020),

Awards: Best Student Journalist 2018 (Nigeria University Association of Managements Students, IMSU), National Finalist, 1st National Green Essay Competition (2014), Top Content Editor, Legit.ng (2021), Top Article of the Year Award, Legit.ng (2022)

Victor Duru is a Reuters-trained award-winning journalist with over 4 years of working experience in the media industry. He holds a B.Sc in Management Studies from Imo State University, where he was a Students' Union Government Director of Information. Victor is a human interest editor, strategic content creator, freelancer and a Google-certified digital marketer. His work has been featured on US news media Faith It. He can be reached via victor.duru@corp.legit.ng

7982 articles published since 07 Dec 2020

Author's articles

Nigerian lady laments becoming pepper seller after 4 years in university, reveals course she studied

Nigerian lady laments becoming pepper seller after 4 years in university,...

People

a year ago

Mum laments in funny video as her little girl says 'The Lord is my baby' instead of shepherd

Mum laments in funny video as her little girl says 'The Lord is my baby' instead...

Family and Relationships

a year ago

UNIZIK bride writes 2 papers on her wedding day, spotted at exam venue with bridesmaids

UNIZIK bride writes 2 papers on her wedding day, spotted at exam venue with...

Wedding

a year ago

Drama as Nigerian woman in UK misses her destination, insists driver takes her back in video

Drama as Nigerian woman in UK misses her destination, insists driver takes her...

People

a year ago

Intelligent girl to represent Nigeria overseas after winning National Olympiad Biology competition

Intelligent girl to represent Nigeria overseas after winning National Olympiad...

People

a year ago

Instead of his CV, job seeker mistakenly sends company picture of sausages, loses opportunity

Instead of his CV, job seeker mistakenly sends company picture of sausages,...

People

a year ago

Billionaire Tony Elumelu and eldest daughter Oge create cute moment in Rome, video gets many gushing

Billionaire Tony Elumelu and eldest daughter Oge create cute moment in Rome, video gets many gushing

Family and Relationships

a year ago

Nigerian billionaire Tony Elumelu took his eldest daughter Oge along on a business trip to Rome. The father and daughter had lovely moments together.

JAMB: Company offers scholarship to boy who schooled in uncompleted building and scored 323 in UTME

JAMB: Company offers scholarship to boy who schooled in uncompleted building and scored 323 in UTME

People

a year ago

A company has offered a full scholarship to a brilliant boy who schooled in an uncompleted building in Kogi state. The scholarship is for his university education.

Junior Pope: Man shares heartbreaking observation at actor's burial that made him leave immediately

Junior Pope: Man shares heartbreaking observation at actor's burial that made him leave immediately

Family and Relationships

a year ago

A Nigerian man has lamented online over a heartbreaking thing he observed at Junior Pope's burial that made him leave immediately without stepping a foot.

Man who gifted lady N10k releases touching voice note she sent him, people fall in love with her

Man who gifted lady N10k releases touching voice note she sent him, people fall in love with her

Family and Relationships

a year ago

A man who transferred N10k to a female friend has caused quite a stir over the voice note she sent him. He released it online, saying she made him realise something.

Junior Pope: Lady expresses concern, shares 'worrying' thing she observed about actor's first son

Junior Pope: Lady expresses concern, shares 'worrying' thing she observed about actor's first son

Family and Relationships

a year ago

A Nigerian lady has elicited emotional reactions about what she observed about Junior Pope's first son. She said she was more concerned about the boy.

CNG: Man who converted his car to use gas shares how to drive car in Nigeria without petrol

CNG: Man who converted his car to use gas shares how to drive car in Nigeria without petrol

People

a year ago

A mechanical engineer whose car runs on CNG has shared how Nigerians can run their cars without using petrol. He said CNG is quite different from LPG.

Electricity: Nigerian man dumps NEPA, installs 6.2KVA hybrid solar inverter for full-day light

Electricity: Nigerian man dumps NEPA, installs 6.2KVA hybrid solar inverter for full-day light

People

a year ago

Tired of NEPA power supply, a Nigerian man has switched to solar power. In a video, the man installed a hybrid solar inverter in his house for 24/7 power supply.

Reinhard Bonnke: "How I was denied Nigerian visa for 9 years," German evangelist in epic throwback

Reinhard Bonnke: "How I was denied Nigerian visa for 9 years," German evangelist in epic throwback

People

a year ago

In an epic throwback video, German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke narrated how he was denied Nigerian visa for nine years. He said he was persona non grata.

Lady excited after finding out she and goat are pregnant with same gender, celebrates in video

Lady excited after finding out she and goat are pregnant with same gender, celebrates in video

People

a year ago

A woman was excited after she found out she and a goat were carrying the same gender in their wombs. In a trending video, she celebrated the discovery.

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