Taiwo Adebulu
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Taiwo Adebulu is a Nigerian investigative and development journalist, and presently the features editor at TheCable, a foremost Nigerian independent online newspaper. He was the pioneer head of the fact-check desk at the digital newspaper. Adebulu is known for being the courageous reporter who exposed systemic bribery and corruption at the Ikoyi marriage registry, Nigeria’s first and most patronised registry.[1].
His story forced the government to halt the physical registration at the registry and revert to the online application system to curb fraud[2]. Adebulu was also the first Nigerian journalist to investigate the massive corruption in the government’s N-Power scheme, dubbed as the largest post-tertiary employment programme in Africa[3].
The report led to the prosecution and sack of thousands of fraudulent beneficiaries of the programme. He was the reporter who travelled for six days through military checkpoints during the coronavirus movement restrictions in Nigeria to investigate the true status of the only state where no case of COVID-19 had been officially confirmed[4]. His stories exposed the cover-ups, denials and how the government refused to carry out tests on its over four million residents. He is also a Pulitzer Centre grantee[5]
Early life and education
Adebulu was born in Oroyomi, a small coastal village in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria. He attended Army Children Nursery and Primary School, Okitipupa from where he proceeded to Methodist High School, Okitipupa for his secondary education. He attended Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, where he earned his first degree in Language Arts in 2011. He moved to the University of Ibadan and bagged a master’s degree in Communication Arts in 2018. He has attended several media workshops and training in Nigeria and outside the country.
Career
Taiwo began his career as a literature teacher at Livingstone College of Arts and Science, Ibadan, Oyo state, where he was at the same time freelancing for national newspapers, media websites and running a literary review blog. In 2017, Adebulu was profiled by C. Hub Magazine, a UK-based publication, in its 30 Creative Influencers Under 30 series[6]. He began his journalism journey with The Nation, one of Nigeria’s most widely circulated newspapers, in 2014 as a feature writer.
He moved to TheCable in March 2018, covering electricity, development and investigations. He was later promoted to head the newly-created fact-check desk to curb the growing misinformation in the country and the African continent. In 2022, he became the features editor. He was a corps member of Report for the World, a global service programme of The GroundTruth Project[7]. He is an alumnus of the British Council/IATC 2017 Young Critics Programme. He is also an alumnus of the Thomson Reuters Foundation rural development reporting programme.
Major works and Awards
One of his earlier investigations detailed how corrupt electricity distribution officials created a black market for prepaid meters, a scarce commodity in the Nigeria power sector, and extorted poor Nigerians who were desperate to get energy supply into their homes[8].
One of his most recent works[9] tells the sorrowful story of two young Nigerian doctors who established a clinic in a rural community in Oyo state to give easy healthcare access to residents. Unfortunately, they died in their prime owing to Lassa fever which had killed scores of their colleagues across the country.
References
- ↑ "INVESTIGATION: Extortion, inflated costs... the Nigerian marriage registry where fraud is a norm". TheCable. 2021-07-01. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
- ↑ "'We can no longer help you' -- Ikoyi registry directs applicants to online portal after TheCable's investigation". TheCable. 2021-07-06. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
- ↑ "UNDERCOVER: Bribery, massive fraud sabotaging N-POWER scheme". TheCable. 2019-01-11. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
- ↑ "REPORTER'S DIARY: I went to Cross River, pretended to have COVID-19 symptoms and this happened". TheCable. 2020-06-02. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
- ↑ "Taiwo Adebulu". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
- ↑ "C. Hub Magazine 30 Creative Influencers Under 30, 2017 (11): Meet Taiwo Adebulu – 27 years old". C.Hub Magazine. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
- ↑ "Taiwo Adebulu". Report for the World. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
- ↑ "INVESTIGATION: Prepaid electricity meters -- a scheme that became a scam". TheCable. 2019-04-15. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
- ↑ Editorial (2022-06-29). "BURIED DREAMS: The doctors who died in their prime fighting Lassa fever". The ICIR- Latest News, Politics, Governance, Elections, Investigation, Factcheck, Covid-19. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
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