Taiwo Adebulu

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Taiwo Adebulu
Nationality (legal) Nigerian
Alma mater Obafemi Awolowo University, Obafemi Awolowo University
OccupationJournalist
Years active2014- till date

Taiwo Adebulu is a Nigerian investigative journalist of the Nigerian newspaper, TheCable .

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Early life, education and career

Adebulu had his education at Obafemi Awolowo University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Language Arts. He further went to University of Ibadan and graduated with a master's degree in Communication Arts. [1] [2]

In 2014, Adebulu began his career as a freelance writer for The Nation . He also serves as the features and investigations editor at TheCable . [1] [2] [3]

Awards and recognitions

In 2018, Adebulu was nominated for the Future Awards Africa Prize for Journalism. He has also won the African Fact-Checking Award, PwC's Media Excellence Award in 2020 and was named TheCables journalist of the year in 2021. [4] [5]

In 2023, he was shortlisted for the Fetisov Journalism Awards for his report about students who were kidnapped from the Federal Government College in Birnin-Yauri, Kebbi state in 2021 [4] [6] and a recipient of the rare diseases reporting fellowship of the National Press Foundation (NPF). [7] [8]

Adebulu is a Pulitzer Center grantee. [2]

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