Zainab Iwayemi

Education: Bachelor of Science, Sociology, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria (2015-2019) Google News Initiative (GNI) News Lab: Advanced digital reporting 2024.

Experience: Business Journalist at Business A.M. (2020-2021), Media Content Analyst, Nairametrics (2021-2023), Fact Checker, Roundcheck (2020-2021)

Awards: Reporter of the year (2018), Award of Outstanding Performance UCJTV (2019), Director of Mobilization (2019), Union of Campus Journalists, University of Ilorin

Zainab Iwayemi is a business journalist with over 5 years experience reporting activities in the stock market, tech, insurance, banking, and oil and gas sectors. She holds a Bachelor of Science (B.sc) degree in Sociology from the University of Ilorin, Kwara State. Before Legit.ng, she worked as a financial analyst at Nairametrics where she was rewarded for outstanding performance. She can be reached via zainab.iwayemi@corp.legit.ng

1665 articles published since 07 Jul 2023

Author's articles

Landing cost of diesel, aviation fuel increases as Experts speak on unauthorised fuel price

Landing cost of diesel, aviation fuel increases as Experts speak on unauthorised...

2 months ago

NNPC, TotalEnergies sell oil fields to Nigerian energy firm

NNPC, TotalEnergies sell oil fields to Nigerian energy firm

2 months ago

Marketers speaks on causes, solution to fuel scarcity, hike in fuel price in Nigeria

Marketers speaks on causes, solution to fuel scarcity, hike in fuel price in Nig...

2 months ago

How Dangote sold bank for N1.2 billion, shut down companies over government policies

How Dangote sold bank for N1.2 billion, shut down companies over government poli...

2 months ago

Nigerian billionaire company set to list companies on Nigerian Exchange, others

Nigerian billionaire company set to list companies on Nigerian Exchange, others

2 months ago

Experts speak on unauthorised fuel price as black marketers enrich pockets

Experts speak on unauthorised fuel price as black marketers enrich pockets

2 months ago

Not DJ cuppy: List of residential, commercial properties developed by Nigerian billionaire daughter

Not DJ cuppy: List of residential, commercial properties developed by Nigerian billionaire daughter

Bella Disu, daughter of billionaire Mike Adenuga has led projects involving some residential and commercial sites through Cobblestone across the country.

FG states new conditions for Dangote refinery to get crude supply, speaks on funding pipeline

FG states new conditions for Dangote refinery to get crude supply, speaks on funding pipeline

The Federal Government has declared that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited does not currently have the resources required to repair aged pipelines.

African country competing with Nigeria begins shutting down oil Field

African country competing with Nigeria begins shutting down oil Field

Authorities in the OPEC member state enforced a closure, leading to a reduction in Libya's oil and escalating tensions of possibke economic collapse.

Elon Musk makes another move to rival MTN, Glo, others after introducing low-cost mini starlink dish

Elon Musk makes another move to rival MTN, Glo, others after introducing low-cost mini starlink dish

Once again demonstrating its unwavering commitment to Africa, Elon Musk's Starlink has made significant investments in Nigeria's telecommunications infrastructure.

Group backs Dangote, gives FG ultimatum to investigate alleged dirty fuel

Group backs Dangote, gives FG ultimatum to investigate alleged dirty fuel

Nigeria Citizens’ Watch for Good Governance has given the authorities 7 days to investigate allegations of unsafe fuel imports, according to a statemnet released.

Opay shares security update as financial institutions report over 10,000 fraud cases

Opay shares security update as financial institutions report over 10,000 fraud cases

The well-known financial technology supplier OPay announced in a statement that it has implemented a new tool called Nightguard to further secure customers' cash.

EFCC set to go after “yahoo boys” as meta deletes over 63,000 Facebook, Instagram, other accounts

EFCC set to go after “yahoo boys” as meta deletes over 63,000 Facebook, Instagram, other accounts

Nigeria is ready to help in the fight against online extortion scams after Meta removed thousands of fake Nigerian Instagram and Facebook accounts.

No more N13,500: FG moves to take action as dealers announce new cooking gas price

No more N13,500: FG moves to take action as dealers announce new cooking gas price

The minister of state for petroleum resources, Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo, has said that he will be inviting manufacturers of cooking gas and regulatory organisations.

"N5 million for a licence to refine gold” FG increases cost of mining lease in Nigeria

"N5 million for a licence to refine gold” FG increases cost of mining lease in Nigeria

Royalties were raised by 100% by the federal government on Thursday. Among other things, the administration has raised the price of mining licenses.

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