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Fisayo Soyombo

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(He/Him)
Africa
As seen in: Foundation for Investigative Journalism, TheCable
Covers:  General Investigations, Investigative Reporting, Social Justice, Human Rights, Accountability, Governance, Crimes.
Doesn't Cover: Business
Seeker, digger & teller of hidden stories. Fanatic Nigerian. Incurable Liverpool fan. Fitness junkie. Founder/E-in-C, @fijnigeria. IG: fixayosoyombo
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Fisayo Soyombo’s Biography

‘Fisayo Soyombo, an Animal Scientist by discipline and journalist by profession, has 10 years of fulltime professional media experience.

He is currently the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ). At SaharaReporters, TheCable and the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), where he worked as Editor, he oversaw all editorial processes of the online newspapers.

Soyombo is best remembered as the Nigerian journalist who spent five days in a police cell as a suspect and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, after which the authorities contemplated arresting him, or the journalist who drove the equivalent of a stolen vehicle from Abuja to Lagos, passing through a whopping 86 checkpoints in a journey of over 1,600km that lasted a cumulative 28hours 17minutes.