Taiwo Adebulu

Taiwo Adebulu is the features and investigations editor at TheCable, a Nigerian independent digital newspaper. Previously, he was the head of the fact-check desk at the media outlet.

Adebulu has over 10 years of experience in investigative and development journalism, covering the environment, health, human rights, and corruption. He was an inaugural corps member of Report for the World, an initiative of the GroundTruth Project.

He has a bachelor's degree in language arts from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and a master’s degree in communication arts education from the University of Ibadan.

One of Adebulu's investigations exposed the systematic corruption in Nigeria's most prominent federal marriage registry. The story led to an outcry on social media, while citizens shared grim tales of bribery and extortion by public officials at the registry. The story led to Nigeria's government enforcing a halt in the in-person registration of marriage licenses and reverting to online processes.

Adebulu was shortlisted for the 2023 Fetisov Journalism Awards, a top prize in international journalism, for his report that chronicled the abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls by terrorists who forcibly married and impregnated them. The story won the 33rd edition of the Diamond Award for Media Excellence in 2024.