Who is David Hundeyin, The Man Who Revealed The Sponsors of Boko Haram

David Hundeyin is a Nigerian Journalist, writer, and columnist majoring in politics Tech and finance. His work span across a number of international and local broadcast platforms such as The Africa Report, CNN Africa, Channels Television, Business Day, Yahoo finance e.t.c.

David was born on the 6th of May 1990, he attended Atlantic hall and grange school then proceeded to Oxbridge tutorial college where he graduated in 2007. He obtained a degree in creative writing and media from the University of Hull in 2011.

He started his career in Business Consulting and Marketing before segueing into writing. He worked as a project assistant at KPMG United Kingdom in 2012.  In 2013 he joined direct group limited as a sales and service adviser, he subsequently became an account executive in 2014.

David was one of the  founding writers on ‘The Other News.’ The first Nigeria prime-time political satire TV show with nearly 2 million weekly viewers.

His work on ‘The Other News’ was featured in the New Yorker Magazine and in the Netflix documentary ‘Larry Charles Dangerous World of Comedy’ Episode 4.

He worked as a freelance reporter for BELN crypto in 2018 and also as Head of content for BHM group Nigeria.

In  2019 he has worked as a writer and columnist for different broadcasting platforms such as Business Day, Newswire NGR,  Vanguard Newspaper, and as a west African correspondent for the African report and the Africa Business radio.

In the same year, He was nominated by the U.S. State Department to take part in the  Edward R. Murrow Program for journalists under the International Visitors Leadership Program.

David started becoming prominent in the Nigeria Media space in May 2020 after one of his works revealed that Nigeria’s proposed Quarantine Bill was 98% plagiarised from a 1978 Singaporean bill, in addition to being rife with unconstitutional clauses. This story was central to the bill being referred to a public hearing, after which it was dropped from consideration.

In February 2021, He won the People Journalism Prize for Africa 2020 in recognition of his work on the same story.

He was also in the mainstream news for his contribution to the #Endsars protest and some investigative revelation he made after the  Lekki massacre

In 2021 he founded the West Africa Weekly an online magazine that delivers storified journalism focusing on Nigeria politics and economy.

It was in this publication he wrote the Cornflakes for Jihad: The Boko Haram Origin Story, An article where he accused NASCO, one of the largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods companies in West Africa of sponsoring the Islamic Terrorist Organization Boko Haram.

The writer was married for three years and reportedly left the marriage over emotional abuse. He once revealed that  his ex-wife made his life a living hell and once told him she daydreamed of stabbing him because he left his plate on the sofa after eating