Jesusegun Alagbe

Freelance Multimedia Journalist | Ex-Online Editor, African Dotcom Media Limited | Ex-Journalist, The PUNCH Newspapers | Writer | Editor | Researcher | Author-To-Be | Tech Freak | Coffee Lover.

Coca-Cola Brand & Marketing Reporter of the Year, 2021 Nigeria Media Merit Award
Banking & Finance Reporter of the Year, 2019 Nigeria Media Merit Award
Runner-up, 2018 Nigerian Academy of Science Award
Winner, Anti-Corruption Reporting Category, 2017 West Africa Media Excellence Awards
Recipient, Honourable Mention, Press Investigative Reporting Category, 2015 Diamond Awards for Media Excellence"

Twitter: @jesusegun1

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesusegun-alagbe-ab5a9563/

"A wonderful development": in malaria-plagued northern Nigeria, the vaccine’s arrival brings joy

The emotional and financial distress of having a child down with malaria is regrettably familiar to residents of Kaura community in Kebbi state, who hope that’s set to change.

7 Apr 2025

8 min read

Front view of Jega Primary Healthcare Centre, Kebbi State. Credit: Jesusegun Alagbe

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Ipokia Local Government Secretariat, where the Primary Health Centre is located. Credit: Jesusegun Alagbe

In a Nigerian border town, a solar vaccine fridge is changing lives

28 Jan 2025

5 min read

Innovation Routine immunisation

Credit: yousef alfuhigi on Unsplash

Amid brain drain, can Nigeria draw back émigré health workers?

17 Dec 2024

10 min read

Health worker heroes

Screenshot from the music video

In Nigeria, a hit pop song gets families dancing to the immunisation beat

5 Dec 2024

9 min read

Zero-dose children Spotlight on zero-dose children

Dauda Musa, 60, once survived Boko Haram. He says he will also survive the floods.

Once-shuttered camps in Borno reopen to house flood victims

20 Nov 2024

9 min read

Climate change Spotlight on climate change

Farmer Ruwace Rugga is just resettling, but intends to donate food to people as soon as his harvests increase. Credit: Jeseusegun Alagbe

In northern Nigeria, resettled farmers are giving back to tackle malnutrition

30 Jul 2024

8 min read

Doctor with a phone on a tripod and a tablet. Credit: Tessy Agbonome on Pexels

The doctor will tweet you now

4 Jan 2024

13 min read

Balikis Ibrahim with one-year-old Moridiya. Credit: Jesusegun Alagbe

Nigerian mums brave heat and stock-outs to get rotavirus vaccine

15 Nov 2023

7 min read

Zara Hamman. Credit: Jesusegun Alagbe

How deradicalisation programmes are helping former Boko Haram captives find their way back

11 Sep 2023

9 min read

Routine immunisation

Habibu Musa, Abubakar Ahmad, Buhari Ibni Saidu and Nasiru Muhammed. Credit: Jesusegun Alagbe

Where delivering health care means facing down armed bandits

21 Jun 2023

8 min read

Conflict & humanitarian Spotlight on conflict and fragility

People communicating through sign language

Signs of progress: interpreters combat misinformation among Nigeria’s hearing-impaired

25 Jan 2023

5 min read

COVID-19 Vaccine safety

Health workers travel and recieve patients as well as educating them on the value of vaccines and benefits of health. Gavi/Adrian Brooks

Reaching zero-dose children in Nigeria’s IDP camps

19 Jul 2022

4 min read

Zero-dose children Conflict & humanitarian Routine immunisation

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