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/

This Nigerian state is using telemedicine to bring doctors closer to rural families

Faced with a shortage of doctors, Anambra State, in southern Nigeria, is using telemedicine to bridge healthcare gaps in rural communities. Local medics say the digital initiative is helping to improve vaccination uptake.

26 Nov 2025

7 min read

Dr Afam Obidike, Anambra State Commissioner for Health, says telemedicine has improved healthcare acess and vaccination uptake, especially in rural areas. Credit: Afam Obidike

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To tackle vaccine inequity, the Katsina State Government sends health workers on motorcycles to nomadic camps scattered across the state. Credit: Katsina State Primary Health Care Agency (KSPHCA)

Katsina’s nomadic children are always on the move. But so are the vaccines they need

23 Oct 2025

6 min read

Zero-dose children

With the high smartphone adoption rate among Nigerians, public health experts call for more developers to build health-focused mobile games for a healthy country. Credit Jesusegun Alagb

The mobile game driving vaccine awareness in Nigeria

23 Sep 2025

6 min read

Made in Africa Innovation

Adamu Garba, 41, feels proud vaccinating his four children against cholera. Credit: Jesusegun Alagbe

How a Nigerian IDP town learned to keep cholera at bay

29 Aug 2025

6 min read

Earlier in 2025, Nigeria became the first country to receive the new MenFive vaccine from the Gavi-funded global stockpile. Credit: UNICEF Nigeria/Adeokun Adesegun

In Garkida, northern Nigeria, the dry wind no longer brings death

3 Jul 2025

7 min read

Meningitis Spotlight on meningitis Spotlight on stockpiles

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

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

7 Apr 2025

8 min read

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

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