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As Published By The NATION Newspaper.

Makinde Azeez may appear as your regular guy, but the 27-year-old Physics and Electronic graduate of Osun State University is the founder of one of Nigeria’s biggest music download websites, . Fresh out of the university, he speaks with OVWE MEDEME on his plans to reinvent the platform, challenges he has had to deal with and a whole lot of other issues.

HOW did Naijaloaded come to be?

I actually created it seven years ago, October 1, 2009 to be precise. It was on Independence Day and it was a public holiday. I was fresh out of secondary school then. Have always been a good internet user and I was actually undergoing some training in web design.

And then, I did a check and I discovered that most bloggers have no knowledge about web designing. What they do is, they outsource their design and programming jobs to outsiders and those ones build based on their own understanding. But as one who has the knowledge, I know what is lacking in different platforms in Nigeria. So I built a website to address those challenges. That was how we started.

At what point did you realise it was something big?

With most blogs, users had to search a lot. We do most of the hard-work, then get most of the information we think Nigerians want to know. There was an issue with UNILAG admission in 2009. They already announced the date of their exams. It was on all Nigerian blogs but it was very hard for users to get the information.

So what we did was to create a page for exam information. That was how we were able to grow based on what we think our users want. Music in Nigeria is a very lucrative business, but then there was no platform offering very flexible music downloads. What we did was that people wanted to comment. They wanted to talk about new releases even after downloading. As at then, there was no site giving them that platform. So we created a comment box for each post. That was how Naijaloaded grew from being just a normal information website to a full blown music website. Now, we are a niche-less blog. We do music, football, and majorly anything. We are not just a music website, but as it is, we don’t think there is a music website that can compete with us.

How were you able to fund it at the beginning?

There is a quote that says ‘start anyhow’. When I started back in 2009, there was no finance power. I just started anyhow I could. I started with free hosting. I was able to build a very good traffic with them. After one year, I saw that this is something promising. Then I started looking for how to raise money. In 2010, I bought a domain name, got a server and started paying, but we have really grown from a 10,000 visit monthly to a 110 million page views monthly.

Now, we have between 110 million and 130 million page views averagely. And then, the server fee has really increased. But with hardwork and sponsored content, we have been able to tackle those bills. Today, we pay up to 2,000 dollars monthly to just have our server running. We have about 15 staff members now and we pay about one million naira as salaries monthly.

What is the concept behind Naijaloaded TV?

Everyday, we put up a post on Naijaloaded asking people’s opinion about happenings in the entertainment industry. And then, there is a whole lot of comments that generate buzz. We noticed that the way people comment on blogs is actually different from the way they speak in real life.

So what NLTV is out to do is to go into the streets, hear what people have in mind and interact with them. We believe in less than one month, if we start the videos, they will go viral. We have a lot of topics already lined up. We posted one on our platform because we know Nigerians will like to be more specific. So what we are trying to do with NLTV is basically street interviews, exclusive engagements. We also have a programme called Rap Attack where we will bring students from different schools to do something like a rap battle and then put them up for Nigerians to watch.

How soon do you intend to float the TV?

By the first week of January, we will be putting up our first contents. Then we can now decide what content to drop on what day of the week but we can boast that Nigerians will actually enjoy the concept of NaijaloadedTV. Also, for the next Headies, we are actually working with them to do a live streaming. Not everybody has cable TV but we all have internet. We will be doing artiste interviews. We have a studio already for all of that.

What other concept are you exploring?

What we are trying to do is that we are trying to develop some of our already existing contents to build another platform of its own like our football highlights and our football predictions. All through 2015, Nairabet was the one powering it. You know how big Nairabet is. What we do is that a day before any big match, we tell our subscribers to predict the winners. So we give the top five winners some money. So now, what we want to do is that, we want to take out the predictions from Naijaloaded and build platform that will standalone. It will be free. All people have to do is go to the website, drop a comment and if they are lucky, they will win a prize. They are not betting with their money, they are not gambling. It’s just strictly prediction. So, apart from NaijaloadedTV, we are working on various projects and in a few weeks, we will also be changing the face of our platform because we want to be more professional.

Who do you regard as your biggest competitor?

Let’s say I never started because of competition. I don’t play football, I don’t play games, I don’t do a lot of things. The only thing I know how to do is to surf the internet and probably send out information. I don’t really think I’m competing with anybody because what we are doing in Naijaloaded, we don’t think anybody does it. We do music, videos, football predictions, highlights, news and such. I don’t think there’s any platform that combines all of them together. So we are our own competitors.

What we are trying to do is that in the next four years, we will grow all these categories. Our music category alone is even bigger than some standalone websites. We have 35 million downloads every month for our songs. For our football predictions, we have 13 million visits. That is even bigger than some Nigerian standalone music or football websites. So we are our own competitors. What we want to do is we want to grow all our categories. We want them to have different templates, different interface, and different audience. So I don’t think we are competing with anybody.

How do you get songs for your website?

The Nigerian entertainment industry has become more flexible. More companies are coming in. Over the past years, Nigerian musicians actually call up bloggers to put their songs on their platforms. Some even pay to have their songs in blogs. The only way they used to monetise their content was by performing in shows or tours. But for their music, they hardly make anything from it. Today because of some music streaming sites, they can monetise. Once they put out a single, they send it out to bloggers, but some top artistes like Davido don’t do that anymore.

What are your projections for 2017?

I just graduated from school six months ago, so I think we are just starting. All we’ve done for seven years was being done from the bedroom. And if we were able to achieve a whole lot within that period, we believe that now that we have a structure, we have those who get things done, we will do better.

Now, we are doing things differently from what we’ve been doing in the past seven years. New products are on ground. With new management, new structure, and new plans, we believe 2017 will be the real year. There will be bigger achievements, endorsements, a whole lot of apps coming in, a whole lot of events powered by Naijaloaded and a whole lot of things going viral. We are very sure of that. We’ve done our test run for three weeks now. We have a whole lot of new bloggers, new writers, new event managers, competent graphic designers. So we believe we are in for the real game now. The business is about to launch.

I really dot not why Fayose likes visiting Abuja whenever Baba is not in Abuja...just asking?

I hope Fayose is seeing this?

Even God says He derives joy in it when it is done between legally married couple. The question of whether godly or ungodly does not arise at all.

But this man was giving them Silver Bird Man of the year.

That stuff is not fetish. It is called tiro in yoruba land. It is applied on the eye lid.

Its modern name is mascaras ladies apply on their eye lids. So no qualms.

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Just my thinking...Buhari has won already

How old were you in 1999?

Did you have a gsm phone or a laptop in 1999?

The only difference spotted here is that is seatted at the right hand side while Gej was relegated to the left hand side. Like the two thieves on the cross wt Jesus Christ.

Idriss Deby of Chad dispatches troops to capture Nigeria’s Baga without GEJ's permission

Article written by Dr. Peregrino Brimah of Ends.ng
That there is a vacuum in Nigeria’s leadership is not in dispute; however the recent declaration by the president of Chad, Idriss Deby compounds Nigeria’s delicate situation and threatens the nation’s sovereign integrity. As reported by the AFP in an article of January 17, 2015, captioned “Thousands see off Chadian troops to fight Boko Haram,” Idriss Deby the authoritarian leader of Chad, Nigeria’s north eastern neighbor, said “in a speech read by the speaker of parliament that the new deployment (of Chadian troops to Cameroon) aimed to recapture Baga.” Cameroon had requested for and welcomed the deployment that saw 400 Chadian military vehicles arrive in Cameroon. [AFP] However Nigeria was not invited to the table.
Nigeria’s military leadership as quoted by the AFP are “lukewarm.” The word is defined by Google dictionary thus: “(of a person, attitude, or action) unenthusiastic.” Nigeria’s military spokesperson, GEN Olukolade said as quoted by the AFP: “All support for our operations will be welcome, but it must conform with our own ongoing operations.”

In as much as Baga at the border with Chad and another 14 to 20 local governments in Nigeria by all means needs various degrees of military liberation from Boko Haram’s control, a Chadian intervention without approval by the African union or explicit approval by Nigeria’s government, even though lacking and inebriated infringes on the laws of national sovereignty; and prompts further suspicion of the intentions of Nigeria’s neighbors who have reportedly been permissive and in some cases frankly supportive of Boko Haram [See CNN]. The Chadian government and the government of Niger pulled out their troops from the multi-national force stationed at Nigeria’s northeastern border late last year leading up to and enabling the Boko Haram massacre that resulted in 2500 to 3000 dead.

The stationing of troops by Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger by November 1 of 2014 was agreed upon by the four nations at the Paris summit in May of last year. Acknowledging a vacancy of leadership in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital of government; the new do-it-our-way, without Nigeria’s or any other openly known regional or global union’s explicit authorization challenges years-long developed modalities of territorial interrelation. Boko Haram terrorists are known to organize, train and source weapons from Chad, Niger and Cameroon. Nigeria has over the past years demanded these nations seal their borders and disallow terrorist’s assemblies on their soil. The McCain approach of total disregard to “some guy called Goodluck Jonathan,” disregards Nigerians as a whole and compounds an already highly suspicious situation and pits Nigerians to choose between Boko Haram (mostly) foreign terrorists’ invasion and foreign leaderships’ invasion. Nigerians in the affected territories swear that Chad president, Idriss Deby is a sponsor and financier of Boko Haram. A majority of Boko Haram insurgents are Chadians [SaharaReporters, Jan 14, 2015]. There is undeniably a serious problem here. In the course of Nigeria’s French neighbors partnering and protecting their interests, this cannot be done with permission of terror to Nigeria and at any risk to Nigeria’s territorial integrity. [See: “Serious Allegations of Cameroon, Chad Arming Boko Haram Is Act of Terror And War;” ENDS.ng Oct 14, 2014]

In October last year, Nigeria’s president and the president of Chad jointly declared a very suspicious cessation of fire against Boko Haram [Which ENDS promptly rejected on behalf of Nigerians]. This leadership ‘blunder’ which world unions and lead groups were slow to recognize led to the strengthening of Boko Haram and the deaths of thousands more innocent Nigerians and Cameroonians. The world cannot continue to sit and watch these deadly conspiracies and administrative ‘errors.’

John Dramani Mahama, of Ghana, head of the regional Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS on Friday called for an African action against the Boko Haram regional threat. Absent a change of Nigeria’s incapacitated government, this is the right action, long overdue. On behalf of the people of Nigeria, we demand Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon sit down and negotiate the full modalities of any incursion by Chad and/or Cameroonian forces into Nigeria’s territory, and that the urgent agreements reached as sanctioned exigently by the African union.

Dr. Peregrino Brimah; http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something] Email: drbrimah@ends.ng Twitter: @EveryNigerian


http:///KCy9daa87d - Linda Ikeji's blog

I have just Abati on twitter but he is yet to respond.

[quote author=WorkWithEyram post=29779330
"Yam farmers contribute N5bn to Buhari's campaign. Clearly, President Jonathan's
agricultural reforms are working.
Progressively changing Nigeria"
Signed Forward Nigeria.[/quote]Is Ministry of Agriculture only the minisry that is worth celebrating in Jonathan's govt? SMH

At the flag off of PDP presidential campaign today President Jonathan saiid APC give you bridge but he gives Universities. I wonder what the correlation is.

I think he was Ʈђe Chief Press Secretary to Gbenga Daniel

Expecting calls from would-be buyer.

Need a very clean Honda Civic 2008? Calll Kenny on 08181424919 or Mr. Jide on 08023710220 for further enquiries. Asking price N1. 8M (negotiable). Thanks

Please confirm if it is true. School to resume on 18th of November 2013

One Good Thing I Like About President Jonathan - He Never Disappoints!

BREAKING: President Goodluck Jonathan backs Aviation Minister's Purchase of Two Bullet-proof BMW Vehicles for $1.6 Million (N255m)

Special Assistant to the President on Constitution and Legal matters, Barrister Ahmad Ali Gulag, today condemned what he described as the "Online public lynching" of Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi, over the purchase of two executive armoured cars worth over N225million.

Gulag stated: "Mr President is satisfied with the good work of the Aviation Minister and the transformation of the aviation sector." Gulag added, "the cars are not personal property of the Minister, but that of the office of Aviation Minister. No cost is too high to protect public officers who are carrying out desired changes."

Just thinking: How much would it cost to protect the ordinary Nigerian citizen who daily ekes out a living against disasters and terrorist activity...? Would it be 'too high' a cost, Mr. Barrister...?

Late(Dr) Olusegun Agagu was appointed by President Olusegun Obasanjo as his first Minister of Aviation in 1999. His era witnessed so many plane crashes; Chachangi, Sosoliso, ADC, Bellview & many more. These crashes led to the deaths of prominent people amongst whom are Pastor Bimbo Odukoya, Children of Jesuit School,Abuja and many more. Agagu was lucky to fly without crashing while alive but nemesis refuse to let the dead rest as his corpse was caught up in a plane crash. This clearly shows the spirits of the dead in his era as Aviation Minister haunts him. Sad as it is, its a lesson to those in government,you and me to sit up & do what is right. Ko si asegbe,asepamo lowa. RIP Agagu Olusegun.

Move to National Hospital, Abuja

Two members of the House of Representatives who are equally aspirants in the November 16 governorship election in Anambra State, Hon. Mrs. Uche Ekwunife and Hon. Afam Ogene, were on Friday involved in an auto accident in which they narrowly escaped death.

Ekwunife who is the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Environment along with Ogene, Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs were in a Lexus bullet-proof jeep travelling from Abuja to the East when the accident occurred along the airport road within the federal capital territory, FCT in the early hours of Friday.

The lawmakers who were injured in the crash are said to be receiving treatment at the National Hospital, Abuja where they were rushed to after the crash.

An eyewitness account disclosed that the vehicle swerved and somersaulted several times before landing in a ditch by the side of the airport road. The aspirants and their driver were immediately moved to the hospital by men of the Federal Road Safety Corps.

The accounts said the accident occurred as the driver was trying to avoid collision with a fuel tanker.

When contacted, Hon. Ekwunife described the incident as a miraculous survival. “I thank God for His mercies and grace upon my life and the lives of everyone in the vehicle. Seeing the car alone you will not believe that the occupants survived. But all of us are in very stable condition. I am very grateful to God for His mercies”, Ekwunife said.

Her driver, Mr. Ejidike said “I believe it was madam’s act of kindness that made God save all of us. Before we left the house this morning, madam, in her usual kindness gave money to everybody including her neighbours’ gatemen who saw her when she was leaving. The gate men rained prayers of God’s divine protection on her.”

In his reaction, Hon. Ogene thanked God for sparing their lives from the snare of death. He said only the hand of God could have been responsible for saving people from accidents such as this.



http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/gov-aspirants-in-auto-crash/

..Facebook Surges and Mark Zuckerberg Pockets $3.8 Billion

In just 24 hours Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune swelled by $3.8 billion.

It happened between 4:05 pm Eastern Time Wednesday, when the Internet giant reported second quarter earnings that dwarfed expectations, and the close of trading the following day.

Facebook (FB) shares soared 30% to their highest level since May 2012, earning the company’s founder and CEO the equivalent of $15.83 million per hour.

Related: Mark Zuckerberg Makes Enemies of Some Liberal Groups, Supports Keystone Pipeline

“A really amazing ride,” is how Matt Miller, editor of Bloomberg Billionaires, describes Zuckerberg’s exploding wealth. “He was one of the richest people in tech right before Facebook’s IPO,” Miller tells The Daily Ticker. “Then Facebook basically tanked for a year… Now he’s richer than Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft (MSFT).”

The 29-year-old Zuckerberg is now number 42 on Bloomberg Billionaire’s list, with a net worth of $16.8 billion. He was number 75 before the latest Facebook earnings were released and so far this year his net worth has swelled by 37%.

Related: Facebook 'Home' Is 'Groundbreaking': David Kirkpatrick

Gates and Zuckerberg are amongst several tech leaders on the billionaires list which includes Larry Ellison ( ORCL), Jeff Bezos (AMZN) and Sergey Brin (GOOG).

Zuckerberg is richer than Nike co-founder Phil Knight, Rupert Murdoch, Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov and Laurene Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs. Jobs, of course, was one of the people Zuckerberg admired most.

“A lot of the old school tech guys will remain in the top 20, 50, 100 of the world’s richest,” says Miller. Watch the video above for more on Zuckerberg's big day and his fellow billionaires.



http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/facebook-surges-mark-zuckerberg-pockets-3-8-billion-143114560.html

By Ali Lawrie as told to Lori Majewski


It's not every day that you see a fit guy dating a bigger girl.

So when my girlfriend Gloria Shuri Nava wrote an essay about being overweight and dating a fit guy for Yahoo! Shine, I expected some controversy. What I didn't expect were people talking about our relationship all over the world—even the ladies on The View had an opinion!

Living in Scotland, I saw the story before Gloria— it went live while she was still asleep in San Fransisco. In just a few hours, it got a crazy number of comments (today, there are almost 12,000) and shares on Facebook (3,000 and counting).


Gloria and I deal with prejudice on a daily basis, so we had braced ourselves for an onslaught of harsh comments. But surprisingly, the first batch was overwhelmingly positive. There were notes of encouragement from other plus-sized women and thinner men who said they found nothing odd about us as a couple.

Then the negative comments started piling up: "She is a pig." "[Together] They look like a number 10" and "I guess her guy is into BBWs-Big, beached whales."


It's funny: When someone says something disparaging about me—about my ginger hair or pale skin or Glaswegian accent—it doesn't bother me. But when I read cruel comments about Gloria, they get under my skin. I hated the idea of her excitedly waking up to read the article and then reading the mean comments. But that girl has thick skin. She realizes that those comments say more about the people making them than they do about her. Instead, she focuses on the fact that, in going public with our story, she's hopefully making things better not just for us, but for other couples who feel ostracized.

I've always dated bigger women. They're who I find attractive, the same as some prefer blondes or women who are petite. Yet society says this is strange—well, I think that's strange. I remember back in 2010 when I told a friend I was falling for Gloria and she replied, "You can't say that, Ali—that's mean. Don't joke about that." When I said I was serious, she said, "I just never expected it, because you're so into going to the gym everyday, and what you find attractive is the opposite of you." Why do people say, "Opposites attract" when a couple has different personalities, but in regard to physical differences, it's considered unusual?

The fact is Gloria and I have so much in common. We feel the same way about our families - they are the most important people in our lives. Our parents taught us the value of hard work and good morals, and how we should conduct ourselves and treat other people. We also share an idiosyncratic sense of humor —we find things funny that other people don't. But whereas Gloria can be controversial in her humor and get away with it (anyone who's watched her videos on her YouTube channel Glowpinkstah, knows what I'm talking about), I can't. I'm awkward in that sense.

While I fell hard for Gloria after getting to know her, I'm not going to lie: I was initially attracted to her because of how she looks. When I came across her picture on Twitter, I was drawn to the shape of her face and her smile—she has such a captivating smile! And her eyes have this amazing sparkle to them. She is just so incredibly beautiful. When people say Gloria's lucky, I say, "I'm the luckier one."

After I saw her photo, I started reading her Tumblr posts. In one, she wrote that she longed to meet someone with whom she could have a friendship with first, then hopefully that would blossom into love. That intrigued me, because I'd always wanted the same thing.

I never thought we'd fall in love. People may say, "You can't fall in love over the Internet," and I probably felt the same way before it happened to me. For a while, I second-guessed my feelings. I've not met her, so I don't know what she's like in person-can this really be love? But when you're with someone who understands you in every way possible, you know it's real.

That first time we met was when I came to visit Gloria in San Francisco, two and a half years after we began talking. As soon as I stepped off the plane, I felt like I was arriving home. I was so nervous-not scared, but anxious with anticipation. I had wanted for so long to feel her in my arms, to give her a hug. It was even better than I'd expected. As soon as I hugged her, I felt completely safe, relaxed. It didn't feel like I was meeting her for the first time - it felt like we had been apart for a really long while, and we were finally being reunited.

Now I'm counting the days until I move to California to pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology. Gloria also decided to lose weight and I support her because she wants to and in the long run, it's a good thing for her health. But in terms of our relationship, there's no need for Gloria to become skinny.

People ask if Gloria and I are going to get married. I will say this: I've always felt that the best marriages are between people who are best friends. Having that foundation is everything. The advice I give to others is that you should always look for your best friend, because things could flourish and lead to something you might have never expected. It may actually take you by surprise that what you've always looked for might be right in front of you.


http://shine.yahoo.com/love-sex/girlfriend-weighs-more-170300690.html

Origin of the name

Many explanations of the origin of the word jeep have proven difficult to verify. The most widely-held theory is that the military designation GP (for Government Purposes or General Purpose) was slurred into the word Jeep in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV (for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle) has become known as the humvee.

An alternative view launched by R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, and was never referred to as "General Purpose" and it is highly unlikely that the average jeep-driving GI would have been familiar with this designation. The Ford GPW abbreviation actually meant G for government use, P to designate its 80-inch (2,000 mm) wheelbase and W to indicate its Willys-Overland designed engine. Ermey suggests that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicles that they informally named it after Eugene the Jeep, a character in the Popeye comic strip and cartoons created by E. C. Segar, as early as mid-March of 1936. Eugene the Jeep was Popeye's "jungle pet" and was "small, able to move between dimensions and could solve seemingly impossible problems."[7]

Words of the Fighting Forces by Clinton A. Sanders, a dictionary of military slang, published in 1942, in the library at The Pentagon gives this definition:

Jeep: A four-wheel drive vehicle of one-half- to one-and-one-half-ton capacity for reconnaissance or other army duty. A term applied to the bantam-cars, and occasionally to other motor vehicles (U.S.A.) in the Air Corps, the Link Trainer; in the armored forces, the ½-ton command vehicle. Also referred to as "any small plane, helicopter, or gadget."[citation needed]

This definition is supported by the use of the term "jeep carrier" to refer to the Navy's small escort carriers.

Early in 1941, Willys-Overland demonstrated the vehicle's off-road capability by having it drive up the steps of the United States Capitol, driven by Willys test driver Irving "Red" Haussman, who had recently heard soldiers at Fort Holabird calling it a "jeep." When asked by syndicated columnist Katherine Hillyer for the Washington Daily News (or by a bystander, according to another account) what it was called, Irving answered, "It's a jeep."

Katherine Hillyer's article was published nationally on February 20, 1941, and included a picture of the vehicle with the caption:

LAWMAKERS TAKE A RIDE- With Senator Meade, of New York, at the wheel, and Representative Thomas, of New Jersey, sitting beside him, one of the Army's new scout cars, known as "jeeps" or "quads", climbs up the Capitol steps in a demonstration yesterday. Soldiers in the rear seat for gunners were unperturbed.

Although the term was also military slang for vehicles that were untried or untested, this exposure caused all other jeep references to fade, leaving the 4x4 with the name.

Trade name

The original trademark brand-name application was filed in February 1943 by Willys-Overland.[8] It is also used as a generic term with a lowercase (jeep) for vehicles inspired by the Jeep that are suitable for use on rough terrain.[9]

As the only company that continually produced Jeep vehicles after the war, in June 1950 Willys-Overland was granted the privilege of owning the name "Jeep" as a registered trademark






http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep

I had no bag.

Did this "journalist" forget to ask information from the other parties involved? Could it be that the doctor (as accused) is so stupid that knowing fully well that the owners of the corpse would come for it the next day decided to mutilate it all the same?

Does the father have to call a meeting with his brothers "on how to get a medical report on his child's death" before he can get it. When all he needs was to request for one in the hospital where the baby died?

What was the state of affairs between the hospital (concerning the illness and cause of death) and the parents of the (late) child that would warrant that the father leaves the corpse of his child in the hospital (not mortuary) to first consult with his pastor, brothers and towns people before coming back the next day to pay "whatever bill", and take the corpse for burial (remember that he also had a meeting with his brothers on how to get medical report. -from where or who?)
In whose ...custody was the corpse kept? From some other account I read, the child was 13 months old (?). Could anybody vouch to have seen the baby's corpse left in the hospital or taken away the day he/she died?

Is it true (from some other account) that the hospital actually issued a death certificate to the parents the day the child died?

Who was the first to see that the baby was mutilated?

For all I care, the reportage on this matter is at best sentimental and not trully journalistic. The journalist is not to blame strictly, it is the calibre of editors that is called to question.

The Punch account is even more sinister, labeling the doctors as ritualists before even being found culpable.
It is a shame that any misharp that has to do with the medical profession in this country is so reported with bile and venom without objectivity. When they achieve near impossible fits in such a hostile environments, nobody appreciates them. Yet you cry foul when the health professionals leave the country in droves to countries where they have better working environments and their efforts are much appreciated.

We need to be careful and try not to prejudge.

Just read it now in Vanguard Newspaper.

Just read it now in Vanguard Newspaper.