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IS IT OKAY TO STEAL ANOTHER WOMAN’S BABY’S PICTURE?



Another topic that has set social media on fire in Nigeria recently is the Halima Abubakar baby photo drama. She is a Nollywood actress and was recently involved in a baby photo scam where she used the baby photo of another woman in far away America, to announce the arrival of her own baby. A popular gossip blog on Instagram @gistloversblog  did some digging and found out the photo was stolen and people have been talking about it. Some people think it’s not right to take another woman’s baby photo to pose as yours, while others don’t think she did anything wrong after all, it was just the hand of the baby that she used. On which side are you?
This is my personal opinion, and everyone is entitled to their opinion.  It is wrong to steal first of all (because that’s stealing right?), and then to steal ANOTHER WOMAN’S BABY PHOTO? That is wrong, I don’t even care how anybody wants to spin it. In her defense, she claimed her baby was born premature so she didn’t want to snap him just yet. Then why bother announce it? Must you announce it? Were you under compulsion to announce it? If she felt she wanted to announce it to her fans, she didn’t have to lift another woman’s baby photo from her page to deceive people that that was her baby. A simple neutral photo (or even a text)  saying, “IT’S A BOY”, would have sufficed. Halima Abubakar initially tried to play down the severity of the situation with the lady but the woman was having none of it and asked the actress to take it off her page. Halima later apologized to the lady and promised to take it off her page.
Social media has done so much damage to people’s lives that they want to always keep up with the Joneses. A lot of celebrities live fakelives because they want to keep up appearances. 
A photo is personal. When you snap a picture, it reminds you of the things that happened at that time. It could be a memory as serious as a birth, a wedding or a birthday. A photo could remind you of something silly like how you snapped your friend who was bragging about finishing a bowl of garri but started sweating after a few spoons. The point is, a photo is a memory. That woman created a particular memory when she snapped THAT PARTICULAR photo of her baby. It is personal memory . It is a private memory. And it is wrong for another person, man or woman to steal it and pass it off as theirs.


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