Halima Abubakar shares baby's real photo, reveals reasons for previous fake post

- Nigerian actress Halima Abubakar has shared her baby's real photo

- Halima Abubakar was earlier called out for using an American mum's baby photo to announce the birth of her baby boy

- The new mother has shared reasons to defend her previous actions

Nigerian actress Halima Abubakar has shared the reasons shy she used an American woman's photo to announce the birth of her child.

Halima took to her social media page to share her baby's real photo, although, she excluded his face.

Legit.ng earlier reported that Halima announced the birth of her baby boy on Instagram to the joy of her fans and followers. She shared a photo of a baby's hand holding onto the mother's to announce the good news.

But shortly after her announcement, an American mom exposed Halima Abubakar for claiming her baby's picture as her own. When the American woman confronted Halima, she apologised and said that she got the photo from google.

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Halima told the woman that she never claimed the photo as hers. According to her, she just had a baby and wanted to announce his birth. The actress has now deleted the photo from her page.

Reacting to the issue, Nigerians took to the popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter, to call out Halima about her actions.

Halima has now spoken on why she used another woman's photo to announce the birth of her baby.

She said:

"He will be discharged tmr from icu.i didn’t post cos he was premature. God saved him. I just had to post this. For the people who didn’t see me, I have no close friends. I can’t show you a fragile child, I risked this just to post. @ruggedybaba update paddy mi. I Had to do this. Thank you."

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that actor Ibrahim Chattah and wife welcome baby girl. The actor’s colleague, actress Bisola Badmus shared the good news on her social media page. Badmus shared a photo of Chatta and his wife on her Instagram page accompanied by her congratulatory message. Badmus also shared the baby’s photo, welcoming the adorable girl into the world.

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