The Photoshop That Fooled 170 Million Nigerians

Back in 2008,during the health saga of the late President Musa Yar'adua, Nigerians where all confined in the dark over the then president's true state of wellness.With different media outfits reporting conflicting and inconsistent news with regard to his whereabouts,Nigerians were stunned when this photo purportedly showing the president in an undisclosed hospital looking quite dishevelled and famished.At the time,most Nigerians bought this deception and ran with the story.The photo went viral and became a lasting vestige of that dark era.Later, the lie photo was exposed for what it truly was,'A malicious act of character assassination.'