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A NIGERIAN man who circumcised a baby boy, who later died from blood loss, is determined to prove to the Irish authorities he is “one of the best circumcisionists in the world”.

MEDICAL experts are to team up with Department of Justice officials and members of ethnic minorities to examine the provision of a national service for circumcision on non-medical grounds.

MEMBERS of the Nigerian community filed in and out of Idehen and Mabel Osaghae’s rented townhouse on a hill overlooking Waterford’s quays yesterday afternoon, trying to console them after their son’s death.