**Acknowledgements**

We wish to thank all members of our neonatal research network across Nigeria. We will particularly mention Professor JC Azubuike, Professor OA Mokuolu, Dr EK Olateju, Professor A Osibogun, Dr P Alabi, and Professor SA Kuranga. Everyone has worked hard to enable us unravel "temperature" as the hidden factor that had destroyed our neonates, especially the premature ones. We thank Neonatal Concerns for Africa and Polchazum Engineering Limited, subsidiaries of the Mastermind Group Nigeria, for being the primary funders of these investigations. We also appreciate the kind supports received from the Hornchurch Baptist Church Essex United Kingdom and the Bioengineering Department of Imperial College London United Kingdom.
