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  BBNaija star,  Leo DaSilva  has taken to social media and advised that people should not marry someone whose family doesn’t like them. He was reacting to a story shared by a Twitter user who narrated how a certain lady was hated so much by her mother-in-law. The Twitter user identified as Tosin with the handle @DonteeWrites had tweeted,  “A relative married into a family that the husband mother did not like her, the hatred was so much that when she gave birth the woman came to greet them and did not carry the Baby, not quite long Husband lose job, the woman said na the wife cause am. Ladies, don’t try it o ” On seeing the post, Leo quoted the tweet and wrote,  “Even men don’t try it. If your in-laws don’t like you, no do am.” Writing further, Leo said  “I know love is important and all but you can’t marry someone that their family doesn’t like you. Especially if the family is very important to them. This life is too short to deliberately be surrounded by haters till you die.”

  The  New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) has announced it has taken the extraordinary move of opening an inquiry into the removal of President Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani from its membership. According to an NYSBA statement, on Monday, January 11, the organization received hundreds of complaints in recent months regarding Giuliani's efforts to challenge the veracity of the 2020 presidential election on the President's behalf.     The organization also feels Guilani's actions and words also spurred Trump supporters to invade the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to the statement. Even if the NYSBA removes his memebership, they cannot dibar him as the organization is a voluntary bar association, so the ousting would not prevent him from representing President Trump in an impeachment trial or other pending litigation against him.     "This decision is historic for NYSBA, and we have not made it lightly. We cannot stand idly by and allow those intent on rend

  Controversial Instagram blogger,  Tunde Ednut  has blocked Mr Macaroni a few hours after supporting him to gather followers on his new account. It would be recalled that the singer turned blogger was  suspended on Instagram  some weeks ago for violating the policy of the platform. Hours after  bouncing back on Instagram , Tunde Ednut had support from celebrities like Mr Macaroni who pleaded to their fans to follow the blogger. Tunde had shared a video of the comedian asking for users to follow him on his page after gathering close to a million followers under 24 hours. Well, the entertainer blocked the comic relief star and deleted his video after he encouraged Tunde Ednut to treat people more nicely on his new account.

  A Nigerian lady has shared her experience with an immigration official who was allegedly processing passports without wearing face mask and gloves.    The lady who disclosed that she lost a friend to Coronavirus, alleged that her passport was seized after she started raising her voice.    @Temitope_Olagbegi added that when she demanded to see the highest authority, she was told to delete the photos and videos she took.    She wrote;    It was a heart breaking experience for me coming into the country to see the Nigerian Immigration not wearing masks. I lost it! How can you be handling multiple passports without gloves or masks. These guys, speak to people and droplets can get unto passports. Is this not how the virus is transmitted? I said to them in a friendly manner at first to wear their masks and the complete disregard infuriated me. I begun to scream. I couldn't take it. Are they ignorant? If they are ignorant, I dare say, they should not be there as, govt representatives. I

  A mother has been accused of stabbing her newborn son to death with a pair of nail scissors before throwing the body into a trash can.   Mother-of-three Anastasia Skorychenko has been sentenced to two years in jail for allegedly stabbing her newborn 22 times, just moments after delivering him on her balcony.   The 30-year-old confessed to the crime during the sentencing in a court in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, last week.   Skorychenko explained the motive for the crime by saying "the baby was unwanted" and "she could not afford it", according to reports.   Anastasia Skorychenko and one of her older children    Skorychenko, who kept her third pregnancy secret, went into labour at home.   She began having contractions at night when her two daughters, aged 7 and 4, and their grandmother were sleeping.   Not wanting to wake them up, Skorychenko reportedly went to the balcony where she bent over a plastic basin and gave birth to a healthy baby boy.   The woman used he

  Women have now been given the privilege to read mass by the head of the Catholic church, Pope Francis. Pope Francis   Pope Francis has approved a new law empowering women to read mass.   The Pope changed a former Catholic Church law that banned women from such.   However, the new law stipulates that women can act as readers and altar servers in liturgical celebrations, while reaffirming they cannot be priests.   In an unexpected apostolic letter published Jan. 11, the pontiff says he is making the change to recognize a "doctrinal development" that has occurred in recent years.   That change, the pope says,  "shines a light on how some ministries instituted by the church have as their foundation that common condition of baptism and the royal priesthood received in the Sacrament of Baptism."   Francis' new letter, titled Spiritus Domini and issued 'motu proprio,' changes the Code of Canon Law to explicitly allow women to be installed in the Catholic Chur