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Anabel: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha the man is kinda like telling all you guys to go and get married

true that.

nov 2011

Community adopts N50,000 as bride price

The Kutep Community in Tatum Local Government Area of Taraba has adopted N50,000 as the bride price to be paid on any marriageable lady regardless of the tribe or custom of the suitors.

Speaking on Sunday at the first Kuteb Nation Worldwide Thanksgiving Service in Takum, the President of RCCN Church, Rev. Risae Yakubu, said that the policy was aimed at ensuring that ladies from the area were made affordable.

Yakubu said that the rule applied to all irrespective of the tribe of the suitor or the background of the lady.

“People who used to fear marrying Kutep ladies because of the high cost of bride price can now come.”

“With the minimum wage already implemented by Gov. Suntai, your one month salary can finish it.”

He said that the thanksgiving was in appreciation of the fact that God had restored relative peace, prosperity and glory of the Takum Chiefdom.

According to him, people of all races could come to Takum and do their normal business and leave in peace.

He noted that among other things, God had restored love, trust and friendship between the Kutebs and the neighbouring tribes.
“We are delighted that our neighbours — the Jukun, Chamba, Tiv, Ichen, Yukuben, Igbo, Yoruba, Tigun, Ndoro and Hausa among others –, have joined us in this declaration of thanksgiving.”

In his address at the occasion, Rev. Dr. Caleb Ahima, who is the Secretary-General of TEKAN, with headquarters in Jos, urged religious leaders, traditional rulers, and politicians to guide the younger generation on the need for peaceful co-existence to bring about development.

“We need to tell God that the troubles of the past that destabilised this area will not repeat itself so that the ruins of the wars will be rebuilt,” he said.
In his remarks, Gov. Danbaba Suntai, who was the Special Guest of Honour at the occasion, commended the Kuteb Nation Worldwide for their initiative at ensuring that peace was restored in the area.

Suntai pointed out that returning to God was the ultimate and assured the people of Takum that the state government was prepared to cooperate with them to improve the lot of the people.

He informed them that the bill for all equipment supplied for the completion of the Takum General Hospital had been paid.

He said that the facility would be ready for use by the end of the year, while the hospital in Lisam, in Ussa local government, would be completed in the first quarter of 2012.

http://whatsupnigeria..com/2011/11/community-adopts-n50000-as-bride-price.html

jan 2006

Community Woos Suitors

THE Ekpeye Clan of Ahoada Local Government Area in Rivers State has raised alarm over the high number of adult girls who are not finding men to marry them.
Troubled by the development, the Ugboji Clan of Ekpeye traditional rulers and elders have taken steps to woo suitors for their daughters, some of who are becoming "overripe", for house wives.

Traditional ruler of the area, Eze Innocent Odum, has announced that any man from the community or elsewhere, who has N15,000 in his pocket and is willing to pick a wife, could do so with a smile. ...

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-141283077/community-woos-suitors-overripe.html

The Vanguard newspaper of January 24, 2006, p.8. The relevant story is titled "Community woos suitors for "overripe" spinsters - slashes bride price to N15,000". The traditional ruler of the Ugboji Clan of Ekpeye Eze Innocent Odum, concerned that his kingdom is littered with grown-up girls of marriageable age, who in spite of their beauty, education and good breeding, could not find anyone to marry them, decided to set up a committee titled "The Bride Price Committee". Its term of reference was to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the seeming inability of Ekpeye babes to attract men and to make appropriate recommendations to correct the situation.

re:nairaland

i think there is a problem!

maybe nigerians need to take a break from fighting and killing each other,419, scamming, looking for their enemies, etc etc, and look for a solution to this problem of the men refusing to marry while more and more women cant find suitors to marry them?

we have crime at higher levels than normal, with boko haram, kidnappers, lynchers and so on ruling the waves and roaming around unchecked, while ensuring there is a breakdown in normal societal functioning, and this may be having an impact on the matter under discussion?

Hausas have all kind of rituals and customs sorrounding matrmonial institution and they take it very serious. Many Hausa customs believe in a connection between marriage, fertility and crop yields....for that reason they stage outing ceremonies for young eligible bachelors and debutantes to coincide with harvest period.

In a particular Hausa community, I will say an anonymous town to protect their cultural pride, ....the act of match making is very peculiar. A documentary film was made years ago portraying the ritual. Its a beautiful custom and i dont care if you are Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba or whatever else you will love how these people match couples for marriage. oouhh, I should travel back there and marry.

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oge4real:
Funny culture, interesting though.
Who will start spinster hunting? I bet the spinters will hunt the hunter.

for sure.