Nairaland Forum

@ Kandikane,

250k dalassi is about £6,250 or N1.8m. I'm surprised many Gambians can afford that in a country where £50 per month is a decent wage.

temmytanny:

I paid 500k for my akwa ibom gurl but that includes total cost of the traditional wedding

r231:

N1500 plus endless LIST

from live goat to chicken, suitcase with clothes, drinks and the list goes on

there was even a pack of cigarettes on the list for a friend of a friend that married an ibo girl, what for?

ggggrrrrrhhhhhhhh

kbdrim:

there was even a pack of cigarettes on the list for a friend of a friend that married an ibo girl, what for?

hehehehehe

kbdrim:

there was even a pack of cigarettes on the list for a friend of a friend that married an ibo girl, what for?

The igbos will dig a hole through your pocket when u want to marry their women.
lol@ pack of cigarettes, why dem no ask for a pot of weed ?

kbdrim:

there was even a pack of cigarettes on the list for a friend of a friend that married an ibo girl, what for?

temmytanny:

I paid 500k for my akwa ibom gurl but that includes total cost of the traditional wedding

500k?o boy, how much did you use to organize the event, i am getting scare, even akwa ibom gals are expensive

temmytanny:

I paid 500k for my akwa ibom gurl but that includes total cost of the traditional wedding

Now that's a real bargain.  

Because of this piece of info pretty girls from that region have just gone up two notches in my Desirable Girls Chart.  

Haba, are they selling thier doughters ni? 250k 4 what, or is she as fat as an housa man's cow C'mon!

Ibime:

@ Kandikane,

250k dalassi is about £6,250 or N1.8m. I'm surprised many Gambians can afford that in a country where £50 per month is a decent wage.

There are many rich people in Gambia who can afford it(especially those who have family/parents abroad). . . Its actually about £5,582
250k is really not much

That is why Muslim young men get married in time, cos their dowry can be as less as 10000 naira, but for us Christians im not even thinking of getting married because of the price of dowry, nowadays girls are use for business in most families, the family don't think of the implication, some of them after marriage they would come to you for help, but for me i won't, that is why so many girls are still out there unmarried!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Emperoh:


You dey complain of Anambra, you don go Imo state? You go sell land for Lasgidi take marry woman for Imo state ooh
You cost no be small. . . .  

As it stands, Imo woman would be looking like a cheap bargain to me right now. You know any Imo woman wey I fit marry? 

kandiikane:

There are many rich people in Gambia who can afford it(especially those who have family/parents abroad). . . Its actually about £5,582
250k is really not much

So una get different price for "home" and "abroad"?

temmytanny:

I paid 500k for my akwa ibom gurl but that includes total cost of the traditional wedding

Hope she was very beautiful to worth that dowry price because i dont think i will even pay one naira if she"s ugly

Bawss1:

Now that's a real bargain.  

Because of this piece of info pretty girls from that region have just gone up two notches in my Desirable Girls Chart.  

tom28:

Hope she was very beautiful to worth that dowry price because i dont think i will even pay one naira if she"s ugly

very very pretty

Ibime:

As it stands, Imo woman would be looking like a cheap bargain to me right now. You know any Imo woman wey I fit marry? 


So una get different price for "home" and "abroad"?

Depending on the person's wealth. . . The girls don't play around

tom28:

For an igbo girl you have to pay 60 k(sixty thousand naira),20 crates of soft drinks,five herds of cattle,10 kegs of palmwine,10 cartons of beer,a loapard skin,4 boxes of snuff, and an expensive lace for her mom.
For a yoruba girl it has to be 20k(twenty thousand naira) and you have to have at least a PH.d.
For a hausa or fulani girl you have to be a muslim and a jihadist before her parents consider you for marriage and no dowry is required
For an edo girl the dowry is not expensive
For a white girl its dowry free
And for an indian girl it would be her parents paying you the dowry
Hope i have cleared up the issue

u dont kno dat for sure, Apart from d dowry, hausas give wat dey call lefe which includes boxes of clothes nd jewelery.

My first daughter is getting married next month. I was already dreaming of a bride price of about N3.5m because I have all receipts for her education plus professional examinations and got an accountant to work out the interest (she is actually an accountant herself). But the young man was lucky because when I went to my Dad in the village to ask what the family takes he gave me a list and behold I saw Bride price is fixed at N35000. So I guess I will have to grudgingly allow these lucky guy to pay just N35000. Or do you think I should appeal against these 'outdated list'? After all what can I buy wit 35k? And I was thinking of changing my car!!!

kandiikane:

There are many rich people in Gambia who can afford it(especially those who have family/parents abroad). . . Its actually about £5,582
250k is really not much

£6000 is not an easy sum to part with regardless of how much you earn. With wedding costs ranging at circa £10k + £6k dowry fee, a man would have to put down £16k just to marry a woman.

kandiikane:

Depending on the person's wealth. . . The girls don't play around

So the girls set the dowry price in Gambia? If my wife tries to charge me dowry herself, I would force her to survive on cabin biscuit for the rest of the marriage.

WELL, SINCE YOU HAVNT SOLD ,  YOU CAN STILL DECLINE TO ‘SELL’….

OR ABI THE YOUNG MAN DON DRAWDOWN BEFORE HIM CHEQUE CLEAR( DRAWING AGAINGST UNCLEARED EFFECT)

IF ITS SO, THEN DON’T WORRY….AM SURE WE WOULD GET SOMEONE THAT WE COULD ‘CON’ AND ‘SELL’ TO AT THE PRICE OF ORIGINAL…

OLOSI OLORI BURUKU!!!!!  

My first daughter is getting married next month. I was already dreaming of a bride price of about N3.5m because I have all receipts for her education plus professional examinations and got an accountant to work out the interest (she is actually an accountant herself). But the young man was lucky because when I went to my Dad in the village to ask what the family takes he gave me a list and behold I saw Bride price is fixed at N35000. So I guess I will have to grudgingly allow these lucky guy to pay just N35000. Or do you think I should appeal against these 'outdated list'? After all what can I buy wit 35k? And I was thinking of changing my car!!!

guy u harsh oh !

but i understand , wishing ur daughter a goood husband



in edo it used to be 24 naira but because it is hard to find change what most ppl do is to take one note of whatever u pay with and return the rest to u to take care of their daughter


the edo girl is a gift not for sale

if u fool urself ur money will be reurned fast fast

not like our ibo ppl when no go fit see the money gather

what is dowry? what is bride price?

Sorry, but I think ya'll actually mean bride price NOT dowry. The latter word has long been incorrectly used in Nigeria to mean the former.

dow·ry Noun /ˈdou(ə)rē/

1. Property or money brought by
a bride to her husband on their marriage.


www.google.com/dictionary?q=dowry&sl=en&tl=en&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lfcBTur0FcK58gPR1aibDQ&ved=0CBkQkQ4

From where i come from, you are given a long list that might not cost you more than N70k depending on how you want to impress your inlaws, then the bride price is not usually more than N2k, which would be given back to the groom, that same day, because they believe they are not selling their daughter and if the groom maltreats the woman, they are free to take her back.

Oligarch:

Sorry, but I think ya'll actually mean bride price NOT dowry. The latter word has long been incorrectly used in Nigeria to mean the former.

dow·ry Noun /ˈdou(ə)rē/

1. Property or money brought by
a bride to her husband on their marriage.


www.google.com/dictionary?q=dowry&sl=en&tl=en&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lfcBTur0FcK58gPR1aibDQ&ved=0CBkQkQ4

Its the same thing-the person who wrote this definition (maybe) thought that the "payment is usually done by women"(Indian women and many other tribes)
In Africa we call it dowry and just because the white people interpret it differently does not mean we are wrong

kandiikane:

Its the same thing-the person who wrote this definition (maybe) thought that the "payment is usually done by women"(Indian women and many other tribes)
In Africa we call it dowry and just because the white people interpret it differently does not mean we are wrong

Because they want to dry up the dude, they are not seeing their own contributions to the new family. Wetin the girl pple dey bring? The guy na graduate too if na by education.

Xtfield:

My first daughter is getting married next month. I was already dreaming of a bride price of about N3.5m because I have all receipts for her education plus professional examinations and got an accountant to work out the interest (she is actually an accountant herself). But the young man was lucky because when I went to my Dad in the village to ask what the family takes he gave me a list and behold I saw Bride price is fixed at N35000. So I guess I will have to grudgingly allow these lucky guy to pay just N35000. Or do you think I should appeal against these 'outdated list'? After all what can I buy wit 35k? And I was thinking of changing my car!!!

Lol! You can't be serious!

@ferdii, Na di girl ask for "hand in marriage". Its the man's responsibility(if he wants the woman to be submissive) unless you want to be submissive to the woman instead(let her pay for your dowry)

deols:


u dont kno dat for sure, Apart from d dowry, hausas give wat dey call lefe which includes boxes of clothes nd jewelery.

The dowry you pay for an hausa woman is not that much but then b4 they allow u marry their dauther you must be a muslim and if you not a muslim you must convert to islam.I like Hausa girls for one thing that they are not as materialistic as many nigerian girls in the south.

The dowry you pay for an hausa woman is not that much but then b4 they allow u marry their dauther you must be a muslim and if you not a muslim you must convert to islam.I like Hausa girls for one thing that they are not as materialistic as many nigerian girls in the south.

WHAT ABT THE KOBOKO THAT THEY WOULD FLOG YOU? ABI DAT ONE NO FOLLOW?

^^^^^ the koboko, are for the fulani's, the hausa's, i know, have to buy stuffs for their bride, set of boxes and fill them up with clothes, geles', shoesand bags, jewelries and plates (expensive one) and it goes on and on.