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spoilt (f)
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here we go again! osu my crusty feet!  |
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Nwaka77 (f)
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Takes a quick glance at thread Walks away |
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micklplus (m)
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whats all these noices about osu !
For crying out loud ! This is 2008 ! i think we shouldnt be concentratiing on this osu stuff ! wheres love ?? what happened to love? our cultural belief supercedes our christian belief???
We need to simmer and start doing things right !
We have enough racial discrimation from those obodos we can't afford to start discriminating against ourselves !
Its a free world ,lets try and enjoy life to the fullest.
cheers
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chylove201 (f)
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please, it is not good to marry osu it will bring so many problems into your family.
osu is really-really to step in into osu's family.
damange.
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kalmebad (f)
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm its is a very tough thing in an Ibo land,some of you who does not come from this part of the state will never understand what "Osu" entails, i am an Ibo girl though not an Osu,but has always wished it wiped out entirely,it is most of our wishes that has failed to come true.May God never give us the cross that will be too heavy for us to carry.
Its a tough decision to make and hence its difficult to be for the guy nor against him, but will advice he seeks the consents of his parent and elders well, may be only then can he be well convinced of what he is venturing into, may God give u d wisdom to deceide wisely. You may find joy eventually if u do or it might turn out to be the most regret of your life, what ever u choose to do,i wish u all the best.though today it is not as worst as it used to be in the past,mordernization has tender softly on lots of things,befor an "osu "dare not speak where a free born is talking or be in a gathering where the free borns are,they are never allow to trade in the same market,their houses are built seperate and outside d immediate family,today such things do no longer exist but the stigma of being one still lives within them.
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Rogo
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if they love and respect each other let them marry, mess tribal and tradition issues that has make us stayed too long in darkness.
for those called OSU let them marry other forget about the fuckin tradition and go on with your life. thank you.
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ify_aidee (f)
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don't just mind those frustrators, my niece happens to be a victim, thank God the minor family who are believers, so they went ahead and gave out their daughter to the acclaimed osu guy. they were excommunicated, but does it matter? no it doesnt. the larger family did not attend the mariage but me i went -o and still visit and communicate with them afterall the blood lineage remains. gradually some of the so called larger family are beining to get close to them.
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flyKUDE (m)
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i'm still very much interested in the origin of this osu thing, and wait, its like they banned it at some point in time or so.
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yimiton (f)
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don't just mind those frustrators, my niece happens to be a victim, thank God the minor family who are believers, so they went ahead and gave out their daughter to the acclaimed osu guy. they were excommunicated, but does it matter? no it doesnt. the larger family did not attend the mariage but me i went -o and still visit and communicate with them afterall the blood lineage remains. gradually some of the so called larger family are beining to get close to them.
I hope people learn from this. This is interesting. Your niece took the right decision.  |
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kamikaze (m)
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There are really only two divides in our society today and its not Osu and Freeborn. Its the RICH and the POOR. I can assure you if the girl was a rich man's kid or she had loads of money these same people shouting OSU will be dancing SUO around her. When you're poor you 're any and everything derogatory in the eyes of custom. How many rich old women are tagged witches? Its always the poor, this Osu matter aint any different. It will take the resolve of true lovers to make absolute nonsense of such ludicrous and pugnacious traditions of our ancestors!
Remember as much as we love our families, emphasis is shifting from extended to immediate family. I'll gladly do without my extended family if this was a choice i had to make in exchange for true love.
WE WERE BORN UNCLEAN (OSU IF YOU LIKE) BUT OUR FATHER, THROUGH CHRIST'S BLOOD REDEEMED US AND GAVE US THE RIGHT TO CALL HIM ABBA. Let your decisions be guided by the question: "what would Jesus have done"
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delighty (f)
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So sad, i didn't see this topic yesterday. I believe that whatever the case maybe, one should be allowed to marry who he loves. Provided the guy truly loces and cherishes the girl, he should go ahead and marry her. But i advise him to be ready for anything, because of "sins of the father".This is to say that the guy should wacth and pray because his parents might come against the marriage in many ways even after the marriage.  IT'S A PITY. |
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Blackcat (f)
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I don talk am before and I go talk am again. Marriage in naija goes beyond love. It involves the whole family.
Secondly, marriage has its ups and downs talk less of when you decide to add pepper on top of it (e.g marry an Osu).
Fine the love is shacking you now but when in two years reality settles in (and it will) will you put all your misfortunes on your wife then???
God forbid you guys after marriage find out you are not meant for each other (divorce is rampant these days) what will you do then because once an Osu always an Osu.
Be wise and listen to your head and not your heart.
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esilove (m)
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whether OSU or not OSU every human is created by one God.
There is no place in the Bible God differentiate b/w osu and ordernary human being.
OSU is a human initiative its not from God.
It was the practice of the old Igbos. We are in a modernised world where such devilish powers have no effect.
Therefore, I will advice your brother to go ahead and mary the girl if he is in love with her.
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cliveland
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osu or no
please go ahead n marry the of your dreams am actually at accross of some sort , i have a longtime babe from the yoruba speaking tougues n from akwa ibom bu the dad is freaking me out, saying we can't get married because am not yoruba, its killing,
these old folks should alow us settle with our happiness n their misfortune, like someone once said they want us their kids to leave the lives the couldnt achieve, what a pity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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cliveland
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what is blackcat talking about, common friend if u really love n appreciate the sister that should surpass all the fears and until we start looking at our parent sin the eyes the will always ride us like cows,,, who the hell them better than the so called "OSU" skip this rubbish i will marry 1,000,000,000 the babe of of my dreams as long she stand by me.
my friends its a long way from tomorrow, most of the marriages these days are so pathethically celebrated on materialism, n look around they crumbling like packs of cards, am a lawyer so i know the statistics that much, i actually have a reference that i usually use, i had a big egbon/colleague that we juniors used trip for but he unfortunately the wrong babe, the rest is history today, as i write they in court 4 divorce,
honesty is the key, ask yourself if u feel it if not get out
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akpanbaba
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This issue is a shame to the society where people carry bible on one hand and still call others osu,everybody is a freeborn because JESUS redeemed us from the curse of the law.please tell your brother to go ahead and marry her.
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spoilt (f)
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what will you do then because once an Osu always an Osu.
You are one of those ignorants regressing our country. I wont talk plenty. Shame on you! |
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+osisi
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The osu thing thank God is nothing like it was in the olden days.
I heard that back in the darker ages they were treated very badly
They couldn't even visit,sit with or associate with the so called freeborns
That is not the case today.
It's a culture that ought to be totally dead and buried and there is hope.
It is not as rampant as people say but one is one too many.
Why do I say so it's dying.
1. I lived most of my life in Igboland and NEVER knew anyone or family designated an osu.
2.Never was told not to play or associate with anyone because they were osu
3.It's important to note that the Osu thing is not in all of Igboland.We don't have it in my hometown for instance,it's worse in parts of Owerri,Mbaise and Enugu state areas.
The only way for it to go away completely is by people refusing to listen to those "traditions" that designate some people as inferior to others.
Whether their forefathers dedicated themselves to idols or ran to the idols for shelter,that was then,this is now.
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spoilt (f)
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A lot of people don't think its right but they are so cowardly that they cannot stand up to family.
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stellose (f)
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@poster and all.
An osu- arushi is an osu-arushi.some rain or shine it can never be aborted in ibo land.those that tried to abort it in mbaise few years back died mysteriously.
again in mbaise an osu was giving a chieftency tittle which the community cried, but after one week , then calamity came calling on the sons and daughters of those that gave out that chieftency tittle.
Just like UMEH, which is the strongest of all , an osu is an osu
an umeh still remains an umeh. we can never inter- marry in igbo land. but if you say you are one full flegde igbo man or woman and this does not exist in your own village, my brother or sister you lie, then you are one of them.
must of this osus and umehs are the so called igbo lawyers in our court yard today, still their years of practice did not help out. its been there and will remain so.
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May kelly (f)
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I can see your parents are church goers.
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stellose (f)
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action says it all, if the girl really loves him, she would have opened up to the guy by telling him about the osu thing.
she did not because she knows it all. same also applies to the guys too they wont tell you . most of them get married out side igbo land(yoruba, calabar, rivers, edo etc} which is better and safer for them,
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smartsoft (m)
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forget it ooo, it s cultural thing if you an ibo person, my mother will always tell me that i should always check the ladies i go out or who ever i want to get married to, i should make sure she is not an OSU like in my own town, IMO STATE- OWERRI we don't marry from an OSU family. uptill now still working even though you based in lagos or where ever in the surface of the earth ! Wether love or not, you must not ! you think say those home village movie you watch are just fakes  they still happen in some village ! But for me i don't want to get married to an IBO girl |
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ferdiii (m)
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Well, am from Isuikwuato in Abia State and I have not seen anything like it. I can marry an Osu to my home and Village if I choose to as love and understanding will have it. But I know it exists. Most people are mere church-goers. Christianity ought to have erased this crap. What we have here, is fake religion as just the practioners are pretenders.
So it is only marriage the Osu still holds sway as the Freeborns do businesses with them without eyebrows raised?
Although am an Ibo man who lives in the Northern Nigeria, I plan not to marry an Ibo woman. They overexpect things from marriages and I want happiness all the way.Case closed.
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IronButt (f)
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i want to blive those OSUs as they are called are human beings with seven heads and 16 legs!! funny topic  and where is the author of this thread ? he/she is kidnapped by OSU?  |
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akara (m)
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@ Poster
If they believe in the OSU thing, why are they Catholics?
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MP007 (m)
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this is 2008 @poster, stop all this Osu nonsence,
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U1 (m)
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Man mi, y'all are still living in the past. Make una wake up now and update! What the heck is Osu? I don't want to know what that may mean since we are all equal before God the Almighty. If una just make the mistake of letting the girl go, chei! I don carry am be that (or someone like me would)  Wait a minute! Did I see it there that you are "Christians"? Uhm , I'm a Christian too and I don't think such views are supported in Christianity. So check it people.  |
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ayettymama
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its true, they even say some of them eat people!
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engineerd (m)
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Gosh. Why are igbos so backward?? OSU? I say this categorically, igbos are very backward. Even the educated ones still have this old traditional beliefs in this day and age. If i was an OSU, i was used as sacrifices to gods against my own will by the other igbos, then who is considered evil here?? You freakin igbos, now i know there are diff. igbos, the OSU's are the good ones then the other ones are the evil and backward ones. shame on u assholes that still hold these beliefs. |
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nancyekpoh (f)
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Does this thing called Osu still exist in this century?.
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