Its very easy to hate what u cant acquire.... And in this case u termed it overbilling... My brothers and sisters, NO TOWN IN ANAMBRA collects more dan 50k as brideprice... Am sayin dis with absolute certainty cos i did a journal on culture and its effects on the modern man. I had to interview a lot of traditional rulers and other high profile traditional men. Even my sister's bride price was as little as 20k and tradition demands that u use d money and buy something she will value... Thats Anambra for u. Pls dnt believe everything u hear. One love.

ammyluv2002:
Igbo culture is not like Nigeria politics people change at will so i know what I'm saying. These things are fixed according to what the town agreed on and not what a particular family wants though some families may decide to bone some items on the list , they may also decide not to collect the actually bride price but it has to be less ie in my place a family may decide to collect 5k from the guy instead of 10k fixed by the community but no family will ever add to the fixed price. [size=18pt]When it comes to bride price the girl's family are not the only ones involved, the kindred are always involved in fact they inspect the items bought by the guy.[/size] My dear, i know what I'm saying

I don't get, Is this supposed to be a good thing?

Igbo girls are caring!! Just fabulous .. If i do say so myself

pinkycute:
How do you mean

Please be realistic here

Igbo girls too like money

That's why I am an edo boy that's gonna marry hausa, edo or foriegn.

#IMO, Majority are pretty, good cooks and fvck well

Adaobi12:
valuable commodities ain't cheap.

Hahahahahahahahahhahahaha baby girl iji ya anyi di ngala onu maka anyi mara mma nke ukwu. Di kwuo iche ( we are expensive cos we are beautiful and special)

Haha..what of places like ngwa,mbaise and co.....dem dey wreck the groom,wella.....all rites u mentioned re all indirectly under dowry

ronald4lif:
Mr man stop peddling falsehood as though it's fact. There's no where in Igbo land where a woman's dowry is up to a million. It's not even up to a 100K. You may say other marital rites could be up to a million but not the dowry. Please get your facts right.

Suspect33:
Jst last month a frnd of mine went to his fiancee's hometown in anambra state for introduction, nd after the introduction, he was given a list of items to buy in accordance wit dia tradition.... Buying those items cost more than 350,000.......

Lst 2 week he went again to gve dem d items, so as to hasten the wedding plans, to cut it short, der told him dat the bride price was 1.2million bt der decided to reduce it to 1 million because of d present condition of d country..... He told dem he cant pay such amount, nd der said der will not gve him dia daughter, dat if he dnt hav money he should go nd marry frm oda tribes.....


My question nw is dat, WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THE IGBO... because dis hav happened to three of my friends nd am dating an igbo girl..... AM NID ANSWERS PLs

My friend,you aren't sure of what you saying.
Which village was that,cos you sounding like a bloody liar.

Suspect33:
Jst last month a frnd of mine went to his fiancee's hometown in anambra state for introduction, nd after the introduction, he was given a list of items to buy in accordance wit dia tradition.... Buying those items cost more than 350,000.......

Lst 2 week he went again to gve dem d items, so as to hasten the wedding plans, to cut it short, der told him dat the bride price was 1.2million bt der decided to reduce it to 1 million because of d present condition of d country..... He told dem he cant pay such amount, nd der said der will not gve him dia daughter, dat if he dnt hav money he should go nd marry frm oda tribes.....


My question nw is dat, WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THE IGBO... because dis hav happened to three of my friends nd am dating an igbo girl..... AM NID ANSWERS PLs

My friend,you aren't sure of what you saying.
Which village was that,cos you sounding like a bloody liar¿.

ammyluv2002:
This isn't true. ...as in big fat lie! No town in Anambra collects that amount. The items bought can be upto that amount but the family asking for 1m as bride price? In Awka South where i come from the bride price is 10k

Even purchase of any item in any particular village in Anambra wouldn't amount to 300k.

prettyjo:
mstcheeewwwww.
rubbish.
@op.one thing is to say what you heard and another is what you have seen.
one thing again is to lie,another is to make that lie palatable.

please which town in anambra state collects such amount.#prove me wrong if you can.#
this is how people go about believing what they don't know.

rubbish

Exactly the question i asked him as well.

This op is a bloody liar.

martineverest:
Haha..what of places like ngwa,mbaise and co.....dem dey wreck the groom,wella.....all rites u mentioned re all indirectly under dowry

What are you guys even saying
I know lots of average/poor igbo guys that are happily married with children,does that mean they didn't pay for dowry or perform traditional rights

sauceny:


My friend,you aren't sure of what you saying.
Which village was that,cos you sounding like a bloody liar¿.

He is a bloody liar.

Rainess:


Yes please! lol

~ How far? means What's up
How you dey? - How are you?
Wetin means what

e.g Wetin dey worry you- What is wrong with you
Wetin dey do you also means what is wrong with you..

Use these ones first to converse with someone here. I would teach you more as time goes on.

Darkrebel666:


~ How far? means What's up
How you dey? - How are you?
Wetin means what

e.g Wetin dey worry you- What is wrong with you
Wetin dey do you also means what is wrong with you..

Use these ones first to converse with someone here. I would teach you more as time goes on.

What about oyinbo and mtchewww

Rainess:


What about oyinbo and mtchewww

~ Oyinbo is a word the yorubas used to refer to light-skinned people in the pre-colonial era
By light-skinned people, I mean Albinos. .
It means
Oyin= Honey
Bo= Peeled
together it means peeled honey. They later used it as a term for the white colonial masters due to the fact that their skin was white, pale sort of.

and mtsheeww is not pidgin
Mtshewww is an onomatopoeia signifying the HISSING sound.. It was coined by Nigerian Internet users.

Darkrebel666:


~ Oyinbo is a Yoruba word for light-skinned people.
By that I mean Albinos. .
It means
Oyin= Honey
Bo= Peeled
together it means peeled honey. They later used it as a term in addressing the white colonial masters due to the fact that their skin was white, pale sort of.

and mtsheeww is not pidgin
Mtshewww is an onomatopoeia signifying the HISSING sound.. It was coined by Nigerian Internet users.

Haha everytime I try to sound out mtchewww in my head it's like a high pitched sneeze

Rainess:


Haha everytime I try to sound out mtchewww in my head it's like a high pitched sneeze

.~ Lol ... maybe I would do an audio teaching you how to pronounce them then upload the link here.
How would you like that?

chiefdoctor:


So you are vouching for ALL the families where you are from that none of them are money-hungry extortionists abi?

See, being where I'm from, they say a lot of things about my people. But I cannot argue, because I know their behavior to be true.
All I can say is "Sorry, you had a bad exp. I just want you to know that we're not all like that."....Not that I will be shouting and spitting "IMPOSSIBLE! MY PEOPLE CAN NEVER DO IT. BLAH BLAH BLAH"....meanwhile deep down, you know it to be a widespread issue with your people.

You have to be realistic, otherwise you just end up lying to yourself and to others...in which case all you are just doing is irritating your soul.

It is not any widespread issue, you can believe whatever you want to believe about your own people. I am surprised how strangers/outsiders will claim to know our culture and tradition more than us.
There is never a place in Anambra that a family would give a list of 350k then request 1million naira as "dowry".
Do you even know that it's compulsory the bride's family returns the dowry should there be a divorce thereby making families demand/accept what they can pay back without stress.

Long discussion about this topic here by ibo people.
https://www.facebook.com/timothy.ofoegbu/posts/10152572264924795

I pity the obnoxious girls here saying things like "we are too beautiful and special" etc. May God help you.

I think it's generally better to leave ibos for ibos. Marry the hot babes from other tribes.
Because let me tell you, Ibos are very traditional, even professed chrsitians. If you already do not agree with their marriage tradition, you will disagree with all their other almost-fetish traditions.

As to team "Anambra can't do this", let's hope for the sake of your daughters that you are speaking the truth...cuz boys aren't smiling O. If not, if you let your so-called elders who have already lived their lives and who obviously hate you ... block you from living yours, you will have no-one to blame but yourself.

I would have honestly thought that by now igbo youth from the expensive tribes would have already been more vocal about this issue that keeps them single and sinning for eons. Because let's face it, not every girl will marry a rich man...at least not at that point in time.

softysparky:

It is not any widespread issue, you can believe whatever you want to believe about your own people. I am surprised how strangers/outsiders will claim to know our culture and tradition more than us.
There is never a place in Anambra that a family would give a list of 350k then request 1million naira as "dowry".
Do you even know that it's compulsory the bride's family returns the dowry should there be a divorce thereby making families demand/accept what they can pay back without stress.

Read the fawking article
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/matrimonial-hurdles-1-marriage-igbo-land-separates-boys-men/

Better go and revolt against your wicked elders for the sake of you and your sisters.
See how that poor girl was forced to marry a rich old illiterate she doesn't love.
From the very same Anambra that you haven't made us hear word about since.

Adaobi12:
valuable commodities ain't cheap.

All expensive goods are not valuable!

Adaobi12:
valuable commodities ain't cheap.

With this statement, let me hear one ediot get angry when we say you are being sold to the man and thus have no say in the home.
If you truly understand what you are saying, you will rethink.

Besides the insult ofcourse that you are valuable and that the man is invaluable.

firstEVA:
you forgot to add greedy

Gbam .

ireneony:
this is what I don't like about my tribe

Gbam

ammyluv2002:
This isn't true. ...as in big fat lie! No town in Anambra collects that amount. The items bought can be upto that amount but the family asking for 1m as bride price? In Awka South where i come from the bride price is 10k

i thought as much

Agrika:

i thought as much

As in?

ammyluv2002:
As in?

as in what

fucccccccccck tradition! DON't pay a dime!

Suspect33:


My question nw is dat, WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THE IGBO GIRLS

They're extremely cheap.. Easily affordable

Biko stop with the fake story.....
I'm from Nnewi and 65# is d actual brideprice.
I have sisters who are married and what was on their list wasn't even up to that amount and they are graduates ooo.
Some people might ask u to buy many things when they see u are loaded but not up to that