I attended the burial of a colleague in Imo State, Apart from the burial arrangement and paying the staffs, they have to do a big party probably slaughtered about 4 cows and several bags of rice, everything calls for celebration in Igbo land, the family spent about 2 million naira, bcoz many people came not out of sympathy but the prospect of free food.

As a Muslim, this is my first hand experience of a Christian funeral, in my area burial are no big deal irrespective of your status, seeing the wastage of money on the burial day left me shocked, considering our firm have to pay the medical bills of the lady b4 she passed away as no help was coming from the family.

I just don't know why Nigerians will always go a step further in anything they do? From gold casket, synchronised burial guards, in fact they will import the burial clothes if possible i heard a family delayed their burial because they were waiting for a musician to come back from overseas.

Not new....IJEBU people celebrate burial party from monday 2 sunday one cow each for a day..so what new?