Hotstepper:

is it nnewi that u've not been to or your town?lol

I meant nnewi,I am an Area boy in my town.That is why I know that it is a beautiful place
I know that the closest you have gotten to nnewi is by a picture

lets get real here! we igbo understand that these issue take place but hey should we let this be an issue now. i suggest one just have to play their cards rite afterall my coiusin she is married to yoruba another one to abia state!

i can only hope this is not in anyway tryin to discredit the igbos because its aint making any sense now!

nevertheless this should never be an issue and i guess if u yoruba from ijebu ode u might grab what im saying! omo

one niaja yall!

hahaha, every1 will say that his/town i dat beautiful, nnewi is nice oooooooooooo, ofcorse I have been to nnewi, know places dere, am heading dere again diz xmas, lol

Yeah u are right.Whose mothers soup does not taste the best.Anyway safe jon when you go down just remenber to bring some Akpu and onugbu while coming back

What marry from my own town?! My "town" has between 300 and 400 people. Half of them are women and how many of the men are about my age and single?

i dont think the place you marry from really counts,i think what counts is your happiness would you be happy with the person you marry.take for instance my aunty who is a correct igbo woman(nnewi)when she was about to get married to her husband who happens to be a yoruba man,many people frowned.but she finally succeeded in convincing her parents(my grand parents) and they have been married for 15years and she keeps saying she thank God that she did not allow the issue of tribalism stop her from marrying her husband.she could never wish for a better husband.so i think it does not really count.
my dad is a Calabar man and my mum's an igbo woman and me if the husband meant for me is a yoruba man i would marry him.

Interesting

@ whitelexi
Wats so intresting?

Trust me @thoniaslim, u dont wanna know

na wa-o!

I know alot of igbo people who married outside and happy, so itz all about happiness and convincing ur parents if ur parents r one of those dat oppose 2 such thingssssssssss, by da way, wayz ur aunt's lastname or where in nnewi is she 4rom?

This debate is so interesting. But non-Igbo people have observed the following:

1). An Asaba or Anioma person is far more likely to marry from anywhere, within or outside Alaigbo. Didn't Maryam Babangida from Asaba marry from Niger State, when she decided to say "I do" to Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida? And isn't the current Obi of Asaba Prof. Chike Edozien, married to Modupe, a Yoruba woman from the South-west? They have been together for over 50 years, oh!

2). An Anambra man is highly unlikely to marry from anywhere except from his own state, especially if he is the first son. They can date girls from other places, but when it comes to marriage, mba, he will head homewards. This is usually after claiming that his father said 'this,' or his mum said 'that.'

3). An Abia man is also quite disposed to marrying within and outside his ethnic group.

4). A Rivers-Igbo man (i.e. Ikwerre, Ndoni, Etche etc), will definitely marry outside his clan, whenever he can. They are quite sociable and broad-minded.

In conclusion anyway, I guess an Igbo person who will not marry from the next state, is highly unlikely to marry from a different tribe!!

@hotstepper
Uruagu hope i got the spelling correct

yea, u gat th spelling rite, I am from Uruagu as well, so wats her lastname cuz i might know da family

It really is so funny that within the same tribe segregation exists!

Am from Oguta in imo state and the generalisation kacey gave is true to some extent, i have an uncle who's so hellbent on marrying from our home town. My elder brother though married from the south west and they have since been singing it into our ears that we the ladies must marry from our home town!

laudate:

A Rivers-Igbo man (i.e. Ikwerre, Ndoni, Etche etc), will definitely marry outside his clan, whenever he can. They are quite sociable and broad-minded.

In conclusion anyway, I guess an Igbo person who will not marry from the next state, is highly unlikely to marry from a different tribe!!

@laudate
u said a lot of things correctly

i live in ph and a lot of my ikwerre friends all have mothers from imo state

i just wonder why ?

and about the anambra guy that uses his father as an excuse i have seen it several times happening

@dominibaby

well its up to u to decide. if u want to marry for love or u wnat to mary for polity

just take ur time, marriage is a long journey its up to u to make it a worth while ride cos while ur on it the bystanders are just on lookers

I am from Imo, and i schooled in Enugu, spent holidays at my cousin's house in onitsha, my best friend was from Otolo-Nnewi, and we used to spend time with his family as well. My girlfriend at the time was from Isielukwu in Delta and i did go visiting sometimes, I had classmates from enugu and i always had to stop at umuahia in abia on my way to my village for a drink and some fun.
Generally, i think the eastside is a wonderful place to be, the nature, fresh air, trees, local food, all the cheap stuff and fun! i always enjoy myself around there,  This is why it hurts to know that instead of planning to unite, we are actually killing each other's efforts at growth and integration. Look at the last elections,  Ojukwu, Udenwa, Uzorkalu, Nnamani, Nwobodo, Rochas,  Everyone wanted to go for presidency,  In the end, we all lost, its sad we cannot unite over any issue, really sad

Kacey i only just said what family members have said. Personally, i'm spending da rest of my life with the one God's choosen for me.

@whitelexi , its really sad.

I said it before that before we can have igbo president, we have to unite and bring one candidate and support him not 10 people running, I even think Ekwueme was running

hmm uncle whitelexi

na u biko, mba5 forever baby, now clearly that made no sense, i say err look do watever u want.

katherinae:

hmm uncle whitelexi

na u biko, mba5 forever baby, now clearly that made no sense, i say err look do watever u want.

What can i say? I do what i can baby, i do what i can

as far as am concern IMO pple are very Bad & I doubt if i could marry 4rm There

Especially Mba 5 & owerri pple.

I am speaking from core experience

Saddam where are you from? You don't have to generalize!

I am from Cameroun/Iraq

Hope you are ok? but still telling u that IMO women are bad

@ Saddam

I thought so you were from Iraq ( it figures).Obviously all you know is how to generalize without even saying why all imo women are bad. Did you live in Imo state?Or you just met a few Imo women you had bad experience with and now claim that they are all bad!

You must be very shallow minded.

@saddam

ur so stupid .
i would like to call u and idiot with an experience

@chichimma

You have got a deep mind like a 60ft Borehole.

Thanks

But remember IMO Women are dangerous Gready & Every thing u can think of


kaecy5
U be like ur mama.
(Stupid Beast)

LMAO An Idiot with experience Thats a new one on me

saddam
abeg make u shut up ya mouth, what do u mean by bad, just because people want to dupe us and we dont let them does not make us bad,and as for the greedy part, i can name a million girls from lagos and portharcout who will sleep with their friends man for money so please, check urself before u make such a silly comment again. I would tell u not to generalize but i do to so i wont, see igbo people are not even hypocrites, and by the way are u from cameroon or iraq,

katherinae:

saddam
abeg make u shut up ya mouth, what do u mean by bad, [s] just because people want to dupe us and we don't let them does not make us bad,[/s]and as for the greedy part, i can name a million girls from lagos and portharcout who will sleep with their friends man for money

2 thumbs up

sure word i live in ph and men i can count more than a million
and saddam is a confused iraqi or should i say a confused camerounian

dumb head

katherinae

I have dealth with many Mba 5 people who have taken my fair cut after several transactions.

I have observed that Mba 5 Chicks are usually greedy unnecessarily.

So I doubt if u don’t have similar instincts with ur country 5 Pple

@ Saddam,

Its obvious that you can't reason proper. Are that the only reasons you can come up with for judging Imo people SAD I don't know how old you are but you are very childish to generalize like that , I guess children of nowadays are not even like that

I feel pity for you having such a shortsightness to the things of life just because you met some people from Imo that were greedy and duped you with transactions. That is an individual thing not state related, anyway, there is nothing I can say that will make you to step out of your glass house. I guess that is too deep for you, let me make it easier for you. You made up your mind what Imo people concerns they are all bad. Just carry on with your generalizm!