Okijajuju1:
Dear Igbo Women: In Biafra, Men would never allow you women to hold equal rights as them.

Women like Late Dora Akunyili, Okonjo Iweala, Ezekwesili and co would never reach the level they did in Nigeria under Biafra because Igbo Men are more superior to Igbo women. They would end up in the Kitchen cooking Okpa and Akidi beans for the rest of their lives.

#IgboWomenSayNoToBiafra.

Holyman3:


The Same way Oba Akiolu and his wife have equal rights in Lagos.
Hypo.

Okijajuju1:



Stuuuuuupid post. Not worthy of a response.


Ewu Okigwe.

Stay in School, not in shop.

Okijajuju1:



Our differences should be a strength and not a weakness.


Diversity is not the same as not being united.

charix:
Africans: We revel in our ignorance and use it to justify our archaic ways.

ishiamu:


Are igbo women not educated? Hausa woman and igbo woman whose more educated?

The last time I checked it's legal to marry a 15year old lady in hausa...

freshvine:


It is only igbo land that breeds feminists and advocate for gender equality.

Is it the Northern Presidiot that doesn't shake women will encourage gender equality in Nigeria?

Holyman3:


The Same way Oba Akiolu and his wife have equal rights in Lagos.
Hypo.

DiademSh07:

LOL!
You were definitely under the rock when Buhari shook Oshiomole's wife at their wedding!
Ibo and lies, very synonymous!

Holyman3:


Of course your useless insecurity would make you to abuse and curse.
We know the part of Nigeria that kidnap and hold their women hostage for two years and counting.
We know the part of Nigeria that marry 5 wives and keep them hidden in others states.
Finally we know the part of Nigeria that covers the faces of their women like masquerades.

If you want to be like America , you can start with same sex marriage.
Then we will talk about rights..

Nature has created men different from women.
Even in your so called equal rights America, how many women has been president since 300 years of independence?

I guess you bigot is targeting one nairaland girl. So it's easy to take sides on non issues.

You can hide behind Igbo name and to rubbish.

gcode123:
How is this unafrican? So our sisters and mums should perpetually be seen as sub citizens in the country they hold the power to nurture growing citizens?

Reason why we need to boot out these illiterates and aged leaders.

Fanirandele:
See the kind of animals we have as lawmakers....this is so shameful . in 2016, these guys are still so backwards the goats didnt even allow the bill to be read

kurupt1:
Seconded.......and I've noticed marriages hardly end in divorces in enugu and their women are well taken care of and are happy.unlike in some other parts of the country where divorces and babymamas are in vogue

lastpage:


Did you read the post at all?


-The Speaker was a 'male'
-the Bill was read and contributions were taken (as an example, one male member gave his stand on it)
-The Leader of the house "tactically" asked the sponsor not to go forward with the Bill because he knew it will be defeated (and cant be presented again) thus saving her from the embarrassment.

In politics, it is safer to "withdraw", than to suffer "open defeat".

Think! Think!! Think!!!


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amacastel:
Solution women pls don't give men ur votes Again in Enugu, Enugu is the worst state to married into in the east except u are lucky ur husband is breed outside the wawa state the see women as only object of se x nothing else most of them give out there daughters as young as 11 to marriage to train a girl child is an abomination to them only very few of them train their girl child if they do their kinsmen see them as pple throwing away money their mentality and Hausa about women is same no difference. Even expose girls from Enugu will tell u that they will never marry from Enugu, rape is their culture and u the woman or the girl have no right to report. For pple that want to condemned me am from Aninri old awgu LGA I knw wot am saying I rather remain single than marry Enugu state man. Cos u will be in the dark forever.

DiademSh07:
No surprise though!
The way Chinua Achebe described the beating of wives with a glee in his book 'things fall apart' already showed that ibos are cavemen!
Is there any ibo man who doesn't beat his wife?
Yeye people!

DiademSh07:

Not just in Enugu!
Out tenant is an Anambra man! That man beats his wife daily. Never have I seen a man that nags like him before!
Majority of Ibo men are not desirable! No wonder their girls flee from them!

lastpage:


You people should leave "tribe" out of this discussion (l know yo did not start it) because in ALL TRIBES, there are women, so it cuts across.

Tribe has nothing to do with the topic.

The question has to do with "whether women are treated equally or not, in Nigeria".

Let us feckin debate the issue and not resort to the usual tribal feisty-cuffs please.

Apologies for my language.



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Mamatee07:
Wow so saying women should not be discriminated against is Un-african that means discriminating against women is African those men don't even deserve to be called humans. So wanting your female children to have the same rights as your male children is a horrible thing chai.

Someone is talking about low divorce rates, how won't they be low when the women have no rights. Many of them may be miserable battered women who can't leave because they are in a society that will discriminate against them. I guess that's why those mumus, don't want the bill so there wives won't be empowered.

BenBruce4Presdt:
Wow, the bill was even tried in Enugu.. It can never be read at all in any other part of this country talkless of scaling any reading..

God job.. The women should go back to the drawing board to address some key concerns raised during The Debate.. .

They should also love some men in the house to enlighten them on the importance of surporting their women.


Could one imagine if a woman should sponsor such bill in any other part of this country.. .South West or north Boko abbod, what life must have been for such a woman by now...

Her story would have been, after 24hrs, death threat, divorce, calling for her seat etc...


Enugu thanks for leading the way..

lastpage:


Please STOP!
STOP this tribal line!

I have seen "men from other tribes "fight with their wife" (I said "fight" because l have alos seen and listened to some "Men complain about how their wife beats them, ...........not because they can beat back but they just dont enjoying the physical assault!)

It cuts across tribes. Go to any customary court and hear wetin dey happen. You will realize that "violence" is not constrained to one tribe or to one GENDER.
But women like to always "play the victim".


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BTW: I am Yoruba, not Ibo

macIB:
bloody educated illiterate law makers. i guess they must be those that condemn their wives to the kitchen or a complete housewives not allowing the woman to reach her full God given potentials.....ANIMALS!

lastpage:


You got it wrong.
You dont try to solve "a problem that does not exist" ab initio!

He is saying We Nigerians/Africans dont discriminate against our women, we give them their place of pride in our socio-cultural environment thus, it is "Un-African" to even consider making laws against women's discrimination because that problem does not exist with us"!

You copy now? Comprehendi??

Thanks for meditating on it.



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DiademSh07:

How is it my business whether you are ibo or not!
The reality is only an ibo man would write with pleasure about men beating their wives like Chinua Achebe did!
I have had many encounters with ibos to confirm that what Achebe wrote aint lie!