unite4real:


I didn't know that Akeredolu, Shoyinka and Gen Abdulsalami are Igbo

PANDA2:


Igbo and culture are like 5 and 6
In any case RIP

teekay213:
When you see your father in heaven tell am say buhari Don almost kill the Biafra people finish o

Wiseandtrue:
I can just imagine what Debe would have said if he was in her place

Too much of hatred is injurious to one's health!

Rest in peace Debe!

Henz24:
whats fortunate about announcing the death of one's family member, SMH, anything to speak ill about the tribe

freedomforall30:
Igbo men and full white facial hair are like 5 and 6. I noticed Igbo men even in their 40s already have full white or gray facial hair. Like Nnamdi Kanu. You can never see this in Yorubas or Hausa-Fulani but you will see it in other Biafran tribes and African Americans too. Another proof we are not the same people with yorubas and hausa-fulani. I wish I had gray beards!

iLoveAnambra:
This is false Information... This man is not the son of Ojukwu the warlord but his Brother.. abi Ojukwu use less than 20years senior his son....

Ndi media bu ndi nzuzu

iLoveAnambra:
This is false Information... This man is not the son of Ojukwu the warlord but his Brother.. abi Ojukwu use less than 20years senior his son....

Ndi media bu ndi nzuzu

ImperialYoruba:
Ibo women have no rights in their culture, period!

They face abuse and discrimination. As they marry into other cultures and find they are given roles which was uncommon and denied in their own culture they gain voice to speak out. Many have spoken out and lately Supreme court ruled to change some of these discriminatory practices in Iboland.

1. When Ibo woman marry Yoruba she moves up in society. She gains new rigjts and liberties.

2. Yoruba women that marry Ibo move their men up in society and open their eyes to new aspects of traditions and ethos they had never known.

3. When Osu move into Yorubaland they gain new economic freedom and social liberties. They discover they can own properties and are the same with everyone else.

4. Even children born into Yoruba/Ibo relationship learn etiquette of social relationships. They learn respect for elders and the false ego and loudness which is the hallmark of Ibo tradition is tamed in them and replaced with Omoluabi. Most important....they are trained to wake their father with greetings and felicitations...they are taught the value of "Eku...", and no product of such intermarriage ever use the known and widely accepted Ibo custom of rousing the father early in morning with a commanding shout and foot kick in the ribs.

I dare any Ibo to challenge these points. I have details and even reports from your homeland, as far back as 1950s to bring up as evidence. I will open a brand new thread just to showcase it.

So wake up and know your place and stop comparing your women's restricted behavior in their custom as equal with the practice everywhere else. No it is not...

Una don provoke my anger this afternoon. We go talk. I no go work today i dey here all day.

christopherozo:


She did the right thing. Igbo custom demands that elders in the family announce the death of a family member. It is not the place of a woman to do so. Tomorrow they will begin to read meaning into the whole thing. She is a sensible woman.

Wiseandtrue:
I can just imagine what Debe would have said if he was in her place

Too much of hatred is injurious to one's health!

Rest in peace Debe!

solihu:
confirm.

teekay213:
When you see your father in heaven tell am say buhari Don almost kill the Biafra people finish o

jokinexcel:
She's right, in Igbo tradition women are not allowed to make public the death of someone.

Henz24:
whats fortunate about announcing the death of one's family member, SMH, anything to speak ill about the tribe

ImperialYoruba:
Ibo women have no rights in their culture, period!

They face abuse and discrimination. As they marry into other cultures and find they are given roles which was uncommon and denied in their own culture they gain voice to speak out. Many have spoken out and lately Supreme court ruled to change some of these discriminatory practices in Iboland.

1. When Ibo woman marry Yoruba she moves up in society. She gains new rigjts and liberties.

2. Yoruba women that marry Ibo move their men up in society and open their eyes to new aspects of traditions and ethos they had never known.

3. When Osu move into Yorubaland they gain new economic freedom and social liberties. They discover they can own properties and are the same with everyone else.

4. Even children born into Yoruba/Ibo relationship learn etiquette of social relationships. They learn respect for elders and the false ego and loudness which is the hallmark of Ibo tradition is tamed in them and replaced with Omoluabi. Most important....they are trained to wake their father with greetings and felicitations...they are taught the value of "Eku...", and no product of such intermarriage ever use the known and widely accepted Ibo custom of rousing the father early in morning with a commanding shout and foot kick in the ribs.

I dare any Ibo to challenge these points. I have details and even reports from your homeland, as far back as 1950s to bring up as evidence. I will open a brand new thread just to showcase it.

So wake up and know your place and stop comparing your women's restricted behavior in their custom as equal with the practice everywhere else. No it is not...

Una don provoke my anger this afternoon. We go talk. I no go work today i dey here all day.

frozen70:


Not realy,

They are having family issues and for punch to ask her such questions means that they want to hear her reactions on it

She was wise to direct them to the elders

Besides no ibo tradition says women shouldn't announce a death.

Who carries information more? Is it not women that spreads informations

But they already have family squabbles and her comments could be used against her

Hassan88:


What has she said that is wrong now? Women sef...


Check my signature.

spiralwedge:

They won't like this your post o. I no fit shout

Baawaa:
She is trying to play safe

Wiseandtrue:

She responded well. I was just saying if it were the other way, Debe could have said worst!

ImperialYoruba:



These commenters lack perspective on history, on humanity and on the evolution of society generally.
I can write a dissertation on this subject alone. It is deep but these commenters have really spiked my emotion today and made me angry.

Traditionally there were various media for breaking news in a community.

1. Newsbreak from the King or Head of a community is done with a town crier at the square or at the market.

2. Newsbreak of a birth is done by women going round family homesteads to deliver cheers and joy of the new arrival. They also have the task of merriment and celebration. Men are facilitators, they provide the means to make the tasks successful. The rites of naming is on the men.

3. Newsbreak of death. Like that of birth, someone has to make the rounds and knock on family doors and break the news.

If this is Ojujwu's son, Biancah is his step-mother. Social protocols in human society places the mother, step-mother, foster-mother, surrogate-mother, grand-mother...and all other mothers immediate to the life of the deceased, in a state of grief...and not reasonably in state of mind to make the rounds and break the news.

Just as Men are not so emotionally elated, and are not ideal for breaking news of a newborn....they are also less touched when a family member is lost and their grieving does not stand in way of other functions. They are regarded as a better newsbreaker of death.

This does not exclude a man from breaking news of birth or a woman from breaking news of death. Its a protocol but not a mandate in human societies generally.


In modern days of celebrity status and no one knocks on doors to breaknews anymore...they are delivered on facebook and whatsapp, "breakingnews" has taken a new meaning and status.

elsom:


No mind him.

Baawaa:
She is trying to play safe