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Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by Nobody: 8:32am On May 16, 2012 |
100 Couples In Kano Mass Wedding KANO (AFP) – One hundred couples tied the knot at a mass wedding at the main mosque in Nigeria’s second-largest city on Tuesday, part of an Islamic police programme aimed at promoting stable families. Hundreds of residents in the city of Kano, the largest in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north, thronged outside the central mosque for the wedding of divorcees and widows attended by the city’s traditional chief and government officials. The brides were the first set of 1,000 divorcees and widows the sharia police, known as the Hisbah, screened for marriage to available suitors. Grooms were dressed in flowing robes as a Hisbah official read off the names of the couples at the cavernous mosque. According to local custom, brides usually do not attend the ceremony, but some were there on Tuesday, dressed in veils and wax-cloth dresses. “I’m very happy today. May God reward all those involved in this project,” 40-year-old bride Magajiya Ya’u told AFP. Brides the palace of the emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, for a mass wedding of 100 divorcees and widows organised by the city's sharia police known as the Hisbah. The brides are the first set of 1,000 women the Hisbah plans to marry off as part of strategy to curb social and sectarian unrest in the city. AFP PHOTO One of the grooms married his second wife, as Islamic beliefs allow for up to four. “I’m in high spirits today because I have married the woman of my choice virtually at no cost because the government has shouldered the cost,” said 55-year-old Sule Alaramma, surrounded by well-wishers outside the mosque. The wedding was a product of a Hisbah programme seeking to match divorced and widowed women looking to re-marry with available men. It aims to address what officials say is a high divorce rate as well as to provide a stable home environment for children. Part of the goal is to reduce unrest in Kano, which has been hit by deadly violence blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram. Analysts say frustrated youths have helped fill the ranks of the Islamists. Women who volunteered for the programme included those left in difficult circumstances after the death of their husbands or a divorce in a region where arranged marriages are common. The programme was run in conjunction with the Voice of Divorcees and Widows Association of Nigeria (VOWAN), and officials say all women participated on a strictly voluntary basis. Women and men who qualified were allowed to meet each other at the Hisbah offices and decide on their own who they wished to marry. “We are grateful to God that we have begun to realise our dream of marrying 1,000 women as part of the government’s commitment to mitigate the social malaise we are facing in our society,” the head of the Hisbah, Aminu Daurawa, said after the wedding conducted by the city’s chief imam. “We will continue to conduct the weddings in batches and soon we will have the wedding of the second set of 100 women already screened.” Outside the mosque, a large crowd waited at the gates while the sharia police screened grooms before allowing them to enter the mosque. Armed policemen kept watch in the scorching heat amid drumming, singing and dancing. The Hisbah paid the 10,000 naira ($63) dowry for grooms and provided the brides with furniture and kitchen wares, as well as 15,000 naira ($95) to enable them to start small businesses such as tailoring or food preparation, Daurawa said. The brides were represented by the emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, and the grooms by a senior government official on behalf of state governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/100-couples-in-kanos-mass-wedding/ |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by OYINBOGOJU(m): 12:45pm On May 16, 2012 |
It takes little to appease the aboki 3 Likes |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by omega25red(m): 1:38pm On May 16, 2012 |
OYINBOGOJU: It takes little to appease the abokiwhy is that your attitude? what of the fact that maybe just maybe they value the union more than the material possessions that most other parents look forward to when their daughter gets to marriage age? |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by Nobody: 1:39pm On May 16, 2012 |
Hausa's and northerners are animals in human skin. Kano govt match making illiterates so they keep giving birth to children they have no plans for hereby resulting to increase in the number of almajiris available for recruit by the BOKO-ALLAHS. May amadioha fire all northerners 6 Likes |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by Samchuky(m): 1:39pm On May 16, 2012 |
Hmmm... Ana ma nu! |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by supremebeing09: 1:47pm On May 16, 2012 |
Never mind the mass wedding. $95 to start up a business?! 1 Like |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by wirewire(m): 1:49pm On May 16, 2012 |
The beautifull ones are not yet born (BH). God is watching.. |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by Whymee: 1:54pm On May 16, 2012 |
kayusfit: Hausa's and northerners are animals in human skin. Kano govt match making illiterates so they keep giving birth to children they have no plans for hereby resulting to increase in the number of almajiris available for recruit by the BOKO-ALLAHS. May amadioha fire all northerners Take some reasoning back to your home town, I.e forest, you are also a product of such illiterate unionism. Take it or leave it. Do u always need to comment. If an idea is obsolete to you, what you embrace now is also obsolete to others. ONE NIGERIA 1 Like |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by Nobody: 2:01pm On May 16, 2012 |
kayusfit: Hausa's and northerners are animals in human skin. Kano govt match making illiterates so they keep giving birth to children they have no plans for hereby resulting to increase in the number of almajiris available for recruit by the BOKO-ALLAHS. May amadioha fire all northerners AAMMEEENNNN 2 Likes |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by anishe(m): 2:06pm On May 16, 2012 |
What a good development. I hope the government has plans to do more for the children of these unions. |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by naijamatter: 2:21pm On May 16, 2012 |
lol...Kano home movie! |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by Nobody: 2:22pm On May 16, 2012 |
supremebeing09: Never mind the mass wedding. $95 to start up a business?! LMAO |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by achi4u(m): 2:27pm On May 16, 2012 |
one thausand boko harams mechanical marriages = four thausand sucide bombers and almajiris.more poverty,more bombing. infact this abokis are sub_human |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by bigiyaro(m): 2:30pm On May 16, 2012 |
The hausa/fulani folks are natural born idiots and couple with islam,the idiotic dose is just overwelming.why should the government recycle used and discarded women when they fully understand the uselessness of women in islam,8 out of every 10 hausa/fulani girl at the age of 18 is already married and divourced with 4-5 kids (and she will not even know their whereabout)and by the time an hausa/fulani man is 25 he is most probably married and divourced twice.typicaly the kids from all the previours marriages are discarded in the name of quranic education hence the 9 million almajiries (and still counting) in the north alone.Instead of the illitrate government addressing the issues that produced the divourcees and widows in the first place,its busy matchmaking and sponsoring loveless weddings.However,as far as the factors responsible for the high diviource rate remains intact,we should expect more broken homes and more almajiries hence more terrorists and IEDs. Sorry for the north. 3 Likes |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by Ozegbe(m): 2:49pm On May 16, 2012 |
assumming each give birth to 3 kids. we would have 300 kids or aboki roaming around the street in less than 3 years. na wa ooh |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by mjconcept(m): 2:52pm On May 16, 2012 |
kayusfit: Hausa's and northerners are animals in human skin. Kano govt match making illiterates so they keep giving birth to children they have no plans for hereby resulting to increase in the number of almajiris available for recruit by the BOKO-ALLAHS. May amadioha fire all northernersGuy thats a harsh word you used. |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by Beync(f): 2:58pm On May 16, 2012 |
Senseless marriages. what circumstances led to their present divorce states and widows? where are their Almajiri children? loitering abt in the streets and the gvt is busy match making their mothers to start breeding another millions of almajiris. tufiakwa! |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by mjconcept(m): 3:01pm On May 16, 2012 |
This a bad idea because it will lead to high rate of crime instead of empowering the women engaging them in useful ventures they are giving away their women for free tomorrow they (state Government) will crying for funds from the Fed to feed the almajiris what a visionless man. |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by 9jafreak: 3:13pm On May 16, 2012 |
The bio-political explosion of Islam continues. Islam may not be winning new converts but it'll finally shoot itself to 'most populous' with the multiply and replenish the earth policy except of course, the real goal is good ol 'conquest' and domination |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by Omogbhollahorn(m): 3:15pm On May 16, 2012 |
i dont get the point of the wedding they would still divorce even a new bride get divorced not to talk about this people and worst part they dont take children as their priority they just born them into conc poverty i tire ooo |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by mjconcept(m): 3:20pm On May 16, 2012 |
omega25red: why is that your attitude? what of the fact that maybe just maybe they value the union more than the material possessions that most other parents look forward to when their daughter gets to marriage age?No they don't value union cos if they do why are there many divorced and divorceés in the north, that is just a criteria to steal cos the following will gain; 1. Ministry of women affairs officials and employeés salary na for sure billions of naira if not dollars. 2. They will request Money to feed the almajiris billions of naira. You see multiple streams of income |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by LailaIkeji1: 3:25pm On May 16, 2012 |
OYINBOGOJU: It takes little to appease the aboki laffssssss. Imagine if na igbo brides. |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by Chamber10(m): 3:34pm On May 16, 2012 |
:oI weep for the North, so this is what the govt can do for her people instead of poverty eradication and youth empowerment? Myopic leaders!!! |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by livapul86(m): 3:49pm On May 16, 2012 |
Wow!!! Am shocked! Are we in 2012? Because am no longer Sure. |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by buJu234: 3:56pm On May 16, 2012 |
this country eh.... every week these govt. people most do something funny so with all the shout that Nigeria is broke financially; we have free money to throw away abi.....?// |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by blackboi(m): 3:57pm On May 16, 2012 |
see watin we dey hear |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by Arysexy(m): 3:59pm On May 16, 2012 |
to make matter worst once a husband pronounce '' i divorce u, i divorce u, i divorce u'' in islam, dats d end of marriage whether out of anger or fed up! d state govt shud be pre-occupied with d high illiteracy rate in d north nt dis sham marriage |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by akereconfi: 4:07pm On May 16, 2012 |
[color=#990000][/color]Load some of dem in a truck n bring dem tu d south, let us test dem wf our kpekus.......Hauza, Cow Rearin Lugards. Marriage @ no cost....oya make we see rapid child birth. Make dem born fast jor , we r lackin man power in d Aboki sector in d south...Shoe Makers, Nail Cutters, Bike Men, Beggars, gatemen. Etc. More grease tu ur KPEKUS........ ;DLoad some of dem in a truck n bring dem tu d south, let us test dem wf our kpekus.......Hauza, Cow Rearin Lugards. Marriage @ no cost....oya make we see rapid child birth. Make dem born fast jor , we r lackin man power in d Aboki sector in d south...Shoe Makers, Nail Cutters, Bike Men, Beggars, gatemen. Etc. More grease tu ur KPEKUS........ 1 Like |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by Ejine(m): 4:23pm On May 16, 2012 |
The fact that I'm actually lumped in the same country with these retrogressive animals still makes me sick to my stomach! 1 Like |
Re: Kano Pays ₦10.000 Dowry Each For 100 Brides At Mass Wedding by damilola15: 4:25pm On May 16, 2012 |
Instead of investing that money in the products of the previous marriages who are now dregs of the society, they use it to produce more. Damn, they make these women lower than I thought. |
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