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Spy360:
It's not about me/you, it's the ancestry. The male line is the true line. They will bear the family name. To do so, they need to have a place called home, enough to last for generations.

I am just arguing by the way.

This is a worrisome line of thought.

It simply means you are saying only a male child is really worth to be called a child in the real sense of the word. Irrespective of whatever grammar you use to cover it, that is exactlg what it means.

Personally, I don't agree with that line of thought

GloriousGbola:
If the man uses his wife's inheritance to buy property in his own name - what happens?

Her inheritance is her inheritance and once she shows proof it was hers the man will walk out with nothing out of it.

You think a woman who is on the verge of divorce will be doing sme-sme by not showing evidence of her inheritance to the court?

iamoyindamola:
This is what BlueRayDick have to understand too

Quote the Nigerian law that allows a man walk away with his wife's inheritance following a divorce.

Gifts and inheritances which you acquired before marriage cannot just be handed to your spouse in a divorce proceedings.

raumdeuter:
In this world now, when most of the boys are in another country. You are talking about a property in Imo and your sons 3 of them are in Canada, Japan and USA. What is the point of the ancestral land to them

The way he's been talking "ancestral land" is kinda weird to me sha. I really don't see the use/need for ancestral land because to me it just sounds like a land where people choose to get buried after their demise or they build their country home in the viallge..... Aside that, I don't see the value of the so-called ancestral land.

In this age when people have kids scattered all over the world, of what value is ancestral land? Rather, I would focus more on properties and lands in the city that are directly owned by the parents or passed down by their grandparents.

Spy360:
If you bring another family name into your ancestral land, don't you think it will lead to crisis in the future?

Where a stranger begins to drag property with the sons simply because they were married to their sister

Define ancestral land in the context of living in a city. I mean in the context of 2 to 3 generations that have lived in a city.

Can a king be so powerful to order hoveremt agencies to demolish people's properties?

We were advised to meet our Kabiyesi Oloworo to appease him. Each building contributed ₦10,000, and we bought goods worth over ₦400,000, which we took to the Kabiyesi.

— Kamorudeen Badewa, a resident of Oworonshoki, speaks on the demolitions.#CTVTweet#CTVMorningBrief pic.twitter.com/xC3TTZdCxC

— Channels Television (@channelstv) October 28, 2025

Residents of Oworo are calling out the Oloworo of Oworo for attempted land grabbing by ordering demolition of their houses.

These things dey really fear person o. What if you decide to invest in a property with clean title documents and years later a kind in connivamce with government just decide to come for the property?

iamoyindamola:
You are missing it, not that i don't agree to female having share of family wealth
The is their husband, by law it becomes the husband property which won't be fair especially if the man is polygamous in nature, he's reaping where he didn't sow.
Unless there is a standing law that state the properties are meant for the woman and her kids

If her husband ends up being polygamous she can always divorce him. Abi? Her property is her property, no court will say her husband should inherit the property she inherited when tbey are about to divorce.

The female child has a right to inherit property from her family so does the male. Since both of them will marry and start their respective families, it is discriminatory depriving the female of her inheritance because of marriage while the male child is allowed to enjoy his own inheritance.

iamoyindamola:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSIAGYFq15o?si=gFq9Zt2tjaOW7S9x

He destroyed the project for being too good
Nkan nbe

When I took result of the GCE I wrote in SS2 to school,.while my friends were checking it, a teacher saw it and asked them to show her what amusing them.

She took it from them and asked who owns the result. They were asked to call me and I went to the staff room to meet.

This woman literally subjected me to bullying in front of colleagues by claiming boldly I must have written the exam in a miracle center for it to be that good. Maybe because she knows herself and her colleagues were terrible teachers ni ó, I don't know. But she was certain I couldn't have read and passed all 8 papers with dinstiction and credit. (What she didn't know was I attended a tutorial where young brilliant minds taught us well and made us understand concept of most subjects).

That my teacher is like this lecturer. It's an indictment on him to be thinking the student's work is too good to be true.

Olowunl01:
@ BlueRayDick
Quick question : I think recently you guys were discussing the new tax reform laws with Larride, did anyone mention the increase in capital gains tax from 10% to 30%? I am seeing stuff about this online but not sure if it is true...

Personally I consider it wrong move, for a country trying to encourage diaspora investment & FDI

I've already said I won't pass any further comments on the new tace reform laws. Let's all wait till maybe end of first quarter next year when the effects of the law would've kicked.

Let's wait and see if what is written om paper and preached becomes the reality or if the people would groan under the effects of the law.

Olowunl01:
No, those would be his personal wealth, to be shared as he pleases. Growing up when our Igbo neighbour died in an accident with his wife and son, my dad was involved in ensuring the daughter inherited his houses in Lagos & PH, but his Big Mansion in the village reverted to his kindred as the property was built on an inherited land. I am not unaware that even this tend to happen where the girl child has strong men fighting her corner as gluttonous relative most likely would try to overstep.

Have you considered that would happen to females in the previous generation who were excluded to the benefit of the father of the current girl child?

You are choosing to see things with village eyes and not the fact that some people's village has actually turned to city now. Some people's village is Ibeju Lekki which has now turned to a gold mine for realtors.

Let me rephrase my question in this vein. Let's say you belong to Olumegbon family or any of the land owning houses in Lagos and your family land strecthes down to all those Ibeju. Now that's ancestral land right?

Are you saying when the family decides to sell a portion of the land the female grandchildren don't have right to the proceeds that will be shared in the family but the male grandchildren do ?

Spy360:
As an Igbo, customarily, no one owns the ancestral land. It belongs to the Umunna or kindred/extended family. In adulthood you're given a sizeable portion to build your home or whatever you like. But you don't own the land. In death, the property goes to the eldest son who manages it in trust for the entire family. If he has no sons, his wife and any daughters continue to live in the property. At the end, it will still go to the eldest in the family. In that way, women don't inherit and the property is preserved within the family. Especially the land.

Even when they sell, all the male heirs share the money. Women also get some share but it's not an entitlement.

Well, our culture differs and over here people do actually own lands and properties on them.

Like the example I gave, if your grandfather owns a property he passed down to his children (both male and female), those children's children also have a right to the property when their own parents die.

Right from childhood I have watched different radio and TV programmes like "Gboromiro" on NTA channel 7 where people bring disputes about how one elder brother or sister or uncle or aunty wants to take the whole property of their grandparents to himself or herself.

The panel on the program usually consist of Lawyers, a chief or someone who is an authority in customs & traditions, one or two elderly persons and any other person who may be knowledgeable in inheritance matters.

One thing I notice is they always speak about fairness and equity. Their judgement is always premised on the fact that a male child and female child have equal rights to inherit such property passed down to them. They either suggest the properties are shared "idi igi" (According to the number of wives of the original property owner) or ori-ojori (everyone gets equal share of the property and its proceeds).

To me, that has always been fair.

Olowunl01:
We need to differentiate between ancestral land and parents owned ( not passed down property)

Just like we dont pass down kingship in our culture I dont think ancestral lands should be passed down to married woman, however she 100% inherit her parents personal wealth.

Let's say as a Lagosian your grandfather owns a building at Mushin and another building at Ebutte Meta, does that qualify as ancestral home?

If yes, are we saying a female child cannot inherit such inheritance passed down to her father and now down to her? Are we saying only the male children can have a piece in those two buildings and be entitled to collect rent on them or get compensated when the building is leased out to a developer for 50 years and the developer pays millions?

Is that what we are saying?

Ogun State again.

Man laments over the deplorable condition of Aiyetoro–Itele Road in Ogun State, calling on the state government to come to their rescue. pic.twitter.com/e2w4zB0rLg

— CHUKS 🍥 (@ChuksEricE) October 27, 2025

The last time I passed through this road was maybe around 2011/2012 when the whole place was still opening up and people were buying lands there in the hopes that development will Come there soon due to its close proximity to Lagos(Ayobo).

The road then was just graded red soil that was passable but not smooth. Seeing the same road in this state in 2025 is wild

Ellexy:
Yeah later saw that. Additionally, relatives of the man shouldn't inherit the properties the man or lay claims to it when he has wife and children. I no dey in support of that one at all. A very wicked operation.

Extremely wicked thing. Some of them will claim it is better they (the brothers and uncles) take over the property than for the woman to marry someone else and their brother's property will be enjoyed by the new man.

They forget that their brother's children with the woman will suffer if they take away those things from her in their own selfishness. I don't even think they forget sef; more like they just don't care. I've seen it happen severally and when the wife seeks help either from legal practitioners, human rights organizations or even the husband's employers, the family will label her a bad woman and turn their backs on her.

iamoyindamola:
This law actually protect female, there are some ruthless husband that marry the woman because of her family wealth, some go as far as killing her for it.

This just sounds like making excuse to disinherit one's daughter. Ibime and Theflint mentioned putting measures in place to pass the inheritance down to grandchildren through their mum and I agree with it.

However, saying because she may marry a schemer or would-be criminal one should then share the property with some distant relatives is shortsightedness.

If I tell you the kind of things I don see in the course of my work involving extremely wicked family members who would take whatever is due to their brother's widow and kids and leave them in the cold.....you will understand where I am coming from. Imagine a woman losing her husband and the next day the late husband's uncle comes to carry his Motorcycle even before the body gets cold. Na that same person dey disturb his employers for his benefits while sidelining the wife.

Ellexy:
As noble as this sounds, it can become short sighted when not balanced with wisdom if you want to protect your wealth and legacy.

A man can ensure his daughter's happiness and protection and at the same time make sure his wealth and legacy stays within.

And like Ibime pointed out, If your wealth is unconditionally tied to another family through marriage, and things go south (divorce, manipulation, death), that your daughter ends up vulnerable and unhappy and your goal of happiness for her fails.

Protecting your assets is not done sentimentally, it doesn’t also mean you're distrusting her or depriving her of her rights, it means building safety nets for her because people change and relationships evolve. This applies to male children too.

I have already responded to Ibime's post up there.

iamoyindamola:
But you are bearing your family surname

What's the relevance of bearing family's surname to leaving your properties with your wife and children instead of to your uncles, cousins, etc

Spy360:
Ok.

Can a man inherit his wife's land when she dies even if it's at his in-laws

This question you are asking requires clarity. If you are against women inheriting from their father's family, how is it that you are asking ëven if they have the property at their father's side"?

If a woman has a land that has title documents in her name, the husband definitely becomes the beneficiary as her legal spouse before her demise.

I once mentioned it here that a former female colleague died and her husband got willed all her liquid and physical assets as stated in her trust which she completed few months before her death. Her family fought him in court but they had to settle out of court and he agreed to give them agreed percentage considering her aged mother and her brothers who are not really financially doing well as at that time.

Theflint1:
You might not disinherit them, but you'd put guardrails in place to ensure that the family wealth is preserved, like there's an entire aspect of family estate management that deals with things like this.

E get where money go don reach before you begin think like this sha, also families that practice inheritance in this fashion tend to run a family business.

I am down with this. It makes sense, what I think doesn't make sense is not allowing ur female child to get her deserved inheritance because of fear she might lose it to some schemer in marriage.

There's no assurance a son too would not mismanage his inheritance. I remember reading a piece on how Pascal Dozie built Diamond bank and Uzoma Dozie(the son) mismanaged it through poor strategic decisions and poor governance till it was sold to Access.

Ibime:
Family wealth lost through partners is called sideways disinheritance

For example your daughter dies and the man marries new wife. Your money will now be split between your grandchildren and his new wifes children. Or maybe your daughter is unfortunate enough to marry a schemer or polygamist

That's why some cultures practice the culture of passing on inheritance to grandchildren rather than children. By that stage, e done sure pass

So because I don't want my wealth to pass down to my daughter's stepchildren if her husband decides to by polygamous ; I should disinherit my own grandchildren by not passing any part of my wealth to their mother? That's cutting off your nose to spite your face na.

It makes sense to pass it down to grandchildren if they are available at that point but what if they are not? Would you not pass it to your daughter because of fear of the unknown?

iamoyindamola:
Not only Africa everyone protect wealth to their immediate family, no one was there when they are accumulating it

My immediate family is my daughter, not some members of my extended family like uncles, cousins, etc

iamoyindamola:
Look at it this way the woman is taking the property out yo add to another family
It won't be fair to the male that will be part of the family for life

The woman is being given what she deserves as a child of her family. She is taking it to "her own" family.

I think most people don't understand that the woman by leaving her parents to get married is starting her own family with her husband and not just going to be an appendage to some other person's family

liveLongNprospa:
The good thing about these things is that rich men know how to draw up wills that ensure the wealth never leaves their side of the family even if the woman marries and takes another name.

Especially if they give birth to only women.
Lets look at Dangote now, let's say he has only female children. How do you think he will ensure all that wealth doesn't go to the families his daughters become a part of when they get married

I think we worry about the wrong things in Africa.

Why should I be bothered if my wealth goes to the family my daughter marries from? What should be my major concern? Shouldn't it be about my daughter's happiness?

If My daughter would be happy enjoying her inheritance with her hubby and my grandchildren, why should that bother me so much?

So will I say because my daughter will transfer my wealth to her hubby, I should leave my wealth some damned extended family members instead of my daughter? It won't happen bro. I don't think Dangote will be worried his son-in-laws have access to his wealth through their wives.

Ellexy:
This has always been an interesting topic but culture differs. And I understand why women especially those who marry out don't get ancestral properties.

We all understand the "why", but the truth is the why doesn't make much sense in relation to fairness and equity.

It just looks like punishing a woman for doing what a man does and doesn't get punished for.

I understand culture differs, but I believe spy was asking the question in general terms; that's why I responded with own opinion on the matter. The world is actually evolving and moving away from some cultures that are biased and unfair to every member of the society.

iamoyindamola:
Yes she deserve to inherit properties but in my opinion, once she marries the properties should be withdrawn so that it will remain part of the family

Withdrawing it because she got married is denying her what should be her right. Since a man's inherited property is not withdrawn from him because he got married; doing the opposite for a woman is wrong. That is the definition of discrimination.

It looks as if we are punishing a woman for deciding to get married instead of staying single all her life just to remain "part of the family".

Spy360:
In your opinion, should a woman inherit ancestral property? Whether she is a wife or daughter, married and not.

Honest replies.

Thanks

Yes, a woman should have equal rights as man to inherit property whether ancestral or not. Anything other than that is gender-based discrimination.

The government is giving out ₦1m, ₦3m to compensation for whole buildings pulled down 🤦‍♂️

Oworo wey be say 2 bedroom annual rent sef don dey pass 3m, dem dey give person ₦3m for compensation for whole building.

I hope people that are always quick to defend government see this and tell us on what ground the buildings were.demolished because most of the demolished buildings even had their plan numbers written on them which shows they had government approval in the first place and not illegal structures.

The demolition going on in Oworonshoki is a selective one in which housesbof loyalists to the palace and politicians are not touched - Oworo resident

“The demolition done in this community was selective some people’s houses were not demolished because they are influential people.”

A resident of Oworonshoki says the Lagos government spared elite-owned properties as demolition continues in the community. pic.twitter.com/ZKoBXtr2WY

— News Central TV (@NewsCentralTV) October 27, 2025

The guy further claims the whole demolition is land grabbing by the state government to pave way for "The Elite Villa" estate which is already being sold to new buyers online 🤷‍♂️.

liveLongNprospa:
I have been laughing my butt off since yesterday.
Ronu APC dey threaten Lagos apc say them nor go vote for this election make GRV win😂😂.

Lagos APC say Ronu apc nor get any economic value.
Make them go get degree before them go give them opportunities.. See tears🤣

Everywhere just blur for Ronu APC eyes . The lagos APC wey dem dey follow do join body don dey clear dem say My Lagos is not your Lagos.

The whole thing has been amusing to watch from a distance Sha.

andrewbaba44:
Madrid won 2-1 and celebrated the win like a ucl final,something they haven’t done for long

If no be yamal dem for no do like that and the game won’t be heated with so many dodoyo from both teams

Yamal should keep talking ,if we win we will celebrate and if we loose we will take our L just as we did

Imagine winning a game and your players want to fight someone from the loosing side ,na dem pepe days that one been Dey happen

El Classico was becoming too friendly and yamal brought back the spark ⚡️

Make una enjoy una friendly derby for England abeg wey no Dey get any tension

You go explain.... explain.... explain....explain....

Theflint1:
Nigeria deserves to and should lose all it's brightest minds, it's just unfortunate that some parents are not aware enough or having the means to make their kids ready for exams like the SATs else kids that are scoring high like this would perform well in the SATs and jet out.

It's become pretty common to have kids this talented get scopped up by uni's abroad, know someone that her two kids went like this, first girl straight to MIT and younger one to Stanford or some other Ivy institution, both girls scored around 350 in the JAMB exams.

Unfortunately, not many parents have means to make that possible for their kids.

JAMB explained that the exceptional admission policy aligns with global best practices, where underage cases are treated as rare exceptions rather than the norm.

In the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), a total of 2,031,133 candidates applied for admission, out of which 41,027 sought consideration under the special underage category. Of these, 599 candidates scored at least 80 percent in the UTME and were subjected to further scrutiny, including verification of their school certificates and post-UTME performance.

Following this phase, 182 candidates (178 plus 4) were shortlisted for the final stage of interviews and documentation. Upon completion of the process, 85 candidates were found to have met all required criteria and were subsequently cleared for admission.

JAMB further advised any of the 182 finalists who, for valid reasons, missed the final interview to submit a formal request through the JAMB Support Ticketing System under the category “2025 Underage Complaint.”

The Board said such complaints would be reviewed individually and treated strictly on merit.

I feel this is an unfair system introduced by JAMB. 599 candidates scored above 80% (i.e. 320 and above) but because they are underaged they were subjected to further scrutiny only for just 85 of them to be offered admission eventually.

The system just doesn't sit down well with me. It's either JAMB prevents underage students from writing the UTME totally or allow everyone who scored high to have equal opportunity to be considered for admission.

This is Nigeria; if care is not taken JAMB may have successfully created another black market where parents with means will be buying slot for their underaged kids to be considered for admission above others in similar categories.

https://www.nairaland.com/8548582/jamb-clears-85-underage-candidates