Gistmedia10: A wedding ceremony in Edo State has stirred online discussions after a video surfaced showing a bride sitting on her father-in-law's lap multiple times. This act, rooted in Edo tradition, symbolizes the bride being handed over to her new family. The father of the bride typically sits her on the groom’s father’s lap seven times as a ceremonial gesture of transfer and a plea for the groom’s family to care for her.
While many defended the practice as an integral part of their culture, some netizens expressed discomfort with the method, arguing that it might not resonate well in modern times. One user commented, "Some things need to change. Not because the intention is bad, but because the method is."
Others passionately upheld the tradition, emphasizing its symbolic value. Another commenter wrote, "This is normal in our tradition. It’s called handing over; it’s not just symbolic but a heartfelt gesture to ensure the bride is received with love and care by her new family."
The video has sparked a wider conversation about balancing cultural preservation with evolving societal norms.
Basiljoe: Posting your achievements on social media like vacation trips, graduation pics, Job promotion, dinner dates, eating out in luxury restaurant's and others.
Is this the reason why their BVD worked very well,, but the Nigerian BVAS failed to work.??
. This thing which Yakubu pointed out is just a part of the “Symptoms” of a rotten electoral system.. He himself knows this too. If the electoral system is not rotten,, nobody should be changing parties..
1. Being able to live healthy and strong for more than 1,000 years.
2. Being able to raise someone back from the dead.
3. Being able to come back to life after death -- and that means, being able to choose at what time that one wishes to rise up again after death.
4. Being able to be at many places at the same time,, or being able to be at any place you wish to be at any instant you wish to be there -- without having to do the traveling. Even if all the entrances that lead to that place is locked, you would just be there whenever you wish to be there.
5. Being able to be present but invisible at anywhere you wish yourself to be present at -- that-is, to be present at anywhere, but not to be seen or felt.
6. Being able to go back in time to any desired moment (or place) in the past and spend any amount of time way-back, and even being able to re-live some moments and some events in the past as many times as possible -- and even do some things in the past “differently”, which would cause a change of the future of the past -- which would result in a different timeline (a different timeline with a total different “future” which is not the same with the current present reality and possible future).
7. Being able to know how many parallel timelines that are in existence,, and also being able to visit and experience these other parallel timelines, and even live and interact inside them.
Desperate woman stoop so low like this, and the man have no iota of respect for a woman he claims he loves.
What's the point of all these? Can't proposals be intimate and private affairs? Some persons even go to the extent of dressing up, visiting a photo studio, and capturing the moment. So childish to me
As for me, I highly doubt I'll ever consider remarriage, despite having numerous suitors at present but if at all I made a change of mind. To any potential admirers, let this be clear, I will not be proposed to in a public spectacle. You don't have any right to kneel down for me while proposing, you don't have the right to expect me to kneel and accept a ring. Try that silly attitude and see me walk away from you.
“Double Standards” is littered all over this comment of yours.
Ishilove: I stumbled on this story online, complete with pictures and I chuckled throughout my time reading.
When a man is getting all the marriage benefits and refuses to do the needful, well, I guess it is time to get creative. Cunny man die, cunny man bury am.
Episode22: Hello Nairalanders, I'm not here to brag, I just need advice before I get lost.
I have two relatives living abroad (UK), both are from my mothers side, same father and same mother...
Just few days ago, I was called and told that they are making plans to send me to the UK early next year to go and stay with my uncle and find something doing there... they already communicated with my uncle abroad, and they just wanted to surprise me.
I'm 29 years old now, I graduated from school last two years as a petroleum engineering. Though, I'm not doing any work for now. My girlfriend is pregnant for me, and I have not disclosed it to anybody yet.
But the truth is that my mind doesn't want to go, I'm not ready and I have told them. They have already started telling me this is a one time opportunity, and that if I miss it, I won't see it again, but I have made up my mind that I don't want to go.
I just can't leave my friends here, I just don't know but I can't..
I need advice,
Why should I go, when my self and my mind is not ready...
You need them to send someone else as a replacement for you.??