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queenesthr:
Most of the items in the are included for ceremonial reasons. They don't really expect the in-laws to provide everything on the list.

The essence is just to show you value your daughter and that you don't want to give her out to a pauper. The in-laws should show they are capable of taking care of the woman.

A man is expected to be hard working and able to feed and clothe his family.

missgstar2:
Abia!

missgstar2:
hey guys

I'm the youngest in my family, and this is pretty much the same list that was issued to my bro-in-laws.

@ armyofone: I too agree that we should have a say in the list. Feeling really under pressure at the moment. My father just isn't shifting! He says that this is the way things are done, but I can't quite believe that every marriage goes down like this! Would anyone ever be able to get married?!?!?

effex:
PLEASE, THERES NO SCAM INVOLVED AND NOONE IS UNDER COMPULSION TO DO BUSINESS WITH US.
WE SIMPLY DEVISED A WAY TO BRING IN ONLY CARS WITH READY BUYERS TO AVOID KEEPING CARS ON DISPLAY FOR TOO LONG.
RIGHT NOW, ALL ORDERS ARE BEING PROCESSED AND ONCE WE GET THE EXACT SPECIFICATION, YOU'LL GET THE PROOF U DESIRE.
THANK YOU ALL FOR RESPONDING.

Kc3000:
@excanny I don't know what you mean by flawed arguement, when you are reinforcing my point. I agree that they are not Igbo in the least. The Nigerian that bears an English name knows that he's not English, and would not claim his people to be the originators of the English language. Surely, he knows of his mother tongue, even if he cannot speak it. This is quite different from claiming Igbo as the original langauge and culture of your forefathers, yet claiming no relationship to the rest of the Igbo.
I suggested they rid themselves of anything that might suggest that they are Igbo, including the language. This is not a new concept here. They started to rename the villages in port-harcourt long ago i.e umuokoro to rumuokoro (which is not radical enough to me, as it still sounds kinda Igbo). I'm only imploring them to thoroughly execute this exercise and completely detach from that which they so obviously hate, being Igbo.

Kc3000:
Not this arguement again. All this could be avoided if all those who insist that they are not Igbo, but merely borrowed the Igbos names, language, culture and tradition, would kindly desist from such a practice and return all they have borrowed from the rightful owners. No one would ever mistake you for Igbo if you stop bearing Emeka, Obinna etc, celebrating the same festivals, having the same deities, masquerades, having the same market days, or wearing the same traditional regalia as the Igbo. Just as you conveniently adopted the Igbo way of life, without being Igbo, you can adopt another, or even better, invent or return to your own authentic culture. Lastly, advice those your wayward brothers that insist on identifying with the Igbo to please stop it. They are the biggest source of confusion to us(Ndigbo).
  Do these, and in no time those of us that are truly Igbo would have no reason whatsoever to identify with you, and peace shall reign for all.

Ileke-IdI:
What happened to Enugu and their noise makers on NL?

fstranger3:
You dont get it, do you?

There is a gulf of difference between a commissioner and a special adviser. Special advisers are ordinary tea boys employed to wake the governors up and fetch teas for them, they are not integrated into the government per se. Commissioners on the other hand are part and parcel of the government, and it takes trust and a certain degree of political maturity and liberality of the other for, in the case of Nigeria, the governors to employ people of other ethnic affiliations as commissioner.

On that basis alone, no one else has done what the Yorubas have done to enhance and advance project One Nigeria.

EzeUche_:
I was ignoring him, and I still don't think he could speak Ibibio. Anyone can go on the internet and find a few phrases of a language, which it seems like he did.

PhysicsMHD:
1. The Binis, Urhobos, and Itsekiris did not have wars. Yes there was trade and intermarriage.

2. Peter Ekeh is Urhobo, not Isoko, and he was not at all one-sided toward disclaiming an Igbo origin for the names. In fact he actually posted the article because of a somewhat obnoxious Bini historian who claimed that all of Southern Nigeria got the word Okoro from the Binis, because Benin happened to have ruled all or parts of every group which happens to have the name. He was actually countering a Bini "overclaimer" and expressing his own knowledge of the word within his own culture, which he is familiar with. He is not an Igbo man, nor an Igbo scholar so there is no way he could go in depth about the significance and usage in all contexts and ramifications of Okoro to the Igbos.

3. Peter Ekeh is well aware that different groups in Urhoboland have different origin stories,  some of which include Igbo origins, so don't assume what he does or doesn't know about his own name.

fstranger3:
Yes, I do

The brought civilization to the SW and they taught me how to tamba, now what you going to do?

alj harem1:
oh no!!!!

not you my brother, do you believe this troll

Uche2005:
we igbo people have more oil than yoruba people. i am not sure ijaw want to go with us.

i think they should divide nigeria into 3.

we igbo are not ready to go with south , we divide it into 3. north, south and igboland.

9ja voice:
There is no need for this thread. but if i must say something,  first the username uche2005 is not an ibo man talk more of yoruba,he is mr.Alj harem(a fulani man) in disguise.

Then as for the thread i can say divide this country into 2 and that is south and north. The north should be the current day north west and north east, while the south should be south east,south south and south west,Then there shall a refrendom for north central to determine where they will like to belong which by every indication that they will choose south instead of north.  

OPTION 2 ,if my plan A fails then plan B will be this: divide nigeria into 4 countries and 1:North or Arewa(NE and NW) 2:East or Biafra(South east and south south) 3:West or Oodua(south west with kwara state and some part of kogi) 4:North centra(all north centra including remaining kogi) With this there won't be any more troubles.

fstranger3:
With your latest post, it is obvious you are having some mental issues

Are you one of the people described in this thread?


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-548826.0.html

seanet02:
would accept this but as for being the first you are not. The date here was 2007 since media advisers can be hired and fired anytime, what if he was appointed a week to the statement.

fstranger3:
Because there is no evidence

People made it up just to link Michele Obama with the Ibos

Comprehension problem much?

fstranger3:
And they've also claimed Michele Obama:


http://www.naijarules.com/vb/news-current-affairs-politics/31833-obamas-law-married-igbo-woman.html

fstranger3:
Now, if you have any ounce of self respect, you will prove your assertion.
If anything, it is Edos  that are trying to claim us and we have always, from the Ooni of Ife to the ordinary Yoruba on the street, tried to emphasize our differences. Go read Professor Ade Ajayi's book. Even here on NL, try reading Physics Post, get a tutor, preferably a native speaker because Physics syntax might just be too much for your Igbo brain,  careful analysis of posts on the relevant subject would impress it upon you that we do not like to claim people.

PS: That said, if claiming people into your already wretched ethnic group help you psychologically, by all means continue to do so

Kobojunkie:
Forgive me but the above is just childish rant. Apparently Ibos in Diaspora have yet to invest the claimed in developing the SE so please let's stick to this and not start building up WHAT-IF castles that matter little to this.

An investment amounting to about $3.5 billion in the SE is SIGNIFICANT by all measures. [b]However, this will not be the first time an amount of that magnitude has been injected into that zone( among others). Maybe not directly but over the years, that has been increased investment in most every zone, yet most of those remain largely underdeveloped and overly corrupt. [/b]Why is the government, yet again, investing without so much as tackling the underlying issues we have come to discover and know well of over all the decades? Or is the government doing that already? How?

fstranger3:
Dont bring Yoruba  into this, we dont claim people

Olorogun is not Yoruba, Thank you!

sbeezy8:
Peter ekeh name probably of urhobo origin. Is Ojo Only of yoruba origin? did every Obasi originate from Yoruba or Edo? did the name Olorogun (urhobo) originate from yoruba? I think not.

EzeUche_:
We Igbos are settlers. When our populations grow too much for our region to handle, we expand. This is how the world works in general. Expansion is as old as civilization itself. People need to stop complaining and get over it. As long as my people keep on producing large amounts of people, we will continue to "invade" other people's land.

Me_Aboki:

Nothing new or strange, the writings have been on our currency since independence and merely represent the value of that currency in Arabic - nothing more nothing less - and I am sure you would agree that this simple act has not Islamized the country since then.

If only you could look beyond your irrational bias and did a quick research, you would have found that it was introduced at the time of independence to assist majority of literate northerners who could only read Arabic and not English, to be able to decipher the value of the newly independent Nigerian currency; and had remained a tradition till today.

By your way of thinking, Muslims could equally turn around and reject the alpha numeric characters of English, since the English are predominantly Christians. Should that happen, wouldn't you be among the first to regard such position as extremist and intolerant ?

Now, can you honestly look into the mirror and tell us you are not acting exactly just the same

excanny:
@ Fstranger and Seanet

Festus Adedayo was appointed a special adviser to the Enugu state govt in 2005 by Chimaroke Nnamani. Go ask around. It's not a lie.

fstranger3:
Must you bring tribalism to every section?

You never contribute anything meaningful to tobics other than tribalism.

:::::SMH:::::

You are a waste of orgas-m

mukina2:
@ezeagu
what enemy? please o abeg waka far with your tribal wahala, which is why my country is unique we would never have tribal fights , we do not have igbos in freetown, There are 14 tribes in Sierra Leone and igbo is not among.
Keep hitting your keyboard over nothing, all i know is the kanus in freetown are far from being igbos

spaceman83:
Injustice at the highest order.
good people will never have way in Nigeria political culture.