₦airaland Forum

omooba969:
Give us your version & educate us biko.

ok. In my family, nothing of such is practised.
When young people 40 years or less die, they are buried immediately. Within a week or 2.
When elderly ones dies, their corpse are kept in mortuary for long, so extended families are well informed. When u go to one family in one town, they will refer u to another extended family in enugu and those ones will refer u to another family in ebonyi, ebonyi ones will refer u to a another in abia. And it goes in circle till u have informed all. And it will take about a month or 2. Happened when we wanted to bury my paternal grandad. Took over a month to inform all relevant people. And then prepare for d ceremony proper.
We believe in an igbo saying "onye nwe ego yaa kwaa obighi okpara gburu" literally "who has money let him foot d burial ceremony, it wasnt d first son that killed d person". We bill ourselves and give our loved ones biffitting burial. Not selling anything.
My personal experience, when my younger sister died. I foot d whole bill. Spent over 500k. My elder sister said she wanted to contribute 30k, i told her forget it. When the burial was over, my eldest brother (first son) brought 50k, thats what people brought. Asked me d sharing formular, i told him to take it, but give my younger brother whatever he wanted to. All i spent for my sister was what i wanted to, cant be replenished.
My grand dad, when he was buried, we didnt even know how d proceeds were shared. We dont care
In our family, during burial, marriage or child birth, it's always 1 table. And nobody cares of the prooceeds. We mourn our death and celebrate our birth.
And we practise the igbo tradition.
Take care.

omooba969:
Give us your version then but if it borders on money then both of you would be hitting the same point.

let's just say it's an individual and family by family thing.
Not to be generalised as an igboland culture.
He's just stating what happens in his family and probably neihhbourhood. Not an igboland practice.

GBADEYZ:
why does the first son enjoy so much privileges

the sharing formulae is too bias and unfair

first sons enjoy too much privileges in igboland, but not d magnitude d op is alleging. May be true in his family shaa.
In my hometown in Imo State. House of the late father belongs to d first son. Land of the late father is shared into 3 among d sons of the man. First son takes one. The remain 2/3rd is shared equally among d sons and the first son takes first again (imagine). Injustice in our culture, but I'm not complaining.
Im second son.
Last 2 years, my younger brother begged me to build a house in d village. I say i would but at my own time. He was agitated. Say his worry was him not having money to build his own at d moment.
I say. And so? We stay in our late father's house when we come to d village, so what's wrong?
He asked me if i didnt know the house belonged to our first son? That the guy can send u packing whenever he wants.
I smiled and laughed. And told him ok. Let that day reach.
What da hell!!!!

zombieTRACKER:
Really

all pure lies. Trust me.

dalass:
Why am i not surprised?

why will u be surprised. U swallow every lie any guy tells u hook line and sinker

Frankbaro:
I'm Igbo from Imo state, I stand bold to say that this is quite strange and not applicable to us. Funeral is funeral, and not done for gain.
Everybody that attends a funeral eats and drinks, irrespective of whether u bring anything or not
It's quite unreasonable and foolish to attribute this to d entire Igbo land .
I once more wish to reinstate, that we don't share nothing as most people just come with drinks, and there's nothing to share thereafter.

dont mind that guy

Magalan:
How one persons opinion of a tribe making frontpage calls for serious concern..

it is so so unfortunate. I thought it was an article written by a professor of Igbo Culture.
Not knowing it was one riff raff that doesnt have money to bury his mum.
See the whole nonsense.
Money is borrowed, properties are sold, proceeds of the funeral are sold and profit is made and shared with ratio eldest brother getting double the portion etc
Nonsense. Absolute rubbish.

This thesis is even annoying to read. Lies from devil's hell all over.
Op, say that is what happens in funeral in your family. Not anambra, not igboland.

Bundle of lies and innuendos.
Wonder how this lie made frontpage

Is shorty el rufai not from katsina? What's he even doing in kaduna? Elrufai has written his name in the book of Nigeria's history as the worst and most sadistic civil servant and politician that ever liveth.
From his numerous destrustions of lives and properties in Abuja to paying his smalley corper in dollars to making d small girl chief of staff to kaduna state govt. To making her MD of a whole Nigeria Ports Authority. To nominating a fellow muslim woman, his another possible bedmate his deputy governorship aspirant.
To resuscitating muslim-christain killings in kaduna. Coordinating the killing of a southern kaduna king that came to visit him in his devilish peace meeting that caused d whole trouble.
Woe betide midget tribal and religious midget bigot hell rufai. AKA mr failure.

The panel has turned to EFCC and ICPC?

Gandollar:
Story! He will never be governor of Imo

he's not even a candidate

docadams:
Why is Warri not fully functional?

not only warri. Port harcourt and calabar as well

FriendNG:
1. Baro Port is the first Northern Nigeria River Port.

2. The contract was initially awarded by Yaradua in 2009.

3. After his death Goodluck Jonathan cancelled it and divert the sum of 19Bilion to Niger Delta Ministry for land reclamation.

4. This new administration re-awarded the contract 3 years ago in the sum of less than 3 billion and it was completed August 2018.

5. It will officially be inaugurated by the end of this year after the road linking the port have been repaired.

6. Cargoes meant for Northern Nigeria will henforth be cleared at Baro Niger state instead of Lagos.

be there and be deceiving yourself

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!

Debe can make the announcement, but she cant. It's our culture

LibertyRep:
Since he is no more the highest ranking member of the party from the state, it is normal that he relinquishes the position to the next person

exactly

BiafranJesus:
I thought the Beroms and Fulanis thought Igbos were your problems. Beroms ganged up with fulanis to butcher biafrans for One Nigeria.

Make une enjoy una one Nigeria with fulanis.

i'm igbo from imo state, if u dont know

AnanseK:
Where is CAN ? Where is Danjuma?

what are u looking for them for?
Where are your fulani terrorists that killed over 500 berom christains overnight? Where are your myetti allah and their patrons that are killing christains all over nassarawa, benue, taraba etc?
And where is your terrorist murderous militia boko haram and their sponspors?
Where is your MURIC and JNI?
Where are your sponsors of kabiru that bombed a catholic church on a christmas day in Madalla?

46O1CE:
It shall not be well with those Berom Christian killers that derive joy in killing Muslim travellers.
Their unborn generations to come will all live miserably and die miserably.
Amen

RIP to d late general.
But, u should shut the hell up

TabletMan:
Arsenal suppose to win this match flawlessly.

i swear, despite a draw is not a bad result, arsenal would have taken those guys to d cleaners with atleast 3-1

openmine:
So why were they not introduced?
were they on stretchers?

were liverpool players on d sickbed?

Hollamie007:
And so...... a big match will always do

arsenal matches havent been making up to 4 pages till lately

openmine:
yeah and they still maintained their unbeaten run....
cry me a river
If not for lacasera,you would have been having nightmares in your sleep

we have many players that would have equalised. Should i name them for u?

FiremanP:
Another impressive result tonight. Keep it up bois..

nobody is happier than me. But Arsenal would have won d match shaa

Arsenal match making over 10 pages for the 2nd or 3rd time

God bless Arsenal

CoolAmbience:
U sabi football?

a lot of people no sabi ball

JasonScoolari:
Except he wants to get stretched out of the whole season.

He should not try nonsense with me.

chai. Take it easy pls. Na ball, not las vegas

Reussite:
This is exactly why I wanted Liverpool to win. City might win the league the second time in a row.

man city can win the league 20 times. Arsenal cant lose tonight. We are supposed to win, but a draw will b fine

keryj:
He is your man of the natch. Mine is the referee

Ref doing a job. I agree with you. But Man of the match is awarded to the players naa, not the officiating staff

JasonScoolari:
This useless lacazette wan spoil my night.

he will score another and spoil your night kpatakpata

purplekayc:
What's happening?

1-1. Laca scored an amazing goal