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wellmax:
...Not All Parts Of Imo State Is Expensive To Marry From

But Imo still remains the most expensive place to marry. It is also the HQ of promiscuities in Nigeria

E b like say head dey pain you Oga
Yoruba land is by far the head quarters of promiscuity
After Yoruba na benue/ kogi

bizme:
Too bad you weren't brought up properly, perhaps it was you who was incapable of attaining the smallest degree of civility. In any case I sympathize with your condition.



Let see if you're capable of further discussion without losing control again: In one breath you claimed 'the marriage rites being practiced by Igbos' (according to you) as being rooted in the Bible just like the Jews. In the next breath you admitted that efforts were being made 'to refurbish' (i.e. reform) the same practice so it could be 'more affordable and human' (your own words). You simply confirmed other people's perception by agreeing that the marriage rites are unnecessarily expensive (why make it more affordable if they are not) and inhumane. You only reform what has become deformed: why reform something you claimed to be rooted in the Bible?

You see why I said you lack reasoning capacity?so your idea or knowledge of what reformation is , is to destroy or eradicate like you suggested to the Igbos?.
So if your house has a leakage , you just go get a tractor n pull the whole building down?
Oga I tackled you cos you condemned the Igbo rite of levying a suitor .This is what is biblical, however some cultures in Igbo land have taken this custom to the extreme making outrageous demands on their potential suitors. This again is what I criticized.
My point to you is simple...there’s nothing wrong with the Igbo culture of marriage rites( levying a suitor) but when it is been abused by some ppl then it should be REFORMED n not ERADICATED like you opined.

naijadrivablog:
Enough Is Enough: Not All Parts Of Imo State Is Expensive To Marry From

I have read several misconceptions on social media over the years that all parts of IMO State is expensive to Marry from. Even recently, a lady who is supposedly from IMO State made a viral video of how men from IMO don't marry "them" (ladies from IMO State).

I write this article to clear the air about this generalisation about marriage in IMO State. I am a married man from Imo State and well travelled individual and take it from me when I tell you that NOT ALL parts of IMO State is expensive to marry from. Stop the ignorance and stop peddling lies.

Also, I noticed that most people mistake Bride Price to be the only money paid in traditional marriages, as you can hear one say, "IMO bride price na 1 Million Naira", etc.

Bride price in an Igbo Traditional marriage is the agreed sum (by law, it is N50 but families can state the amount they want) paid by the groom or his family member to the family of the bride. This has both physical and spiritual implications as the authority over the bride is passed to the groom and his family via that sum and other rites performed during traditional marriages. Even if you, in a traditional marriage, kill 100 cows, give your inlaws both gold and diamonds but haven't paid the bride price of a woman, YOU ARE NOT married. Most times, a family may charge, for example, N10,000 but will return a sum from it to the groom, while saying that they are not selling their daughter and other pieces of advice.

Apart from bride price, other items like goat, yams, snuff, kola, garden egg and so on are written on a MARRIAGE LIST usually given to the prospective groom, upon acceptance of marriage proposal and Introduction of both families of the groom and bride.

It is true that some parts are expensive to marry from but this article will focus on the largely unmentioned areas that you can marry from without spending an arm and leg.

I must state here that whatever items any part of the Imo State or any other place in Nigeria require as traditional marriage rites to give out their daughters' hand in marriage is their prerogative.

Below are some of the areas in IMO State where you won't spend an arm and leg to get married (traditionally):

1. Orlu (Ihioma, Umuna etc)

2. Oru West and Oru East (Amagu, Mgbidi, Akata, Ubulu (formerly called, Ubulu Ihejiofor), Nempi etc)

3. Orlu LGA (Awo Idemili, Amannachi, Amaebu, Umuhu Okabia (Cubana Chief priest's village), etc
4. Isu/Njaba axis (Ekwe, Ofekata Orodo etc)

5. Onuimo LGA

6. Nwangele LGA (Linda Ikeji's place)

7. Ideato South and Ideator North (Akokwa, Osina, Obodoukwu etc)

8. Even some places in the feared Owerri is cheap, eg. Agwa

I know that some villages/towns in these Local Government areas may be "expensive" to marry from but you can add other areas that you know are cheap to marry from.

This is a new year, find love, go for what you want. IMO ladies hardly abandon their husbands when things are tough (there are exceptions though), most are hardworking, Most are God fearing, they are the most beautiful, they HARDLY marry and remarry or engage in extramarital affairs, they are sociable, they are ambitious and so on.

NOTE: In every 12 Apostles, there must be a Judas so, pray and understudy your prospective wife.

Expensive traditional marriage can be when you spend 600,000 Naira to 1 Million Naira or more TO FULFILL ALL the REQUIREMENTS IN THE MARRIAGE LIST (decoration, band, DJ, Aso Ebi and other things in a traditional marriage event not inclusive)

While an affordable marriage is when you spend 50,000 Naira to 300,000 or less to FULFILL ALL THE REQUIREMENTS in the MARRIAGE LIST (DJ, Aso Ebi, food, etc not inclusive)

If there are areas that I didn't cover, please add.

Bro you are not entirely correct. Am from umuhu okabia ( cubana’s village) and my sis just got married this last December. The total cost of the cultural/ traditional list was 450k. Thank God the hubby is a big boy so he just paid in 500k into my dads Acc to cover the list n went ahead with other plans.
What if he was a hustler or an average guy? 450k just to cover the list is really on the high side . So to get married to a girl from my place (including the Traditional ceremony n excluding the white wedding) one would have to make a budget of at least 1million.I had to raise the matter during the “Umunna” meeting but met a brick wall as their disposition to reducing or tuning down on the list was completely a no go area.
I think it’s high time our legislators from that region did something drastic to stop this outrageous bills been levied on potential suitors.We cannot overemphasize the fact that this is already affecting our girls cos av heard several stories of suitors who abandoned their fiancés, because of outrageous cultural lists.

bizme:
Ahahahaha. Cheap or expensive Igbo wives, a sale is a sale.

Why must anyone collect anything in the first place in the name of marriage list just because your daughter is getting married? Whether you call it dowry or you call it marriage list, the money is coming from the groom's pocket. Do you disrespect your daughters so much as to be exchanging her for a list of material things? Call it tradition to make yourself feel good, but it is just another display of greed and entitlement on the part of the bride's family.

If you must collect anything as part of the marriage list, collect as much as you want and hand it over to the new couple to start life with instead of camouflaging your greed as tradition. Any family who so brazenly displays greed on the account of their daughter getting married lacks shame.

You are very ignorant n childish for this comment of yours it shows the level of your capacity to reason....
Am sure you are an afonja ,that does not take the marriage institution seriously, a tribe that their women marry more than one husband n they are ok with it.
For your info the marriage rites been practiced by igbos is biblical, go check the customs of the Jews.
Having said that we are working on refurbishing the Igbo marriage rites to make it more affordable n humane n not to eradicate it.

salbis:
We are relocating to America sooner than later. Yoruba Amaka!

Abeg make una do leave,make this country fit clean small, una dirty no here ....

Don’t know why any thing Indian annoys me
Chai those guys are so disgusting....

SW1st:
And where are these so called lands bought by ibos to start with? I hope you will be able to show us?
I wonder how many of you can afford these costly lands to start with, with you buying and selling besides your oral buying up land y'all are know for.

Oya faaayaaa!

Wetin this one dey talk, abi you smoke oshogbo weed

Aderewah:
Lol. People are not moving to lagos anymore. House rent in lagos is average of 1m per year. Lets even forget buying houses. No more space in lagos. People are loving to ib enmasse now. Ibadan is the capital of western nigeria and is the fastest growing city in Nigeria today. I love my city.

Keep fooling yourself there

iamcee:
Sex before marriage isn't a good thing..I just feel bad about the way pre-marital sex is now common.
If the guy loves you,he should wait..that would even be of great help in avoiding the problem of sexual diseases, abortions,etc.
Now,males and females are just in relationship for nothing else than sex and money.. that's bad...
Premarital sex isn't a good thing.. don't involve in it if you haven't
Once your partner understands you,you won't have problem.
One reason why getting a partner who understand you well is important

My dear this points you raised are not valid especially if they really love each other n really intend to be together

ashacot:
I saw Rattle snake,I saw Igodo too. I also saw Battle line and blood money. But for me the best I saw is MOST WANTED and Full moon.

Top quality storyline

Saw all this movies as well , but you see that rattle snake ? That movie is in a class of its own

googlepikins:
Nengi ashawoo work is paying well. Cos the last time I checked she has not signed any multinational company endorsement deal. Only chere werey hair and bleaching pomade has signed her.

Am sure you know you are the most senseless individual in this forum

loopman:
When Adeniran in PDP warned you Ibos about the implication of Ibos telling the SW PDP members that the party chairmanship is for the entire South and not micro-zoned to the SW, what did Ibos tell him?

The rotation is between North and South! Get that fact into your skull so you don’t commit suicide

The presidency is a different ball game Oga stop typing nonsense

seunmsg:
The above is sacrosanct as far as APC is concerned. Whether PDP gives its ticket to Atiku or Kwakwanso is none of my business. But that APC ticket ehn, it is going to a southerner and that’s all that matters as far as 2023 is concerned.

You will only be making sense if you say it is going to the south east otherwise this your comment is trash

RenaissanceGuy:
Fake and arranged stunts. All these cars will still go back to the owner in a few days' time.

Foolish ppl just full nairaland.
So what if you see her driving it tomorrow

IamD18:
Her client in whoring business will buy her a car and arrange fans to present it to her.

That's the new way now

I hope you know this comment of yours is the most foolish n dumbest in nairaland history

tegafej:
So much you typed.. very little sense you made.

How on earth would you comprehend when you find it difficult to read.....

illicit:
They look at his bumbum....


Guys with tight bumbum have long stick....




Guys with large feet have large stick....

Mumu talk

mannobi:
The aftermath of that endsars is still telling on Lagos. Traffic management is now very poor. People deliberately disobey regulations now just because police are no longer valuable. The police ought to have thought of this aftermath before continuing their unprofessional conducts.
When you lose your worth, it takes time to build it up again.
The Lagos state government must make some people skapegoats for normalcy to return to the streets

I totally agree with you

EdoFirstBorn:
Lost not lose



Na wa o

Bro sorry I need to ask , are you a university graduate ?

What has “university graduate” got to do with this?
Even a primary school cert holder knows this .

DonX001:
It's extremely disappointing to read majority of the comments on this thread.
It shows why Nigeria is not likely to get better, at least on our generation, if majority of youths think like this.

Someone starts flaunting unexplained wealth on social media.
Someone else asks the source of his wealth.
A simple question o.
And people are bashing him for asking the source of his money, even raining curses on him, while hailing the person flaunting wealth.

Are we really this brainless?
Do we not see the relationship between not questioning the source of people's wealth, and our current horrible situation as a country?

So if kidnappers, ritualists, fraudsters, thieves, criminal politicians, come and start flaunting wealth, that is how we should be hailing them without asking where the money came from?

And then when they kidnap one of your relations now or use them for rituals, or politicians steal money meant to build your hospitals and roads and use them to flex, the same people will be shouting Nigeria is bad!!?!!!

And the fact that he is an actor does not mean he cannot have shady deals going on, that is why there is a term called a "Front". If you don't know what it is, Google it.
What we should look for is whether the wealth equals his legitimate income and investments, and if it does not, he should be made to explain the source of the excess largesse, or be investigated.
After all, Invictus Obi had a chain of "companies" but was a major fraudster, and Mompha is a Bureau d change guy but is apparently involved in shady deals.
So the fact that he has been acting for 15years or 50 years does not mean questions should not be asked.
The important question is, does his wealth he is flaunting in tandem with his income??

And for those shouting "Do you not know Zubby Michael," not everybody wastes their time watching braindead Nollywood movies that decrease your IQ.
I for one do not know him.
So don't assume everyone does.

Thank God for people like SadiqBabaSani (the asker), Jaqenhghar, Tegafej, Duality and co who show that at least a few people still have some sense in their heads on this forum and in our society.

For the rest, please read and learn.
Especially people like Booscy, azraeljaheel, Dreyton36, pasol4real, honda001, osamz07, rawpadgin, owobokiri, and the rest of their goons, including those that liked their comments.

I really hope we change our mentality as a people, if not our country cannot get better.

You are even more senseless than those ppl you mentioned as sensible . What exactly do you want from him? Declare his assets n source of income to the CCB or what?Pls stop thinking this is America, face the reality n come to terms with the facts.He owes no one no explanation how he got his wealth.The only authorized body that can do that is the efcc n that will only happen if someone writes a reasonable petition to them. So Oga if you want to know his source of wealth or suspicious of his source of income, petition the effcc n stop coming here to bother us with stupid questions like “how did he make his money “ “ what’s his source of income “such questions reek of jealousy n hatred.
Furthermore your mentality of “the job must match the income “is both funny n ridiculous in this time n age , where so many opportunities are bound especially on the internet. N by internet I mean legit ways of making money.
This is not to say am sure his money is legit. Truth is I don’t know but coming here to rant or ask rhetorical questions about someone’s wealth is sheer foolishness.

Jaqenhghar:
What is dumb about that? There are actors who have been acting for over 20 years. This guy is not even the most popular or the richest. I am just hearing of him today so yes the question is in order. The dumb person here is you who is neither the zubby, nor related to the zubby in anyway but you are barking on his behalf

N you that is having headache on top of another mans wealth, what would you call yourself?

duality:
Gbam!!!

Foolish people want to attack anyone ask the source of people's money.

What even make questioning the source of unexplained wealth bad, if not that most Nigerians love corruption.

Why would you want to know his source of income?is he a government official? He owes you n no one absolutely no explanation on how he made his wealth.

baumolina:
How many movies has he done this year multiply by 800k?

So u think he is as dumb as you are? What happened to investing , business n all that .oga zuby has been a hustler even before he joined nollywood so free the guy abeg n go n hustle your own

E sure for me say benfica go chop am home and away
E too sure.....

AustineCJ:
Some people wants to make us believe laycon is in same level with Omah lay .... the kind weed some pple take ehhh

Don’t mind those foolish icons

OMAH LAY should not just win this award he should win all awards in music this year. That guy is the only guy that released reasonable songs this year

Arrewa:
Eyaah...

Naija una sorry oo...

Forgive our ignorance!

Note: if you know you are a religious bigot that can't do whitout insulting Islam! Pls kano is not for you!!

If you can't face your religion and respect other people's beliefs. Pls stay away from kano state.

Stay in Abia state an insult Islam and Prophet Muhammad as much as you want!

Nobody will come to abia state to arrest u for blasphemy!

I repeat Stay away from Arewa if you know you cannot do in your life whitout insulting Islam.

God bless Arewa!!

We are growing stronger than ever before!!

Tell your stupid n useless Arewa leaders to stop fighting the break up n separation of this useless country. We are tired of you ppl

IamWonderful:
Igbos have suffer in Nigeria

How na? The richest , sophisticated and most successful tribe in Nigeria

uptimum123:
Lagos, A Mega City.

God punish IPOB for planning to burn down Lagos

Stop smoking that oshogbo weed u no gree
Now see ya life

Jhayphil:
The program is putting smiles on faces of Nigerians and making them happy. Its to cushion the effect of the coronavirus on the people and the economy.

Chai ! You don mean it?
Buhari till 2060

SaintLucia:
The southwest will produce the president while the north will produce the national chairman. The southeast should look inward from the PDP if they want presidential slot. The easiest way for APC to lose presidential election is to field an Igbo man. Umahi that defected to APC has been receiving bashing from the same Igbo that want APC to give them their presidential ticket just because he left PDP and joined an Islamic and Yoruba slave party. Confused tribe.

I laugh at you in “the villa will decide” we all know who the villa is backing.

Nice one girl
Though am surprised that this could happen in a village in benue state. Hell the state is so poor that you can never see a single storey building if you drive round an entire village, or maybe it’s just a taboo or an abomination to build a storey building.
In any case I think it would be wise to ask my friend omenka...