₦airaland Forum

The Kano Mass Wedding Is Not Your Problem As a Southerner

Sponsored mass weddings happen all over the world, including in the U.S., which we like to cite as the epitome of development and civilisation. In 2023, New York City sponsored a mass wedding of 700 couples. Please fact-check me. China, South Korea, and Malaysia have them all the time. It is a social intervention scheme done by good governments globally to provide an affordable alternative for marriage-age couples to engage in nuptials.

Stop castigating Kano. They do this to maintain the morality level of their society. In many Southern Nigerian states, we have mass fornication of both underaged and of-age couples. Kano does not want that. They are sponsoring these weddings to preserve the moral fabric of their societies.

Yes, Kano has a high number of out of Western school children. But these children are not out-of-school children. They are only out of Western schools.

Almajiri are students of a Madrassa, which is an Islamic school. The word Almajiri is a corruption of an Arabic word of Islamic origin, al-Muhājir, meaning a person who leaves his home to migrate in search of knowledge.

Amongst the Lukumi Yoruba, the system is slightly adapted and called Ilé-keu. Ifedayo Olarinde, AKA Daddy Freeze, is a product of Ilé-keu, yet his father and mother are both PhD holders, and one of them is a Professor of Law. Even more amazingly, his mother is a White European. But she let her son pass through Ilé-keu.

In Southern Nigeria, we celebrate people who japa to pursue money and other temporal things that have value only in this life. We tolerate and, in some cases, venerate males and females who migrate to Italy to do unspeakable things for money.

If we can do this, why can't we tolerate Arewa's almajiri culture? These children get an Islamic education and become great men and women in society using the disciplines they learnt from their Malams.

I do not want to embarrass them, so I will not mention their names. But some of the wealthiest men in Nigeria, who are dollar billionaires, were once almajiri. Some incumbent Governors were once almajiri.

If a person bears the title Malam before his name, chances are that he is a former almajiri.

In Yobe State, a former almajiri gave me a sports car for my use during my service year and introduced me to then Governor Bukar Abba Ibrahim. Going through that system of education instils in you a type of honesty and thrift almost alien to humanity.

You can drop an iPhone in a market in Kano and come back one week later to reclaim it. If you do the same at Ladipo Market, it will find its way to its real owner within milliseconds!

So, if you do not understand the way of life of the Muslim core North of Nigeria, do not cause offence by insulting them and casting aspersions on their culture.

There are other things you, as a Southerner, can focus on, including the fact that more than 95% of Nigerians in prison for drug crimes and romance scams in Asia and Latin America are Southern Nigerians. Of that 95%, over 60% originate from two Southern Nigerian states that contribute little to the VAT pool. I can be more specific area-wise, but I do not want insults.

Reno Omokri

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Sonnobax15:

Ok na....

It's not our problem as southerners,but na our "OYEL" money dem go use sponsor their useless mass marriage

Make Reno Omokri come him itsekeri land for warri come make this statement whether him 32 teeth go complete go back

Tellmeastory:
SHUT UP.

IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE NIGER DELTA, IT IS NOT YOUR OIL.

JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA DOESN’T MAKE IT “YOUR”, OIL, SO SHUT UP.

AND HOW DOES OIL “SPONSOR THEIR MARRIAGE”, YOU STUPID BIGOT?

SO ANY MARRIAGE OCCURRING IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA WAS SIMILARLY “SPONSORED” BY OIL MONEY?

STUPID AIR HEAD.

Tellmeastory:
So your empty head actually wants the reintroduction of fuel subsidies that cost nearly half of our annual budget to implement?

THIS NAIRALAND IS FULL OF LOW IQ INDIVIDUALS.

And they type their idiocy with such confidence.

Tellmeastory:
EMPTY HEADED DUNCE, it’s called ALMAJIRI.

Stupid ambassador for non-existent fake white blonde ‘saviour’ Jesus.

Tellmeastory:
So your empty head actually wants the reintroduction of fuel subsidies that cost nearly half of our annual budget to implement?

THIS NAIRALAND IS FULL OF LOW IQ INDIVIDUALS.

And they type their idiocy with such confidence.

ValarDoharis:
How did corrupt PDP run subsidy for 16yrs for less than N97 at its peak while maintaining fastest growing economy in Africa and 3rd in the world?

ednut1:
Renos father was a high ranking judge who represented sokoto despite being from delta. He even got NW slot for court of appeal.Reno cannot say anything bad about them

COFFINSELLER:
https://x.com/renoomokri/status/1885738155569205523?s=19[/quote]Just caught Reno lying again, as usual.

New York never ever SPONSORED a mass wedding.

In 2023, 700 couples got together at Lincoln Center to exchange or renew their wedding vows.

The Lincoln center is the most popular wedding venue. After covid, there was so much backlog that the center decided to try the idea of a mass wedding. They reached out to intending couples who were on the waiting list and about 700 couples agreed.
The mass wedding was not SPONSORED by the government nor the Lincoln center. The Lincoln Center just made it possible to clear their covid era backlog.

In South Korea, mass weddings are organized by a religious cult, The Unification Church, for their own religious reasons. Again, it is not Financially Sponsored by the Church.

In Malaysia, mass weddings occur on a particular religiously auspicious day of year , simply because intending couples consider that particular day,the best day of the year to get married. The weddings takes place at a religious Temple, and definitely not Financially SPONSORED by the Temple .

Therefore, using these false equivalences to justify the Government Financially SPONSORED mass wedding in Kano and some other Northern states just shows how very dishonest Reno Omokri is.

MasterJayJay:
Bokoharam, iswap, bandits, lukuwara are in southern Nigeria?

Reno Omonkey and his foolishness.

The wife beater is talking about morality.

The idiot remembers that some countries also conduct mass wedding but can't remember that some countries are still paying fuel subsidy.


The fool mentioned VAT. Educated people use GDP to measure the economy while vandalized brains are still using a VAT system that is full of flaws to brag.