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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by ZZ22: 12:19pm On Aug 26, 2020
Its on the father to will his properties to his children. A wealthy father that has enough would will to both sons and daughters but that of the sons would be of more economic value to that of the daughters. An average man will first consider his sons before the daughters that would get married to a man that has benefited from his father's property. This is how the cycle goes and whatever the supreme court does cannot override the decision of the father in willing his properties as he learnt from his father.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by ggood: 12:19pm On Aug 26, 2020
MrColdsweat:
You yarribastards have killed the thread with your Igbo hate.

The reason why this is so, is because by getting married, a woman shares her husbands inheritance.

If a woman is allowed to have inheritance, she will take inheritance from her father, and still share her husband's inheritance.


yes that how we do , female child inherit her father properties

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by RTSC: 12:20pm On Aug 26, 2020
moorevic:
Lets all be honest, even before the ruling, we igbo's give our ladies inheritance. Many igbo parents grant inheritance to their daughters.
Maybe, but it's not widespread.

That is why the husband's family can chase a wife out of her inheritance in igboland.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by BabaRamota1980: 12:20pm On Aug 26, 2020
toprealman:

What's the practice in your tribe?

We do not practice discrimination in my tribe.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by GoldHorse(m): 12:21pm On Aug 26, 2020
Cantonese:
The Igbos are always very honest and forthright. This practice is not limited to the Igbos only. It is an African culture.

Generally women are not expected to take their family'wealth to their husband's home. The general belief is that the wealth of the lady's family would be diminished while her husband's family would be made richer.

Anyone from other parts of Nigeria who makes irresponsible comments against the Igbos about this age long African culture simple deceives himself or herself.

Women are generally treated as second class citizens in Africa and this attitude.must stop. Some fathers try to circumvent this be sharing their wealth among their children while they are alive.

Our courts are filled with such cases without respect to tribe and religion. Among the northerners, do the women even have rights at all? A man marries more than four wives and treats.the whole women including his daughters as nobody. Where are the rights of the southwest women in this matter. Even the educated carry without caring about women in their homes.

The supreme court made the right judgement. Let's celebrate this sound judgement and liberation of our women.

You are very wrong! This is not an African thing. Yoruba woman have same right as their male counterpart. Yoruba women are equally entitled to all and any inheritance. Everything is shared equally unless someone decide to play smart which is entirely another argument. You either share accordingly to number of wives or number of children but not by gender.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by stchinedu: 12:21pm On Aug 26, 2020
The greed in igboland is out of this world.

The custom has been existing based on greed and 'long throat'

A man dies, the wife and mother of his children is subjected to all manner of ill treatment.

Her hair is shaved, she is confined to a room for almost a year and treated as if she was the one that killed the man.

Worst still, if she does not have a male child or if she did not bear children for him... You will begin to see hungry looking uncles talking about 'sharing' the deceased properties.

Its a barbaric and repugnant custom and i am glad the Apex court has cone to the rescue.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by AmazonTopaz(f): 12:22pm On Aug 26, 2020
golddare:


Maginalising women for over a century in the name of culture, any culture that doesn't have human face all over Nigeria must be abolished. Another one is that of Edo that gives everything to the first son, imagine that.
That Edo own go hard ooo.
There was a court judgment that even upheld the idiogbe(I don't know if I spelt it correctly) that is what it is called it is called Idiogbe.It depends on the case sha.Maybe if challenged again there will be another judgment that can abolish such practices.
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by Cheeryfeet: 12:22pm On Aug 26, 2020
BabaRamota1980:


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/supreme-courts-decision-on-female-inheritance-divides-igbo/amp/
Making a female an heir I'd not really right cos at the end it's her husband that the inheritance goes too again if she marries to an outside tribe it becomes even worse. The father should make adequate provision for the female child in his estate but the male child should be made the heir
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by Nobody: 12:22pm On Aug 26, 2020
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PericomaNwankwo:



Women are highly revered in all cultures. Stop being a child, it's not like yarriba women have done anything to make them stand out. Igbos are the pace setters and your refusal to admit it to yourself is why you people keep bringing up unnecessary fights.
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Mr Nwankwo, I'm not going to insult the Igbo tribe because of a mentally deficient and vacuous minded soul like you.


You think spelling the word Yoruba as yarriba means anything? I it can only mean something to people like you who are yet to develop a useable medulla oblongata.


The only people I pity are the Igbo women who have to put up with chauvinist cretins like you who see the women as commodity to be bartered at weddings.


The Igbo culture treats it's women abysmally.


Non inheritance by females is despicable.


The treatment of widows is appalling.


Selling of your daughter to a man because you managed to send her to higher institution is a cavalier attitude.


No wonder the average Igbo lady would rather marry a Yoruba man. I don't blame them though.


You can dance zanku on my mentions all you like, I won't be responding to your juvenile rants after this.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by omooba969(m): 12:22pm On Aug 26, 2020
MrColdsweat:
You yarribastards have killed the thread with your Igbo hate.

The reason why this is so, is because by getting married, a woman shares her husbands inheritance.

If a woman is allowed to have inheritance, she will take inheritance from her father, and still share her husband's inheritance.



You prolly didn't take your time to think through your comment before typing - read again but this time slowly and you will see that you ain't making any sense.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by Alaska90(m): 12:23pm On Aug 26, 2020
Rutherford2019:
My mother and auntie are victims of the law. .
Their father died when they were 5 and 7 and he had no son, uncle or brother so people around the neighbourhood took over their property and drove them out with their mother then..
My grandmother(their mother ) died in 2007 and was buried in my aunt's house..
When my mother and auntie early in 2017 went to reclaim their father's land on the ground that their father has no brother or son and those inheriting the property is not their relatives, the people using the property chased them away in fact they hired community members and they warned them not to step their feet in that place again claiming that they have married and have no right to inherit the said property..
I the law is injurious to good conscience and repugnant to natural justice


Very evil and wicked culture..... I think you should encourage your mother to take legal action

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by AmazonTopaz(f): 12:23pm On Aug 26, 2020
Chii59:
Good one!!
And for those shouting "culture and tradition" any culture or tradition that relegates another human being as second class based on gender or status is BACKWARD, BARBARIC and UTTERLY REPREHENSIBLE.
Yes such culture is repugnant to natural justice,equity and good conscience and should be expunged.
Hence why cultures change.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by pocohantas(f): 12:23pm On Aug 26, 2020
SegFault:

Man just tire for Africans and their misogynist customs they don't want to dispose of, though times are changing now, I've gone to many homes and the boys and girls are forced to do the same jobs, boys do more work than girls self because I can't imagine a girl pounding yam or doing all those hard menial jobs.

Very anyhow people. Later they will go abroad to be chanting Black Lives Matter. Whereas all sorts of inequality and segregation is deeply rooted in their culture. cheesy

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by stchinedu: 12:24pm On Aug 26, 2020
GoldHorse:


You are very wrong! This is not an African thing. Yoruba woman have same right as their male counterpart. Yoruba women are equally entitled to all and any inheritance. Everything is shared equally unless someone decide to play smart which is entirely another argument. You either share accordingly to number of wives or number of children but not by gender.

You are right. I am Igbo but grew in Yoruba land.

The Igbo custom is barbaric and based on greed and 'long throat'.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by Nobody: 12:24pm On Aug 26, 2020
SegFault:

The Kikuyu people of east Africa is who you're talking about.

Probably...
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by Nobody: 12:26pm On Aug 26, 2020
BabaRamota1980:
They want to rule Nigeria but in 2020 still treating women as second class citizens, denying women from inheritance. Very backward people. No Ibo will rule this country in 2023.
just look at this fool

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by Amopeekun(f): 12:26pm On Aug 26, 2020
You know nothing about the North! Pls stop this!
An average northern father treats his daughter(s) better than the boys and if he is rich, oh my!
Their wives, muah!
Even when they are poor, the girls are still better taken care of than the girls. If they are Muslims, shariah prescribes half of what the male child will inherit. She will still get from her husband. Which is more dignified?

Have you ever seen a Hausa building? The women are kept on the inner part to protect them. They are chauffeured around town and treated with respect. You dare not pull her clothes in the market or disrespect her in whatever manner. If not, those who do not know her will be ones to deal with you.

The judgement is cool sha.
Cantonese:
The Igbos are always very honest and forthright. This practice is not limited to the Igbos only. It is an African culture.

Generally women are not expected to take their family'wealth to their husband's home. The general belief is that the wealth of the lady's family would be diminished while her husband's family would be made richer.

Anyone from other parts of Nigeria who makes irresponsible comments against the Igbos about this age long African culture simple deceives himself or herself.

Women are generally treated as second class citizens in Africa and this attitude.must stop. Some fathers try to circumvent this be sharing their wealth among their children while they are alive.

Our courts are filled with such cases without respect to tribe and religion. Among the northerners, do the women even have rights at all? A man marries more than four wives and treats.the whole women including his daughters as nobody. Where are the rights of the southwest women in this matter. Even the educated carry without caring about women in their homes.

The supreme court made the right judgement. Let's celebrate this sound judgement and liberation of our women.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by AFONJAPIG(m): 12:26pm On Aug 26, 2020
ThatFairGuy1:

Do away with MENTAL SLAVERY. THIS IS 21ST CENTURY
please can u crawl back to ur Brown roof republic. U want Amaka ur stupid gf to his his father so she can inherite the poor man's properties in Lagos so u can Benefit another person's sweat .. ur treacherous characters seems the same, like Awolowo like his descendant
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by Odidigboigbo(m): 12:26pm On Aug 26, 2020
I'm not from East, but in my own town, female children have no inheritance of their father. Except isolated cases that involves polygamous family, where one side of the family have no male children, then the inheritance could be given to the side that have female children, provided they contribute to the burial of their father.
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by juman(m): 12:27pm On Aug 26, 2020
Good judgement.
Constitution is supreme.

Islam give half of what man entitled to, to the woman.
Man get twice as woman.

But anyway, The parent can do WILL and share the properties as the parent desired.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by AmazonTopaz(f): 12:27pm On Aug 26, 2020
pocohantas:
I stayed in the SW for years, people gave birth and everyone was happy. The second I entered bus and landed in the SE...

That was the first time I heard the question “What did she born?” I didn’t even understand why anyone would ask such at the birth of a child with so much seriousness. With time I got to understand chauvinism is deeply rooted in most Igbo men. Some are just more subtle... A few are enlightened. The rest... pftttt
You are right.I am igbo and I will think triple before I date or marry an igbo man.
I have always made up my mind to marry from outside the South east.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by KayCee92(m): 12:27pm On Aug 26, 2020
BabaRamota1980:
They want to rule Nigeria but in 2020 still treating women as second class citizens, denying women from inheritance. Very backward people. No Ibo will rule this country in 2023.

Shut up
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by DexterousOne(m): 12:27pm On Aug 26, 2020
Noneroone:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/04/inheritance-supreme-court-voids-discrimination-females-igboland/

Isn't this an old news? Lalasticlala

and how does the court get to rule on "tradition"? It is an academic exercise.

Did you say "academic exercise?"

This ruling is as potent as anything
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by BabaRamota1980: 12:28pm On Aug 26, 2020
ZZ22:
Its on the father to will his properties to his children. A wealthy father that has enough would will to both sons and daughters but that of the sons would be of more economic value to that of the daughters. An average man will first consider his sons before the daughters that would get married to a man that has benefited from his father's property. This is how the cycle goes and whatever the supreme court does cannot override the decision of the father in willing his properties as he learnt from his father.
Brothers of the deceased chase both the widow and her daughters away from the property of their father. If the widow is young she herself becomes property to be inherited by one of the deceased's brother. Its not about a man's will in iboland. Fvk that. The culture is the will. The culture says both wife and daughter shall not partake in the inheritance. CNN has done a coverage on this before. This is not a secret. No need to twist it.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by letitrainnow(m): 12:28pm On Aug 26, 2020
Support it
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by nnamdi640: 12:28pm On Aug 26, 2020
Despite being a man from the south east,I still support this because it is a welcome development. I love it and I will always support it.....
How will a man struggle to make money and at the end another man that knows nothing about his suffering will now want to claim everything just because the man have no male child....
Anybody against this is evil.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by franknelson: 12:29pm On Aug 26, 2020
Not a bad one. But Nigerian constitution is paper bound, it is only read in the court. kiss
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by PureFace1(m): 12:29pm On Aug 26, 2020
Cantonese:
The Igbos are always very honest and forthright. This practice is not limited to the Igbos only. It is an African culture.

Generally women are not expected to take their family'wealth to their husband's home. The general belief is that the wealth of the lady's family would be diminished while her husband's family would be made richer.

Anyone from other parts of Nigeria who makes irresponsible comments against the Igbos about this age long African culture simple deceives himself or herself.

Women are generally treated as second class citizens in Africa and this attitude.must stop. Some fathers try to circumvent this be sharing their wealth among their children while they are alive.

Our courts are filled with such cases without respect to tribe and religion. Among the northerners, do the women even have rights at all? A man marries more than four wives and treats.the whole women including his daughters as nobody. Where are the rights of the southwest women in this matter. Even the educated carry without caring about women in their homes.

The supreme court made the right judgement. Let's celebrate this sound judgement and liberation of our women.



This is very wrong female are not always treated as second class citizens in Africa. Yoruba have Installed female and still install female in the most powerful office and position in their society.

Do you know that yoruba have had a female Ooni and Alaafin in the past?

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by morinto: 12:30pm On Aug 26, 2020
BabaRamota1980:
They want to rule Nigeria but in 2020 still treating women as second class citizens, denying women from inheritance. Very backward people. No Ibo will rule this country in 2023.
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Must u tell every body u don't know how to read and comprehend. The writer was talking about Enugu state and not Igbo in general. Pls I know u have hatred for Igbo but please learn to read and understand before proving your bias or hatred point

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by KayCee92(m): 12:30pm On Aug 26, 2020
Dickeyrider:
Igbos are not tolerant yet they want biafra. I have never seen a tribe more confused

Even South Sudan that fought to be independent from Sudan has it own battle raging between different personalities and segment of that new country. Am not saying I surport Biafra, the lesson is that there is always going to be conflict of interest wherever more than two persons are involved. Stop being ignorant and commenting because they said "REPLY" and think for once. grin

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by ThatFairGuy1: 12:30pm On Aug 26, 2020
AFONJAPIG:
please can u crawl back to ur Brown roof republic. U want Amaka ur stupid gf to his his father so she can inherite the poor man's properties in Lagos so u can Benefit another person's sweat .. ur treacherous characters seems the same, like Awolowo like his descendant
Small minded being cheesy

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by AmazonTopaz(f): 12:30pm On Aug 26, 2020
Has your mom and aunt not thought about going to court?
Rutherford2019:
My mother and auntie are victims of the law. .
Their father died when they were 5 and 7 and he had no son, uncle or brother so people around the neighbourhood took over their property and drove them out with their mother then..
My grandmother(their mother ) died in 2007 and was buried in my aunt's house..
When my mother and auntie early in 2017 went to reclaim their father's land on the ground that their father has no brother or son and those inheriting the property is not their relatives, the people using the property chased them away in fact they hired community members and they warned them not to step their feet in that place again claiming that they have married and have no right to inherit the said property..
I the law is injurious to good conscience and repugnant to natural justice

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