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.

pocohantas:


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.

Dickeyrider:
Igbos are not tolerant yet they want biafra. I have never seen a tribe more confused

juman:
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.

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

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.

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.

Swanzi:



Pls don’t be a hypocrite are u not aware there’s a sharia court in the north ...?

BabaRamota1980:


You want escalate the matter, abi? Yanminri still dey argue secular judgement and you bring Islam join the fray. You want them to go wild.

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.

udemzyudex:


Don't mind them, it's so annoying, when a man have only female children, after his death the family member will take over everything and leave the family with nothing.

It's crazy.

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

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.

Odidigboigbo:
This was put to discourage the females from running away from their matrimonial home because of her father's inheritance. This is the main reason while Yoruba's have broken homes

BabaRamota1980:

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.

FrLukas:


You are absolutely wrong.


Just limit your observations to Igbo culture please.


Relegating women to the background is NOT a general African culture.


I am Yoruba and I know that women are highly revered in Yoruba culture.


Go and read of the likes of Efunsetan, Moremi etc. Yorubas have many goddesses that they worship and revere like Osun, Oba, Yemoja etc.


Apart from Yoruba, there are other African culture that the female takes pride of place.

There's one in east Africa where the women are the ones that choose the men they want to marry and they are allowed to do away with the men and marry another one when they are tired of them. Etc.

Cheeryfeet:
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

Nnemuka:
Igbos dont regard women...
Majority of Nairalanders who insult women are igbo men because they were raised to believe that women are mere creatures created to please them and endure their excesses

DexterousOne:


Did you say "academic exercise?"

This ruling is as potent as anything

FrLukas:
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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.

AmazonTopaz:

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.

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.

omooba969:


Habaaaa! Where's your evidence - try dey reduce your lies small small na.

trutharena:
This is why this female always want to get married to the Yorubas so they can have right to properties.

Such a backward system. In 2020, they still regard women as nobody tueh!

pocohantas:


After carefully studying my association, I realized the Igbo men I get along with well are mostly diasporans or those that were brought up outside the SE. E get why...

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.

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.

Chii59:
Utter nonsense you just wrote.

trutharena:
This is why this female always want to get married to the Yorubas so they can have right to properties.

Such a backward system. In 2020, they still regard women as nobody tueh!