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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by pasol4real(m): 2:53pm On Aug 26, 2020
The same useless Supreme Court that made uzodinma ,an unpopular candidate a governor, is who I will listen to against my wise n knowledgeable fore fathers.
Waste of time,even the so called women you favoured knows it’s a judgement in futility. Imagine handing over my fathers land in the village to my elder sister who got married to a man from Edo state.God forbid she dies , so the Supreme Court are telling me that an Edo man been her husband will now come to my village n take over my fathers land..... lol I laugh in Swahili

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by hammer8: 2:54pm On Aug 26, 2020
omooba969:


Now, read the nonsense you typed up there and tell us if the Igbo would be happy with your submission or agree with it.


THE PROBLEM WITH YOU FOREIGNERS IS U TALK IGNORANTLY.


THAT IS BECOS U DONT UNDERSTAND THEIR ARE TWO PROPERTIES IN IGBO LAND LAW.


ANCESTRAL PROPERTY AND PERSONAL PROPERTY.


HOW CAN MY DAUGHTER INHERIT ANCESTRAL PROPERTY, IS SHE NOT GOING TO HER HUSBAND HOUSE?


MY PERSONAL PROPERTIES ARE FOR MY WIFE AND MY SONS AFTER HER, WITH EXEMPTION OF A WILL STIPULATING OTHERWISE.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by favor914: 2:57pm On Aug 26, 2020
hammer8:



IF I HAVE NO SON, AND MY WIFE IS GONE, MY DAUGHTERS TAKE OVER EVERYTHING BUT NOT THE ANCESTRAL PROPERTIES LEFT TO ME BY MY FATHER.



THAT GOES TO MY BROTHER AND HIS SON.



THIS IS OUR CULTURE, EVERY IGBO PERSON UNDERSTANDS THIS.
Sorry dear, but the provisions of The Nigerian Constitution 1999 as amended supersedes any native law & custom, which is void ab initio in the face of the law, dead on arrival as affirmed by the Supreme Court.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by angelina08(f): 2:59pm On Aug 26, 2020
Don't know what to say about this.

So the female child will collect from her Father's side and her Husband's side.

Will the male child collect from his wife's side as well
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by hammer8: 2:59pm On Aug 26, 2020
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favor914:
Sorry dear, but the provisions of The Nigerian Constitution 1999 as amended supersedes any native law & custom, which is void ab initio in the face of the law, dead on arrival as affirmed by the Supreme Court.
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I JUST DEY LAFF U.


IT IS AN IGBO MAN U ARE TALKING ABOUT.


AT THE END, IT IS WAT I WANT THAT WILL HAPPEN.


DAUGHTER IS MINE AND BELONGS TO ME NOT NIGERIA.



I GIVE HER WAT I LIKE, IF I LIKE.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by favor914: 3:01pm On Aug 26, 2020
hammer8:



THE PROBLEM WITH YOU FOREIGNERS IS U TALK IGNORANTLY.


THAT IS BECOS U DONT UNDERSTAND THEIR ARE TWO PROPERTIES IN IGBO LAND LAW.


ANCESTRAL PROPERTY AND PERSONAL PROPERTY.


HOW CAN MY DAUGHTER INHERIT ANCESTRAL PROPERTY, IS SHE NOT GOING TO HER HUSBAND HOUSE?


MY PERSONAL PROPERTIES ARE FOR MY WIFE AND MY SONS AFTER HER, WITH EXEMPTION OF A WILL STIPULATING OTHERWISE.
It seems you are not extant with the laws of Nigeria? All land belongs to the Governor, the land is on lease for at best 99 years, all that freehold common law was abolished upon the commencement of The Lands Use Act 1978.
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by hammer8: 3:02pm On Aug 26, 2020
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favor914:
It seems you are not extant with the laws of Nigeria? All land belongs to the Governor, the land is on lease for at best 99 years, all that freehold common law was abolished upon the commencement of The Lands Use Act 1978.
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LET US BE FRANK, DOES NIGERIA HAVE LAW?


STOP TALKING CRAZY.
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by baby124: 3:03pm On Aug 26, 2020
Cantonese:


Maybe your experience is limited to what happens in your immediate surroundings.
Even the Yorubas experience this practice of women getting relegated by their male folk.

That some Yoruba communities worship goddesses does not erase the fact that women do not have inheritances in their father's houses. Some men do not want their daughters getting cheated by their sons when they are no longer there. They share their properties and ensure that everyone holds on to his/her own entitlement.

A case comes to mind. A man died and left a storey building at Isale Eko and 8 acres of land along Ibadan expressway. He left two daughters and one son. The son claimed the whole properties asserting that his two sisters had no portion in the inheritance left by their father. The sisters took him up and were awarded two acres of lands each in full and final settlement.

Can you disagree also about our people in the north? Can you honestly say that women have rights? If some don't practice it, then their women only were liberated from that evil behaviour.
False and fake story. Yoruba women inherit. There has not been 2 acres of land available in Isale Eko since the 50’s not to talk of 8. Some of you can just lie sha!!! Jesus!

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by hammer8: 3:04pm On Aug 26, 2020
baby124:

False and fake story. Yoruba women inherit. There has not been 2 acres of land available in Isale Eko since the 50’s not to talk of 8. Some of you can just lie sha!!! Jesus!


DO YORUBA WOMEN INHERIT ANCESTRAL PROPERTIES?

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by favor914: 3:05pm On Aug 26, 2020
hammer8:
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I JUST DEY LAFF U.


IT IS AN IGBO MAN U ARE TALKING ABOUT.


AT THE END, IT IS WAT I WANT THAT WILL HAPPEN.


DAUGHTER IS MINE AND BELONGS TO ME NOT NIGERIA.



I GIVE HER WAT I LIKE, IF I LIKE.
Igbo man in Nigeria or Gabon?, why am I even arguing with you on an issue the Supreme Court of Nigeria has already ruled on?, Keep living in your Biafra mindset, I wonder which better trained chic would want anything to do with Biafra with a mindset like these? Nigeria has ruled on the issue, you can start your exodus to your imaginary Biafra if you’re not satisfied, leave Nigeria for us. Ese Agese said Nigeria will survive.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by omooba969(m): 3:05pm On Aug 26, 2020
hammer8:



THE PROBLEM WITH YOU FOREIGNERS IS U TALK IGNORANTLY.


THAT IS BECOS U DONT UNDERSTAND THEIR ARE TWO PROPERTIES IN IGBO LAND LAW.


ANCESTRAL PROPERTY AND PERSONAL PROPERTY.


HOW CAN MY DAUGHTER INHERIT ANCESTRAL PROPERTY, IS SHE NOT GOING TO HER HUSBAND HOUSE?


MY PERSONAL PROPERTIES ARE FOR MY WIFE AND MY SONS AFTER HER, WITH EXEMPTION OF A WILL STIPULATING OTHERWISE.

Why do you have to exclude the girl-child from the equation, or is she not part of the family/children?

Let me warn you ok, stop typing in capital letters if you don't want a blasted knock on ya head. cool

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by Nobody: 3:06pm On Aug 26, 2020
To all the Nairaland men who spoke up against this devilish Igbo cultures that subjects their women to nothing regardless of tribe, I applaud you all. Today I'm proud to be a Nairalander. I've come to realize that we still have Nigerian men with a lot of conscience and civilization.
Let me shock you guys more, that tradition is the least of traditions that put Igbo women in the position of dogs . In most igbo families, women have been conditioned mentally to believe that a woman has no say in the family regardless of the situation. I mean literarily in everything. You are meant to speak when spoken to and just obey the men in the house. For instance , in an extended family , your husbands cousins who are younger than you have the right to talk you down or shut you up and all you have to do is swallow it and keep shut all because you are a woman . Any day you decide to speak up , you become an evil woman and would be reprimanded by all and sundry including your fellow women because psychological they have being made to accept that life style as normal. The Igbos are really backward in thinking even those whom you thought went to school .

In-between I'm an Igbo woman and equally married to an Igbo man in Mbaise . My people, even my husband couldn't believe all the nonsense , senseless and useless traditions he heard during his father's burial . Imagine your father's uncles, cousins and relatives telling you as a grown man that you can not decide on how to bury your father until they approve it . It was hell but I had to show them that not all women would be caged up.
Igbo women are really suffering in their marriages to Igbo men. Problems of extended families and all these devilish traditions should really be looked into. These women would go through hell , only for their children to grow up and continue from where their uncles stopped in oppressing women.
It's really sad.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by hammer8: 3:06pm On Aug 26, 2020
favor914:
Igbo man in Nigeria or Gabon?, why am I even arguing with you on an issue the Supreme Court of Nigeria has already ruled on?, Keep living in your Biafra mindset, I wonder which better trained chic would want anything to do with Biafra with a mindset like these? Nigeria has ruled on the issue, you can start your exodus to your imaginary Biafra if your not satisfied, leave Nigeria for us.


Ruling cannot abolish the tradition and custom of Igbos — Osisi Itodo
…Judgment good but communities still have custom and tradition — Igwe Okolo
…Court judgment bastardizes culture and tradition of Igboland — Ugwu
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by baby124: 3:06pm On Aug 26, 2020
hammer8:



DO YORUBA WOMEN INHERIT ANCESTRAL PROPERTIES?


Yes they do. Ancestral properties are for everyone and they have rooms in the ancestral properties, so do their brothers. Ancestral properties are rarely sold or willed to one person but serves as a common property. If sold, the money is shared equally.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by hammer8: 3:07pm On Aug 26, 2020
I ASK AGAIN, DOES NIGERIA HAVE COURT?


NONSENSE!
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by hammer8: 3:09pm On Aug 26, 2020
baby124:

Yes they do. Ancestral properties are for everyone and they have rooms in the ancestral properties, so do their brothers. Ancestral properties are rarely sold or willed to one person but serves as a common property. If sold, the money is shared equally.


IGBO DO NOT PERMIT SUCH.


THEY ARE STRICKLY FOR THE SONS OF THE SOIL.



IF ME AND MY BROTHERS HAVE NO SON, IT WILL GO TO A DISTANT RELATIVE.



THEY ARE ALWAYS MALE.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by baby124: 3:10pm 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
Get a lawyer for your auntie and mother. Make sure when judgement is passed that they are armed to the teeth to take over their fathers property. How can strangers inherit what belongs to them, what their father worked hard for. They should also make sure they perfect the documents of the properties and storm that town.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by hammer8: 3:11pm On Aug 26, 2020
baby124:

Yes they do. Ancestral properties are for everyone and they have rooms in the ancestral properties, so do their brothers. Ancestral properties are rarely sold or willed to one person but serves as a common property. If sold, the money is shared equally.



EVEN AN ADOPTED SON HAVE MORE RIGHT TO ANCESTRAL PROPERTIES THAN OUR BLOOD DAUGHTERS.


ADOPTION IS RECOGNISED IN IGBO LAND LAW.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by MISSCONGENIALITY(f): 3:13pm On Aug 26, 2020
Justpassingby45:

Then I better not to have a mother like you. Cox mother are the least to see their kids suffer
If a mother finish taking care of the kids and then they fail to take care it their mother when they should them they don't deserve to get a pin.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by favor914: 3:14pm On Aug 26, 2020
hammer8:



Ruling cannot abolish the tradition and custom of Igbos — Osisi Itodo
…Judgment good but communities still have custom and tradition — Igwe Okolo
…Court judgment bastardizes culture and tradition of Igboland — Ugwu
Ignorance of the law is no excuse, even section 24b, subsection b, of The Lands Use Act 1978, prohibits any customary law from disinheriting anyone under the guise of a customary law, mind you The Provisions of The Lands Use Act 1978 is enshrined in section 315(5)& (6) of The Constitution making its provisions supreme, incontrovertible, (not able to be denied or disputed), and indefeasible, (not been able to be lost, annulled, or overturned), don’t ask me why it was put there, General Obasanjo is still alive, you can go to Otta Farms and ask him.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by baby124: 3:16pm On Aug 26, 2020
hammer8:



IGBO DO NOT PERMIT SUCH.


THEY ARE STRICKLY FOR THE SONS OF THE SOIL.



IF ME AND MY BROTHERS HAVE NO SON, IT WILL GO TO A DISTANT RELATIVE.



THEY ARE ALWAYS MALE.
Yoruba don’t disinherit their daughters and make them destitute. They always have a place to stay as long as there is a family house. Plus it makes them empowered so that no man will maltreat or kill them. It is Yoruba men that created this culture to protect their daughters. What Igbo men choose for their daughters is their problem, but it’s rather unfortunate. As for you, never ever put your daughter at such a disadvantage in life and to the mercy of a stranger you call son-in law.

You will not like what will happen to your daughter and grand children should she fall in wrong hands. You can also will her the property or buy property that will be hers that is not ancestral to protect her and train her to have a survivorship clause where it goes to her children and never the husband.

I have properties from my father and all those properties will go to my girl children and males too. But the girls will have more. I am training them too to pass it on to their girls too, 2:1 female:male grandkids.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by favor914: 3:16pm On Aug 26, 2020
hammer8:
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SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mtnTDgJdFc
The scripture says knowledge to a Fool, is similar to a rubie in the snort of a swine.
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by hammer8: 3:17pm On Aug 26, 2020
baby124:

Yoruba don’t disinherit their daughters and make them destitute. They always have a place to stay as long as there is a family house. Plus it makes them empowered so that no man will maltreat or kill them. It is Yoruba men that created this culture to protect their daughters. What Igbo men choose for their daughters is their problem, but it’s rather unfortunate. As for you, never ever put your daughter at such a disadvantage in life and to the mercy of a stranger you call son-in law.

You will not like what will happen to your daughter and grand children should she fall in wrong hands. You can also will her the property or buy property that will be hers that is not ancestral to protect her and train her to have a survivorship clause where it goes to her children and never the husband.

I have properties from my father and all those properties will go to my girl children and males too. But the girls will have more. I am training them too to pass it on to their girls too, 2:1 female:male grandkids.


SO POOR MEN IN YORUBA LAND, DAUGHTERS ARE DESTITUTE BECOS THEIR FATHER DONT HAVE ANY PROPERTY FOR THEM TO INHERIT?

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by tot(f): 3:17pm On Aug 26, 2020
MISSCONGENIALITY:
One of my grand aunties had a will before she died. Her grown up son's refused to to follow the will because their mother shared property to allbher children both make and female. Note. Is was her property not thelat her husband left it for her. She worked for it herself.
It took 10yrs to settle the matter in court. People were staying free in the houses for all the 10yrs. These men saying women will to have a share in their mother's property didn't contribute to their mother's life or buriel. And they were not hungry men o. They had better property than what their mother left. The girls were the ones who took care of the woman.
They finally agreed as the women too refused to give up their own share.
Some people will still not accept their father's will if they feel it doesn't favour them.
If I have kids and they misbehave, I don't mind giving all my property to the criminal Federal government. Let them go and work for their own.

Wow, can you just imagine. What a nasty behaviour.
Well, with wills, whether they accept the will or not is irrelevant, it can be legally enforced. I am glad the women didn't give up.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by baby124: 3:18pm On Aug 26, 2020
hammer8:




EVEN AN ADOPTED SON HAVE MORE RIGHT TO ANCESTRAL PROPERTIES THAN OUR BLOOD DAUGHTERS.


ADOPTION IS RECOGNISED IN IGBO LAND LAW.
Adopted kids don’t have that right in Yoruba land except the man wills to them. Blood children and their mothers take all.
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by favor914: 3:19pm On Aug 26, 2020
hammer8:
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SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mtnTDgJdFc
Sorry to hurt your feelings, you better go and start looking for work, all that land you were hoping to inherit after you kill your pops, your sisters will also share in the spoils, the Supreme Court has ruled forever it can’t be changed, you better shove that native chalk down where the sun don’t shine.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by baby124: 3:19pm On Aug 26, 2020
hammer8:



SO POOR MEN IN YORUBA LAND, DAUGHTERS ARE DESTITUTE BECOS THEIR FATHER DONT HAVE ANY PROPERTY FOR THEM TO INHERIT?

As long as their father has property, they inherit. Traditional laws require that. If the father does not have property, he will have a family house somewhere, ancestral house which they will have a room/ collect rent and when that is sold they will get his share.
Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by hammer8: 3:19pm On Aug 26, 2020
favor914:
The scripture says knowledge to a Fool, is similar to a rubie in the snort of a swine.

LISTEN, ARE U FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM, EVERY MAN IS A KING IN HIS OWN HOUSE.


A SUPREME COURT PRESIDED BY A YORUBA MAN CANNOT GO INTO THE IGBO MAN HOUSE TO INSTRUCT THE IGBO MAN ON WHO TO GIVE HIS PROPERTY.



THESE THINGS ARE REALLY THAT SIMPLE.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by hammer8: 3:21pm On Aug 26, 2020
baby124:

As long as their father has property, they inherit. Traditional laws require that. If the father does not have property, he will have a family house somewhere, ancestral house which they will have a room/ collect rent and when that is sold they will get his share.


YORUBA TRADITIONAL LAW IS FOR YORUBA PEOPLE.

THAT IS NOT THE IGBO MAN BUSINESS.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by baby124: 3:22pm On Aug 26, 2020
hammer8:



YORUBA TRADITIONAL LAW IS FOR YORUBA PEOPLE.

THAT IS NOT THE IGBO MAN BUSINESS.
You asked me questions to educate you. Now you are educated. Your decision to do what you want with your property and your children, since some don’t have value in your eyes.

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Re: Supreme Court’s Decision On Female Inheritance Divides Igbos by AmazonTopaz(f): 3:23pm On Aug 26, 2020
csamii:


One SW flaw?! Really?

She said numerous flaws and injustice. Please will you be kind enough to list these flaws and injustice?

Harmful widowhood practices.
No inheritance for females.
Outrageous bride price list.
Etc.

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