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Nigerian Spinsters Worried Over Scarcity Of Men



The recent alarm raised by the Catholic Women Organisation that husbands would become scarce in Nigeria in 2023 may just be right as P.M.NEWS can confirm that many Nigerian spinsters are currently witnessing the no-husband syndrome.

Within the last few weeks, some of the ladies who spoke with our correspondent reported serious apprehension, pressure and a total lack of peace as the consequence of their inability to get married.

One of the ladies, who preferred to be simply called Titi said she had taken the issue of marriage as a do-or-die affair due to “internal pressure” but that as much as she had tried, frustration had often been the result.

At 37, the businesswoman who sells clothes in Ikeja, the Lagos State capital in western Nigeria, told P.M.NEWS that she is not finding life easy.

“What is happiness without a man in a woman’s life?”she asked our correspondent during a chat on Badoo, a relationship site on the internet.

She had dated several men with some promising marriage, but without fulfilling the promise.

“You can’t imagine that in the last three years, I have dated about eight men, but the relationship was often short-lived simply because I ask for their commitment.

“I am not getting any younger and I cry every time I see my mates with their husbands and children.

“If at 37 I don’t have a child or a permanent man, when would I have them? Is it when my skin has wrinkled? she asked our correspondent.

Chioma (surname withheld), 35, has found herself patronising many of the social interaction sites on the internet.

The banker told our correspondent that she is on Eskimi, 2go, Badoo, Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter as well as 4clique, a site that was launched in Nigeria days ago.

“We can’t tell the particular broom in the bunch that kills a fly,” she told P.M.NEWS on why she patronises such number of social interaction sites.

“I always change my name in the different sites but the ultimate goal is to get a husband,” she added.

Chioma told P.M.NEWS that she is really worried about the situation, adding that she lives comfortably (in a mini-flat and has a car), “but who do I have to enjoy this comfort with me?

“I have tried a hook up programme on a Lagos-based radio station, but my age is now a major factor hindering my dream of being married,” she lamented pleading with our married correspondent, who she considered a bachelor, to “help dry my tears.”

A married woman, who gave her name as Mrs. Blessing Aguebor and resident in Oshodi, confirmed that the issue of lack of serious men for marriage is giving many ladies sleepless nights.

She narrated the touching story of her friend who was disappointed by her boyfriend of five years when it was time to “settle down”.

“My friend was 29 when he met this man in Benin and they dated for five years. The man was always giving the lady hope without her knowing the man had other plans. The year he fixed for their marriage was the year he travelled abroad without even informing my friend.

“It was later he called her and asked her to find another man because he still had many more years to hustle. My friend almost went mad.

“She is 36 now without a man. I had to convince her to relocate to Lagos so that possibly out of the population here, she would find someone. It is pathetic,” she said.

A 38-year old business woman in Ketu, Mrs. Rita Adewunmi, narrated how she lost her first husband to a friend, Idayat, who was desperate for a husband.

According to Mrs. Adewunmi who remarried last year, Idayat was 36 and needed a husband but her search was endless.

“I was always encouraging her and made her a part of my family. She would always help me take care of the kids when I go to the market.

“With time, she took over my husband without my knowledge until the day I caught them red-handed and that was the end of my marriage. Ladies are like hunters these days,” she said.

Asked why she was not married at 34, Blessing Osuoha, a nurse with a private hospital in Abuja, retorted: “that is why I’m on this social site. Why are you asking? Is it a bad idea if you propose to me?”

She explained that life was becoming unbearable without a husband.

“My friends and family members are aways asking when they would come and ‘chop’ rice, and I keep hoping,” she added.

A marriage counsellor in Lagos, Mrs. Victoria Aliu, told P.M.NEWS that scarcity of ‘real men’ is becoming a terrible condition for women ready for marriage.

She blamed the problem partly on the Nigerian economy, confusion among the bachelors on their choices of the women they want as wives and the attitudes of the spinsters.

“Many women, whether consciously or not, behave irritably sometimes, forgetting that the man just beside them at every point in time may just have been nursing how to start a conversation that could lead to marriage.

“Some other ladies are very choosy and unserious at their early stages of adulthood. They only open their eyes to discover that their friends are all married and that they are the only ones left at the bus stop. Then it becomes a terrible case for them,” she explained.

[quote author=RINE.]Please click 'like' if you know the Op is right. [/if He's right,how is dt going to affect d price of garri and bring a lasting raport among d fragmented PDP members





END TYM WAY!!!!!!!!

I saw a post of kayne West retweeted by Random Diva, it reads "RIP Lil Wayne". So,I wanna ask how true this could be.

We Shall Commence Bombing On October 1st”-MEND



The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) threatened to commence attacks by first of October.

According to reports, MEND specifically advised Chevron to evacuate its Tank Farm in Escravos as it is one of the targeted spots. In a statement released by Gbomo Jomo, the militant group said they have reviewed its Hurricane Exodus and are satisfied with the reduced oil output caused by pipeline vandalism.

The statement reads in part:

“The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta is so far satisfied with the steady destructive progress of ‘Hurricane Exodus’ which has reduced Nigeria’s oil output significantly through our sustained sabotage of pipelines. We will also continue to turn a blind eye to the crude oil merchants passing through our territories because their activities, apart from toll paid us, is helping to achieve our objectives of zero oil output by 2015.

We use this medium to advice workers at the Chevron Tank Farm in Escravos to evacuate the premises as mortar attacks are imminent on Tuesday, October 01, 2013 from 00:01Hrs Nigerian time.”

We Shall Commence Bombing On October 1st”-MEND



The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) threatened to commence attacks by first of October.

According to reports, MEND specifically advised Chevron to evacuate its Tank Farm in Escravos as it is one of the targeted spots. In a statement released by Gbomo Jomo, the militant group said they have reviewed its Hurricane Exodus and are satisfied with the reduced oil output caused by pipeline vandalism.

The statement reads in part:

“The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta is so far satisfied with the steady destructive progress of ‘Hurricane Exodus’ which has reduced Nigeria’s oil output significantly through our sustained sabotage of pipelines. We will also continue to turn a blind eye to the crude oil merchants passing through our territories because their activities, apart from toll paid us, is helping to achieve our objectives of zero oil output by 2015.

We use this medium to advice workers at the Chevron Tank Farm in Escravos to evacuate the premises as mortar attacks are imminent on Tuesday, October 01, 2013 from 00:01Hrs Nigerian time.”

aquaprin90: Awww....that's not fair... I can't see the picture.. lolz...

So sad u cnt see....ENDTYN TINZ

Haaaaa!!! Dis is a scandal, I go dye needs to take d baby for a DNA probe..

Woman Commits Suicide Over Husband’s Failure To Buy Her iPad

A 41-year-old woman, Mrs Catherine Sefunmi Urouna, has allegedly committed suicide by drinking some poisonous substance in protest of her husband’s refusal to buy her an iPad device.

Her family of five was on Saturday morning thrown into mourning, even as the neighbours were shocked that a woman, who was happily married with children, could take such a nasty decision to take her own life over an iPad.

According to LEADERSHIP finding, the 41-year-old woman and mother of three, two boys and a girl, was a senior account officer at the Akure North local government council of Ondo State.

She was said to have threatened to kill herself a fortnight ago if her husband failed to get her an iPad; even as the husband had pleaded with her to be patient and asked her to use the Blackberry phone he bought for her until he could afford to buy her an iPad.

The police in Ondo State, however, said they were investigating the incident to ascertain the actual cause of her death

Another interesting thing about God is dt He's full of mercy,dt is d reason why, after indulging ursef in things of d "flesh" last night, u found urself alive dis morning and still have d opportunity to go to His presence even after ur immoralities.

This is a forseen implication of the ongoing ASSU strike.

The trend which our national educational system is undergoing hypothesise that in the nearest future,the poor will not be able to attain a life-guaranteed level in education and it will be lugubrious, it will be a state of pisma-pisma and it will be sadonic for a man like ciroma chukwuma Adekunle to spend his whole life time writing waec without the council giving him a kind consideration by letting him go,for this reason, I want my fellow counsellor on NL to gv this guy a bright-future-assurance advise.

[quote author=Lordave]Terrible!
And at the same time pathetic. What happened to life jacket?

[According to a source who passed through dat route dt same "bad day" I gathered dt d lady was given a life jacket but She gave it to guy(took to be her boyfrnd/fiance) before d speed boat caught fire and capsize,d girl was helpless and people were struggling for survival, may her soul RIP

mankind80: No b only NOUN na PLURAL una go c!...yeye pple

. Wot has NOUN got to do with PLURAL@Makind80...NOUN sounds like SINGULAR for your ear abi?

Na d HOUSEGIRL kill him.

Bro, kudos to ur ability to vercame d spirit of prodigality in many of our youth especially corpers. Anyways,I dnt knw how u can take dis advice-try setup a casket building shop somewhere around d nort