Bobbystanley: Before nko...why wount our ladies be expensive...an igbo adage says dat ''ukwu bu ego'' so u must hav ur money to get a good tin

cyril83: Igbo people and their greediness, what's the essence of selling out your daughter as if they wil not collect penny from their in law again....can't even dream of marrying an igbo lady, igbo gurls r so selfish and flirt.

cyril83: that's why we r hhaving So much criminals among igbos....nothin of such in our tribe

Ileke-IdI:
Enough of this. . . . Igbo elders selling their children. How's the SE states any different from the North?

Didn't Yerima buy his 13 years old bride from Egypt?

Even with the new Bride price law, it'll still take years before its implementation on our imo society.

==> Politics?

Lordave: thats why you have got a cheap sister.

Wisegee: @ heronic. Legs are meant to be opened sometimes but the way those girls there open it recklessly has given them bad image

cyril83: payin 1k less for a responsible cheap sis is far beta than payin 1m for a dog who will later be sent packing,come to say it all,igbo guyz of nowadayz even prefer marryin outside their tribe.....smh

odumchi:

This means that you don't know Igbo culture/society as well as you think you do.

ACM10: This is a welcome development. Imagine that my uncle spent about N2.5m(not inclusive of white wedding) to marry his wife from Imo. My late granddad wasn't amused by that show of extravagance cos he gave out my cousin who is a medical doctor to an Imo man free-of-charge. This prompted my grandmum to issue a warning to all youths and eligible bachelors in our family and extended family not to marry any girl from Imo. They need to bring sanity to the whole process. Sometimes I pity my Imo sisters who have to employ desperate tactics to hook up on a man.

Wisegee: It may seem I am looking for trouble but that is d fact. The issue is not bride price but the fear of d fact that imo state girls don't close their legs. That is what should be addressed not a review of d bride price.

Ileke-IdI:


List all the bride price from different Igbo states. . . . .

Father gets sth, mama gets something, chief gets something, the village tourist gets something. . . .etc

Lordave: thats why you have got a cheap sister.

odumchi:

In Igbo society, bride prices range from community to community and are traditionally regulated by the elders (or any other governing body found in that locale).

The bride price also depends on the traditional marriage ceremony (which also varies from place to place). Traditionally, the significance of the bride price lies in the [Igbo] belief that a woman was an asset loaned to a man to help him produce a family of his own and the bride price (aka dowry) was the payment used to seal this agreement.

Please don't be too quick to say what you're unsure of.

BlackPikiN:


Shey this thing look like joke to you.

You see custodians of Imo culture discuss about the inability of their children to get married on time, you call am jokes.

Who you wan make e discuss traditional marriage wey no go be joke to you?

Ileke-IdI:


Na wa. . . .

odumchi:
Also, i[b]n pre-colonial Igbo society,[/b] (in some communities) women were buried in the fatherland (regardless of where their husbands are from), signaling the end of the loan.

Please don't be too quick to say what you're unsure of.

chigoziec: The are expensive because the are discipline and reliable simple

Ileke-IdI:


My calendar says 2012. . . . how about you?

honeric01:

how u dey?
Una see why christ embassy full with expired babes? Skyrocketing bride-price

Bobbystanley: Before nko...why wount our ladies be expensive...an igbo adage says dat ''ukwu bu ego'' so u must hav ur money to get a good tin

Ileke-IdI:


And that's why I asked you to list the bride prices from each community and from state to state. For a politician to want to do sth about it, it must really be chaotic.

Which man would let his wife walk free after buying her for millions? Na until death do us part be that one o.


PS: This is the 21st century. A woman should marry a man on the date they want to get married, not
when they can gather enough money to feed the entire community.

chigoziec: The are expensive because they are discipline and reliable simple