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Nigerian Women Laments The Scarcity Of Men! by paranorman(m): 6:13pm On Sep 06, 2013
**“What is happiness without a man in a woman’s life?”
**“I am not getting any younger and I cry everytime I see my mates with their husbands and children."


The recent alarm raised by the Catholic Women Organisation that husbands would become scarce in Nigeria in 2023 as 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, said 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.
Re: Nigerian Women Laments The Scarcity Of Men! by paranorman(m): 6:16pm On Sep 06, 2013
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 always 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.
Re: Nigerian Women Laments The Scarcity Of Men! by paranorman(m): 6:19pm On Sep 06, 2013
Re: Nigerian Women Laments The Scarcity Of Men! by harlos: 6:26pm On Sep 06, 2013
As they say it is ET, i wonder if the world is going to end without men undecided

Three days ago my younger brother said to me that his female friend says she is looking for boyfriend, i guessed she was looking for whom to press mumu button on then but now i understand cheesy

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Re: Nigerian Women Laments The Scarcity Of Men! by ceosville(m): 6:51pm On Sep 06, 2013
cool When them they Toast una that year, una they form sweet Sixteen, U con dey beg me 2 Marry? Madam, I no get your time! U're already over aged! Just go dey do the Lord's Service and work for the Lord!

Save Awa Nigerian Men from Oldies
Re: Nigerian Women Laments The Scarcity Of Men! by Kanwulia: 7:00pm On Sep 06, 2013
Unbelievable!!!

How did I get sooooooo lucky? cool
My POOHSIE-CUP runneth OVA!!!
O SE BABA MI!!!! cool
Re: Nigerian Women Laments The Scarcity Of Men! by Nobody: 8:23pm On Sep 06, 2013
Lol stories that touch the heart * singing in back street boys voice without you i am hinkomplit*

mshewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.rada rada.onpe koto scarce
Re: Nigerian Women Laments The Scarcity Of Men! by tosingcfr(m): 8:36pm On Sep 06, 2013
I hope all these young ladies would read this. But I really pity these women cos menopause would soon set in
Re: Nigerian Women Laments The Scarcity Of Men! by Arsenate(m): 9:28pm On Sep 06, 2013
Hahahhahahahhahahahahhahaha
Re: Nigerian Women Laments The Scarcity Of Men! by Nobody: 11:58pm On Sep 06, 2013
Mtchewwwww!!!!! undecided

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Re: Nigerian Women Laments The Scarcity Of Men! by DEGREE2466(m): 6:45am On Sep 07, 2013
Good to know that many of these ladies complaining are all educated that what u get when u make urself babay oku on campus (Game Player)

But the phrase "Scarcity of husband is nothing but FALLACY"

The only left over remedy is for them to travel abroad go marry a 69 year old man or better still wait for a man who lost his wife here in niger

#Something Megakwa o#

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