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The Big Business Of Wine-carrying (trad) And Burials In Igboland by Nobody: 6:22am On Jul 13, 2014 |
No be me talk am O. I just dey quote one article In the early nineties I met an Igbo man that lived and worked in the city of Jos. He had married less than a year before and recently lost his new bride after a brief illness. The man cried uncontrollably and I felt pity for him, but when I asked why he had been so inconsolable, the man carefully dried his tears and quietly narrated his problem to those of us around him. "It has taken me nearly twenty years of working at P & T to save enough money to go home and pay the dowry and the cost of wine-carrying for this girl...I'm now over forty years old and don't know how I can begin all over again...I just don't have the luxury of time to start saving all over again..." With those few words from the new widower I got the message. 1 Like |
Re: The Big Business Of Wine-carrying (trad) And Burials In Igboland by Tallesty1(m): 7:28am On Jul 13, 2014 |
Some of the things you said are nothing but the truth and the rest are just lies. I wanted to ignore them, because maybe you just used them to spice your story but they are too many to be ignore. 2buff: The average cost of dowry and wine-carrying in Igbo land today runs well over a million Naira on the cheap.This particular lie got me crying, now I'm trying to deny that the cost of dowry is expensive in some places like IMO state but you don't generalize it. And i'm sure it is not even up to that in Imo state. With 75k you will able to do all the needful in Nsukka. Tell any youg man you know that I ll personaly refund him his money if the expenses involved exceeds 75k. 2buff: [/quote]I do not have any problem whatsoever with inter-tribal or even inter-racial marriages, but it is alarming to know that several Igbo men are now fleeing their own kind just because they are no longer affordable.Another lie, guys from the place that the cost of dowry is cheap still do come to Igbo-land to marry. And for your info, the states(like Imo state) that give list have a different list for strangers. So it is not expensive for the Imolites. Some married guys in that state have not touched 1mil in their life and yet they are married with kids, so how come. 2buff: [/quote]The poor man as I recalled was from Imo state and back then, the high cost of dowry and wine-carrying was limited to Imo State and a handful of other enclaves. Not anymore, ask any young Igbo man wishing to marry today and they will tell you how terrified they are just from thinking about these prohibitive costs in any part of Igboland.I have not been to all the states but I can tell you with assurance that it is not so In Enugu. My elder bro married from Ogbunike in Anambra state and it is not so there. There are truths in your post but the lies out-numbered them. They are way too much. 1 Like |
Re: The Big Business Of Wine-carrying (trad) And Burials In Igboland by drnoel: 7:46am On Jul 13, 2014 |
Tallesty1: Some of the things you said are nothing but the truth and the rest are just lies. I wanted to ignore them, because maybe you just used them to spice your story but they are too many to be ignore.Now I too would have avoided ur comments but they were mostly to outlandish that I needed to correct certain wrong premises. Pls if u call a state be wise enof to say we're in the state. I know many pals that married their wives from Imo state and they tell me they didn't spend upto 100 thousand for both dowry and the event wine carrying event proper. About the traditional wedding, that depends on the kind of ceremony the organisers are hoping for but they rarely come cheap in Nigeria. Now, I schooled in Abia and I know for a fact that marrying an Ngwa lady is usually very expensive cos I helped a friend organise his wedding some years ago. At a time we his men in black/wedding organisers pressured him to bust marrying the lady cos we were already running into collective debts that were already very heavy. The groom had to sit his wife to be down and told her and her people off before they removed 60% of what they were initially insisting on which were irrelevant. |
Re: The Big Business Of Wine-carrying (trad) And Burials In Igboland by LordReed(m): 7:51am On Jul 13, 2014 |
Somehow the writer sounds hypocritical. He shells out 3million Naira for a "befitting" burial but bellyaches over 125k? |
Re: The Big Business Of Wine-carrying (trad) And Burials In Igboland by fnep2smooth(m): 9:12am On Jul 13, 2014 |
[quote author=2buff][/quote] this guy is m.a.d .... I swear. Why must you people alway call igbos name everytime you people want to create a post. 70% percent of nairaland who are igbos never been to there place before not to talk of knowing there culture and tradition. They believe is them say them say. Traditional marriage in igbo land is not as the stup.i.d OP listed. People interest and desire are different. Most white wedding in the world worth millions of dollars. So pls don't insult us with this cooked up stories. The Mod in other hand is not trying. This thread will cause tribal war so it should be close. In igbo land or imo state that i came from. With 50k you are done. Marriage right is not a most to be completed , just pay what you have and everything is cool with the bride people. This is our culture and tradition so please don't mock it or try to paint it as you like cos i don't really understand the point you are trying to make out of this senseless thread. Traditional marriage is not a most, if you are rich or capable to do it then go head but if you can't, just pay the bride price and carry your wife. Most girls too likes notice me, just because they want to show or boost to their friends some extra budget will be created for the marriage stuff. I don't like how you guys like talking about the igbo's everytime as if you are jealous. You guys can't beat us in anything .... We are specially made so for you to live long pls stop the hating |
Re: The Big Business Of Wine-carrying (trad) And Burials In Igboland by Nobody: 10:08pm On Jul 16, 2014 |
Make una chill I love ibo babes scatter. |
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