Ioannes:


and if she is the only child, wetin go happen

carnegiefan:


You are not Igbo so you cannot understand why this ruling can NEVER be implemented in Igboland.
All the bolded practices were abolished by the Igbo not by a Supreme court anywhere.
Someone above mentioned about the Imeobi land in Igboland; that is a SPIRITUAL matter that only Igbo can handle.
There is a reason why native laws and customary courts are there.
The supreme court acted outside its bounds because the laws governing such practices are customary laws.

DerideGull:


Will the court decision also reverse the will of her father? The girls cannot double dip. She will enjoy the properties of her husband and still have pedigree to share what her father has left with her brothers. Igbo girls are expected to get married.

DerideGull:


She has to get married and enjoy the properties of her husband therefore frustrate the intentions of gold diggers. The Igbo custom of property sharing is aimed against wide-eye male gold diggers.

Pidggin:


Whether you like it or not the court has taken a stance on the issue, your opinion is irrelevant. Our constitution is against discrimination in any form, deal with it.

SegunAdewole:


I don't think it is a case of discrimination dearie. If i give my daugters hand in marriage and also settle her with one of my buildings, why should she and her husband come giving my giving my son problems over my estate when i will it to them after my death? That's not fair. We yorubas should think like this, it saves lots of problem.
Say no to gold digging husbands.

wirinet:


Please read what you wrote s l o w l y, and see if it made any sense.

You did not exactly "give" your daughter's hand in marriage, you collected huge sums of money and other benefits in return, it was you that benefited from your daughter and not the other way.

If you feel your daughter have no value to you, no proplem, will all your estate to your son(s), it is your perogative. But if you refuse to write a will and you die, then your daughter has legal backing to contest some of your properties with your son(s).

Nothing concerns your daughter's husband in this matter, it is between you and your daughter, just like nothing concerns your son's wives with your properties.

Since you think little of your daughters, i hope you do not expect any benefits from them while you are alive. I hope you only go to your sons when you need money for expensive medical treatments or ask them to help you in sponsoring those your beloved sons with their education. I also hope you do not ask daughters to help you renovate or finish that your house in the village.

nobilis:



And you think you're qualified to stand in judgment over others?
Just take a look at how u comfortably spelt the words in bold font above wrongly.

Which school did you attend?
How many "tastes" did you pass?
I wonder why you want to check the qualification of the "Juges", when your own qualification is in question.

Don't you think your WASSCE result should be withdrawn by WAEC?

Nwanyihanuo:
May God almighty bless the judges and lawyers who took part in this judgment.
May God punish all those who are NOT happy with d judgement and all those who treat women with disdain

SegunAdewole:


You assume that i am Ibo but i am not. I'm only looking at things in perspective. Ibo women are the most educated and have the highest standard of living even better than our yoruba women, have you asked yourself why. Do.you know that many Ibo fathers will rather educate their female children to tertiary evel on their lean resources and send their sons to learn a trade. What inheritance is greater than that?
If a father spends so much to educate his daughte, he has the right to expect her to become great tommorow and help the family. doesn't he?

SegunAdewole:


You assume that i am Igbo but i am not. I'm only looking at things in perspective. Ibo women are the most educated and have the highest standard of living even better than our yoruba women, have you asked yourself why. Do.you know that many Ibo fathers will rather educate their female children to tertiary evel on their lean resources and send their sons to learn a trade. What inheritance is greater than that?
If a father spends so much to educate his daughte, he has the right to expect her to become great tommorow and help the family. doesn't he?

DerideGull:


She has to get married and enjoy the properties of her husband therefore frustrate the intentions of gold diggers. The Igbo custom of property sharing is aimed against wide-eye male gold diggers.

wirinet:


I know you are just using sarcasism. You are not only Igbo, you are IPOB Igbo. You look for the slightest opportunity to attack Yoruba people and culture, even in topics that have nothing to do with Yoruba. Only Kanu's people have such hatred for Yorubas.

It is a lie that many Igbo fathers would rather educate their daughters instead of their sons, the Igbo society has an obvious bias towards male children. The problem is that more female children prefer to go to school than their male counterparts. Many young males are in a hurry to make it and opt out of school to join business.

So because an Igbo man choses to educate his daughter should make the daughter a worthless slave to the father?
In order to give away the daughter, the father must recieve the refund of all the money he spent educating his daughter in the bride price. As if that is not compensation enough, the man still demand his daughter should still help him solve his financial and material problems for life, just because he educated her. Then at the end of the day, she is not worth a single inheritance from him. Meanwhile all these conditions are not placed on the sons, whom the same father spent money to educate and deemed worthy to inherit all the his properties.

wirinet:


I know you are just using sarcasism. You are not only Igbo, you are IPOB Igbo. You look for the slightest opportunity to attack Yoruba people and culture, even in topics that have nothing to do with Yoruba. Only Kanu's people have such hatred for Yorubas.

It is a lie that many Igbo fathers would rather educate their daughters instead of their sons, the Igbo society has an obvious bias towards male children. The problem is that more female children prefer to go to school than their male counterparts. Many young males are in a hurry to make it and opt out of school to join business.

So because an Igbo man choses to educate his daughter should make the daughter a worthless slave to the father?
In order to give away the daughter, the father must recieve the refund of all the money he spent educating his daughter in the bride price. As if that is not compensation enough, the man still demand his daughter should still help him solve his financial and material problems for life, just because he educated her. Then at the end of the day, she is not worth a single inheritance from him. Meanwhile all these conditions are not placed on the sons, whom the same father spent money to educate and deemed worthy to inherit all the his properties.

wirinet:


I know it is difficult for ulta male chauvinists like you to accept the realities and norms of a modern societies, whether you accept it or not, women have the same rights as you, including your sisters and wife. I am sure if you are an American, you will still argue with the rights of women to vote.

I am not Igbo,but i am married to a pure Igbo, and i know the Injustices and discrimination faced by women in Igboland. Women are accorded little rights. Once a woman has been married (sold) off, she loses all family privileges and is assumed the sole property of the husband. She must remain in the marriage and endure any and all abuses by an abusive husband, as no parent would like to return the bride price (which is sometimes very exhorbitant).
The experiences of widows in Igboland is better imagined than spoken. They are humilated in the name of burial rites, the family sometimes deny the widow her material and property rights. If the children are too young to fight for themselves or the widow has no male child, she could be thrown on the streets dispite her husband being very wealthy.

I am not saying these to denigrate the igbos, i just want to point out that these egocentric and chauvinistic practices has no place in a modern developing society

I do not know about Imeobi land, but believe me it has nothing to do with spirituality, it has more to do with male ego and domination. There is no proof that men are more spiritual than women, in fact women are generally said to be more spiritual than men.

I cannot believe an enlightened man would say a customary law is outside the bounds of the supreme court. The supreme court is the apex court of the land and all other courts are inferior to it.

SegunAdewole:


I don't think it is a case of discrimination dearie. If i give my daugters hand in marriage and also settle her with one of my buildings, why should she and her husband come giving my giving my son problems over my estate when i will it to them after my death? That's not fair. We yorubas should think like this, it saves lots of problem.
Say no to gold digging husbands.

carnegiefan:


This question is why I lament the colonization of Igbo culture.
According to my Igbo tradition before the colonialists came, the girl would be at her fathers house and have as many children as she wants from a man she chooses from outside her bloodline. The children will belong to her family not the biological fathers'.
She would be deemed "a man" for that purpose. If she is barren, she can "marry" another woman to have kids for her.
A ritual is performed to transform her into "a man" for the purposes of inheriting her father and playing his roles.
Only males inherit properties in Igboland.

najoke:
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GBAM!!!!
Welcome to BIAFRA.....where the girl child is a means to an end.

Abagworo:



You know your culture. Those Yorubas meddling around should ask themselves why Ooni cannot be the right of every Ife citizen. Culture defines a people. Why must it be male from royal family?

Vulu:


YORUBAS ARE NOW CLAIMING HOLIER THAN THOU. WHY DO THEY DISCRIMINATE AGAINST WOMEN FROM BECOMING OBAS. HAVE WE EVER HAD A FEMALE OONI OF IFE AND ALAAFIN OF OYO. VERY HYPOCRITICAL SET OF PEOPLE. GOD!

MAYBE WE SHOULD ALSO FORM AN NGO TO PUSH FOR FEMALE RIGHT TO THRONE IN YORUBALAND.

SegunAdewole:
You assume that i am Ibo but i am not. I'm only looking at things in perspective. Ibo women are the most educated and have the highest standard of living even better than our yoruba women, have you asked yourself why. Do.you know that many Ibo fathers will rather educate their female children to tertiary evel on their lean resources and send their sons to learn a trade. What inheritance is greater than that?
If a father spends so much to educate his daughte, he has the right to expect her to become great tommorow and help the family. doesn't he?

najoke:
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GBAM!!!!
Welcome to BIAFRA.....where the girl child is a means to an end.

kazmanbanjoko:
Hmmnn, what of family of only girls. Will they introduce a third party or what.

nobilis:
And you think you're qualified to stand in judgment over others?
Just take a look at how u comfortably spelt the words in bold font above wrongly.

Which school did you attend?
How many "tastes" did you pass?
I wonder why you want to check the qualification of the "Juges", when your own qualification is in question.

Don't you think your WASSCE result should be withdrawn by WAEC?

stickncarrot:


I heard birth control is anti Islam, I hope the constitution will have a say on this.

laudate:

Hehehe..... let me guess. You conducted some kind of analytical research into the number of female Igbo students vs. female Yoruba kids that graduate from different schools all over the country, reviewed their educational qualifications, plotted the results into a Gantt chart or a Pivot table, then extrapolated the figures from the chart, before arriving at this conclusion you spewed out above??

Or how did you arrive at this hypothesis? A lot of folks would like to know.... Because it is unclear what perspective you are talking about, and people would like to know what exactly informed this perspective.


Ba-aa-ad boy!! Una no go kill person with laugh for here!!



Good question!! Now what is the answer?? I have seen two cases where the father's brothers ended up inheriting the properties of a deceased man who died intestate, and left behind only daughters.

D5000y:
Great move by the supreme court. I never knew this before and some IPOB girls would be following their male counterparts shout Biafra when at the back you are not loved, even by your people.
This is a same to 18th century custom of the gully-eroded land of the Biafra. It's hightime I sent my Biafra girlfriend away, if she's not being loved by her people then there's no point taking her for real. No forgiveness this time around.

Ikengawo:
Daughters inherit what their husbands leave for them. Once you marry a woman shes a member of your family and inherits property from that specific family. In this way marriage is based on the mans ability to be a provider and not his waiting to benefit from the death of the daughters father. This is why Igbo land is more organized and developed than you're shit whole Southwest. There's no government in nigeria and you have no ability to enforce this trash that only nairalander know aboit

laudate:


Daughters inherit what their husbands leave for them?? Re-ea-ally?? That is a new one. What then happens to the sons of the daughters' husband, when the husband dies intestate? So the sons of the daughter's husband are not entitled to inherit anything, if the husband leaves the property for his wife??

Ikengawo:

So you think were a 1 man 1 bungalow tribe like your own?! LOL look at this post. So in you home men dont have enough possessions to share between their wife and children. Children inherit yoruba slaves. Fool

wirinet:


Who is taking about a will here? The supreme court is taliking about a father who died INTERSTATE, meaning he died without a will. If an Igbo man dies without a will, customary law is applied. This customary law prohibit daughters from gaining as much as a pin from her late father's estate. Sometimes wives are also left out in the cold. What this supreme court decision has done is to give a daughter the same inheritance rights as her brothers.

Does the fact that an Igbo girl is married remove the fact that she shares half her father's DNA? or she becomes less human because she married? If boys could triple dip - Enjoy the properties of his wife, his brothers and his father, why cant a fortunate woman double dip.

Maple:


Islam do not have a monopoly on the issue of birth control. The roman catholic church and protestants equally forbids it, but u are too bigoted to realize that. Ignoramus!