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ZUBY77: The solution to that problem is too simple. Impregnant the girl and her parents will be begging you to just show your face.

>>>>hahahaha ROTFL.MR ZUBBY,hw is mrs ZUBBY and baby?

CHI

i am tired of this tradition, contemplatin marryin a non-igbo but a catholic woman.

Try Mid-belt region. Plenty of my ibo broddas in London have gone fishing there with long rod and indestructible bait.

The solution to that problem is too simple. Impregnant the girl and her parents will be begging you to just show your face.

True talk - even 1 simple dudu osun soap and bottle of groundnut go carry bride price 4 family. They will make full soup replete with meat whenever they see your shadow!

.......And yet we wonder why Nigeria is so backwards

sosoluv: The problem is simple to solve if u are so worried abt ur pocket, go get a woman who thinks the same way u think. Get married to her and stop bothering the rest who think otherwise

so you mean to tell me that's enuf reasons for your papa to sell you out like a monger...anyway its not genuine coz such idea can be traced to igboland

yuzedo: Marriage is expensive in Naija so that when you marry woman, before you divorce am u go think twice about all the money wey u don trowey!

somebdy is making a mistake here,point of corection not in nigeria,in igboland parents don't sell out their daughters in yoruba land

adorebee: >>>>hahahaha ROTFL.MR ZUBBY,hw is mrs ZUBBY and baby?

Fine oohh... The little terrorist decides when i sleep and wake up in the night.

Mrs.Chima:
Cows and sheeps were worth fortune back in the day so you got lucky.

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I was going to post this exact thing.

@op To you, what might seem like chicken shid now, was blood, sweat and tears back then. (Did you know many had to build houses even by themselves?)

If you don't want to marry chick you can always remain single.

Lyk one of d guys said get the girl pregnant....... Na d gal parents go Cari d gal come to ur house nd even dash d gal to u without paying kobo....lol...

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claremont: This is one aspect of our culture that has to be looked at critically. What most people do not understand is that the culture of 'bride price' not only cheapens the Nigerian female, but it also invariably means that the Nigerian female is a commodity (not much different from any grocery item) that can be bought and sold at a price. The good news is that most educated families in Nigeria no longer practise such culture, it seems to be limited to the illiterates and bare-lettered sections of our society.

What a joke! I live in a "well lettered" middle class neighbourhood and all the weddings that have taken place there have always involved so form of traditional rites or the other so I don't know were you get your notion from.

@OP
I have known of people who did weddings for N300,000 and less. It all depends on your families or if you are the aggressive type you can bull your way into doing it your way.

However for now people are caught up with the whole wedding splash thing so don't expect a general societal change yet.

In my own opinion we should stick to traditional marriage ceremonies,then go the registry for registration, for documentation and official purposes. The so called 'white wedding' is an unnecessary imposition.

Come why all these complains sef! Poor people get married every day. It you guys that constantly feel like there is some standard to live up to that feel pressured by all these. Except the girl no wan marry, go there with what you have, i have not heard of a marriage that didn't happen because he didn't bring everything on the list. Tell them u'll owe them the rest. carry your wife and go home. simple

from what I ve heard from pple and from Igbo gurls too,d bride price is more expensive than dat of the yorubas and some other ethnic groups in Nigeria. Bt d fact remains that it depends on d kind of family u re marrying from. Am getting married early nxt year and d whole expenses we planned spending is abt N600,000.
And moreover dowry means: AN AMOUNT OF MONEY OR PROPERTY WHICH A WOMAN'S PARENTS GIVE TO THE MAN SHE MARRIES. But seems in Nigeria,it's been the reverse. Can smone xplain d difference between BRIDE PRICE AND DOWRY(IN D NIGERIAN CONTEXT)? It's kinda confusing

Lordave: I was there when my dad droped £15k as ma mum's bride price. Dat was B4 the war.

i dont undstnd dis guy, u be product of 'on credit' or u were dea as a ghost or oh! ookk, u dey inside 'tube' dey hear wetin dem dey talk. for outside. sharp sharp parent

ever wonder y dea ar many unmarried nowdays? dis is jst it. come to think of it y paying more for 'low quality' - promiscuity is d order of d day, maidens of dos days were known to maintain a high level of chastity not d '2nd hand n over-laid of nwadays' ,were loyal,hardworking- not parasitic n liabilities. they stood behind their hus thru thick n thin,never left 'em . hah! smh . wat has civilization done to us?

claremont: This is one aspect of our culture that has to be looked at critically. What most people do not understand is that the culture of 'bride price' not only cheapens the Nigerian female, but it also invariably means that the Nigerian female is a commodity (not much different from any grocery item) that can be bought and sold at a price. The good news is that most educated families in Nigeria no longer practise such culture, it seems to be limited to the illiterates and bare-lettered sections of our society.

Yes! 3 gbosas!

^^^
at least yu are reasonable, not minding some toddler that come here and say people lament cos of poverty, as if she knows what money makin is all abt.