What is the meaning of "dowry" and "bride price"?
Whenever, I ask this question, The average Nigerian jumps with emotion and start blabbing about culture and tradition.
If you ask what culture and tradition actually mean: you start hearing all sorts of incoherent babbles.

Culture and tradition is simply the repeated practice of doing something. The people who started doing that thing in that particular way, thought it best at that time. Man is programmed to improve (not the black man). The rest of the world moves far ahead of us because they constantly test everything and modify or discard. But here, we hold blindly.
How can there be a price on a human? A primitive subhuman practice of medieval times of slavery is what vacuous people are fiercely upholding as their heritage. A heritage of slavery.

Edo oooo

You tried every means to separate two people in love with one another all because the man couldn't meet up with the dowry?

Why tradition over religion

Who told them it must compulsorily be money?
And that they're the one entitled to it and not the girl

As easy as fuvck up north. One guy told bmw with 60k you marry a wife up north. He also told me about committing some amount as a show of interest... here in the south the girls are getting aging, looking for billionaire husband to come pay million bride Price.

The headline though

I was expecting to read where the DPO having realised the guy couldn't pay the dowry and see how beautiful the girl is decided to marry since the family wanted them to be separated

Good gesture from the DPO

This police is truly their friend in that village

Some police would have asked the boy to be locked up if he insisted not leaving the girl

Kapeter:
The DPO has done well and i commend him but then if Aliyu couldn't pay just 20k as dowry to have his beloved maryam then what's his plan on how to take care of Maryam and his new family i mean. I'm not so certain but i'm thinking he definitely might make an attempt at a second wife sooner or later. The poverty cycle continue wqith the new kids and Nigeria continue to sink deeper in the poverty indices. Not good enough.

News headline can be sensational sometimes.
The 20k may be the main dowry fee. Based on the news content, the total amount contributed should be 104k. From DPO 53k, groom family N51k.

tishbite42:
Person wey no fit pay 20k for your head, na im you go marry?!

Young love don't reason that way 😁😄

tishbite42:
Person wey no fit pay 20k for your head, na im you go marry?!

Omo those Northern guys matter tire me

My father say, nor be to marry be the thing but na to continue to dey bring soup money.


'Soup" here is the contemporary billings.

He's such an exemplary person! He deserves an award. May God continue to provide for him.

tishbite42:
Person wey no fit pay 20k for your head, na im you go marry?!

northerners no dey look pocket, provided you are hard working. They are not planning to live in a Mansion or drive the latest car

tishbite42:
Person wey no fit pay 20k for your head, na im you go marry?!

Money is not everything

JASONjnr:
my kind gesture from the people of black uniform will be returned with more taxes....


Never trust your instincts on them..... They're worse than devil.

Criminals will always see the police as their enemies.. So there is nothing new about your hatred for the kind gesture of the gallant police officer


Criminals will never see any good in police..

But they can be commiting adultery?

Life isn't that hard to live in the North as in South, they'll be eating and other necessities will be taken care of.

Ask those who are great today, they started almost in same way.

tishbite42:
Person wey no fit pay 20k for your head, na im you go marry?!

🙄🙄🙄 Some one that couldn't afford 20k, how's he going to take of the wife or is the dpo going to continue to support them

tishbite42:
Person wey no fit pay 20k for your head, na im you go marry?!

Oga Elijah you no know wetin this thing called love is capable of

DrChukki:
Getting married is one thing... Meeting up with family responsibilities is another thing.

A man that couldn't pay 20k, how can he take care of his wife and family? I pray God intervenes for him.

But myself, I can't do such gesture... A man that can't pay his wife's dowry is not ready yet for marriage.

This is not about the south east.

Northerners particularly the Muslims are easy going people.

tishbite42:
Person wey no fit pay 20k for your head, na im you go marry?!

Ask me make I ask am too

favour32:
My father say, nor be to marry be the thing but na to continue to dey bring soup money.


'Soup" here is the contemporary billings.

no, soup is soup Bro. Ask him well, he will tell you that soup is soup ..literally
Food is just the major things In a human race, back in the days, there was no other billing than money for food

God bless the DPO. Amen!
Thank God we can find a man like him even in the most corrupt police organization in the world.
There is hope for Nigeria.

Una go contribute tire!

she go soon get belle'

Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew

tishbite42:
Person wey no fit pay 20k for your head, na im you go marry?!

That is why poverty in Northern part is hereditary and am afraid they don't spread thier useless ideology to South

The poverty in the north is too much.

You can't marry with 2m naira in Portharcourt presently, except you impregnate the girl and just "do small thing for her head"

Mayeldah:
Una go contribute tire!

she go soon get belle'

no mind them. The DPO is a chair holder in the marriage. One day, one day, he must taste the babe.

madridguy:
He no get today no mean say he no go get tomorrow.
Some people got married while still living with a friend but today they are landlord of more than 3 houses.

'He not get today' is different from a situation where someone is unable to shoulder the most basic rite of marriage. This is why Africa keeps drowning. Let us become more rational so that this continent will be more liveable. Look at the streets of Nigerian cities, abandoned children running around begging for food and money. We know where most of them are from.

Who is going to cater for the offspring of this assisted union? Make una dey think o. E go better doesn't put food on the table o.

TheNiceGuy:
But they can be commuting adultery?

Life isn't that hard to live in the North as in South, they'll eating and other necessities will be taken care of.

Ask those who are great today, they started almost in same way.

life is quite easy in the north, they are not craving for mansion or latest car, best shoe... Poverty is just a thing of the mind, you are only poor if you think so because of too much craving for unnecessary stuff like others have.

Encouraging someone that couldn't afford 20k as requested by the bride family to get married and you went ahead to pay the bride price for him. I hope the DPO will continue to finance the marriage.

You're encouraging poverty and you think you've done something great 😡

complexstuffs:


This is not about the south east.

Northerners particularly the Muslims are easy going people.

This is not a matter of easy going, instead of paying by his dowry, the dpo should have used the fund to empower the husband to be

May God bless them and provide abundantly for them. Never give up!