Omoluabi16:
I do not understand the idea of paying millions upon millions in the name of bride price. A whole lot of Igbo (and other) cultures I find quite strange.. but that's about it. Courtesy demands you must respect the beliefs of other. This judge seriously erred by describing the age long Igbo customs with those adjectives. A learned fellow for that matter.

blogbuilder:
That's Igbo custom and it must be respected ..
You can't be staying with someone's child without doing the right thing and you expect them to just be giving birth like pig.
The worst thing is that they are prophet and prophetess

Biodun556:


It must be respected in Igbo land. It has no jurisdiction in the south west

Mitsurugi:



He paid her bride price something Prophet could not do and now the children are deemed his.

Mitsurugi:



He paid her bride price something Prophet could not do and now the children are deemed his.

EyeCumInPiss:
But there was no marriage in the first place, without Bride Price or Court Marriage.

The kids will find their level when they're of age.

Mcreloaded:


It's the best for you igbos and so tour evil women should stick to their kind.
The judge who is more learned has spoken.

CSTRR:

So Yoruba men were just sitting on their own, and Igbo women came and fell on their wayward dicckkks.?

Were you not the ones that pursued them because Dem use yellow ladies swear for una.?

Anyway, I am from Delta state.
Their men should be the ones chastising them to use their tongue to count their teeth and stop opening legs for fools.

badoh:

Because Yoruba custom is considerate and dowry payment is less costly.

Faposky95:
As long as the traditional institutions on Nigeria are under the state, therefore, let the Law be clear on such matters.
We can't Rob Peter and pay Paul with it..... It's a reflection of the endemic problem ingrained in our DNA as Nigerians and not an ever evolving populace.

Up North, it's Islamic....to the West, it's Law, traditional and sometimes religious.....so much confusion.
Are we as Africans going to strap prenups to our marriages by force ......?.
Scrap bride price and death related compulsory practices.
We are first Nigerian......

Ttipsy:
well the husband should pay the bride price and that settles it

Biologically they are his children, nobody is denying that fact right ??
He need to get married to the women properly else everyone knows especially the igbos knows he’s wasting his time .

yesloaded:


Gone through hell but stayed and had 4 children?

obaidan:


No matter how you spin it, what confirms paternity is DNA. What confirms marriage is signature on court documents. Custom, Tradition and all are good BUT when e set u go see say custom just dey play....the Laws of the land is superior to any other law, be it christian or islam or traditional laws...GOVERNMENT is King...every other thing just dey align with the laws of d land

Ttipsy:
well the husband should pay the bride price and that settles it

Biologically they are his children, nobody is denying that fact right ??
He need to get married to the women properly else everyone knows especially the igbos knows he’s wasting his time .

Mcreloaded:


Read and comprehend what you just wrote.
Won't it be better if the igbo women stick to their kind that pays dowry so that the children won't have to suffer for it.

Guess you know better than the learned judge that called such a barbaric culture.

Angelfrost:


Mine was moderate (Her father was a learned man who didn't bend to such nonsense).

My close friend's case was not so lucky... He spent over 1.5 Million. I kid you not.

obaidan:

But the woman is denying that fact na, that's the reason she changed the surname of the children
Did u not read that the man is not interested in having the woman, he just wants access to his kids, which no one can deny him. why should he pay bride price, he didnt pay bride price when all was well between them, its now he doesnt want her anymore that he will now pay brideprice

"Since the Petitioner did not pay her bride price, her new husband who paid same has the right to have them bear his name in accordance with Igbo custom."

blogbuilder:
That's Igbo custom and it must be respected ..
You can't be staying with someone's child without doing the right thing and you expect them to just be giving birth like pig.
The worst thing is that they are prophet and prophetess

Taylor94:
Everybody with wetin dey worry am



Me na cheap olosho I dey find like this

TemplarLandry:
Very fraudulent.

Ttipsy:
it’s her business to find love wherever she want not disrespecting the tradition of where she’s coming from . .
Her family is ready to take full responsibility of the children till her husband pay her diary
That is Igbo culture.
Here she can choose to continue living with her husband, she should not forget that she’s not married yet ! Living with a man and having kids like dogs doesn’t mean you are married hello

milann:
is there a way one can bypass tradition and do just court wedding?

Bede2u:
Yoruba leaders are so obsessed with Igbos. Look at a sitting judge talking like a tribal bigot, calling a custom they are not part of as barbaric. You will never hear any igbo leader talk about Yorubas as a tribe.
But we have heard oba of Lagos, ooni of ife, tinubu's wife, mc oluomo etc all use derogatory words on igbos

CSTRR:

Are you aware that even in America, people pay child support for children that are not biologically theirs.?
It's not paternity fraud. Both couples know.
But as long as the State has deemed him to be the father of the child and registered as their father, he has to pay child support.
This is the 21st century in a first world country.

NAC1666:

The man is stupid. Why marry a woman without bride price?,
All this Lagos and Abuja marriages. He should go and pay the bride price if he needs the children. And the so called magistrate,can he give his\her daughters hand in marriage without bride price Some one should ask the magistrate for me

blogbuilder:
That's Igbo custom and it must be respected ..
You can't be staying with someone's child without doing the right thing and you expect them to just be giving birth like pig.
The worst thing is that they are prophet and prophetess