I am indeed shocked at the sexists comments made by some nonentities who cannot even spell a common word like "Test" properly. Don't worry, you don't need to will your huts to your daughters, with the way things are going we will soon have more than enough ladies like Linda Ikeji in this generation and beyond who can afford to buy estates for themselves.

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.

Stolen:



A very big point becos, i decide who gets my property and i definately will never give any of it to my daughters, no matter how much i may love them. My property goes to my son.



Change dat.

I somehow agree with you, i learnt that in Iboland when daughters are married off, they are given their own inheritance. This is important so that gold digging able bodied men masquerading as husband won't reap where they did not sow.
Imagine your sister inlaw dragging your father's property with you the sons after possibly murdering her.

Nigeria is known for waste of anything including judiciary time. This silly decision by the activist court of Nigeria is a bloody waste of time.

Stolen:



A very big point becos, i decide who gets my property and i definately will never give any of it to my daughters no matter how much i may love them. My property goes to my son.



Change dat.



U go craze for igbo matter!

Any who is disputing who to will your property to? Please re-read the article again and state where the supreme court mandate who an Igbo man must will his property to.

In case you have reading or comprehension problems, here is the relevant part of the article

The trial court found that he was a daughter to the deceased and that she was qualified to benefit from the estate of their father who died intestate in Lagos in1981.

The key word here is interstate. Now if you do not know what interstate means, then humbly ask, or use google.

So if you like, will your properties to your dog, it is nobody's business. The problem with male chauvinists like you is that you will not hesitate to beg for financial assistance from your successful daughter (either by marriage or career) whom you forbid from inheriting any of your properties.

And people like you will condemns Hausas who deny basic rights to women in the name of culture.

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.

What is this my poverty stricken brother saying?

SegunAdewole:


What is this my poverty stricken brother saying?

I'm not your brother, don't patronize me. I'm not one of your flat-headed brothers from the cursed land of Biafra. You can deceive your Biafra people with your moniker not ME. Get that into your empty flat-headed skull.

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?

U missed the Ultra "VIRUS" in his post instead of VIRES. Osu and gender discrimination. In one culture alone and some will still not let it go. Meanwhile, they are always quick to construe marginalization in relation to FG. Let them do unto to others as they want others do into them. Charity begins at home.

DerideGull:
Nigeria is known for waste of anything including judiciary time. This silly decision by the activist court of Nigeria is a bloody waste of time.

It is not a silly decision, it a decision that asserts the rights of a girl child or daughter. Any wealthy igbo man with well educated daughters that wants to test the judgement should die interstate. The daughters will then test the silliness of the judgement at the courts.

The lady in question here still answers his fathers name which means she is not married yet and might not marry again considering the date. The brothers should have mercied her. No sane married woman will quarrel with his brothers over their fathers property.

Stolen:
Go to igbo land and inherit our property now? No be for mouth.


Also go to igboland and change our customary law too. no be for mouth.


Lazy yorubas dreaming about igbo property. That will not happen as even me will be handing my property to my sons. How do u change that?


That issue is a case of customary court and customary law which is the igbo civil law.


Thus this decision is ultra virus decision. They need to make sure our Judges are qualified by conducting test/exam.

I can see the Biafra of your dreams is one built on injustice and misogyny.

Igbo women don suffer

Stolen:
Go to igbo land and inherit our property now? No be for mouth.


Also go to igboland and change our customary law too. no be for mouth.


Lazy yorubas dreaming about igbo property. That will not happen as even me will be handing my property to my sons. How do u change that?


That issue is a case of customary court and customary law which is the igbo civil law.


Thus this decision is ultra virus decision. They need to make sure our Judges are qualified by conducting test/exam.

Look at this ldiota! What has Yoruba got to do with your silly and dumb customary law? Oponu.

Change2015:


The only one showing a lack of parenting and education here is you. I hope your mother can tell you who your father is before she ends her night shifts. And to think, one gold circle would have prevented your foolishness from coming into existence!

Knockout!

Stolen:



A very big point becos, i decide who gets my property and i definately will never give any of it to my daughters no matter how much i may love them. My property goes to my son.



Change dat.



U go craze for igbo matter!

After, dis one sef and people like am, go follow shout say Baba go-slow no give woman appointment.

Stolen:



If it is not igbo house in Lagos, it is igbo traders in Ladipo. Then it is obession to marry from igbo stock. Then it is inheritance. Wat a bunch of failures.


I grow to find the comedy in the average yoruba inferiority complex issue hilarious.


Let them come first and will my property to my daughter, let us see how possible.

I am a bit conflicted with that ruling. In as much as I want daughters to inherit their fathers' wealth, that practice is from a very old tradition, a tradition with so much deep history and roots, which has been so much diluted these days that we can hardly recognize them.
I would support a situation whereby a daughter can inherit property from her father, but not have the right to sell or transfer it outside of the root family.
Old Igbo people were very very wise, and in my book some of the wisest humans on this whole earth. Colonialists destroyed much of our culture starting from forced slavery (through slave raids) to outright colonization. Today what we have is a Frankenstein mutilated culture that is neither Igbo nor English.
So this ruling is bad because the court should have reverted the ruling to a customary court of appeal.

Culture is one thing that is almost impossible for court to change. Non-Igbos need to understand what women cannot inherit. The issue here is ancestral properties and not acquired property. Igbo daughters do inherit from their fathers but it is impossible for a girl to inherit "isiobi" no matter the court she uses. Our culture deviced ways of settling such issues.

Igbo women traditionally inherit her husbands property. The husband will not come and take land from her uhu because he married her. These are some of the reasons why women don't inherit the fathers property.

ezeagu:
Igbo women traditionally inherit her husbands property. The husband will not come and take land from her uhu because he married her. These are some of the reasons why women don't inherit the fathers property.

The bolded is the core reason but I must add that women don't inherit even their husband's property unless she has a male child.
If she has a male child, she is only keeping it in trust until he is old enough.
Prove me wrong though...

The thing is that Igbo culture that disenfranchises women do so mainly to protect the family assets (land mainly), else Yorubas outsiders will steal them by simply marrying the women. lol
The Igbo ancestors were foresighted and thorough.

carnegiefan:




I am a bit conflicted with that ruling. In as much as I want daughters to inherit their fathers' wealth, that practice is from a very old tradition, a tradition with so much deep history and roots, which has been so much diluted these days that we can hardly recognize them.
I would support a situation whereby a daughter can inherit property from her father, but not have the right to sell or transfer it outside of the root family.
Old Igbo people were very very wise, and in my book some of the wisest humans on this whole earth. Colonialists destroyed much of our culture starting from forced slavery (through slave raids) to outright colonization. Today what we have is a Frankenstein mutilated culture that is neither Igbo nor English.
So this ruling is bad because the court should have reverted the ruling to a customary court of appeal.

I disagree with you on so many levels. Women should have equal rights as men and in fact should be protected against discrimination and exploitation. Every old tradition has deep history and roots, Osu has its history and roots, killing of twins has its roots and history and marrying of pre-teen girls by fulani/hausas has its roots and history, the problem is the relevance of these roots and history in modern societies. If a man can inherit his fathers property with rights to sell and transfer, why deny a woman the same rights, or are you saying men do not sell their inherited properties to others? Sometimes to even other women.

In olden days when the society was largely agrarian, strict patrilineal traditions ensured land, labour and property remained within a family or clan, but in modern industrial cities, these traditions becomes useless. Most people have left their roots to build their own fortune. Women have become highly liberated and productive. Lots of women have their own wealth. So who should inherit a mother's properties? Daughters to the exclusion of sons? The mind of lots of men is still stuck in stone age.
There is nothing bad in the ruling. In fact the custom is against the Nigerian constitution, which prohibit discrimination based on sex, religion, tribe, etc.

Pathetic Lubbish

wirinet:


I disagree with you on so many levels. Women should have equal rights as men and in fact should be protected against discrimination and exploitation. Every old tradition has deep history and roots, Osu has its history and roots, killing of twins has its roots and history and marrying of pre-teen girls by fulani/hausas has its roots and history, the problem is the relevance of these roots and history in modern societies. If a man can inherit his fathers property with rights to sell and transfer, why deny a woman the same rights, or are you saying men do not sell their inherited properties to others? Sometimes to even other women.

In olden days when the society was largely agrarian, strict patrilineal traditions ensured land, labour and property remained within a family or clan, but in modern industrial cities, these traditions becomes useless. Most people have left their roots to build their own fortune. Women have become highly liberated and productive. Lots of women have their own wealth. So who should inherit a mother's properties? Daughters to the exclusion of sons? The mind of lots of men is still stuck in stone age.
There is nothing bad in the ruling. In fact the custom is against the Nigerian constitution, which prohibit discrimination based on sex, religion, tribe, etc.

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.

Babatundetinubu:
I am just shocked that these Iboes are even more backward that I ever knew. So, a woman in ibo culture is worth nothing according to their laws......chei.....no wonder their women run after our men like fish after water....

More like your men using juju and other diabolical means to woo and entrap them.
I know of one case like that. You guys can do anything to snag an igbo lady.
But our ancestors had foresight.
So, if you snag one, you snag the babe and nothing else. hehe.
If you want land, go and buy one (pay for it) like we do in your land.

wirinet:


It is not a silly decision, it a decision that asserts the rights of a girl child or daughter. Any wealthy igbo man with well educated daughters that wants to test the judgement should die interstate. The daughters will then test the silliness of the judgement at the courts.

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.

carnegiefan:


More like your men using juju and other diabolical means to woo and entrap them.
I know of one case like that. You guys can do anything to snag an igbo lady.
But our ancestors had foresight.
So, if you snag one, you snag the babe and nothing else. hehe.
If you want land, go and buy one (pay for it) like we do in your land.

Sorry but that wouldn't wash.......we don't want anything to do with a worthless piece of land....

Nigeria has a silly activist court as supreme court. Nigeria is a practical joke so are its courts.

thank God for "zoo" court, now they can enjoy equality and throw away discrimination against females.

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.

and if she is the only child, wetin go happen

Ioannes:


and if she is the only child, wetin go happen

According to ibo tradition, she is worth nothing. I can't believe this o.........so women in ibo land cannot inherit their family property if he dies without a will?....what babarism is this.....these are the same people who practice osu?