For those of you who don't know Mbaise. It's a region and a people in Imo State, well known for their costly bride price.
Fortunately abi unfortunately, my friend wey dey live for Abuja see one Mbaise girl come promise her marriage.
They both decided to return home for the introduction and agreed to cut cost so that the issue bride price wouldn't be a barrier.
The girl promised to talk to her people.
Fast-forward home, me too follow dem go.
So we visited the girl's people, following the direction she gave us. My friend come with him papa and uncle and another guy.
After all the normal rituals, they presented us the list.
Na mumu mumu things self full am:
Wrappers for women, wrappers for men, snuff, make up kits for young ladies, clothes and sandals for children, goats, drinks of different kinds, enough yam, rice, beans and garri, ororo, ladies okada, community this, community that. My guy did the math and the money value for those things were almost 1.1 milla!
Even him papa and uncle no fit talk. We just open mouth dey look. Ordinary water dem no even give us. Everybody face strong like say na fight we carry come.
We tell dem say we go come back in two days time.
But na for night my guy wake me say make we dey go back to Abuja.
Two days later, the girl called and my friend told her that we're back to Abuja. Make she dey there dey with her killer squad dey wait for person wey dem go extort.
Gerarahia mehn!!!

Honestly it's outrageous!! And the list is according to educational qualification o! The more educated the longer the list.
I thought it was only mbaise till my husband's first cousin married an mbano girl. The guy who is just a labourer,a maison o, spent close to 1 milla untop a babe wey no get any work o.No be say she go school o.nothing nothing. No be say she get handiwork! Nothing ! The funny thing is that he was proudly recounting the marriage process to my husband and I because we missed the occasion; na so my husband dey look him and his wife. At the end of the story my husband asked him "Dee,didn't you tell them what you do for a living?"

Where in mbaise?

Dimmatic:
Where in mbaise?

He said it's Abo Mbaise. My friend is even seeing this thread now

bros as a full blooded son of mbaise i can tell u that u went to the wrong part of mbaise not every part of mbaise write this wicked list imagine writing okada choi!! Aboh mbaise people are wicked na dem dey give us this bad names, i feel so sorry for the girl cuz she don enter

Kennedymac:
bros as a full blooded son of mbaise i can tell u that u went to the wrong part of mbaise not every part of mbaise write this wicked list imagine writing okada choi!! Aboh mbaise people are wicked na dem dey give us this bad names, i feel so sorry for the girl cuz she don enter

So what of Mbaise charges less for bride price? I don't think there's any, they're all the same.

DeMekus:

So what of Mbaise charges less for bride price? I don't think there's any, they're all the same.

have u had anybody that married from ahiazu mbaise? We're not the same when my sis was married the list given to the husband ain't even up to 200K, some part of mbaise like aboh mbaise are very greedy when writing list bt my own part bro is not done like that we negotiate the price sef

DeMekus:

So what of Mbaise charges less for bride price? I don't think there's any, they're all the same.

So all married women from Mbaise got married to millionaires, abi?

jmoore:

So all married women from Mbaise got married to millionaires, abi?

They didn't get married to millionaires but they get married with millions of naira. Mbaise's greed for money is scaring suitors away, that's why you'd find 38-year old ladies still single and searching there.

I have a very wonderful guy from there. Every day I wake up wishing I could change his origin and marry him d next Saturday. Could it be dt all dis tales I hear abt this people are real or mere stereotype? It's sooooooooooooo difficult to let go of him. God pls help me

fav444:
I have a very wonderful guy from there. Every day I wake up wishing I could change his origin and marry him d next Saturday. Could it be dt all dis tales I hear abt this people are real or mere stereotype? It's sooooooooooooo difficult to let go of him. God pls help me

You're not the one to pay the bride price, so why worry?

Na sell dem wan sell the girl? Imagine say the guy come pay everything and the marriage was later conducted, the girl no go fit miss-behave for the husband house. Fear no go allow am.

gerarahiamehn:

You're not the one to pay the bride price, so why worry?

l know but it means my daughter will have similar fate if I toll dt line.

DeMekus:

They didn't get married to millionaires but they get married with millions of naira. Mbaise's greed for money is scaring suitors away, that's why you'd find 38-year old ladies still single and searching there.

So the okada man that married a woman from mbaise spent millions on her, huh?

fav444:


l know but it means my daughter will have similar fate if I toll dt line.

It's your husband that would be in charge of collecting bride price when the time comes... and hopefully you guys would be financially good hence no need to extort money from in laws. . All these stories we hear are cases of hungry/greedy in laws. ...

Also, things may have changed by then..we're talking about over two decades from now..

whoever would marry your daughter would. . Despite the high bride price now, mbaise ladies still get married. .

Don't lose a good man cos of some flimsy stuff..

All I can say is wow! I'm not from the igbo speaking tribe but ibibio,I hope papa udysweet won't draw list o,cos no time again,lol! Else water go pass garri,lol

Those people are the most wicked people I have ever seen.You will not believe till you meet them. Very few of them are different.

DeMekus:

So what of Mbaise charges less for bride price? I don't think there's any, they're all the same.

Went with my paddy for introduction and traditional marriage at ENYIOGWUGWU mbaise. Believe you me, he did not spend up to 500k.

I think it has to do with how reasonable the family is

udysweet:
All I can say is wow! I'm not from the igbo speaking tribe but ibibio,I hope papa udysweet won't draw list o,cos no time again,lol! Else water go pass garri,lol

Uduakobong, you guys almost same when it comes to marriage rights. Take it from a certified ukot.

udysweet:
All I can say is wow! I'm not from the igbo speaking tribe but ibibio,I hope papa udysweet won't draw list o,cos no time again,lol! Else water go pass garri,lol

Uduakobong, you guys are almost same when it comes to marriage rights. Take it from a certified ukot.

fav444:
I have a very wonderful guy from there. Every day I wake up wishing I could change his origin and marry him d next Saturday. Could it be dt all dis tales I hear abt this people are real or mere stereotype? It's sooooooooooooo difficult to let go of him. God pls help me

Guys Dont ask for bride (or groom....Lolz) price now. So why are you disturbed?

N1.1 million

Is the girl from Mars?

Hian!

If u follow dat list ur mind go cut.
Just present whatever u have, they will accept it

richyblink1:


Uduakobong, you guys are almost same when it comes to marriage rights. Take it from a certified ukot.

OK o.

Op am from mbaise, and is not like that in my place, just give ur inlaw 30k for the umunna and youth and 20k for the women, with a bag of rice, salt, stockfish,tin tomatoes and soaps. Then u can settle ur inlaw with any amount u feel like. The only important thing is the umunna and the women. Every girl want to change her surname now.

jmoore:

So the okada man that married a woman from mbaise spent millions on her, huh?

I don't know but wouldn't be surprised if it happened

richyblink1:


Went with my paddy for introduction and traditional marriage at ENYIOGWUGWU mbaise. Believe you me, he did not spend up to 500k.

I think it has to do with how reasonable the family is

We don't charge up to 100k in my place. We consider the church and traditional weddings expenses that the suitor will later bear.

gerarahiamehn:
For those of you who don't know Mbaise. It's a region and a people in Imo State, well known for their costly bride price.
Fortunately abi unfortunately, my friend wey dey live for Abuja see one Mbaise girl come promise her marriage.
They both decided to return home for the introduction and agreed to cut cost so that the issue bride price wouldn't be a barrier.
The girl promised to talk to her people.
Fast-forward home, me too follow dem go.
So we visited the girl's people, following the direction she gave us. My friend come with him papa and uncle and another guy.
After all the normal rituals, they presented us the list.
Na mumu mumu things self full am:
Wrappers for women, wrappers for men, snuff, make up kits for young ladies, clothes and sandals for children, goats, drinks of different kinds, enough yam, rice, beans and garri, ororo, ladies okada, community this, community that. My guy did the math and the money value for those things were almost 1.1 milla!
Even him papa and uncle no fit talk. We just open mouth dey look. Ordinary water dem no even give us. Everybody face strong like say na fight we carry come.
We tell dem say we go come back in two days time.
But na for night my guy wake me say make we dey go back to Abuja.
Two days later, the girl called and my friend told her that we're back to Abuja. Make she dey there dey with her killer squad dey wait for person wey dem go extort.
Gerarahia mehn!!!

Your friend is from where please?

gerarahiamehn:
For those of you who don't know Mbaise. It's a region and a people in Imo State, well known for their costly bride price.
Fortunately abi unfortunately, my friend wey dey live for Abuja see one Mbaise girl come promise her marriage.
They both decided to return home for the introduction and agreed to cut cost so that the issue bride price wouldn't be a barrier.
The girl promised to talk to her people.
Fast-forward home, me too follow dem go.
So we visited the girl's people, following the direction she gave us. My friend come with him papa and uncle and another guy.
After all the normal rituals, they presented us the list.
Na mumu mumu things self full am:
Wrappers for women, wrappers for men, snuff, make up kits for young ladies, clothes and sandals for children, goats, drinks of different kinds, enough yam, rice, beans and garri, ororo, ladies okada, community this, community that. My guy did the math and the money value for those things were almost 1.1 milla!
Even him papa and uncle no fit talk. We just open mouth dey look. Ordinary water dem no even give us. Everybody face strong like say na fight we carry come.
We tell dem say we go come back in two days time.
But na for night my guy wake me say make we dey go back to Abuja.
Two days later, the girl called and my friend told her that we're back to Abuja. Make she dey there dey with her killer squad dey wait for person wey dem go extort.
Gerarahia mehn!!!

You mean they didn't offer their potential in-laws anything to drink or eat Na wa for that family o

When I see topics like this, what comes to mind next is see "poverty"....O God please give me wealth so that when I am about getting married even if they call 10m, I will gladly pay. OP pray to be successful. What is 1.1m? Dude pray for God's blessings. When my sister got married only introduction was entering millions let alone traditional and white....I pray to have the resources and marry who I like rather than lamenting.....

Let Mbaise people be oo abegi. It's not new they sell their daughter