| Marriage in Nigeria as in other parts of Africa begins | | | | therefore been canceled owing to these sad |
| with what is known as introduction, this is very much | | | | developments leaving ladies who have attained |
| similar to what the Europeans call engagement but | | | | marriagable age roaming around and most times |
| with the difference being that an introduction never | | | | taking to prostitution. |
| takes place without the presence of the families of | | | | These family haeds in some cases behave like the |
| the bride and groom to be. And this arrangement | | | | ladies are going for sale. Look at Iboland where alot |
| usually involves a kind of ceremony. | | | | more is charges are placed on grooms simply |
| Bride price which ordinarily ought to be a token paid | | | | because such brides are educated up to university |
| by man to his In-laws as pre-traditional requirement | | | | level. what we now see in iboland, South-East of |
| for marriage in Africa now sends Bachelors begging | | | | Nigeria are old Ladies who are unmarried because |
| and panicking. Bride price also known in some | | | | guys are scared of marrying from that part of the |
| quarters as Bride wealth is a particular sum of money | | | | country. |
| paid to the parents of the lady he intends to marry | | | | Because what we have just discussed here |
| or to the Lady's family. | | | | separately has to do with what we call traditional |
| Please take note that in a typical African society such | | | | marriage and not the English kind of wedding which |
| as Nigeria, this is different from what is called dowry. | | | | may still conditionally required by the family, and |
| As dowry may be in form of items such as male | | | | considered much more expensive in some cases |
| goat, tobacco, honey, tubers of yam, clothings, | | | | more than the traditional marriage itself which is more |
| umbrella, walking stick, box of clothes and host of | | | | necessary, we there call on the governemnt of |
| others given to the lady herself or her family. | | | | Nigeria concerned with culture to come up with laws |
| The examples of all these are found in yorubaland, | | | | that will give uniformity on amounts required as bride |
| south-west of Nigeria. However, the payment of | | | | price and dowry to be paid by men desiring to marry. |
| bride price and dowry in the contemporary Nigerian | | | | Some people have expressed fears in some quarters |
| society has become scaring for a lot of guys desiring | | | | in Nigeria that a time may come when Ladies would |
| to marry. The reason is not far-fetched. Family heads | | | | go begging men for marriage. A situation of recent |
| now request for more than what is necessry. Most | | | | developments in which Brides now contribute |
| of these family heads unreasonably issue out list of | | | | financially to their own marriages is discouraging and |
| articles expensively impossible to gather, some of | | | | unafrican in culture.we therefore appeal to the |
| which may be in form of cartons of beer, and other | | | | Authorities concerned in Nigeria to fashion out a way |
| forms of alcohol.certain old men would then live on | | | | of addressing this problem. |
| these beer. alot of traditional marriages have | | | | |