If you are a bachelor and a bit cash strapped, head to Benue State.
This is because the bride price and other marriage rites are pegged at fifty thousand Naira.
Benue, Idoma traditional council headed by the Paramount ruler Och’Idoma, His Majesty Eliagwu Odogbo took the decision recently.
Said the royal father ;’Our deliberations arrived at the following conclusions for the immediate adherence of all true Idoma people clans, tongues, and people under the Idoma Area Traditional Council.
The traditional bride price in Idoma land is hereby unified and fixed at N50,000 only.
All forms of stringent conditions, stipulations, and expectations associated with traditional marriage are hereby removed and prohibited’.
The traditional council also reduced the cost of burial ceremony, adding that burial rites should be concluded within three weeks from the date of death.
High cost of marriage especially in the South East is making many matured women to remain single.
The Pond News understands that many Igbo men are getting their brides from other parts of the country.
Marriage rites in some parts of the South East run into millions of Naira.
It is even higher if the proposed bride is a university graduate.
