Thread by @baddest_cash

Top 10 Tribes With The Most Expensive Bride Price In Nigeria

10. ANNANG (AKWA IBOM)
The ethnic group can also be the second-largest within the state, after the Ibibio ethnic group.
Any groom who intends taking a bride from this region must be ready to fullfill the traditional rites which are indeed expensive. Which the groom will pay

9. OGOJA (CROSS RIVER)
Marrying from Ogoja is not any baby’s play as it's required to meet, purchase every gadgets on the marriage checklist and must buy all on the list before handing over to the man. They have a customary practice of returning bride price after the ceremony

8. NKPA (ABIA STATE)
These people have one of the most expensive bride price in Nigeria. They are found in Bende LGA of Abia state.
What makes it very expensive is that the system have been rigged to favour intra-marriages and made it difficult for groom outside the LGA.

It's stated that an outsider groom who intends getting married to an Nkpa girl have to be ready to arrange an wedding ceremony that won't solely accommodate the household of the bride however the entire Nkpa community! The list is not only for the family but also the kinsmen

Known as Umi Nna inn in Igbo land and their daughters (Umu Ada)
No one can say why they discourage outsiders from taking their bride maybe it’s because they prefer the woman to remain within

7. EFIK (CROSS RIVER)
Think Efik are the south-south ethnic of Cross river.
Not only is the traditional marriage is expensive but the potential groom is expected to throw a carnival like party for the traditional marriage, more if the bride is from an influenced home

An Efik bride is estimated in Euro and never within the Nigerian foreign money which is the official foreign money of the Nigerian individuals. The explanation for that is tied to the large affect of colonial actions on the Efiks.

6. IKWERRE (RIVERS)
These are the Niger Delta region.
The Ikwerres have a terrifying marriage list that run into 1,000,000(1M) or more in order of the united of the bride’s family.
They believe the man must pay handsomely to marry them

5. BORORO (ADAMAWA)
In marrying a Bororo lady, the potential groom is requested by the bride’s household to supply 10-15 dwell cows. This in itself is means over millions and never in any means the bride worth.

4. MBAISE (IMO)
Mbaise bride list is known as one of the costly and they are recognized as milking the grooms with the title of conventional marriage.
The bride list depends on the level of education of the bride. Mbaise bride costs might be pegged at over N100,000.

whereas marriage lists can run into N800,000, placing the complete to be over a N1 million

3. IBIBIO (AKWA IBOM)
Marrying the primary daughter of an Ibibio, known as ‘Adiaha’ is just not solely daunting and demanding, financially, it requires a number of conventional rites, similar to bearing a sacrifice and a ritual ceremony and requires the groom to purchase a cow

2. KALABARI (RIVERS STATE)
Kalabari individuals have one of the unbelievable bride costs lists in Nigeria. Its possible the groom is subjected to a number of financial funds with “shopping for the bride’s mouth”. In the end the eventual bride payment run into over N1 million.

1. OKRIKA (RIVERS)
For a groom prepared to take an Okrika girl as a bride, you're prone to spend nothing lower than N400,000 on the daddy alone and about N250,000 – N300,000 on the mom, taking the quantity to be spent on the bride’s dad and mom to about N700,000.

Not this does not include other family members like the youth, unamarried girls(brides age group) grandfathers and uncles as well as the mother’s people. Okrika bride worth and marriage checklist would price nothing lower than N1.5 million.

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