Nigerian Ladies Worry Over Scarcity Of Men
The recent alarm raised by the Catholic Women Organization that husbands
would become scarce in Nigeria in 2023 may just be right as P.M.NEWS
can confirm that many Nigerian spinsters are currently witnessing the
no-husband syndrome.
Within the last few weeks, some of the
ladies who spoke with our correspondent reported serious apprehension,
pressure and a total lack of peace as the consequence of their inability
to get married.
One of the ladies, who preferred to be simply
called Titi said she had taken the issue of marriage as a do-or-die
affair due to “internal pressure” but that as much as she had tried,
frustration had often been the result.
At 37, the businesswoman
who sells clothes in Ikeja, the Lagos State capital in western Nigeria,
told P.M.NEWS that she is not finding life easy.
“What is
happiness without a man in a woman’s life?”she asked our correspondent
during a chat on Badoo, a relationship site on the internet.
She had dated several men with some promising marriage, but without fulfilling the promise.
“You
can’t imagine that in the last three years, I have dated about eight
men, but the relationship was often short-lived simply because I ask for
their commitment.
“I am not getting any younger and I cry every time I see my mates with their husbands and children.
“If
at 37 I don’t have a child or a permanent man, when would I have them?
Is it when my skin has wrinkled? she asked our correspondent.
Chioma (surname withheld), 35, has found herself patronising many of the social interaction sites on the internet.
The
banker told our correspondent that she is on Eskimi, 2go, Badoo,
Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter as well as 4clique, a site that was launched
in Nigeria days ago.
“We can’t tell the particular broom in the
bunch that kills a fly,” she told P.M.NEWS on why she patronises such
number of social interaction sites.
“I always change my name in the different sites but the ultimate goal is to get a husband,” she added.
Chioma
told P.M.NEWS that she is really worried about the situation, adding
that she lives comfortably (in a mini-flat and has a car), “but who do I
have to enjoy this comfort with me?
“I have tried a hook up
programme on a Lagos-based radio station, but my age is now a major
factor hindering my dream of being married,” she lamented pleading with
our married correspondent, who she considered a bachelor, to “help dry
my tears.”
A married woman, who gave her name as Mrs. Blessing
Aguebor and resident in Oshodi, confirmed that the issue of lack of
serious men for marriage is giving many ladies sleepless nights.
She
narrated the touching story of her friend who was disappointed by her
boyfriend of five years when it was time to “settle down”.
“My
friend was 29 when he met this man in Benin and they dated for five
years. The man was always giving the lady hope without her knowing the
man had other plans. The year he fixed for their marriage was the year
he travelled abroad without even informing my friend.
“It was
later he called her and asked her to find another man because he still
had many more years to hustle. My friend almost went mad.
“She is
36 now without a man. I had to convince her to relocate to Lagos so
that possibly out of the population here, she would find someone. It is
pathetic,” she said.
A 38-year old business woman in Ketu, Mrs.
Rita Adewunmi, narrated how she lost her first husband to a friend,
Idayat, who was desperate for a husband.
According to Mrs. Adewunmi who remarried last year, Idayat was 36 and needed a husband but her search was endless.
“I
was always encouraging her and made her a part of my family. She would
always help me take care of the kids when I go to the market.
“With
time, she took over my husband without my knowledge until the day I
caught them red-handed and that was the end of my marriage. Ladies are
like hunters these days,” she said.
Asked why she was not married
at 34, Blessing Osuoha, a nurse with a private hospital in Abuja,
retorted: “that is why I’m on this social site. Why are you asking? Is
it a bad idea if you propose to me?”
She explained that life was becoming unbearable without a husband.
“My friends and family members are always asking when they would come and ‘chop’ rice, and I keep hoping,” she added.
A
marriage counselor in Lagos, Mrs. Victoria Aliu, told P.M.NEWS that
scarcity of ‘real men’ is becoming a terrible condition for women ready
for marriage.
She blamed the problem partly on the Nigerian
economy, confusion among the bachelors on their choices of the women
they want as wives and the attitudes of the spinsters.
“Many
women, whether consciously or not, behave irritably sometimes,
forgetting that the man just beside them at every point in time may just
have been nursing how to start a conversation that could lead to
marriage.
“Some other ladies are very choosy and unserious at
their early stages of adulthood. They only open their eyes to discover
that their friends are all married and that they are the only ones left
at the bus stop. Then it becomes a terrible case for them,” she
explained.
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