DO YOU KNOW THAT ALL FEMALE NIGERIANS CAN NOW INHERIT PROPERTY?

Most time land mark decisions that over turn social norms and customs are given by Nigeria law courts without people being aware of them.

One such instance is the Supreme Court of Nigeria judgement on July 15 to the effect the Igbo custom that denies daughters from inheriting their father's property is in breach of the nation's constitution.

The fact of the case was that the father of Cladys Ada Ukeje and Eyinaya Lazarus Ukeje died without a will in Lagos in 1981.

The Igbo customs says only male children inherit parents property but Cladys was not happy with this and decided to seek redress in the High court to be included amongst the administrators of her father property.

The high court in Lagos granted her request holding that the custom is in breach of section 42(1) and (2) of the 1999 constitution.

Not satisfied, her brother Lazarus and the wife of the dead father, Mrs Lois Chiture Ukeje appealed to the Court of Appeal. There too, the high court judgement was confirmed.

Still not satisfied, they headed for the Supreme Court which delivered on July 15 voiding the Igbo custom for being in breach of the constitution.

The lead judgement was delivered by Justice Bode Rhodes-Viviour and concurred to by Justices Walter Onnoghen ( who is now likely to be the next Chief Justice of Nigeria); Clara Bata Ogunbiyi; Kumai Baysang Aka'ah and John Inyang Okoro.

Unknown to many, the judgement is also a landmark one for the Urhobos and perhaps for Niger Deltans who share the same ban on girl child inheritance with the Igbo people.

Happily, an Igbo male contacted for his comments said: " very correct. I didn't even know such a law existed"

A graduate mother of two from Rivers state said : " Pekin na pekin. Whether na boy or girl. Good judgement"

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