Owan West
Appearance
Owan West | |
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Country | ![]() |
State | Edo State |
Area | |
• Total | 283 sq mi (732 km2) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (WAT) |
Owan West is a Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Sabongidda Ora.
It has an area of 732 km2 and a population of 97,388 at the 2006 census.
The postal code of the area is 313.[1]
Wedding customs
Wedding List is the list given to the intending groom looking to marry a woman from Sabongida Ora (Owan West). Everything on the list is to be purchased and presented at the traditional wedding ceremony (this is to be fixed and agreed on before list is given). The content of the list varies based on the family head, the standard however are;
- Bride's dowry (depends on the head of the family)
- Suitcase of clothes
- An umbrella
- A Small basin of egusi seeds
- Twenty-one tubers of yam
- One smoked/dried antelope
- Twenty-one kola-nuts (double lobed)
- One large dried fish
- Twenty-one pieces of bitter kola
- A keg of palmwine
- Twenty-one pieces of alligator pepper
- Two bottles of schnapps
- Two bottles of dry gin
- Two kegs of palm oil (25 litres)
- Two bags of salt
- One she-goat
- A bottle of honey
- A packet of sugar
- Two cartons of beer
- Two cartons of malt drink
- Two crates each of 3 different soda drinks i.e. Cola, Pepsi, Fanta, Mirinda, Sprite etc.
- Idegbe #500 (depends on family)
- Igele #500 (depends on family)
- Erahoin #1,000 (depends on family)
- Iyanhoin #500 (depends on family)
References
- ^ "Post Offices- with map of LGA". NIPOST. Archived from the original on 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2009-10-20.