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ABSTRACT
The issue of women inheritance in Nigeria can be seen as a discriminative act because in most of the customary laws of different tribes in Nigeria prohibits women from inheriting either her father’s property or her husband’s property. She is seen as an inferior being. The male child is seen as s superior being. Taking the Igbo and Benin customary law as an example theta says that a female child cannot inherit her father’s house and if there is no male child then the title of the family head moves to the deceased bother. What then do you now say the female children are? Now as for the Yoruba that does not allow the wife to the deceased to inherit, what then becomes the fate of a women who comes from an Igbo land and marries a Yoruba, that automatically means she won’t have any inherited property, non from the father and non from the husband all because she is a woman. The Benin’s, Igbos and Yoruba’s do not allow female to inherit. The Binis believes that there are some traditional rights of the family that a woman cannot partake in. some does for the Igbos and Yoruba’s. The Igbos even go as far as preventing one of the female child from getting married just to bear children who will later inherit her father’s properties.
