By Ameh Comrade Godwin and Ali Adoyi In the extant time, life was lived in the society based on the working system or what could be termed the way of life of a people. It is this way of life that has remodeled the society to what we have today. However, several changes have emerged along the path that the society treads. Hence, as the society moves from one phase to the another, certain traditional beliefs and cultures that are termed barbaric are often discarded along the way. The Idoma people in Benue have greatly developed and moved with time. But strict adherence to some old cultures and traditions has become their greatest undoing. Funeral ceremonies among the Idoma are often theatrical, with superior attention accorded to members of the community who have reached transformation stag...
