Why Ladies Hardly Change Their Surnames After Marriage These Days

In this Era of NIN, BVN and so on,, and with the amount of stress involved in doing even the simplest of things in Nigeria these days, changing of names on official documents had actually become very difficult.

First of all, you still have to swear affidavit as it used to be in the olden days, and then proceed to get the copy of the Newspaper Publication, and accompany all of these documents with your Marriage Certificate before you can even start to proceed with anything.

This is actually when your real stress starts.

You have to go to the NIN Office to change your surname, then you go to your bank in order to change your surname in the BVN, and then go back to change your surname in all your bank accounts, before going back to change the surname at your place of work.
(You might also have to go to your Network-Providers of your GSM lines in order to change your surname there, and also at FRSC Office in order to change your Surname on your Driving License)
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After checking the stresses involved in all these, you would decide to continue answering your Maiden name in your official documents without even bothering to add the husband's surname.
You only answer your husband's surname in unofficial places that doesn't require ID-Card or Documented-Identity verifications.
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Until that time comes when it becomes very very easy to change someone's name at one central source-point, and the change-of-name becomes Officially valid to be used anywhere and everywhere without being questioned, then people can comfortably and conveniently begin to change their names as they wished which still falls within the contents of the Law, and also, married ladies can easily change their surnames Officially to their husbands surnames without adding anything to it.

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In Summary:
What I am trying to say is that the Nigerian system itself is making the process of Name-Changing very very difficult highly stressful, even for people who are very willing to change their own names due to some crucial important reasons.

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