Hmmm.... mammy market, the antithesis of military professionalism.... the harbinger of the political soldier and the crucible where many a coups were distilled....how the history of Nigeria will have taken such a different course if the infamous mammy market was never concieved.

ChisomDgreatest:
that's an Igbo woman for you!
we rise by lifting others

oga calm down. she's idoma.

nestic:
Are you kidding me!!
I can't help but to smile at this wonderful and brave woman..
the bitter truth is we dont celebrate good people in this country, awon 'small girls with big god' hope ya'll will see this post..
and to any MOD That will not want this post to reach FTP, so that this woman will be recognised, i swear for you!!

I have read her story in an interview granted punch reporter last year. She is from Benue state. She got married at a very tender age. Another interesting thing is that she only had primary school education. When her husband became the military administrator, she did not even know what that means. She kept selling her goods in market until she was forced to relocate to govt house to be with her husband.
Today, there are professor, medical doctor among her children.

Awol1:
So Mammy Markets in military barracks is an inspiration from the East?

What if I say Igbo Amaka?

It actually started at Dodan Baracks. She continued it wherever her husband was transfered including Enugu where he was made the military administrator of eastern state.

Inferiority complex. Just like one mumu that said she is an Igbo.

Billionaire09:


Because she is a Biafran woman, Hausa Fulani government will never support her to grow because she is a Biafran citizen by DNA.

Mumu

Mediahelm:
Did you know that mammy market was named after a woman called Mammy Ochefu? Yes yes! Every military barrack in Nigeria has a place called ‘mammy market’, a place close to the barracks, where soldiers’ interact and buy their daily needs. In 1955 at Enugu, the market was named

After Mammy Ochefu, the wife of late military Governor of defunct East-Central state, Col. Anthony Aboki Ochefu, where she sold a local non-alcoholic beverage called enyi to support her family.

Her husband initially declined as soldiers’ wives were known to be housewives. He later accepted for her to continue the business when she told him it was to support him and the family.

After taking a week break at home due to complaints from people that the drink attracted flies, pressure from her clients inspired a Lieutenant Colonel to build her a kiosk to make it more conducive. Her family was later posted out of Enugu to Abeokuta but Mammy continued

The business wherever they were
posted to while she added snacks that would interest the soldiers’. Interestingly, whenever her family was transferred to another state, she would hand over the business to women who were interested in it but asked that they retain the name.

Mammy registered her business as “Mammy Market” in 1971. By the time her husband retired, the business had grown into a supermarket and a transport business.

When her husband rose to become a military governor, Mammy was still going about her business. She joined him few months later due to pressure from people, leaving the business in the hands of four people.

The idea of Mammy market, which was started by Mammy Ochenfu in Enugu Army Barrack with one shilling in 1955, continues to grow with the country and whenever a barrack is built, a mammy market is built together with it. Through this initiative, Mammy Ochefu helped millions of

Nigerian women across the countries to be business owners. We celebrate this beautiful strong woman who defied all odds to create jobs for millions of women today.
Written by: TFCSpeaks on Twitter

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2018/12/meet-mammy-ochefu-woman-who-started.html

Mammy Market is even in wiktionary! Great woman.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mammy_market

agarajeff:
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hey

Idoma's have been making this country proud BC

she's idoma not Igbo...

thesicilian:
She would have turned that idea of Mammy Market into a global business conglomerate like Walmart.

Time and opportunity are different there can never be another bill gate , mark zugerberg, or Dangote in the same field of endevour Nigeria was very ok then difficult and Nigeria situation makes us thing outside the box

ChisomDgreatest:
that's an Igbo woman for you!
we rise by lifting others

Idoma

She is legendary...

So inspiring!

Resourceful woman!

omoelerin1:
Mumu

Until Nigeria limited give IPOB a date for referendum, we will do you all mumu things.


No more Nigeria stupid elections in Biafraland comes 2019 on ward.

ChisomDgreatest:




seriously...like you know her personally??

Yes I know her personally. She is still an industrious and enterprising woman till date

omoelerin1:
I have read her story in an interview granted punch reporter last year. She is from Benue state. She got married at a very tender age. Another interesting thing is that she only had primary school education. When her husband became the military administrator, she did not even know what that means. She kept selling her goods in market until she was forced to relocate to govt house to be with her husband.
Today, there are professor, medical doctor among her children.

Absolutely correct with brilliant grandchildren too

Patotelli:
Wonderful i love igbo women. God go punish who say make i no marry from the east.. I don't think you see what i saw, the background of that great woman. What happened to the glory of her history, i supposed she should be in overseas by now chilling in one of her children's home. If she's still alive thou. Pls MOD help us find out...

She is hale and hearty. She is also very independent. Yes she vacations with her children now and then but basically she still does business and farming and lives in her husband's country home in otukpo Benue state

Olatara:
A gift my dear not charity.

OK then

ChisomDgreatest:
that's an Igbo woman for you!
we rise by lifting others

an idoma woman