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Love and Romance I got exhausted taking care of you Chris, and as a I result I dosed off and the food on the fire got burnt a little and you thought the best way to resolve this is to lay your hands on me? Anyway am sorry but you know it wasn't intentional.

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A LIVING LEGEND. UNSUNG HEROINE.
THE WOMAN WHO STARTED THE POPULAR MAMMY MARKET.

It was in 1959. Mammy Ode, a young girl from Jericho-Ugboju in the present Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State, was married to Anthony Aboki Ochefu, a young Non-Commissioned military officer who had just been posted to Enugu from Abeokuta.

They were quartered at the Army Barracks, Abakpa, Enugu. To beat idleness and perhaps earn some money to support her young family, Mrs. Mammy Ochefu established a soft drinks business. She prepared gruel, which is called umu or enyi in Idoma, or kunu in Hausa, for sale to soldiers. She soon became popular with her delicacy as soldiers trooped to her house to buy enyi. Some of her best customers were officers, who always sent their batmen to buy some of the gruel for them, Monday through Friday.

Somehow, one of the Non-Commissioned Officers, the RSM, did not flow with the enthusiasm which Mammy’s gruel generated among other military men in the barracks. He complained that Mrs. Ochefu's popular foodstuff attracted flies into the barracks, and ordered Mrs. Mammy Ochefu to stop its production and sale. Though surprised and disappointed at the order of the RSM, she stopped the production and sale of enyi.

Her husband, not being an officer at the time, could not challenge the order of the RSM. For weeks, Mrs. Mammy Ochefu agonized over the fate of her business, just as officers and men of the Nigerian Army who enjoyed her enyi because of its freshness and nutritional value lamented the situation. From several quarters, pressure mounted on the RSM for a reversal of the order. After a while, he succumbed to the pressures and directed that a section of the barracks be reserved for Mrs. Mammy Ochefu to produce and sell her enyi. Her joy knew no bounds.

Few days after, a section of the barracks was given to her. She built a small shop and soon, her business began to boom. Most of her customers booked for their shares in advance.
Mammy Ode's stall quickly became a hub of activity, with her kunu in high demand. Other women within the barracks followed suit, setting up stalls and diversifying their offerings.
The sector of the barracks housing this bustling marketplace came to be known as "Mammy Market.Over time, Mammy Markets expanded beyond individual barracks to military installations across Nigeria.
The influence of Mammy Markets extended beyond the military, reaching National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) camps and even some educational institutions, where areas for food sales were colloquially referred to as "Mammy Market.

MY HUSBAND IS A WOMANIZER, HOW CAN I STOP HIM PLEASE ADVISE.