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English: Ode market is a popular market located at Ntezi, Ebonyi State. The market is a notable basket market and very popular in trading of baskets of varous sizes, designs and shapes generally in Nigeria.

On every Ode day, traders from all corners of Ntezi and neighbouring Ntezi communities and villages would bring their wares and commodities to the market for trading. These basket were further sold to the middle men who sall them to merchants from all parts of Nigeria. Large trucks are seen the following days after Ode market day loading the baskets which are further transported to different parts of the country, and some other African countries mainly the neighbouring Cameron, Niger, Chad, Togo, Ghana and Benin Republic.

Ntezi basket crafters are notably one of the major suppliers of baskets to far Northern Nigerian markets and farms which have been used in packaging and shipping of farm produces such as Tomatoes, Onions, Mangala fish, pepper, among other farm produces to all parts of Nigeria.

In Ntezi, basket making has been incorporated into the women society dating far back as nobody can remember. Infact, it is inborn that every girl child is expected to learn this enterprise from her early childhood. To this extent, just as it is said among Ndi Igbo that every male child is born with a hoe to cultivate the soil, so was every girl in Ntezi born with palmfolds to make baskets. Therefore, if you have been to Ntezi, you would likely find basket industries in every compound.