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Amputated Miner Girl Gets Scholarship Award In Kogi

Daniel Williams

21 Mar 2024

Comfort Ezekiel, has received scholarship award from the Mineral and Miners Centre’s Initiative for Women Miners in Africa (IWoMA), which wants her to return to school and leave the mines.

A miner-girl who got amputated after an accident that took the lives of her fellow workers in Kogi State, Comfort Ezekiel, has received scholarship award from the Mineral and Miners Centre’s Initiative for Women Miners in Africa (IWoMA), which wants her to return to school and leave the mines.


Ezekiel earned N1,000 a day for manually loading crushed rocks onto a truck to eke out a living in the present economic hardship and afford school fees.

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