Onome Ebi is a Nigerian football defender who presently plight her trade in the Belarusian Premier League where she plays for FC Minsk and the Nigerian female national team.

To celebrate International Women’s Day, the Nigerian female football star, Ebi Onome celebrates her remarkable recovery from a hand fracture she sustained in the last minutes of the final game against the Lioness of Cameroun in December, 2016.

Ebi has used her time off to good effect. She recently started a female football development campaign across major secondary and primary schools in Lagos.

Among the schools she is expected to visit are her Alma Mater, Awodi Ora Secondary School in
Ajegunle, where her extraordinary story began several years ago. Others are British International School (BIS), Queens College, Yaba, Dowen College, Lekki and Holy child College, Ikoyi.

The photos were released on her behalf by her management, Temple Management Company.

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