Goodness, who was rescued from the scene of
the Monday bomb blast in Nyanya near
Abuja, has been reunited with her mother in
hospital.
Goodness was separated from her mother,
Gloria Adams, who was presumed dead in the
explosion.
Before she was taken from the Asokoro
Hospital to the Wuse General Hospital where
her mother is receiving treatment in the
Intensive Care Unit, Goodness spent Tuesday
morning sleeping.
Medical workers and her aunt, Maria Dominic,
looked after the little baby who had only a
slight swelling close to one of her eyes.
Her mother suffered severe injuries and is one
of the two left in the Wuse General Hospital's
ICU after one other victim died.
Gloria, according to a hospital source said
she was carrying Goodness on her back when
the blast occurred.
The hospital source quoted her as saying, "I
cannot remember how I got here. I only saw
myself on the ground, turning and turning.
Then someone came and removed my baby
from my back."
The source said Gloria was very happy to see
her baby alive.
"I'm feeling better. Many have died; but I am
alive. I give glory to God, for saving me and
my little baby," she told the hospital workers.
While Gloria could afford to smile on sighting
her baby, Mrs. Hilda Shaka, an employee of
the Bank of Agriculture, fainted outside the
hospital on learning of the death of her ex-
colleague, Jonathan John.
When efforts by her colleagues who were also
in the hospital to make her regain
consciousness failed, she was rushed to
another hospital where she was admitted.
A member of staff of BOA said, "Two of our
colleagues were involved in yesterday
(Monday) explosion and their cases were
severe. Some of us are here hoping that they
will recover, but after a series of medical
attention on John, he still couldn't make it.
"When Mrs. Shaka heard of John's death, she
fainted. We thought it was a joke, but after
spending so much time trying to revive her
without success, we decided to rush her to
another hospital. But we thank God that she is
recovering."
A relation of another victim, Mr. Hamza
Umar, told one of our correspondents at the
same Wuse hospital that his brother, Isa
Nuhu, was among those burnt to death at the
scene of the blast.
Umar said that it was too painful that after
one of his younger brothers watched Nuhu
burn to death, they had yet to find out the
mortuary where his body was deposited.
He added, "We had been to the National
Hospital before but we are going back there
now. We don't know what to do. My brother
sells recharge cards and repairs handsets.
"One of our brothers saw him on the ground
with his legs already burnt. There was also fire
on his body but security agents did not allow
the guy to go and stop the fire and so he
died."
A community leader in Karu Local Government
Area of Nasarawa State, Chief Waziri Yemide,
said two of his children, Audu and Babangida,
were seriously injured in the explosion.
He said, "I feel unhappy over the blast but I
thank God because none of them is dead. The
only one that is in the hospital has wounds on
his legs."
A survivor, Oguike Charles, told one of our
correspondents at the Asokoro General
Hospital, that he had been lucky to escape
death in Abuja.
"This is the second time I have found myself
lucky. I narrowly escaped the Nigerian
Immigration Service recruitment tragedy in
Abuja last month," Charles added.
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