Monday 4 June 2012

NADINE IS GONE

The Dana Airline passenger manifest for the Abuja-Lagos flight which crashed yesterday, which some person(s) had released without due process and circulating irresponsibly on various social media with no care about the sensibilities of the victims' families and friends, had the name "N. Chidiac" on it.

Could it be NADINE CHIDIAC? I called her number several times. It didn't even ring. I called a... mutual friend to know if it was Nadine. He was not sure but expressed fear that it could be since the name Chidiac, a Lebanese name, was unique in our Nigeria. A while ago, I googled her name and came across her photograph on Dele Momodu's Lockerz page with this written: "What a cruel world, Nadine Chidiac, Rest in Peace!"

So NADINE CHIDIAC is no more?! Unbelievable!! I met Nadine during the Easter weekend in 2003 when my wife and I went to spend the weekend at the Peninsular Resort in Lekki, Lagos. She was then the Manager of the Hotel. I spent time with Nadine in her office and we talked for long like old friends even though we only just met. I shared the Gospel of Christ with her and, though she had been deeply religious and always went to Church, she asked me to pray with her to receive Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Saviour. And so she gave her life to Christ during that meeting. Praise God! We became good friends.

Nadine was was very beautiful, charming, empathetic and professional. She always had friendly smiles for everyone. She left Peninsular Resort soon afterwards and went on to manage Oceanview Restaurant and Robert's Cafe before setting up her own outfit, Nadine Integrated Services Ltd.

Nadine is gone. But I shall see her again.....at Jesus' Feet.

May the LORD give her young daughter (bless her sweet soul!) and her entire family the strength to bear this irreparable loss in Jesus' Name. Amen!

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  1. May Nadine Chidiac and others who met this untimely end rest in the bosom of the lord.
    -www.cnnamani.blogspot.com

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