By Osa Mbonu-Amadi
I have said it before, and let me restate it here: there is nothing like accident in this world. Everything happens for a purpose – for a Divine purpose. It is our limited understanding arising from the limitedness of the human mind that makes us to interpret some events as accidents.
Even when some important persons perish in a road or air crash or some other tragic ‘happenstance’ we tag ‘accident’, it is still for a divine purpose, even though we may not comprehend it. Both life and death are tools in the hand of God, or nature, in case you don’t believe there’s God.
I have the urge to tell you now that shortly after Ngozi graduated from LASU, she got married (surely to a car owner). She also got pregnant. But like Amaka, she too died in the process of delivering the baby!
Sometimes I shake my head vigorously, rub my eyes, and restate certain events of my life to one or two persons involved in the events, just to reassure myself that they were…
