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hastrupadewale3:
Stupid single sorry shyngle. You need Jesus Christ end time is near

According to People’s Gazette, Ojebola was murdered by the bandits after the family had paid N7million ransom to secure his release.

Bandits have murdered Shila Ojebola, a staff member of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to People’s Gazette, Ojebola was murdered by the bandits after the family had paid N7million ransom to secure his release.

Ojebola, according to sources, was recently promoted to a manager at the FIRS’ Medium and Small Tax Office in the Lugbe area of the FCT.
The promotion was said to have come when Ojebola was in the bandits’ camp after he was kidnapped along the Abuja-Kaduna Highway about three weeks ago.
“He was promoted to the post of a manager while in their camp,” said a family source.
Meanwhile, it was gathered learnt that the police and State Security Service (SSS) were involved in the payment of the N7million ransom.
Over the past year, the Abuja-Kaduna Highway has become a danger zone with massive kidnappings and killings of travellers.

The officers cut across the Nigerian Air Force, the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Navy; around 25 of the senior officers are in the army.

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Leo Irabor has ordered 50 Generals in the Nigerian military to tender their resignation with immediate effect.
According to Daily Post, the officers cut across the Nigerian Air Force, the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Navy; around 25 of the senior officers are in the army.

An impeccable source stated that Irabor gave the directive at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja on Monday.
At a 2pm meeting, the CDS thanked them for their service and told all present that it was high time they left office.
But the Course 36 Generals still had more than three years before their retirement.
“They are about 50; two of them in the Army will retire in 2022, while the rest have about three and half years left in service”, the source revealed.
Another source wondered why the Armed Forces were eager to ease out scores of capable and experienced hands at a time the country is battling insecurity.

Ironically, Irabor recently intervened in the 2016 forceful retirement of 38 Nigerian Army officers via a letter (Ref. No. CDS/8/A) to the Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi, a retired Major-General.
They were asked to go in June 2016, an action described as arbitrary by those affected, security personnel, experts and Nigerians.
Till date, the military and the federal government are yet to comply with extant court judgments ordering the officers’ reabsorption.
In January 2020, Justice Rukiya Hasstrup at National Industrial Court in Abuja faulted the Army decision and directed their reinstatement.
In May 2020, Justice Edith Agbakoba approved that contempt of court charge is filed against the military chiefs for failing to comply with a valid order.

A total of 63.97 million lines were disconnected in one year amid the National Identity Number-Subscriber Identity Module data verification, data obtained from the Nigerian Communications Commission show.

The NCC data revealed that the total number of connected lines in the country fell by 21.79 per cent to 229,582,206 in October this year from 293,554,598 in October 2020.

Within the period under review, the number of connected lines was highest in August 2021 (328,114,538) and lowest in September 2021 (229,467,077).

The number of active lines fell from 207,578,237 in October 2020 to 191,618,839 in October 2021, a 7.69 per cent decrease (15,959,398).

According to the commission, 37,963,367 connected lines were inactive as of October 2021, down from 85,976,361 in the same month last year.

Telecommunication companies in the country have been losing subscribers since the Federal Government began the linking of NIN with SIM cards.

“Mobile subscribers declined by 7.6 million to 68.9 million, impacted by the regulatory restrictions on new SIM sales and activations,” MTN Nigeria Communications Plc had said in its half-year financial statements.

According to the company, it is actively in support of the government’s NIN enrolment programme.

Airtel, in its quarterly financial statements, had said, “New customer acquisitions were barred until significant progress had been made on linking the active customer base with verified NINs.

“Natural churn in the customer base led to a loss of two million active mobile customers in Nigeria in the first quarter of the year (following on from 2.5 million customer loss in the final quarter of the year to 31 March 2021).”

Industry experts have also blamed the fall in the number of lines on the SIM-NIN policy.

The Nigeria National Coordinator for the Alliance for Affordable Internet, Olusola Teniola, recently told The reporter, “The impact of the SIM-NIN policy will slow down growth. The NIN requirement will slow down the ability to register SIMs legally, which will affect contribution to NIN, because not every Nigerian has NIN.”

In December 2020, the Federal Government banned the sale and registration of new SIM cards and gave a 30-day deadline for people to link their NIN with their SIM cards. The FG has since extended the exercise to the end of 2021.

When the government banned the sale and registration of SIM cards, the total number of connected lines was 300,042,650, and the total number of active lines was 204,228,678.

According to the government, the SIM-NIN policy is necessary to strengthen security in the country and trace suspects.

However, in September 2021, Zamfara State announced a ban on telecommunication service to block phone access so that criminals would not be able to communicate with one another

WesternOligarch:
Your entire family and generation unfortunately has not done ½ of what these guys have done positively in Yorubaland.

Nigerian author and Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka has revealed why he believes religion is the number one problem of Nigerians.

According to him while speaking with a professor of African Literature, Dr. Louisa Egbunike, religion has become an excuse for citizens to flout the laws and behave irrationally

Soyinka further stated that in Nigeria, religion is used to subvert the rights of others, to the extent of primordial rights, to k*ll, not just singling, but collectively, to b*rb down the places of worship of others.

He expressed that it is about time religion is being treated as a crime against humanity because it has reached that level in societies like Nigeria. He said, “All over the place, I find that religion has been cosseted too much. And liberty has been taken by religionists, which would not be considered to other movements which are considered secularists.

If you put on a garb of a religious leader, you can close up the expressway between Lagos and the rest of the nation, simply because you are having a religious celebration. You are just a fraction of the rest of the nation. And you should be accorded no special privileges. So, until that is done, people will always find something extra by belonging and manifesting, even to an extreme extent, your religious adhesions.

Religion has become the number one problem for Nigerians. Hope is all very well;but hope itself can become putrid. Especially if it is hope for unearned advantages in society. If religion becomes an excuse for flouting the law, then that religion has got to be tackled head-on,” he said.

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Young Borno Developer Mustapha builds 100% powered electric buses Electric buses. He was commended by Governor Zulum.



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tillaman:
Obi Cubana Answer my call Oga

Nxt 12 year.....

WesternOligarch:
Your entire family and generation unfortunately has not done ½ of what these guys have done positively in Yorubaland.

The pioneer Interim National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, has given an insight into the severe pressure mounted on the party by influential persons to make sure Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), now the President, did not emerge as the party’s candidate for the 2015 election.

In his 559-page autobiography, titled ‘My Participations’, launched in Lagos on Thursday, Akande said persons like former President Olusegun Obasanjo and some unnamed elite, especially from the North, including royal fathers, were against Buhari becoming the party’s candidate.

The former Osun State governor explained that an aristocratic leader from the North came to Osogbo, the state capital, to persuade the then governor, Rauf Aregbesola, to prevail on them to drop Buhari.

He, however, said the leaders of the newly formed party decided to go ahead with Buhari, given his charisma and the support he had garnered in his previous attempts, having contested the coveted position three times earlier. He said the emergence of the APC created a formidable structure for him and that Buhari’s candidacy was in fact one of the bases for the merger of the constituent political parties.

Regardless of this, he noted that the party allowed anybody interested in the ticket to contest against Buhari at the convention, where he eventually won.

On Obasanjo’s opposition to Buhari’s candidacy, he wrote, “When the party was ready and we were going around to all the leaders, someone reminded us that we had not seen Obasanjo and (former Head of State, Ibrahim) Babangida, and asked them to join us.

“We also met Obasanjo and asked him to join us. He said he would not join us but that he had his sympathy for us. He said he had decided not to join any political party since he left the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party).

“Behind the scene however, I understood he was pressurising some of our leaders not to use Buhari as our candidate. It got to a point when Bola Tinubu had to confront him thus: ‘It is not fair sending me to Buhari. Buhari was a soldier and he was one of your junior offices in the army. Why don’t you call Buhari and let him know how you feel about his intention to be President?’

“I don’t know whether Obasanjo stopped at it. From the start, he did not want Buhari to be President.”

Also, on the opposition by the other elite, Akande wrote, “It was apparent from the start that Buhari would be our choice for President. That was one of the bases for the merger. However, there were pressures from the elite, especially from the North, including royal fathers, piling pressure on us not to allow Buhari to be our presidential candidate.

“A prominent aristocratic leader from the North stayed several nights in Osogbo, persuading Governor Aregbesola to prevail on us not to field Buhari. He threatened that if we did, there would be trouble in the North. We reviewed all these threats and decided to go through it with Buhari.”

Adebanjo pestered Tinubu to build his Lekki house – Akande
Akande also described the leader of pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, as a blank politically-minded leader who does not have what it takes to contest political positions.

He further said Adebanjo pestered the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to build him a house in Lekki, where he now resides.

He also stressed that contrary to what Adebanjo believed, the ruling APC did not have restructuring in its manifesto in 2014 when the party presented Buhari as its torchbearer, adding that the APC only promised to support devolution of powers from the centre to the states.

On page 476, Akande wrote, the “APC did not have ‘Restructuring’ in its manifesto for the 2015 elections but promised to support devolution of powers from the centre to the states.

“While the President (whether Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan or Buhari) has the whole of Nigeria as his constituency, members of the National Assembly that have the powers to amend the Constitution imposed on Nigeria by the military represent constituencies individually from different ethnic nationalities.

“It is therefore mischievous to place the responsibility for effecting ‘restructuring’ on the APC or its Presidency and not to appreciate that it would require deft negotiations among such members from different ethnic nationalities and constituencies or zonal and religious background before any political party or any ethnic nationality could successfully issue any fiat on the National Assembly to make laws on power devolution or on ‘restructuring’, whatever it might connote.”

The APC chieftain further alleged that the trio of Adebanjo, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi (now late), and Chief Olu Falae should have found younger Yoruba sons to represent the South-West at the 2014 National Conference convened by former President Goodluck Jonathan instead of pocketing “generous allowances” given to conference delegates.

Akande said, “I was not surprised that three old men who were virulently opposed to our aspirations in the APC found their ways into the Jonathan Conference. These men – Sir Olaniwun Ajayi, Chief Ayo Adebanjo and Chief Olu Falae were once our leaders in the old Afenifere until the passage of Papa Adesanya.

“They could not find any younger Yoruba to send to the conference to represent our interest. They believed, even in their old age, that they were the only people who could have gone there. Sir Ajayi, who was close to 90 at the time of the Conference, has since joined his ancestors. Chief Adebanjo celebrated his 90th birthday in 2018. Chief Falae is in his 80s. Note that Jonathan paid the conference delegates generous allowances!”


Reminiscing on the formation of Afenifere, the ex-governor of Osun State recalled that “Chief Olu Falae, a trained civil servant, who after retirement became decorated into leadership by his former military bosses, has since been trying to blindly straddle Nigeria’s complicated politics.

“The old Afenifere and PDP coalition was fronted by these three men and General Obasanjo. Chief Adebanjo, the most vociferous of them, is a blank politically-minded leader who recognises readily and always that he never has what it takes to aspire for high political positions.

“He constantly harbours lumps of yellow hate-bile in his heart for any co-political leader with brighter chances for any major public office within or outside his political party. Adebanjo detests all past governors produced by his party since the UPN days and proudly says so in his regular pontifications. I always passed him for a mere political agitator among the old local party paid canvassers euphemistically called ‘organising secretaries’.”

Continuing, Akande alleged that Adebanjo coerced Tinubu to build a house for him in the Lekki area of the state.

“One day, Sir Olaniwun was launching a book at Muson Centre, Lagos. After the book presentation, Tinubu said I should not go and that he would like to see me. We met in a small room where he also invited Sir Olaniwun Ajayi. ‘Papa, you can see that this document is old, Tinubu said as he handed over a big envelope to Ajayi. This is your C of O (Certificate of Occupancy)!’

“Tinubu told me later that after he presented Adebanjo’s C of O to him, Adebanjo was always pestering Tinubu until he helped built a house on the plot. The street was also named in honour of Adebanjo and he is living in that house now at Lekki Phase One,” Akande said.

When contacted on Friday, Adebanjo said he would give his response after carefully reading the book. “I’m not going to depend on hearsay; I am going to give a written reply after reading the book,” he said.

Efforts to get a reaction from Obasanjo on the statement made by Akande failed, as his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, did not respond to the message sent to him.

How Ikimi, others tried to hijack party – Akande
Meanwhile, Akande also said a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Tom Ikimi; a former governor of Kaduna State, and a chieftain of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change had during the formative stages of the APC tried to hijack the party if and when it got registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

He said he had received reports that Ikimi and some members of the then Joint Merger Committee, comprising different political parties that had come together to form the APC, had tried to “share among themselves the new party leadership official positions”.

Akande, in his book, said a former governor of Kaduna State, had while lobbying for the position of the national secretary of the APC, told him that meetings were being held at the residence of Ikimi, who was then a member of the Action Congress of Nigeria, that the former minister had at the meetings been slated to become the national chairman of the APC while the position of the treasure “was perhaps being reserved for a chieftain of the Congress for Progressive Change, Alhaji Garba Gadi.

“The three of them, by chance, at one time or the other, were former members of ANPP and they became fortuitously co-chairmen of the Joint Merger Committee for the yet to be registered APC. I felt a revolt about how human beings take undue advantage of their principals which, in this case, were the parties that sent them to the Joint Merger Committee.

“To put practical effect to their mischief, Chief Tom Ikimi had been arranging a sort of public meeting – perhaps some sort of convention in an ostensible manner – which he termed, ‘APC Leadership Meeting’ at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel. I remained the chairman of the CAN that sponsored Tom Ikimi to the merger committee.

“He, as coordinating chairman of the Joint Merger Committee, wrote me an invitation for a public meeting of APC which to me was still waiting to be registered into corporate existence. What a hijack indeed!”

But reacting, Ikimi said he would react to the allegation of the former interim national chairman of the APC in a book he is currently writing.

“Well, I didn’t hear it (allegation). I was not there. I am writing my own book. I will react to it (Akande’s allegation) then (in my book),” he told one of our correspondents on the phone on Friday

massacre included ‘1,000 persons of all genders and ages’ given a secret mass burial at night by the army allegedly assisted by the Governor Nasir El-Rufai-led Kaduna State Government.

The advertorial, signed by Prof. I.M. Mshelgaru for the Academic Forum of IMN, also stated that 193 children and 23 pregnant women were killed, while ‘23 families were completely wiped out of existence’ by the Nigerian military.

The sect decried the alleged justification of the event of that day by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), whom, it said, described the ‘pogrom’ as ‘small boys beating the chest of a general’, during a media parley.

The movement said unlike the October 20, 2020 Lekki toll gate massacre of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers, which the Federal Government had done everything to deny, there was undeniable or concrete evidence for the Zaria massacre.

It lamented that despite the findings by a Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the Kaduna State Government that 347 Shi’ites were slain by the military and secretly given a mass burial, the perpetrators of the crime had yet to be fished out and punished.

The sect said it deemed it fit to restate its demand for justice even six years after the ‘pogrom’ and publish the advertorial to coincide with the United Nations Human Rights Day.

The sect said, “In our records, more than 1,000 persons, who went to Zaria on that fateful day, numerous of whom were also seen at the various scenes of the massacre, never returned to their respective houses.

“Consequently, and sadly, so many families lost at least three of their members while some families were completely wiped out.

“Corroboratively, we would like to mention yet again a few of those victims/families that were killed and whose identities were at least known within the communities they lived, viz:

“Three of Sheikh Zakzaky’s sons – Hammad Ibraheem, Ali Ibraheem and Humaid Ibraheem – were brutally killed right before their parents!

“Dr Mustapha Sa’id, the personal physician of Sheikh Zakzaky, was killed alongside his three energetic sons – Muhammad Mustapha, Ali Mustapha and Ruhullah Mustapha.


“Three sons of Kaduna-based engineer, Yahaya Gilima, were martyred during the massacre.

“Bukhari Jega was a PhD student of political science and a part-time lecturer at the University of Abuja. Bukhari, his wife, A’isha, their 16-month-old daughter, Batool, and two of his wife’s sisters were gunned down during the massacre.

“Four children of Dr Isah Gwantu, an academic in the Mass Communication Department, ABU, and Publisher of Education Monitor Newspaper, were also killed. They (the children) are Muhammad Waziri, Fatima Waziri, Hassan Waziri and Hussaini Waziri.

“Malam Abudllahi Abass Zaria was not only killed but his six children – Abdurrazaq, Abbas, Muhammad, Ahmad, Ibrahim and Jawad – were all killed by the Nigerian Army.

“The aforementioned is just a tip of the iceberg, excluding a teeming number of those injured at varying degrees, either from gunshot or burns.”

The sect called for ‘the prosecution of all those who played one role or the other in the massacre and its aftermath’.

It also demanded ‘the immediate and unconditional release of those (its members) in various detention facilities’, as well as the release of the ‘passports of both Zakzaky and his wife, Malama Zeenat, to enable them to proceed for medical treatment in any country of their choice where the requisite expertise and appropriate facilities exist’.

Thirty-six states of the federation have faulted the Federal Government’s handling of N36bn international fund meant to combat COVID-19.

The PUNCH learnt that at a meeting of state commissioners of health and federal health officers, which started on Tuesday and ended early on Wednesday, state governments opposed the central government over the sharing of the N36bn international fund.

The World Bank Board of Directors had on August 7, 2020 approved a $114.28 financing to help Nigeria prevent, detect and respond to the threat posed by COVID-19 with a specific focus on state level responses.

The global body said, through the COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Project, the government of Nigeria would provide grants to 36 and the Federal Capital Territory as immediate support to break the chain of COVID-19 local transmission and limit the spread of coronavirus through containment and mitigation strategies.

Although the source of the current international fund could not be confirmed, it was learnt that each state was supposed to get N1bn.

A source at the meeting said, “The amount that should be given to each state was N1bn, but what we were offered was far lesser than N800m. We have told them (the Federal Government) to investigate it and give us what we are entitled to.”

Speaking on the development, the Benue State Commissioner for Health and Human Resources, Ngbea, said states had been informed that N1bn would be given to each of them.

He stated, “We just came back from Abuja today (Wednesday) to receive an international fund, but we didn’t get it for some hitches. Once the money is out, we will channel it to appropriate areas like equipping our isolation centres.”

Although the commissioner declined to give the amount offered the states, he stated, “The speculation we heard was that N1bn would be given to each state, but when we got there what we saw was far lesser than that. It is not commensurate with things we want to do. We have resolved that they (the Federal Government) should into that and add to it.”

“We need to make our isolation centres more functional and up our testing capacity. We need to immunise more people because for now only 2.9 percent of our population have been immunised.”

The commissioner said there were two functional isolation centres in Benue State, one at Federal Medical Centre and the other at Benue State University Teaching Hospital both located in Makurdi, the state capital.

He disclosed participants at the just concluded meeting of health commissioners across the country resolved that they should prepare for emergencies.

The commissioner said that states were expecting international funds to tackle COVID-19, especially, to make isolation centres more functional.

On his part, the Ekiti State Commissioner for Information, Akin Omole, said that the COVID-19 isolation and treatment centres in the state were functional.


Omole said, “The issue of COVID-19 is under the Federal Government. It is the Federal Government that will take some initiatives and the state governments will begin to implement. The state government will have to wait for the Federal Government to take the matter up before we key into it.”

In an interview with The PUNCH in Jos on Wednesday, the Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Dr Nimkong Lar, said the two isolation centres in Shendam and Riyom were closed because there were no enough patients but that the government would reopen them immediately if need be.

Also, the Ondo State Government said all its isolation centres were in good condition but there was no patient of COVID- 19 in them.

The state Epidemiologist, Dr Stephen Fagbemi, who spoke on development disclosed that the state had four isolation centres.

We don’t intend to open more isolation centres – Lagos

The Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, on his part, disclosed that the state did not intend to open more isolation centres.

Omotoso, in an interview with one of our correspondents on Wednesday, said the centre at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba was the only one in operation at the moment.

“The only isolation centre that I know is in operation is the one at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba. For us not to open more isolation centres, that is why we are announcing measures and regulations that all of us will have to adhere to so that the cases will not go out of hand.”

WHO forecasts increased hospitalisation as Omicron variant spreads to 57 countries
In a related development, the World Health Organisation On Wednesday said there would be increased hospitalization if more people got infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease. The global health body stated that the variant had been identified in 57 countries of the world.

The WHO made this known in its weekly global epidemiological report of the coronavirus.

According to WHO, while all the confirmed cases of the omicron in South Africa were asymptomatic, it stated that the country witnessed an increase in hospitalisation rate.

Suspected hoodlums have attacked and killed a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in FESTAC Town, in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State.

Our correspondent gathered that the victim, Pastor Babatunde Dada, was killed inside the RCCG Chapel of Resurrection on 13 Road, 6th Avenue, FESTAC Town.

The killing, which happened on Thursday, December 2, was said to have been perpetrated by two new converts who came to the church for the first time a Sunday before the incident.

The two youths were said to have come out during an altar call and surrendered their lives to Jesus.

The church accommodated them on its premises after they claimed to be stranded.

They had barely spent a week in the church when they reportedly stabbed the cleric to death.

A senior pastor in the church, Akin Odejare, declined comment on the incident when contacted by PUNCH

However, the wife of the pastor, Bose, told our correspondent on the phone that she called her husband on the day of the incident and he promised to come home to rest.

She said, “My husband was killed on December 2 at the church. He was the admin/accounts officer, as well as the parish pastor. I was not with him when he was killed, but I was told that they collected money from him. I heard that those who killed him were new converts.”

A family member, who is also a security expert, Mr Abolarinwa Olatunbosun, told our correspondent on Wednesday that the pastor was killed after withdrawing money from a bank.

He said, “The pastor went to a bank to withdraw some money and went to rest on the first floor of the church. Two persons said to be new converts went to meet him upstairs, broke his head and killed him.

“The matter was reported to the police and one of the suspects, who ran to Ilorin, has been arrested.”

Olatunbosun said the killing might be for ritual purposes, adding that the assailants were suspected Internet fraudsters, aka Yahoo boys.


The expert said criminals were beginning to attack churches and pastors because they believed there was money in church.

He advised religious centres to be security conscious and put in place strategies that could stop criminals from killing, kidnapping and robbing leaders and worshippers.

A friend of the slain pastor, Fred Enemigin, who is the founder, Highflyers International, Lagos, said in a Facebook post that the pastor was stabbed multiple times.

He wrote, “Two boys had come to church last Sunday and they responded to the altar call by giving their lives to Christ. After church service, they waited to see the head pastor and told him that they were stranded without any place to stay.

“On compassionate grounds, the pastor allowed them to stay somewhere within the church premises pending when they would be resettled. Pastor Tunde Dada, who had for almost a decade been the accountant of RCCG Chapel of Resurrection Parish, was assigned to provide needed welfare for the boys until their matter would be sorted.

“On the fateful Thursday, Tunde was seated in his office and the boys targeting that they were alone on the church premises with him, entered his office and attacked him with knives and other sharp weapons. He was stabbed multiple times and places until they had him killed right there on the spot.

“Our minds are still searching for what the rift between the boys and Tunde was considering the fact that the Tunde we knew was a very gentle soul. Could they have asked for more welfare than what was approved for them and Tunde declined? What on earth would warrant this brutal killing by those who were recipients of a server of the church’s benevolence? There are many more questions that we have not found answers to.”

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adekunle Ajisebutu, said he had yet to be briefed about the case.

Bigredmachine:
The man is a fool...

Why not marry the lady before sending her to school, or who don marry no dey go school...

At times some men behaves like they don't have choices in this life which is bad...

Always read the end from the beginning, now they have left u behind, u are lamenting