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Reposted from @mardlifetv - PSA: Coalition Of Pretty Faces Without Pretty Names We the Coalition of Pretty Faces Without Pretty Names have an important Public Service Announcement and hereby demand your attention. Again and again, we hear guys while asking others out, they see their faces, ask their names and then reply "what a pretty name for a pretty face". This has been going on for long, and it is come to our attention how much of a disadvantage we are at. Someone asks for our name, we give it to them and they find it difficult to hide their shock at our response. What? Hmmnnn! Wow! Interesting! These are some of the responses we have gotten by disclosing our names. We actually hear the part you try to hide (but fail miserably at). Your mouth might be saying wow! But your face is asking "What sort of name is that?" "Who was so wicked as to give you such a name?" "Is that really your name in this day and age?". Thank goodness we don't look like what we have been through. Our our names. Please, forthwith, you better keep a straight face when we answer your "what's your name?" question, and stop looking so shocked. And whenever you ask for our account details and find out that our name is different from the one we gave you earlier, stop looking bewildered. We only switched it up and "funkified" it because we knew you couldn't handle the truth. And for those who still go on to tell us "what a pretty name for a pretty face", thanks for the courtesy. But we know you are lying. Most importantly, we urge the Senate to pass the "Fine Name For Fine Faces" bill, so no parent can put their children through the torturous process of having to answer to ugly names. Read more on MARDLife.com Link in bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #PSA #Union #Association #Satire #Funny #Pretty #Face #Name #Children #Parents #Ugly #Looks - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BvypRpMne3n/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mbco4o7g4sz1

Reposted from @mardlifetv - A common desire among humans is comfort. Ultimately, everything we do is tied towards our comfort at the end of the day. It is common to see people prioritize their comfort over everything else. Some people actually take comfort over meeting their own basic needs. This easily results in laziness and its accompanying consequences. There is nothing wrong in seeking comfort, but then when it comes to comfortability, how much is too much? Necessity is often credited as the mother of all invention. If that is true, then what is the mother of complacency and dearth of innovation? There are numerous examples of enterprises starting out innovatively, stretching the frontier of what has been deemed possible and reshaping the future of industries, nations and humanity at large. Said companies then get into a "comfortable" phase. The books are balanced, profit is rolling in on a steady basis, innovation is shelved and the company switches to "autopilot" mode in production and management. These companies get so deep in their comfort zone, for years, consumers see no improvement or innovation in their products and output. The staff see no reason to improve their output cos either way, they are getting paid at the end of the month. The management sees no reason to optimize or challenge themselves, because the profit margin is either constant, improving ever slightly or decreasing at a "non-alarming" rate. The company does not care about customer feedback or how to improve on their product or their customer experience until either an old competitor improves on their product, or a new firm offers a qualitative rival product or service to the consumers. Often times, the company is already too stuck in their place of comfort and end up being unable to evolve or react adequately to salvage themselves. With minimum fuss, the company folds up and goes under. Never forget, comfortable is often the stepping stone to complacency. Read the full piece on MARDLife.com Link in bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #WithLoveFromDad #Father #Children #Family #Parenting #Son #Daughter #Comfort #Comfortable #Relax #Relaxation https://www.instagram.com/p/BvypOTyHqhs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=179sua3w8ki16

Reposted from @mardlifetv - After the last incident with Tinu (Which shall never be mentioned again), we didn’t see each other again until we finished our Junior School Leaving Examination. By the time the new school year began, one would think I would have forgotten about the incident, but no. It was seared into my brain. Throughout the long holiday, I had spent countless hours thinking and ruminating on the event. I had come up with over a thousand ways I could have steered the conversation in order to have a different outcome. Truly, if wishes were horses… I was among the last students to register for Senior Secondary School. The academic year was already about five weeks old when I eventually enrolled. It was a real struggle for the registration officer to fit me into a class. After spending over ten minutes and still being unable to find a class for me, she asked one of her assistants to put me into a class, pending when she is able to rearrange the register and fix me in a class permanently. Leaving home on that day, I had told my parents that I’ll be going into a science class, but on getting to school, at the last minute, I had changed my mind and registered as an art student. Unbeknownst to me, an unusually large number of students from my year in Junior School had enrolled in the Art Department, thereby crowding the classes and causing a logjam in the administrative office. The Administrative Assistant walked me to a class, she called on the class captain and told her that I was a new student and should be settled in. This is the story of how I met Ruth. Read more at MARDlife.com Link in bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #TrueLieStory #TheWomenILove #Fiction #Love #Friendship #Relationship #Childhood #Friends #BestFriends #SeniorSecondarySchool #SecondarySchool #Carl #Crush #Girlfriend #Memoir #ShortStory #Series #Teenagers #Students #NewFriend #NewYear #ClassCaptain #Ruth https://www.instagram.com/p/BvkTEASHfJh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uuvnfdy6wfif

Reposted from @mardlifetv - Electoral Appeal - YMCMPP With the 2019 election season gradually, tediously and most importantly, "eventually" coming to a close, we the greatest party ever in the history of Nigeria, (though yet to be officially inaugurated) have noticed an ugly trend. As the future ruling party of Nigeria, it behoves on us to tackle this insidious pattern. As Nigerians, electoral appeals, both significant and ridiculous ones altogether have come to become an important aspect of our electoral process. We eagerly anticipate after the final vote is casted to see which party or candidate will be the first to show up at the courthouse. Members of the YMCMPP have been taking bets to see if a candidate will appeal before the results are being announced, while the results are being announced or after the results have been announced. Some of us even go as far as wagering on how many parties and how many cases will eventually come up in court. This is why it was very saddening to see members of the current ruling party in Nigeria, the All Progressive Congress, coming out to implore, beg and cajole Atiku Abubakar and his party, the People's Democratic Party from going to appeal the outcome of the Presidential Election in court. What is even more disturbing was watching some women come out to protest, or more appropriately, demonstrate and urge Atiku Abubakar ti accept the result of the election and concede defeat. Where was all this concern when then Muhammad Buhari went to court after each of his three previous losses at the poll? Why didn't anyone advise Godswill Akpabio not to appeal his own loss? He didn't even wait for the election appeal court before instituting his appeal, he went to lodge his complaint before a regular court. Probably his lawyer or party eventually educated him on why he should have put the case before an electoral court. Read the full piece on MARDLife.com Link in bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #TrueLieStory #YMCMPP #Fiction #Satire #Politics #Nigeria #Elections #Election #Electoral #Appeal #INEC #Buhari #Akpabio #Atiku #PDP #APC - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvhu9LcnmLX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vopne8zeqhc8

Reposted from @mardlifetv - My name is Happiness, and I am on a journey to the Altar. I forgot to mention, I am single and searching. I am not searching for a boyfriend, I am actually still looking for the one who will ask my hand in marriage and take me to the altar. Were you expecting me to journey to the altar alone? I was brought up on the belief that after facing my studies, getting out of school and finding myself a good job, I will just up and meet a “Tall, Dark and Handsome” young man who will think the world of me and stop at nothing to “woo” me the way those guys do in the novels I read growing up, I will eventually “agree” for him and we will have the “Wedding of the Century”. On a scale that will put the British Royals to shame. I am the last born and only girl with two elder brothers. I am nicknamed “Pension Baby” cos of the circumstances surrounding my birth. My eldest brother was getting out of the university while my immediate elder brother was just getting in when my mom found out she was pregnant with me. Mummy had just turned Forty Five years old while Daddy was Fifty One years Old. It was a surprise that left my parents wondering what must have gone wrong with their family planning. I was born on the 31st of December 1995 and the happiness that greeted my birth must have left my parents so lazy that they ended up christening me Happiness. Read the #first episode of the ROAD TO ALTAR Series. Up on the blog now. MARDLife.com Link in Bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #TrueLieStory #RoadToAltar #Fiction #ShortStory #Series #Love #Lovers #Boyfriend #Girlfriend #Relationship #Happiness #Marriage #Single #SingleAndSearching, - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BuKNsf4HfKD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oco4i5ggvok5

Reposted from @mardlifetv - It was in the third term of JSS3 that I finally summoned the courage to ask out Tinu. I did this the week before we started our Junior WAEC. I think my subconscious had calculated that the era of free snacks was drawing to a close and the time for me to make my move without loosing any privileges was perfect. On the last Friday before our Junior School Leaving Examination was to start, everyone had just been gisting and hanging out as no teacher had come to take any class through the week. I finally got my chance to be alone with Tinu after all her “Toasters” had left. She told me she needed to go buy something. I quickly offered to accompany her before someone would go and “tie her down” with gist somewhere. As we walked to the bookstore within the school premises, I asked Tinu “So, who is your boyfriend?” With a smile, she replied “no one”. “Nice” I thought to myself. I genuinely stand a chance then. “But many guys do come looking for you. Some even believe you are in a relationship. Don’t disappoint them.” I continued. “Someone can be in a relationship with me while I am not in a relationship with them” was her response. I burst out laughing. This was indeed true. Tinu had perfected the craft of making any guy comfortably feel like he is in a relationship with her, while never ever confirming to him that she is or isn’t in a relationship with him. I hope I am the one to change this. “Tinu, so you mean to tell me that none of these guys is good enough for you?” “See, not that they are not good enough. Just that I have not seen the kind of guy I am actually looking for.” What is this girl saying, I thought to myself. Read the full story as Carl asks out Tinu on MARDlife.com Link in bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #TrueLieStory #TheWomenILove #Fiction #Love #Friendship #Relationship #Childhood #Friend #BestFriends #JuniorSecondarySchool #SecondarySchool #Tinu #Carl #Crush #Girlfriend #Friends #Memoir #ShortStory #Series #Teenagers #Students #Toast #Woo #FriendZone #Brother https://www.instagram.com/p/BuEyrrAhdPo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uletd3cywbi

Reposted from @mardlifetv - Last week was Valentine’s Day. The sheer volume of kasala, palava, wahala and drama Nigeria and its plenty lovers witness is officially too much. The YMCMPP have come to the realization that one of the major things holding back this potentially great nation from progressing is unfaithfulness among lovers. The truth is legally, you can be polygamous in Nigeria, but then cheating on your partner is not allowed. Because of national interest, and to help focus our individual resources on beneficial endeavors, YMCMPP have decided that when we become the majority party in government, we will be creating a lovers database. Every Nigerian from eighteen years old and above shall be mandated to enroll on the database. This will ensure everybody knows who is dating or married to who. With this information being available in public domain, you can look up whoever you are “eyeing” to tell if they are single or not. This will help ensure you can shoot your shot at the right persons and your “investment” never enter into “voicemail”. An important part of this policy is the “try and rest” period. This is a transitional period between two relationships. As a government that is concerned about the all-round well-being of our populace, we cannot allow you carry the “baggage” of one relationship into another. No matter how fine you are, how much of a “hotcake” you are, or how many “toasters” you have, you can’t just jump from one relationship into another. A mandatory waiting period of at least forty five days must be observed, after which you will be evaluated by a team of relationship expert, psychologist and psychiatrist to confirm if you are ready for another relationship. By implementing this policy, we believe we can help Nigerians focus on other productive enterprises, thereby improving the economy and happiness index of our dear Nation rapidly. Read the full piece on MARDLife.com Link in bio. #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #TrueLieStory #YMCMPP #Fiction #Satire #Politics #Nigeria #Valentine #Lovers #Database #Campaign #Promise #Youths #Policy #Elections - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BuEypB0h6yR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ke0n9299dmsf

Reposted from @mardlifetv - The fourth line in the second verse of the Nigerian National Anthem goes “Help our youths the truth to know”. In all the years I have seen people analyze and appreciate the National Anthem, I think this is one of the most underrated, undervalued and underappreciated line. Indeed, we need the God of creation to guide our leaders right, but just as importantly, we need him to help our youths to know the truth. In Nigeria, at present, the youths are the largest demography in the population. One truth we seem yet to acknowledge, understand and put to practice is the power we have. According to a research, it takes about three percentage of a population to carry out a revolution. The Arab Spring didn’t have the participation of up to three percent of their respective countries, yet we see the result. Nigerian youths, we have the privilege to be a part of the most peaceful way possible to carry out a revolution. I hope we seize it this time. I hope we forego leaders in every strata of our government who are vision-less, greed-driven, nonchalant, heartless and vengeful. I hope we begin to seize the chance to engage the government more. Not from a selfish perspective. Rather from a future-oriented and Nation-centred perspective. O God of creation, Direct our noble cause. Guide our leaders right, Help our youths the truth to know. And give them the wisdom to process this truth, the strength and boldness to act on this truth, and the will to vote for the right leaders, based on this truth. Read more on MARDlife.com Link in bio. Photo by @perrygrone via @unsplash #ML #MARDLife #MakingARealDifference #MLSpecial #TheBookClub #TrueLieStory #AliceInNaijaland #Fiction #ShortStory #Series #Alice #Wonderland #Naijaland #9ja #Naija #Nigeria #Opinion #Patriot #Help #NationalAnthem #Truth #Future #Politics #Election #Vote #Youths #Young - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt4LgCin3Sk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j96oaupyjsuk