2016 March

As it morphs from egg, larva, pupa to imago, there comes a time when the butterfly becomes an ugly caterpillar. Call that the pupa stage. A close observer will realise that after a while, the caterpillar stops crawling all over the place and freezes up. In a week or two, a crack appears in the...

What is the world turning to? How come we are being driven by a new strain of negative feminism? With all the people that Boko Haram killed and kidnapped, it was when 200 plus girls were kidnapped that the global media descended on Nigeria in the Jonathan days. The unspoken message was passed quite eloquently;...

I didn’t support the ‘Boycott your Bank’ campaign launched by CAFON (Consumer Advocacy Forum of Nigeria) during the week because it sounded odd to me. I’ve never heard it before for customers to boycott banks. Do customers not need the banks more than the banks needed them in our kind of setting? With all the...