MOST Kenyans like many Africans might not know about Iceland or where to locate it on the map. I do not know if there would be a handful of Kenyans who would have heard of the jaw breaking name, Eyjafjalljokull volcano.

ONE of the institutions most devastated under Babangida, was the judiciary. As usual, he presented himself as a champion of what he hoped to destroy.

ABEL TENDEKAYI Muzorewa, retired Methodist Bishop walked away from history 32 years ago when he signed the Salisbury Accord. This ill-advised step consigned him to the dustbin of history. So when he passed away last Thursday, April 8, at 85, not a few might have asked, Muze who?

IBRAHIM Badamosi Babangida, the gap toothed general who dictated to the country for eight years says he is “consulting” to decide whether to run for the 2011 presidential election or not. But we all know that as part of his instinctive nature of deception, whenever Babangida talks about peace, he would have sounded the bugle for war.

GROWING up in Lagos, I thought Senegal was one of its suburbs. There was ‘ Bread Senega’ It was harder than other types of loaf but more filling. There were Senegalese men and women who were difficult to distinguish from other Nigerians. Of course, Senegalese dresses remain part of the traditional dresses dear to Nigerians. It is perhaps impossible today, to take a flight from Nigeria to Dakar without encountering Nigerian tailors and traders streaming to Dakar.

BERNARD LONGE as Managing Director of the First Bank was to the employees what Saul was to the early Christians.Where Saul put the believers to the sword, Longe killed the dreams of many workers; sacking them, imposing unholy policies, violating their fundamental and constitutional rights.

WHEN I was growing up in Lagos, almost all the non- Nigerian Catholic priests I knew were Irish. They built and ran some of the best schools and were the embodiment of moral authority. It seemed that the primary profession of the Irish was priesthood. It is therefore shocking to learn that the Irish youth today has his attention turned to other calling

My attention in the last fortnight has not been on the ministerial list or the passage of the 2010 Budget. As important as these and other national matters may seem, I was more preoccupied with the whirlwind of violence that is sweeping the country and threatening its very existence.

THE fiftieth commemoration of the Sharpville massacre rolled by on March 21. It was a landmark because that massacre was conclusive proof that Apartheid could not be ended by peaceful protests or deputations. Africans had poured out on March 21, 1960 in the South African township of Sharpville to protest laws that forced them to carry passes in their own country.

THIS is another season of Ghaddafi-bashing in Nigeria. There is righteous indignation in the land. The Libyan leader, Muammar Ghaddafi has given an opportunity to diverse groups to speak with one voice.