Part two of the series ‘Now that we have moved forward’, is a rehash of a previous piece on this column, titled ‘Distilling Jonathan’s Wiki leaks’ It is apt and auspicious for the subject matter:“The Wikileaks report on Nigeria (during Ambassador Sanders’ tenure) quoted Jonathan as claiming he was his ‘own man’.

It was a beautiful Tuesday, said Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York. It was actually a day for the primaries preparatory to picking a candidate for that office and Guiliani lapped it up. “It was a beautiful day, the sky was blue”, he said in an interview broadcast on National Geographic channel last week. But that was the day the world changed.

It was a beehive of activities last Saturday at the Teslim Balogun stadium,Surulere, Lagos as thousands of Nigerians stormed there for the novelty match organized in honour of the late Lady of Songs, Chief Christy Essien Igbokwe.

Mbonu Ojike’s book, I have two countries (1946), is a classic text of transnationalism and transnational identity. It registers the dual conundrum – the doubleness, or betterstill, the “Janus-faced” condition of existing in two places at the same time. One place claims your body, the other, your soul. It manifests the situation of the “double-gaze” and the “double-tongued” all clearly symptomatic of the ambiguity, and perhaps in fact, the ambivalence of double self-referentiality.

Remember that young lady that blew everyone away with Omo too sexy released in 2009 and then kind of vanished? Well this story brings you the good news that announces her comeback.