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Make sure you have a clean Ampit all the time,thats what I see first in a lady before opening my Lotus mouth to talk to her.

There are no decent ladies to get married to in the first place. They are all BANK ACCOUNT  Terrorist.

@Darfur: YOUR 100% CORRECT,JUST NOW HILLARY SAID, I QOUTE:His rival, Hillary Clinton, has yet to concede.

Her speech to Aipac focused on similar topics - with Mr Obama setting out what he would do as US president, while Mrs Clinton referred to what "the next president" should do.

She told Aipac she was honoured to consider Mr Obama a friend and that he would be a "good friend of Israel".

"We need a Democrat in the White House next January," she said.

Women are really Daughters of EVE and Jezebel:

Even so many Democrates are so angry that they are saying they will vote for John Mccain,I fear for OBAMA's LIFE,just now france television are debating whether OBAMA will be alive till November or whether he won't be able to finish his first term in office before been Assasinated like Martin luther king Jr.

This Election has open the eyes of the WORLD that America is still the most RACIST country in the WORLD.

In my Opinion and I mean it, Al-qaeida,Hamas,Hezbolla and their PRESIDENT BIN LADEN should get ready in case OBAMA is Assasinated,America SHOULD be BOMBARDED from all angles and reduce to NOTHING in the surface of the EARTH.Before then all Blacks should live America

If you douth about OBAMA been assasinated take one hour and listen to Any foreign television and see what is going on in the WOrld Media.

Hillary Should not be the VP,before I supported her to be the VP, but till now her above comment without Congratulating Obama show she is a Green SNAKE in a Green Grass and she was the one who reminded the WORLD that Kenedy was assasinated in June a comment which she later Apologies.

Hillary is the enbodiment of everything Evil.

Mrs Clinton has no choice,We have Flush her out of the Race,but been compassionate people We will consider giving her vice president post because she has come this far

What is wrong with that? Does mariage means LIVING IN BONDAGE?

June 12: Why I kept quiet, by Humphrey Nwosu

Written by Uduma Kalu,Emmanuel Iriogbe & Abayomi Adeshida
Saturday, 31 May 2008


Fifteen long, lean years of keeping mum on annulment of the June 12th 1993 Presidential Elections, former chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Professor Humphrey Nwosu, is now spilling the beans.
He is not only granting interviews and speaking on national televisions, he has put down all that happened during his tenure in the commission in a book.

The memoir is entitled Laying Foundation for Nigeria’s Democracy -My Account of June 12th Presidential Election and Its Annulment. The book will be launched on June 12th 2008 at Sheraton Conference Center. The time is 10am.

However, Nwosu wants the reforms he initiated during his tenure between 1989-93 to be part of the proposed electoral reforms. He also wants only two party system in the country, though a third can be an option for those who feel they cannot be accommodated in the two parties.

Nwosu, a retired professor of Political Science at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, was appointed chairman of the National Electoral Commission in 1989 after his teacher, Prof.Eme Awa was sacked from the same job.

He held that position till 1993 when the June 12th presidential election, adjuded the freest and fairest ever in the country was annulled by the former president Ibrahim Babangida military regime. NEC was disbanded and Nwosu lost his job.

Nwosu had designed the Option A4 System that produced the results of the Presidential Polls of June 12th 1993, in which the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the late Chief Moshood Abiola was said to have defeated his political opponent, in the National Republican Convention (NRC), Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa.

It was rumoured that Nwosu was pressurised to stop announcing the results and that he was even beaten up when he refused to do so. But all attempts to get his version of the story failed, as eh refused to talk.

But Nwosu is today talking. In the main, Nwosu, who spoke to a select group of journalists in Abuja last Wednesday said he kept quiet because he did not want to interfere with other commission chairmen’s work, adding that with the call for electorasl reforms, he has decided to speak out for a way forward.

“Just as I have explained, you know there are so many other important intelligent Nigerians. And when you are given a national assignment, in my view, you have to do everything within your reach to make sure that you execute it to the best of your ability.

And when the tenure is over, you quit and do not interfere. It would have been wrong for me to interfere with my fellow academic colleague or interfere with the national commissioner that worked under me, Dagogo-Jack. Iwu was a professor in the same school
even though I am senior to him.”

Nwosu also spoke on his relationship with Babangida saying both of them are not enemies.

“Whatever role any person played in the annulment of June 12 1993 presidential election will be reflected in the book due for launch on June 12 this year. We are not enemies.”


Nwosu went on to point at forces that that influenced the elections during the Babangida period. “Whatever role any person played in the annulment of June 12 1993 presidential election will be reflected in the book due for launch on June 12 this year,

The book will also tell you how the court order gotten by certain individuals on the eve of the election was disobeyed.

The centrifugal forces that combined to influence Babangida’s administration, all the forces, ethnic, religious and how those influenced and indeed what we did will be contained in that book,” he added.

Nwosu called for a two party system in the country, with a third that may serve interest of those that feel they cannot be accommodated in the first two. “I do not think our democratic practice has been stabilized. My message is that we have to first and foremost reform the system. Secondly, I advocate for a two party-structure, a third party may be for those who may feel they cannot accommodate. Democracy depends on us Nigerians,” he said.

Incidentally, Nwosu wants the state electoral commissions disbanded. “I recommend seriously the state electoral commissions be scrapped national- wide.

I made NEC under me a pensionable organisation, as an institution, moved it from Lagos to Abuja, built the recently moved headquarters, built 250 units of houses for junior workers at Kubwa-Abuja,” the former don proclaimed.

Nwosu argued that the reforms his NEC carried out are still important today. For him, “the kind of reforms we carried out between 1989 and 1993 are still relevant today. Nigerians voted as one body.

They didn’t mind ethnic religious or state. They all came out as one body. National consciousness reached the highest level. When you deprive the choices that they have made, it is stolen mandate when you do it and worse than any other criminal act.”

When Former Military President, General Badamosi Babangida appointed Prof. Humphrey Nwosu to take over the saddle as chairman of the National Electoral Commission, (NEC), he was probably shopping for the finest political scientist who would write Nigerian political history by conducting the election that would put an end to military governance in the black world’s most populous country.

Indelibly so, Nwosu lapped up the challenges and faced the uphill task of carving out an acceptable political reform that would be acceptable to the multi-faceted Nigerian society, bogged down by religious, ethnic and class differences.

Believing that his thesis would be infallible, Nwosu, a professor of Political Science came out to serve Nigerians with a smoking electoral system he code-named Open Ballot System; which was soon to be punctured by the political class.

The Modified Open Ballot System was soon to be churned out by the persevering academician who was dogged in his resolve to be the Nigerian political Messiah.

Not done yet, he capped his political artistry with a design of the Option A4 System that produced the results of the Presidential Polls of June 12th 1993, in which the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the late Chief Moshood Abiola was adjudged to have defeated his political opponent, in the National Republican Convention (NRC), Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa.

Soon as the results were being released to Nigerians, some forces mobilized against the complete announcement of the outcome of the political experiment and on the 23rd of June that same year, the federal government announced the annulment of the election in which Nigerians generously forgot their differences to give their mandate to one of the two equally loved political parties.

Fifteen years after the annulment of that election, the principal actor in the political script has suddenly decided to damn the consequences and publish a book entitled, Laying Foundation for Nigeria’s Democrary-My Account of June 12th Presidential Election and Its Annulment.

At the Top View Hotel, Wuse, Abuja last Tuesday, the erstwhile helmsman at the National Electoral Commission parleyed with some select senior media practitioners who included Vanguard’s Emmanuel Iriogbe & Abayomi Adeshida. Excerpts:

This year makes it exactly 15 years since I left as chairman National Electoral Commission after conducting June 12th 1993 Presidential Election and since I left office, there have been other successors, and presently Prof. Iwu from the same university with me .

Since I left, I decided to keep off, not to interfere with the work of those who succeeded me. I went back to the university as professor of political science and retired as professor after so many years in the university.

Since then I have been putting my experiences down and within the period, passion, sentiments, feelings, prejudices have all died down, and I think it is appropriate for Nigerians to know exactly what happened, how the election was conducted, preparations towards the conduct of the election, the result, collation of the result, the evaluation of the result and the annulment that took place on June 23, 1993.

All these experiences and more, also, other details like my work at the commission, the electoral reforms we put in place, like open ballot, modified open ballot, option A4 which Nigerians still talk about, the nurturing of two integrated two political parties, NRC and the SDP, how it came to be, why government was involved in creation of the two political parties after political bureau report that recommended that there should be two parties.

There was a reason why government was involved. Before then efforts was made to allow political associations to be formed, to have national spread all over Nigeria, to be integrative national mechanism for bringing all Nigerians together, but none of them that we recommended to government- six political associations met the requirements hence government got involved, all these details will be included in the forth coming book.

The title of the book is Laying Foundation for Nigeria’s Democrary-My Account of June 12th Presidential Election and Its Annulment. It will be launched on June 12th 2008; the venue is here in Abuja, Sheraton Conference Center, the time is 10am.

All members of the press and guests that will be in attendance are supposed to be seated between 9.30 and 10.30am.

So I have been outside the mainstream of political activities, elections and so on, and you may ask the question why now?

It is important to stress the fact that since the present administration came into being he set up a panel, Electoral Reform Committee, he also made a statement before he set up the panel, that something was wrong in the electoral system.

You read in the papers about option A4, modified open ballot, you see people argue about two party structure and so on, and I consider it necessary that it is important that my experiences while I was in office, could be very relevant to what is going on.

I had already, submitted a comprehensive memo to the Electoral Reform Committee, we all are Nigerians, we have to treat our problems.

More importantly, it is necessary and I owe it as a legacy, to you my countrymen, to posterity to put my experiences together and that’s why the book.

How I wish our democracy has stabilized. But I think it is still tottering, and that’s why I decided that once more one cannot keep quiet. We must help in various ways to make this country great. We don’t have any other country beside this country.

Most Nigerians have been asking me when the book will come out. So I am going to pay my debt to the Nigeria public. And it will contain everything you may wish to know and I don’t want to tell the detail of what happened, who played what role, get a copy and I want to be held accountable for every statement in the book.

I know it will generate a lot of discourse all over Nigeria. So people may not share my views. Any person who has superior facts of what happened, I am ready to accept correction, otherwise. I sat at the seat.

I didn’t work alone. But I take responsibility. I was chairman of the electoral body, a management body, made up of eight men, one woman and a secretary. So the buck stops with me as far as activities in that commission was concerned.

Wherever I go, most people ask me, are you brother to Humphrey Nwosu? Where is Humphrey Nwosu? What about the book? Will the book be made public?

Why did you keep silent for such a long time?

Just as I have explained, you know there are so many other important intelligent Nigerians. And when you are given a national assignment, in my view, you have to do everything within your reach to make sure that you execute it to the best of your ability.

And when the tenure is over, you quit and do not interfere. It would have been wrong for me to interfere with my fellow academic colleague or interfere with the national commissioner that worked under me, Dagogo-Jack . Iwu was a professor in the same school even though I am senior to him.

But now that everyone knows that something is wrong with the electoral system, people are clamouring for electoral reform, and I thought it necessary that the reform we instituted
between 1989 and 1993 are today still relevant. I am advocating that the reforms we instituted in 1989 and 1993- remember it was not only the presidential election we conducted, there were other elections.

All the elections we conducted that period, were adjudged to be free and fair by both international and national observers. There is no one country that has all the attributes of democratic political order.

Americans have their own brand. It is not exactly like that of Britain but there are certain standards you have free and fair election is something that is universally accepted. If it is not free, credible, most people will not consider the resulting government as legitimate.

So Nigeria has faced a peculiar problem. You would recall that during the first republic 1960-66, firstly the election we conducted ‘59, people abused the voting system so also that of ‘64. A nation moves forward with its past and if you still don’t remedy the problems and errors of the past, the problems will continue.

And the October election, of Western House of Assembly of 1965, there were different results gotten here and there because of the abuses of the secret ballot system.

The election conducted in 1983 was thoroughly abused. There was writing of results even before elections were concluded. There was stuffing of ballot boxes with fake ballot papers, exactly what people complained of in recent time.

And that is why we were mandated, when I took office March 7 1989-you and your commission, find credible electoral reform that will be a solution to our own national problem. It is the basis the reform we undertook, peculiar to Nigeria which other African countries can copy. That is why we came up with the open ballot system, to restore confidence. Just as you have apathy now, people had apathy because the electoral system was abused in 1983.

So the first election we conducted Dec.8, 1990, we used open ballot. That’s a system of electorates queuing behind candidates. During the process, voters were encouraged to count, then there was no mago mago, no manipulation, no intimidation.

But people complained after a while, that the choice of the voter is not protected; that people should be able to vote without identifying who he voted for, so that they would not be intimidated thereafter.

How do you modify the open ballot system so that the choices made by the electorate can be protected? Yet the system should be transparent. That was why we resorted to modified open ballot system.

I could recollect the last election, registration process was on for five months. People still complain today. Show me the register bearing the names of those who are qualified to vote. Rigging of elections starts with voters’ register.

The parties contesting the elections must before the election have copies of voters registers. During my period there were 110,000 voting centres spread all over Nigeria and each voter register contained 500 names and each party had their copy of it so that you can cross check whether people coming for accreditation were indeed entitled to vote or not to vote.

During my period, I can quote the total number of people registered all over Nigeria-39, 942,000voters. When printing ballot papers it must not exceed this and they were serially numbered.

In my system then, there were specific periods allotted for accreditation.

That means people who were entitled to vote must come to the voting centre at a given period and usually on Saturdays.

What I am saying is that the kind of reforms we carried out between 1989 and 1993 are still relevant today. Nigerians voted as one body. They didn’t mind ethnic religious or state. They all came out as one body.

National consciousness reached the highest level. When you deprive the choices that they have made, it is stolen mandate when you do it and worse than any other criminal act.

People now say there are no elections these days, especially the recently concluded local government elections all over the federation.

Have you seen a state where the other party won even a seat in the local government election?

Something is wrong. It wasn’t so when we were there. When you have two party structure you can see SDP win 14 and NRC 12 in a council that has 26 seats and there was vibrancy, there was dialogue.

I recommend seriously the state electoral commissionsbe scrapped national- wide. I made NEC under me a pensionable organisation, as an institution, moved it from Lagos to Abuja, built the recently moved headquarters, built 250 units of houses for junior
workers at Kubwa-Abuja.

What was your relationship with IBB?

Whatever role any person played in the annulment of June 12 1993 presidential election will be reflected in the book due for launch on June 12 this year. We are not enemies.

All I want to say is that all Nigerians must put their heads together and solve this problem. Those things that worked in the past should be revisited and be entrenched in our constitution.

The book will also tell you how the court order gotten by certain individuals on the eve of the election was disobeyed.

The centrifugal forces that combined to influence Babangida’s administration, all the forces, ethnic, religious and how those influenced and indeed what we did will be contained in that book.
Would you have acted differently in this dispensation?

There is only a Humphrey Nwosu and a Maurice Iwu. Each individual has his unique talents and possibilities. I can’t be Iwu, and Iwu can’t be Humphrey, and each work in different circumstances.

But you have to use your talent and help situations better. I thought to the
best of my ability, I helped improve the electoral situation as adjudged not by me, by the world and observers as the freest, fairest most credible. The job is sensitive.

I do not think our democratic practice has been stabilized. My message is that we have to first and foremost reform the system. Secondly, I advocate for a two party-structure, a third party may be for those who may feel they cannot accommodate. Democracy depends on us Nigerians.


fiften long years of deep sleep,today he is waking up,419 man

I think is time Nigerian Government stop wasting our billions of OIL MONEY on any of these african countries,soon Liberia and siera leone will start theirs.

All the money wasted in the name of supporting our african nations could have been used to really build NIGERIA and make it Better place on EARTH where people will love to relocate to.

You people should listen to news and watch CNN,BBC and Euro news the attack is not targeted on Nigerians alone,but all foreigners living in South Africa,we shouldn't make it personal though the south Africans are behaving like CHILDREN they have forgotten the Billions of DOLLARS Nigerian Government Wasted just to give them LIBERATION,PEACE,AND FUTURE  from their white brothers.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says THE WORLD CUP HOSTING RIGHT MIGHT BE TAKING AWAY FROM SOUTH AFRICA DUE TO THIS ATTACK,I know if ABACHA was still alive he will personally stop the SUPER EAGLES from participating if the Hosting right is not giving to another country.

p o v e r t y

Any NEW OCCULT film? can't wait to watch latest release of K.O.K,Clem Ohameze,Pete Edochie ETC,Hate love or children firms

The return of the coup ploters,malawi first ,Nigeria going to be second using Al-Qaeda as an excuse.

Van Der Sar of Manchester United

Why not post pictures of the girls your talking about? and the girls defending should also post their,but I know Millions of Nigerians girls are extremely BEAUTIFUL 100% without any fault,maybe girls in your area are village girls who only eat Garri and Ogbono souf,hence coursing protruding bellies.

I love my Naija bebes,so stop insulting them before I decend on you MYSTICALLY

@dee02: No am not GOd, but my Bible tells me that none shall be baren in the land,as long as am concern no woman can be baren if she believes in the Word of GOD and the poster is not an exception.

Everywhere in Nigeria is safe, you people should stop asking stupid questions about our greet country,Nigeria is safer than anywhere in America and Britain,if you don't have money to come home just remain where you are,and don't ask stupid questions

he does not TRUST you, he think you will put JASS into his food so as to force him marry you and later control his life for him, is simple.

I want mine to cook for me but she refuse saying she has no time. What a funny WORLD?

why? don't he know your a woman? and need to have at least two kids before that Age?

@romeo: Since when did Orji Kalu become Nigerian Ambassador for free and fair elections? That Ata Mills will pass through him to ask Nigeria's Support in Ghana's Presidential Elections? Thats the point I want you to get into your dumb head. ANUOFIA SPAIN

@romeo: You are an Educated Illiterate,if not you should have known that Orji Kalu is no body to offer any help to Ghanaian Elections,and that Ata Mills is dumped to fail in the fort coming Elections In Ghana.

Read all the wise post on the article only you foul is supoorting Ata mills and Orji Kalu,ANIMAL LIKE YOU better go back to school Ok?

NA waoooooooooooooo I read the news this morning on line,is an insult to Ghana NDC party,their presidential candidate going to see Orji Uzor Kalu for assistance,GOd will never allow NDC to win,because this has show what type of Governance they want to give to Ghanians,Orji kalu's Demonic way of Governance with his Okija shrine assistance.

He should take the useless Ata mills to Okija shrine so he can win and make Orji Kalu his vice president

@Bukky_1979:What do you mean by this:Above all, ROF is well connected to people in REAL WORLD and UNDERWORLD?

I think it will be better for you to say what you are sure of than come here and say what you don't know.

Today I want to make it public:

Any one who wants to join THE REFORMED OGBONI FRATERNITY ( R.O. F.) Should contact me offlist,I am a member and will gladly help the applicant to write his or her name in GOLD.

African Tradition allows a man to marry as many wives as he want and not girl friend,We african men bring our women to our home and show her to the world,real africans don't play a HIDE AND SEEK GAME.


Out Tradition permits us to bring more women to our home and not to keep them in secret,in the dark.

It is painsful,but women do that more than men,when a lady gets a richer guy she ignores her lover.

About your question the answer is simple: Men lose interest in a relationship when they discover that the lady in question is spreading her legs to any man that comes her way,no one want to carry AIDS

Do you know Mr. Warren Buffet, the richest man on earth still lives in the same house he bought in 1953. American are next to God.Nigerian are costly people

So where is Opera winfred on the list? she once was once said to be the rischest black on the globe

Do you know Mr. Warren Buffet, the richest man on earth still lives in the same house he bought in 1953. American are next to God.Nigerian are costly people.


Now where is Opera winfred in the list,she once said that she is the richest Black in the globe,so na mouth she get nothing tangible.

Dangote, world's 334th richest | Print | E-mail
Written by Omoh Gabriel, Business Editor
Friday, 07 March 2008


BUSINESS mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, is the world’s 334th richest man, according to a survey published by Forbes, an American magazine which lists 1,000 billionaires across the globe.
Dangote made the list with a $3.3 billion net worth. He is the only Nigerian on the list and the first time a Nigerian is making the (dollar) billionaire club. He is one of the seven Africans listed. According to Forbes, “for billionaires with publicly quoted fortunes, net worths were calculated using share prices of their assets.

An Egyptian Nassef Sawiris is 68th on the global list and the richest African with net asset of $11 billion. Another Egyptian, Onsi Sawiris, is 96th on the global list and Africa’s second richest man with $9.1 billion net worth of assets.

A South African, Nicky Oppenheimer is the 173rd global billionaire and Africa’s third richest man with a $5.7 billion net worth of assets. Another South African, Johann Rupert and Family, emerged the fourth richest African and the 284th global billionaire with a $3.8 billion net worth of assets. Aliko Dangote emerged the fifth richest African with a total net worth of assets of $3.3 billion.

Two other Africans— an Egyptian, Samih Sawiris and a South African, Patrice Mostsepe — emerged the 396th and 503th on the global list respectively.

The richest man on earth as listed by Forbes is Warren Buffet, an American whose total net worth of assets amounts to $62 billion. He is 77 years old. The world’s second richest is Mr Carlos Slim Helu and Family 68, a Mexican, worth $60 billion in net assets.

According to Forbes, the third richest man in the globe is William Gates, another American whose net assets are worth $58 billion. The fourth richest is Mr. Lakshmi Mittal, Iron business mogul, an India, 57, who lives in the United Kingdom is listed as owning assets worth $45 billion.

Three other Indians— Mukesh Ambani and his brother Anil Ambani and K.P. Singh— are listed as the 5th, 6th, and 8th world’s richest. The top 10 billionaires thus has four Indian nationals.

Aliko Dangote, the first Nigerian to be listed in the exclusive club of global 1,000 billionaires, is a businessman based in Lagos. He is the owner of the Dangote Group, which has operations in Nigeria and several other countries in West Africa. Dangote controls much of Nigeria’s commodities trade through his corporate and political connections.

Business career

The Dangote Group, originally a small trading firm founded in 1977, is now a multi-billion naira conglomerate with operations in Benin Republic, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo. Dangote’s businesses include food processing, cement manufacturing, and freight.

The Dangote Group dominates the sugar market in Nigeria, as he is the major sugar supplier to the country’s soft drink companies, breweries, and confectioners.

The Group has moved from being a trading company to Nigeria’s largest industrial group, including Dangote Sugar Refinery (the most capitalised company on the Nigeria Stock Exchange, valued at over $3 billion with Aliko Dangote’s equity topping $2 billion), Africa’s largest Cement Production Plant: Obajana Cement, Dangote Flour amongst others.

Dangote played a prominent role in the funding of Obasanjo’s re-election campaign in 2003, to which he contributed over N200 million. He doled out N50 million to the National Mosque under the aegis of “Friends of Obasanjo and Atiku”, and contributed N200 million to the Presidential Library.

Dangote recently attempted the purchase of majority shares in Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries which was aborted and currently has plans to build a 300,000 bpd refinery in Lagos.

I don't see anything wrong with that proposal, The guy is been honest to the girl,that proposal shows that the are few douthing things about the girl in question and she too knew that she has some very BAD characters that was keeping the guy away from proposing to her ever since,now that the guy has finnally proposed to her, she has no option than to accept or reject it, her rejecting the offer means she is sure that she can't change from her bad behaviour and also that too is been honest to the guy because she don't want to hurt him.

It is lovely and seductive when it is design right in the Virgina