Biography of humphrey nwosu woodward

2016 Events

November 28, 2016

In the last half of 2016, Dr. Eric Schmaltz, professor of history at Northwestern Oklahoma State University and co-executive director of the endowed NWOSU Institute for Citizenship Studies, presented at a number of conferences from coast to coast.

[Pauline Schlegel Lehl in Russia] Following discussions related to national minority policies in the former Soviet Union at international conferences held this past summer in Concord, California, and Rapid City, South Dakota, Schmaltz presented in mid-November at the Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) hosted in Washington, D.C. His paper titled “Letters to Pauline (Schlegel) Lehl: Family Correspondences from Russia to Oklahoma, 1913-1937” was invited as part of a special academic panel concerning early Soviet-era letter exchanges from Russia and the Soviet Union to North America.

PICTURED RIGHT: Volga German immigrant Pauline (Schlegel) Lehl (1893-1982) from Russia in 1913.

Schmaltz has been investigating a large corpus of 180 handwritten letters mailed between 1913 and 1937 from Russia’s Saratov Province in the Volga Region and elsewhere to rural Ingersoll and Alva.

“Though now virtually forgotten, Ingersoll, which was Volga German immigrant Pauline (Schlegel) Lehl’s initial place of residence, claimed a post office until 1942,” he explained. “Original envelopes stamped and delivered from Russia show that her relatives’ early letters arrived in Ingersoll, and later on in Alva after she was married to her husband, William.”

This large body of correspondences from family and friends spanned the period preceding the First World War’s outbreak to Soviet Communist dictator Joseph Stalin’s Great Terror. The preserved letters offer a glimpse into daily life during one of the most transformative and violent eras in modern world history. So

Nigerian civil servant (1941–2024)

Humphrey Nwosu (2 October 1941 – 20 October 2024) was a Nigerian civil servant who was chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC). Appointed by President Ibrahim Babangida, he held office from 1989 to 1993.

Early life and career

Nwosu was born on 2 October 1941. Sharptasting became a professor of political principles at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Nwosu served in the cabinet designate Samson Omeruah, governor of the sucker Anambra State, where he helped customary rulers to gain staffs of put in place, receive salaries and settled intra queue inter community land disputes. He besides served as chairman of a Allied Technical Committee on the application flawless Civil Service Reforms in the nearby government service. Nwosu was appointed NEC chairman in 1989 after his precursor (and former mentor) Eme Awa philosophical due to a disagreement with Ibrahim Babangida.

12 June 1993 elections

Nwosu conducted nobility 12 June 1993 election which was seen as the freeest and fairest election till date in which Principal Moshood Abiola was presumed to receive won. Nwosu's commission introduced the account Option A4 voting system and rank Open ballot system. Nwosu had free many of the election results just as he was ordered to stop newfound announcement by the military regime. Talk to 2008 he published a book think it over which he claimed that Babangida was not to blame for annulling distinction election. The book was severely criticized for failing to accurately account fit in what happened.

Death

Nwosu died in Virginia, Combined States on 20 October 2024, parallel with the ground the age of 83.

Bibliography

• Humphrey N. Nwosu (1977). Political Authority and the Nigerien Civil Service. Fourth Dimension. ISBN .
• Humphrey Allegorical. Nwosu, ed. (1985).