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POL221
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The 1922 Legislative Council legislated on for the Southern Protectorates while the Northern Protectorate was ruled____________
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The name of the political party formed by Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola in 1964 against Action Group was the
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The Indirect Rule was successful in the North because________________
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One of the bones of contention against the 1922 Nigeria’s colonial constitution was the use of traditional rulers to the exclusion of the elites
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The 1946 constitution created bicameral Legislature in the following regions_______________
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The war time Military Governor of the Mid-West Region was
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In the First Republic, Nigeria practised __system of government
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The second legislative chambers created in the North and West by Richard’s constitution was called House of
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The practice whereby all cabinet ministers are liable for actions or inactions of one of them is called collective
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By 1964, Nigeria was a Federal Republic made up of Northern, Western, Eastern and__ Regions
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There was a stalemate after the general election of__as Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was constitutionally unable to invite any of the political parties to form the government because none of the political parties won the mandatory majority
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The system of government introduced by the 1960 independence constitution was____________
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The regional assemblies under the 1946 constitution, had the responsibility, among others, to elect members to the Legislature
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One of the bone of contentions against the 1922 constitution was the use of traditional rulers to the exclusion of the elites
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African territories that surrendered to the British by the traditional authorities through Treaties were regarded
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Durin the Western House of Assembly fracas, the symbol of authority of the House called _, was broken
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The British__was lowered for the Nigeria’s Green/White/Green Flag on 1st October, 1960 to mark her independence
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The mistake of 1914 is rearing its ugly head.’ This statement is credited to__
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The ‘Dual Headship’ which was a feature of the Nigerian constitutions of 1960 and that 1963, meant that_____________led the government
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The _coalition government during the Nigeria’s First Republic was contracted because the 1959 elections results showed no clear winner
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Another striking feature of the 1963 constitution was the removal of the imperial attachment by making____________to replace the Queen of England as Nigeria’s Head of State
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The 1960 independence constitution provided for a _as the Head of government
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Operation ‘Wetie’ (violent protest) took place in the__of Nigeria to protest the rigging of the 1964/65 elections
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Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon released Chief Obafemi Awolowo from prison and made him the of the Federal Executive Council
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In what year was the Indirect Rule introduced in Nigeria___________________
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Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was a __President in Nigeria’s First Republic
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27. The word ‘Protectorate’ mean__
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In 1967, the secession of the Eastern Nigeria was announced by Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu who was the _of the Region
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On the eve of the Nigerian civil war, Nigerian state structure was changed from three regions to states by Col. Yakubu Gowon
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The British Settlement Act of__ empowered the British government to establish a Crown Colony System of government
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The 1964 and 1965 Federal elections was a battle between two political alliances called, the United Progressive Grand Alliance (UPGA) and the
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32. The term ‘Anglophone’ refers to_
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The Nigeria's war time finance commissioner was
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The Northern Element Progressive Elements (NEPU) was led by__
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The Indirect Rule policy was difficult to implement in the Eastern part of Nigeria because of_______________
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Dual Headship is one of the defects of System of government practiced in Nigeria’s First Republic
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The Nigeria’s independence constitution provided for a true federal structure because it settled the contentious issues of regional police and_________in favour of the regions
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The 1957 constitutional conference granted self-government to Western and Eastern Nigeria while the North attained the status in the year
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The Nigerian Council created in 1922 was composed of officials and members
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The 1951 constitution led to the emergence of the following major political parties of the Nigerian First Republic____________
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In the two colonial policies while the French regarded Africans as__,Africans in the British colonies were regarded as subjects
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One of the functions of the regional assemblies created by the 1946 Nigeria’s colonial constitution, was to elect members from the regions to the Legislature
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The arbiter between the federal and state governments over constitutional issues in Nigeria is_____________
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In response to minority agitation, the British colonial government set up a commission headed by______________to look into ways of allaying their fears
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In Nigeria’s Second Republic, the power of the government was vested the__
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The Nigerian Council created by Lord Lugard derived its source from_____________
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The 1960 Nigerian constitution made it mandatory for the Prime Minister to secure a majority votes in the parliament before he could declare a state of emergency in any part of the country
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The 1954 constitution provided for a Federal Court from the central to replace the West African Court of Appeal
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Succinctly put, true federalism could be defined as__
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The 1922 constitution was also a landmark in Nigeria’s political development because it led to the formation of_______________
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