POL221

The British Settlement Act of__
empowered the British government
to establish a Crown Colony
System of government

The British Settlement Act of 1843
enabled her to establish a Crown
colony system in

Which of the following regions
attained the status of selfgovernment in
1957_____________

Sir
_Willinck was appointed to head a
Commission of Inquiry to look into
the minority agitation in Nigeria

Approximately, it would be correct
to say that the process of British
colonial administration in Nigeria
started in the year____________

Prior to the 1963 constitution, Dr.
Nnamdi Azikiwe was Nigeria’s
indigenous

The colonial Governor-General that
succeeded Governor Richard
was___________

The 1959 government was formed
by a coalition of the Northern
People’s Party (NPC)
and_________________

The 1951 constitution led to the
emergence of the following major
political parties of the Nigerian First
Republic____________

The Latin phrase ‘primus inter
pares’, associated to Parliamentary
system of government means

The Action Group Party led by
Chief Obafemi Awolowo was an
offshoot of a Yoruba Socio-Cultural
Group called________________

Chief Obafemi Awolowo and eleven
other AG leaders were sentenced
to various jail terms for
offence

Lord Lugard returned from India to
become the Governor of the
Northern Protectorates in the
year___________

The 1957 constitutional conference
granted self-government to both the
Western and Eastern Nigeria while
the Northern Region attained the
status only in the year

Dual allegiance by the citizens is
one of the drawbacks of a
__system of government

In 1967, the secession of the
Eastern Nigeria was announced by
Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu who
was the
_of the
Region

The system of Indirect Rule was
said to be partly successful in the
Western Nigeria
because________________

The London constitutional
conference of__was organized
mainly to discuss Nigeria’s
independence

One of the factors regarded as
immediate cause of the Nigerian
civil war was the mass killing of the
in the
North

__was the first indigenous
governor-general in Nigeria

A state of emergency was declared
in the Western Region in the year

Apart from his nationalist struggle,
Chief Anthony Enahoro was a
popular figure in the House of
Representatives in the First
Republic because he moved the
motion for
in
1953

Yaba College of Technology was
known as
when
it was founded in 1934 as the first
institution of higher learning in
Nigeria

The Nigerian Council created in
1922 was composed of officials and
members

The political slogan ‘one north, one
people’, belonged to the

The Indirect Rule was successful in
the North
because________________

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

The 1946 Richard’s constitution
was said to have had serious
impact on the Nigerian structure
because it_________________

Operation ‘Wetie’ (violent protest)
took place in the__of Nigeria to
protest the rigging of the 1964/65
elections

After merging the Colony of Lagos
with the Southern Protectorates in
1906, the capital of the then British
Colony was moved
from______________ to Lagos

The most striking feature of the
1922 constitution was that it__

The Nigerian Council created by
Lord Lugard derived its source
from_____________

Sir Henry Willink was appointed the
head of a Commission of Inquiry to
look into the
_problems in Nigeria

The Indirect Rule policy was
difficult to implement in the Eastern
part of Nigeria because
of_______________

The elective principle of 1922
provided for (4) seats for Africans in
Lagos and Calabar in the
Legislative Council in the following
ratio
respectively________________

The Nigerian Youth Movement
started as
Youth
Movement

Succinctly put, true federalism
could be defined as__

The practice whereby all cabinet
ministers are liable for actions or
inactions of one of them is called
collective

The system of government
introduced by the 1960
independence constitution
was____________

Geographical contiguity is one of
the important conditions to be
considered by independent states
while forming
_Union

The followings except one, were
the major objectives of the
nationalist movements in
Africa______________

The Nigeria's war time finance
commissioner was

The Northern Element Progressive
Elements (NEPU) was led by__

By 1964, Nigeria was a Federal
Republic made up of Northern,
Western, Eastern and__ Regions

The 1960 independence
constitution provided for a
_as
the Head of government

__was the Lady who first
suggested the name ‘Nigeria’ for
the amalgamated British colonial
territory

The Lagos Youth Movement got the
name changed in 1937 to give it a
national outlook
to_________________

For the first time in the colonial
history Nigeria, leaders from the
northern part of the country were
allowed to attend the central
Legislature in______________

According to Okafor (1981), Lagos
was not officially pronounced “a
British Colony” until__

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