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POL221
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The monarch who ceded the territory of Lagos to the British was_______________
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The popular motion of 1953 seeking ‘self-government in 1956’ from the British was moved by________________
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The _and protectorate of Southern Nigeria were amalgamated and renamed in 1906 to become the Colony and protectorate of Southern Nigeria
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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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The Nigerian civil war lasted for months
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The Nigerian Youth Movement started as Youth Movement
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The Nigerian Youth Movement started originally, as _Youth Movement
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By the provision of 1954 constitution, Lagos Colony was excised from the Western Region to become a Federal
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The Action Group Party led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo was an offshoot of a Yoruba Socio-Cultural Group called________________
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The July 29, 1966 counter-coup was led by military officers mainly from the part of Nigeria
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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 first Secretary-General of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons under the leadership of Herbert Macaulay was______________
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Chief Dauda Shoroye Adegbenro was elected as in the Western Region during the Action Group crisis
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Lord Lugard returned from India to become the Governor of the Northern Protectorates in the year___________
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Geographical contiguity is one of the conditions for a group of autonomous states seeking_________________
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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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By the provisions of the 1963 constitution__ceased to be Nigeria’s highest Court
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One of the defects of the Clifford’s constitution was the retention of the isolation policy of the _provinces, which retarded the process of political development of the area
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The 1959 government was formed by a coalition of the Northern People’s Party (NPC) and_________________
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The 1951 Nigeria’s constitution provided for bi-cameral Legislature each for the Western and Regions
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The military Governor killed in the 1966 counter coup because he refused to surrender his Commander-in-Chief, Gen. AguiyiIronsi to the coupist was
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__was the first indigenous governor-general in Nigeria
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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
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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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On May 27, 1967, State was created from the Northern Region with Lt. Col. David Bamigboye as the Governor
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The educated elite regarded the Nigerian Council of 1914 as a ‘toothless bulldog’ because it was________________
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Geographical contiguity is one of the important conditions to be considered by independent states while forming _Union
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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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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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The territory of__became the British Crown Colony in 1861
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To protect the minority rights in Nigeria, the Nigerian constitutions have always been_____________since 1954
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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 Protectorates of the Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated by__
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In a federation, autonomy was granted to the federating units with the only exception of the right to__________
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The most striking feature of the 1922 constitution was that it__
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was the leader of the Talakawas’ party, the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU)
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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 1967, the secession of the Eastern Nigeria was announced by Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu who was the _of the Region
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The arbiter between the federal and state governments over constitutional issues in Nigeria is_____________
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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
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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 1966 mililitary coup in Nigeria was regarded as because no political leader from the East was a victim
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By 1964, Nigeria was a Federal Republic made up of Northern, Western, Eastern and__ Regions
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The practice, whereby all cabinet Ministers are liable for the action or inaction of any of the Ministers is called
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Sir _Willinck was appointed to head a Commission of Inquiry to look into the minority agitation in Nigeria
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According to Okafor (1981), Lagos was not officially pronounced “a British Colony” until__
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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 first demonstration by Nigerian students took place in 1961 against Anglo-Nigerian
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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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