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POL221
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The Nigerian Second Republic collapsed on__
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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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In the two colonial policies while the French regarded Africans as__,Africans in the British colonies were regarded as subjects
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The Lagos Youth Movement got the name changed in 1937 to give it a national outlook to_________________
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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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The regional assemblies under the 1946 constitution, had the responsibility, among others, to elect members to the Legislature
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The Protectorates of the Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated by__
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Chief Obafemi Awolowo and eleven other AG leaders were sentenced to various jail terms for offence
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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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The first Nigerian newspaper established to champion the cause of nationalist struggle was_____________
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By 1964, Nigeria was a Federal Republic made up of Northern, Western, Eastern and__ Regions
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Sir John Macpherson’s 1951 constitution was a complete departure from all others 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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One of the factors regarded as immediate cause of the Nigerian civil war was the mass killing of the in the North
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The British Settlement Act of 1843 enabled her to establish a Crown colony system in
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16. The term ‘Anglophone’ refers to_
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The 1951 constitution provided for Bi-cameral _only for Northern and Western Nigeria
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The 1960 independence constitution provided for a _as the Head of government
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The 1946 constitution created bicameral Legislature in the following regions_______________
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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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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 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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The arbiter between the federal and state governments over constitutional issues in Nigeria is_____________
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The monarch who ceded the territory of Lagos to the British 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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The leader of the first political party ever to be formed in Nigeria in 1923 was_________________
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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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Prior to the 1963 constitution, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was Nigeria’s first indigenous
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Queen Elizabeth II visited Nigeria in as a prelude to independence
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‘Nigeria is not a nation but a mere geographical expression.’ This statement is credited to__________
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The West African Student Union was created to fight__
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The Nigerian civil war lasted for months
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Approximately, it would be correct to say that the process of British colonial administration in Nigeria started in the year____________
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In Nigeria’s First Republic, the official Opposition Leader was___________
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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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The Nigerian Council created in 1922 was composed of officials and members
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By the provisions of the 1963 constitution__ceased to be Nigeria’s highest Court
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The President of a federal Republic can have direct control of any State under under
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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______________
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was the leader of the Talakawas’ party, the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU)
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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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Sir _Willinck was appointed to head a Commission of Inquiry to look into the minority agitation in Nigeria
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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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On May 27, 1967, State was created from the Northern Region with Lt. Col. David Bamigboye as the Governor
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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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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 elective principle of 1922 provided for (4) seats for Africans in Lagos and Calabar in the Legislative Council in the following ratio respectively________________
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One of the defects of the Nigeria’s colonial constitution of 1922 was the retention of the isolation policy of the Provinces
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The Nigerian Council created in 1922 was composed of officials and _members
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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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