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POL221
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The 1946 Richard’s constitution was said to have had serious impact on the Nigerian structure because it_________________
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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 Nigerian Council created in 1922 was composed of officials and members
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The colonial Governor-General that succeeded Governor Richard was___________
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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 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 1951 constitution led to the emergence of the following major political parties of the Nigerian First Republic____________
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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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Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon released Chief Obafemi Awolowo from prison and made him the of the Federal Executive Council
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The fears expressed by the Northern leaders for objection to Anthony Enahoro’s ‘self-rule immediately’ motion of 1953 was over______________
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In forming a _union, geographical contiguity by the independent states is one of the prerequisites
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Prior to the 1963 constitution, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was Nigeria’s indigenous
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The 1960 constitution provided that the Prime Minister and the government should resign once a was passed
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The first demonstration by Nigerian students took place in 1961 against Anglo-Nigerian
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The system of Indirect Rule was said to be partly successful in the Western Nigeria because________________
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The Nigerian civil war lasted for months
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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 system of government introduced by the 1960 independence constitution was____________
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Sir Hugh Clifford abolished the Nigerian Council on the excuse that it was a__
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The 1959 government was formed by a coalition of the Northern People’s Party (NPC) and_________________
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Prior to the 1963 constitution, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was Nigeria’s first indigenous
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__was the Lady who first suggested the name ‘Nigeria’ for the amalgamated British colonial territory
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After merging the Colony of Lagos with the Southern Protectorates in 1906, the capital of the then British Colony was moved from______________ to Lagos
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The President of a federal Republic can have direct control of any State under under
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Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was a __President in Nigeria’s First Republic
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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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Queen Elizabeth II visited Nigeria in as a prelude to independence
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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 arbiter between the federal and state governments over constitutional issues in Nigeria is_____________
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Corruption and nepotism were some of the remote causes of the first military coup in Nigeria led by
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Elements of__were first noticed in Nigeria in the 1951 constitution
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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 Indirect Rule was first introduced in Northern Nigeria by__
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The first Nigerian traditional ruler to become a regional Governor was_____________
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Since 1861, the colonial masters ruled the territories, which were amalgamated in 1914 as different countries until the central Legislative Council created Sir Arthur Richards in the year______________
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In the First Republic, Nigeria practised __system 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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The 1966 mililitary coup in Nigeria was regarded as because no political leader from the East was a victim
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The Protectorates of the Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated by__
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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 Nigerian Second Republic collapsed on__
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The Nigerian Youth Movement started originally, as _Youth Movement
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On 26th May, 1967, the gave Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu the mandate to declare the Eastern Nigeria an independent state by the name Republic of Biafra
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The war time Military Governor of the Mid-West Region was
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The statement that ‘Nigeria is not a nation but a mere geographical expression’ is credited to
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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 mistake of 1914 is rearing its ugly head.’ This statement is credited to__
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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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According to Okafor (1981), Lagos was not officially pronounced “a British Colony” until__
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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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