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The British Settlement Act of 1843, enabled the British Government to establish a Crown Colony system in
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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 Nigerian Youth Movement started as Youth Movement
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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 doctrine that provides for different people in both the Executive and the Legislative organs of government is called
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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 territory of__became the British Crown Colony in 1861
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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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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 British__was lowered for the Nigeria’s Green/White/Green Flag on 1st October, 1960 to mark her independence
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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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The political slogan ‘one north, one people’, belonged to the
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In a truly federal state, the components units are not__
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In what year was the Indirect Rule introduced in Nigeria___________________
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The Protectorates of the Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated by__
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The Nigerian Youth Movement started originally, as _Youth Movement
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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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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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Chief Dauda Shoroye Adegbenro was elected as in the Western Region during the Action Group crisis
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According to Okafor (1981), Lagos was not officially pronounced “a British Colony” until__
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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 Indirect Rule was first introduced in Northern Nigeria by__
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Sir John Macpherson’s 1951 constitution was a complete departure from all others because____________
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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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Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon released Chief Obafemi Awolowo from prison and made him the of the Federal Executive Council
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The followings except one, were the major objectives of the nationalist movements in Africa______________
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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 British Settlement Act of 1843 enabled her to establish a Crown colony system in
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Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was a __President in Nigeria’s First Republic
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In forming a _union, geographical contiguity by the independent states is one of the prerequisites
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African territories that surrendered to the British by the traditional authorities through Treaties were regarded
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The system of government introduced by the 1960 independence constitution was____________
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Yaba College of Technology was known as when it was founded in 1934 as the first institution of higher learning in Nigeria
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In the First Republic, Nigeria practised __system of government
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The Northern Element Progressive Elements (NEPU) was led by__
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The mistake of 1914 is rearing its ugly head.’ This statement is credited to__
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Geographical contiguity is one of the conditions for a group of autonomous states seeking_________________
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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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By 1964, Nigeria was a Federal Republic made up of Northern, Western, Eastern and__ Regions
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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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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 second legislative chambers created in the North and West by Richard’s constitution was called House of
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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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In a federation, autonomy was granted to the federating units with the only exception of the right to__________
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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 monarch who ceded the territory of Lagos to the British was_______________
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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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Queen Elizabeth II visited Nigeria in as a prelude to independence
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A state of emergency was declared in the Western Region in the year
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The most striking feature of the 1922 constitution was that it__
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