AIC SS 2 Government Revision Test for 3rd Term 2022/23
  • 1. 1. One of the following is the reason for conducting election
A) Uniting the people
B) Creating more political parties
C) To ensure peaceful changing of government
D) Strengthening the powers of the political parties
  • 2. 2. The appointment, promotion and discipline of the civil servants are the responsibilities of _____
A) Civil service union
B) Electoral commission
C) Civil service commission
D) Government
  • 3. 3. Public opinion enables the government to ____
A) Allow the public to have freedon
B) Organize political conferences
C) To know the people's opinions about its activities
D) Punish political opponents
  • 4. 4. The major functions of an electoral commission is to ____
A) Appoint chief of staff
B) Nominates candidates
C) Arrange for the conduction of election
D) Support parties
  • 5. 5. An election conducted to resolve important political issues facing a country is called ____
A) Referendum
B) Bye- election
C) Primary election
D) General election
  • 6. 6. Local government laws are known as_____
A) Acts
B) Orders
C) Bye laws
D) Decrees
  • 7. 7. Free and fair election can exist where there is a _____
A) Referendum
B) Plebiscite
C) Double voting
D) Secret balloting
  • 8. 8. One of the reasons for the establishment of local government is to ____
A) Bring government nearer to the people
B) Promotes local chiefs
C) Give more powers to the traditional rulers
D) Divide the people in order to rule them
  • 9. 9. Public corporations are set up by ____
A) Governors
B) Board of directors
C) Act of parliaments
D) Ministers
  • 10. 10. The head of the caliphate in the Hausa/Fulani precolonial political system was called _____
A) Mai
B) Waziri
C) Oba
D) Emir
  • 11. 11. The policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance is _____
A) Nationalism
B) Imperialism
C) Colonialism
D) Federalism
  • 12. 12. One of the following is not the reason for colonialism
A) Religious reasons
B) Geographical importance
C) Investing surplus capital
D) Africa independence
  • 13. 13. The two effects of colonialism include the following
A) Legal and illicit
B) Formal and informal
C) Upper and lower
D) Positive and negative
  • 14. 14. One of the following people views neocolonialism as a new form of subjugation
A) David Kwame
B) Kwame Nkrumah
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Richard Nkrumah
  • 15. 15. The use of cultural, economic and political pressure to influence and control decisions in independent countries that were formal colonies is _____
A) Colonialism
B) Feudalism
C) Neo-colonialism
D) Political control
  • 16. 16. Positive effects of colonialism includes the following except ____
A) Creation of large political unit
B) Economic dependence and exploitation
C) Development of political parties
D) Introduction of money curency
  • 17. 17. A system of administration in which the British colonial government adopted as its colonial policy in dealing with the people is called ______
A) Authority
B) Policy of assimilation
C) Indirect rule
D) Rule of law
  • 18. 18. The official colonial policy of the French administration in West Africa is _____
A) Policy of assimilation
B) Rule of law
C) Direct rule
D) Administration policy
  • 19. 19. Policy of association include the following
A) Indigenat policy
B) Dethronement of the traditional rulers
C) The abolition of first class and second class citizens
D) Abolition of people's culture
  • 20. 20. The NCBWA was founded in ____
A) 1970
B) 1817
C) 1770
D) 1917
  • 21. 21. One of the following is not a provision for Clifford Constitution of 1922
A) The Legislative Council
B) Proclamation
C) The Cabinet Member
D) The Executive Council
  • 22. 22. The Governor of Nigeria at the outbreak of the second world war was ____
A) John Richard
B) Shehu Shagari
C) David John
D) Richard Bourdillon
  • 23. 23. The Governor was in office between year _____&____
A) 1939 and 1954
B) 1935 and 1940
C) 1925 and 1930
D) 1939 and 1944
  • 24. 24. The following except one is not the features of Richard Constitution
A) Legislative powers
B) Bi-cameral legislature
C) Independence of the Judiciary
D) Regionalism
  • 25. 25. Aims and objectives of Richard Constitution include _____
A) Political and National conscious
B) Inspiration
C) Court of Appeals
D) A broad based Constitution
  • 26. 26. The provisions for MacPherson Constitution include all but one
A) Board of Directors
B) The Three provinces
C) Council of ministers
D) The Chief Commissioners
  • 27. 27. MacPherson Constitution's weaknesses include the following except one
A) Kano riot of 1953
B) The motion for self government
C) Dominated by illiterates
D) Veto power
  • 28. 28. _____ Constitution was revised through conferences and the product of the revision exercise was Lyttleton Constitution
A) MacPherson Constitution
B) Clifford Constitution
C) Richard Constitution
D) Independent Constitution
  • 29. 29. The composition of the federal house of representatives under the Lyttleton Constitution include ____
A) 1 president and 4 unofficial member
B) 1 president and 2 officials members
C) 1 speaker (as president) and 3 ex-officials members
D) 1 president and 5 officials members
  • 30. 30. Main characteristics of the Independence Constitution of 1960 include ___
A) Census figures
B) Executive power
C) Appointment of ministers
D) Parliamentary system.
  • 31. 31. The controversy over the 1979 Presidential election result was ____
A) Because one of the candidates was declared elected when the result for one of the states had not been received
B) Due to the interpretation of 1/4 of the vote cast in 2/3 of all the states in the Federation
C) Because educated Nigerians did not approve who received the number of votes
D) Over the disputes on the conduct of the election
  • 32. 32. All the following were frontline fighters for Nigeria's Independence except ____
A) Lateef Jakande
B) Obafemi Awolowo
C) Herbert Macaulay
D) Aminu Kano
  • 33. 33. The first political party in Nigeria was _____
A) Nigeria National Democratic Party
B) Action Group
C) National Council of Nigeria Citizens
D) Northern People's Congress
  • 34. 34. Nigeria became a federation under the 1954 Constitution because the Constitution _____
A) Abolished the practice of nominating some members of parliament
B) Provided for a division of functions between the centre and the component units
C) Created the post of a Prime Minister
D) Provided for equal representation between the North and South
  • 35. 35. The first president of the National Council for Nigeria and Camerouns (NCNC) was _____
A) Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
B) Herbert Macaulay
C) Ernest Okoli
D) Dr. Micheal Okpara
  • 36. 36. The Kano riots of 1953 is significant because
A) The police couldn't arrest the rioters, thus nobody was charged to court
B) It involves rioting between Igbos and Hausas
C) Many innocent lives were lost
D) It was the first outbreak of violence between the major political parties
  • 37. 37. Who among the following was not a founding father of the Nigeria Youth Movement
A) Ernest Ikoli
B) Nnamdi Azikiwe
C) Dr. C. Vaughan
D) Samuel Akinsanya
  • 38. 38. The Jumiyya Mutanem Arewa cultural group later developed into the ______
A) United Middle Belt Congress
B) Nigeria National Democratic Party
C) Jamiyya People's Party
D) Northern People's Congress
  • 39. 39. Action Group was _____
A) An association that teamed up with the NYM to fight the NCNC
B) A political party that fought the British
C) A cultural association that sought the unity of the Yorubas
D) The first political party in Western state
  • 40. 40. The NCNC was formed in ____
A) 1936
B) 1951
C) 1944
D) 1923
  • 41. 41. One of the importance of federalism is that
A) Citizens cannot be taxed by both State and federal government
B) Any components part can secede at any time
C) Citizens can only be loyal to the state government
D) Each state can develop at its own pace
  • 42. 42. The immediate cause of the rain 1953 Kano riot was the ____
A) Humiliation of Northern legislators in Lagos
B) Existence of regionally based political parties
C) Weakness of 1946 Richard Constitution
D) Ambition of some politicians to secure Independence from British by force
  • 43. 43. Political parties are formed for all the following reasons except ____
A) Canvass for votes
B) Organize elections
C) Form a government
D) Educate the electorate
  • 44. 44. The supreme power of a state to make and enforce laws within its jurisdiction is called _____
A) Decolonization
B) Enfranchisement
C) Independence
D) Sovereignty
  • 45. 45. Equality before the law implies that
A) There is inequality between the executive and the citizens
B) The law does not respect the people
C) Everybody can do what he likes
D) No one citizens can sue the other
  • 46. 46. Which of the following is not true of Herbert Macaulay?
A) Founder of the National Congress of British West Africa
B) Co-founder of the National Council of Nigeria and Camerouns
C) First Nigerian to found a political party
D) Founder of the Nigerian National Democratic Party
  • 47. 47. Under the Independence Constitution of Nigeria, the Head of State was ____
A) The Queen of England
B) The British Prime Minister
C) Sir James Robertson
D) Oliver Lyttleton
  • 48. 48. The major innovation of the Republican Constitution of 1963 was that ____
A) The prime minister ceased to be Head of State
B) The cabinet was no longer responsible to the Legislature
C) The Governor-general's office as the representative of the Queen was abolished
D) The prime minister was nominated by the Executive Council
  • 49. 49. The 1953 motion that Nigeria should attain self government in 1956 was moved by _____
A) Chief Anthony Enahoro
B) Sir Ahmadu Bello
C) Chief Obafemi Awolowo
D) Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • 50. 50. The total number of parties registered for the 1979 elections in Nigeria was ____
A) 6
B) 10
C) 7
D) 5
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