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