AIC SS 2 Government Revision Test for 3rd Term 2022/23
  • 1. 1. One of the following is the reason for conducting election
A) Creating more political parties
B) To ensure peaceful changing of government
C) Strengthening the powers of the political parties
D) Uniting the people
  • 2. 2. The appointment, promotion and discipline of the civil servants are the responsibilities of _____
A) Civil service union
B) Government
C) Electoral commission
D) Civil service commission
  • 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) Nominates candidates
B) Appoint chief of staff
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) General election
C) Primary election
D) Bye- election
  • 6. 6. Local government laws are known as_____
A) Orders
B) Acts
C) Bye laws
D) Decrees
  • 7. 7. Free and fair election can exist where there is a _____
A) Double voting
B) Referendum
C) Plebiscite
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) Divide the people in order to rule them
D) Give more powers to the traditional rulers
  • 9. 9. Public corporations are set up by ____
A) Governors
B) Act of parliaments
C) Ministers
D) Board of directors
  • 10. 10. The head of the caliphate in the Hausa/Fulani precolonial political system was called _____
A) Emir
B) Mai
C) Oba
D) Waziri
  • 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) Federalism
B) Nationalism
C) Colonialism
D) Imperialism
  • 12. 12. One of the following is not the reason for colonialism
A) Religious reasons
B) Investing surplus capital
C) Africa independence
D) Geographical importance
  • 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) Chinua Achebe
B) Kwame Nkrumah
C) Richard Nkrumah
D) David Kwame
  • 15. 15. The use of cultural, economic and political pressure to influence and control decisions in independent countries that were formal colonies is _____
A) Neo-colonialism
B) Political control
C) Colonialism
D) Feudalism
  • 16. 16. Positive effects of colonialism includes the following except ____
A) Economic dependence and exploitation
B) Creation of large political unit
C) Introduction of money curency
D) Development of political parties
  • 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) Indirect rule
B) Policy of assimilation
C) Rule of law
D) Authority
  • 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) The abolition of first class and second class citizens
B) Abolition of people's culture
C) Dethronement of the traditional rulers
D) Indigenat policy
  • 20. 20. The NCBWA was founded in ____
A) 1970
B) 1817
C) 1917
D) 1770
  • 21. 21. One of the following is not a provision for Clifford Constitution of 1922
A) The Executive Council
B) Proclamation
C) The Legislative Council
D) The Cabinet Member
  • 22. 22. The Governor of Nigeria at the outbreak of the second world war was ____
A) John Richard
B) Richard Bourdillon
C) Shehu Shagari
D) David John
  • 23. 23. The Governor was in office between year _____&____
A) 1935 and 1940
B) 1939 and 1944
C) 1939 and 1954
D) 1925 and 1930
  • 24. 24. The following except one is not the features of Richard Constitution
A) Bi-cameral legislature
B) Independence of the Judiciary
C) Legislative powers
D) Regionalism
  • 25. 25. Aims and objectives of Richard Constitution include _____
A) Court of Appeals
B) Inspiration
C) A broad based Constitution
D) Political and National conscious
  • 26. 26. The provisions for MacPherson Constitution include all but one
A) Council of ministers
B) The Chief Commissioners
C) Board of Directors
D) The Three provinces
  • 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) Richard Constitution
C) Clifford Constitution
D) Independent Constitution
  • 29. 29. The composition of the federal house of representatives under the Lyttleton Constitution include ____
A) 1 speaker (as president) and 3 ex-officials members
B) 1 president and 5 officials members
C) 1 president and 2 officials members
D) 1 president and 4 unofficial member
  • 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) Over the disputes on the conduct of the election
B) Because one of the candidates was declared elected when the result for one of the states had not been received
C) Due to the interpretation of 1/4 of the vote cast in 2/3 of all the states in the Federation
D) Because educated Nigerians did not approve who received the number of votes
  • 32. 32. All the following were frontline fighters for Nigeria's Independence except ____
A) Obafemi Awolowo
B) Lateef Jakande
C) Herbert Macaulay
D) Aminu Kano
  • 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 equal representation between the North and South
B) Provided for a division of functions between the centre and the component units
C) Created the post of a Prime Minister
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. Micheal Okpara
B) Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
C) Herbert Macaulay
D) Ernest Okoli
  • 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 was the first outbreak of violence between the major political parties
C) It involves rioting between Igbos and Hausas
D) Many innocent lives were lost
  • 37. 37. Who among the following was not a founding father of the Nigeria Youth Movement
A) Dr. C. Vaughan
B) Nnamdi Azikiwe
C) Samuel Akinsanya
D) Ernest Ikoli
  • 38. 38. The Jumiyya Mutanem Arewa cultural group later developed into the ______
A) Jamiyya People's Party
B) Nigeria National Democratic Party
C) United Middle Belt Congress
D) Northern People's Congress
  • 39. 39. Action Group was _____
A) A cultural association that sought the unity of the Yorubas
B) A political party that fought the British
C) The first political party in Western state
D) An association that teamed up with the NYM to fight the NCNC
  • 40. 40. The NCNC was formed in ____
A) 1923
B) 1951
C) 1936
D) 1944
  • 41. 41. One of the importance of federalism is that
A) Citizens can only be loyal to the state government
B) Any components part can secede at any time
C) Each state can develop at its own pace
D) Citizens cannot be taxed by both State and federal government
  • 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) Existence of regionally based political parties
C) Humiliation of Northern legislators in Lagos
D) Weakness of 1946 Richard Constitution
  • 43. 43. Political parties are formed for all the following reasons except ____
A) Form a government
B) Educate the electorate
C) Organize elections
D) Canvass for votes
  • 44. 44. The supreme power of a state to make and enforce laws within its jurisdiction is called _____
A) Enfranchisement
B) Independence
C) Sovereignty
D) Decolonization
  • 45. 45. Equality before the law implies that
A) Everybody can do what he likes
B) There is inequality between the executive and the citizens
C) The law does not respect the people
D) No one citizens can sue the other
  • 46. 46. Which of the following is not true of Herbert Macaulay?
A) First Nigerian to found a political party
B) Founder of the Nigerian National Democratic Party
C) Co-founder of the National Council of Nigeria and Camerouns
D) Founder of the National Congress of British West Africa
  • 47. 47. Under the Independence Constitution of Nigeria, the Head of State was ____
A) Sir James Robertson
B) The British Prime Minister
C) The Queen of England
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 prime minister was nominated by the Executive Council
C) The Governor-general's office as the representative of the Queen was abolished
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 Obafemi Awolowo
B) Nnamdi Azikiwe
C) Chief Anthony Enahoro
D) Sir Ahmadu Bello
  • 50. 50. The total number of parties registered for the 1979 elections in Nigeria was ____
A) 5
B) 10
C) 6
D) 7
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