AIC SS 2 Government 3rd Term Exam 2022/23
  • 1. 1. One of the following is the reason for conducting election
A) To ensure peaceful changing of government
B) Strengthening the powers of the political parties
C) Uniting the people
D) Creating more political parties
  • 2. 2. The appointment, promotion and discipline of the civil servants are the responsibilities of _____
A) Civil service commission
B) Electoral commission
C) Civil service union
D) Government
  • 3. 3. Public opinion enables the government to ____
A) Allow the public to have freedon
B) To know the people's opinions about its activities
C) Punish political opponents
D) Organize political conferences
  • 4. 4. An election conducted to resolve important political issues facing a country is called ____
A) General election
B) Primary election
C) Referendum
D) Bye- election
  • 5. 5. Local government laws are known as_____
A) Orders
B) Decrees
C) Bye laws
D) Acts
  • 6. 6. 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) Imperialism
C) Nationalism
D) Federalism
  • 7. 7. One of the following is not the reason for colonialism
A) Africa independence
B) Investing surplus capital
C) Geographical importance
D) Religious reasons
  • 8. 8. The use of cultural, economic and political pressure to influence and control decisions in independent countries that were formal colonies is _____
A) Political control
B) Colonialism
C) Neo-colonialism
D) Feudalism
  • 9. 9. 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) Policy of assimilation
C) Authority
D) Indirect rule
  • 10. 10. The NCBWA was founded in ____
A) 1970
B) 1770
C) 1917
D) 1817
  • 11. 11. One of the following is not a provision for Clifford Constitution of 1922
A) The Cabinet Member
B) Proclamation
C) The Legislative Council
D) The Executive Council
  • 12. 12. The Governor of Nigeria at the outbreak of the second world war was ____
A) John Richard
B) David John
C) Richard Bourdillon
D) Shehu Shagari
  • 13. 13. The Governor was in office between year _____&____
A) 1939 and 1944
B) 1939 and 1954
C) 1935 and 1940
D) 1925 and 1930
  • 14. 14. The following except one is not the features of Richard Constitution
A) Legislative powers
B) Bi-cameral legislature
C) Regionalism
D) Independence of the Judiciary
  • 15. 15. Aims and objectives of Richard Constitution include _____
A) Political and National conscious
B) Inspiration
C) A broad based Constitution
D) Court of Appeals
  • 16. 16. 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
  • 17. 17. MacPherson Constitution's weaknesses include the following except one
A) The motion for self government
B) Kano riot of 1953
C) Veto power
D) Dominated by illiterates
  • 18. 18. _____ Constitution was revised through conferences and the product of the revision exercise was Lyttleton Constitution
A) Independent Constitution
B) MacPherson Constitution
C) Richard Constitution
D) Clifford Constitution
  • 19. 19. Main characteristics of the Independence Constitution of 1960 include ___
A) Appointment of ministers
B) Census figures
C) Executive power
D) Parliamentary system.
  • 20. 20. All the following were frontline fighters for Nigeria's Independence except ____
A) Herbert Macaulay
B) Obafemi Awolowo
C) Lateef Jakande
D) Aminu Kano
  • 21. 21. 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
  • 22. 22. The first president of the National Council for Nigeria and Camerouns (NCNC) was _____
A) Dr. Micheal Okpara
B) Ernest Okoli
C) Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
D) Herbert Macaulay
  • 23. 23. The Kano riots of 1953 is significant because
A) It involves rioting between Igbos and Hausas
B) The police couldn't arrest the rioters, thus nobody was charged to court
C) Many innocent lives were lost
D) It was the first outbreak of violence between the major political parties
  • 24. 24. Who among the following was not a founding father of the Nigeria Youth Movement
A) Ernest Ikoli
B) Dr. C. Vaughan
C) Samuel Akinsanya
D) Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • 25. 25. The Jumiyya Mutanem Arewa cultural group later developed into the ______
A) United Middle Belt Congress
B) Jamiyya People's Party
C) Northern People's Congress
D) Nigeria National Democratic Party
  • 26. 26. Action Group was _____
A) A cultural association that sought the unity of the Yorubas
B) An association that teamed up with the NYM to fight the NCNC
C) A political party that fought the British
D) The first political party in Western state
  • 27. 27. The NCNC was formed in ____
A) 1936
B) 1923
C) 1944
D) 1951
  • 28. 28. One of the importance of federalism is that
A) Each state can develop at its own pace
B) Citizens can only be loyal to the state government
C) Citizens cannot be taxed by both State and federal government
D) Any components part can secede at any time
  • 29. 29. The immediate cause of the 1953 Kano riot was the ____
A) Weakness of 1946 Richard Constitution
B) Humiliation of Northern legislators in Lagos
C) Ambition of some politicians to secure Independence from British by force
D) Existence of regionally based political parties
  • 30. 30. The 1953 motion that Nigeria should attain self government in 1956 was moved by _____
A) Chief Obafemi Awolowo
B) Nnamdi Azikiwe
C) Sir Ahmadu Bello
D) Chief Anthony Enahoro
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