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AIC SS 2 Government Revision Test for 3rd Term 2022/23
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  • 1. 1. One of the following is the reason for conducting election
A) Creating more political parties
B) Strengthening the powers of the political parties
C) Uniting the people
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) Allow the public to have freedon
C) To know the people's opinions about its activities
D) Organize political conferences
  • 4. 4. The major functions of an electoral commission is to ____
A) Support parties
B) Appoint chief of staff
C) Nominates candidates
D) Arrange for the conduction of election
  • 5. 5. An election conducted to resolve important political issues facing a country is called ____
A) General election
B) Primary election
C) Referendum
D) Bye- election
  • 6. 6. Local government laws are known as_____
A) Orders
B) Decrees
C) Acts
D) Bye laws
  • 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) Promotes local chiefs
B) Divide the people in order to rule them
C) Bring government nearer to the people
D) Give more powers to the traditional rulers
  • 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) Oba
B) Waziri
C) Emir
D) Mai
  • 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) Investing surplus capital
C) Geographical importance
D) Religious reasons
  • 13. 13. The two effects of colonialism include the following
A) Formal and informal
B) Positive and negative
C) Upper and lower
D) Legal and illicit
  • 14. 14. One of the following people views neocolonialism as a new form of subjugation
A) Kwame Nkrumah
B) David Kwame
C) Richard Nkrumah
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) Feudalism
B) Colonialism
C) Neo-colonialism
D) Political control
  • 16. 16. Positive effects of colonialism includes the following except ____
A) Introduction of money curency
B) Economic dependence and exploitation
C) Creation of large political unit
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) Rule of law
C) Authority
D) Policy of assimilation
  • 18. 18. The official colonial policy of the French administration in West Africa is _____
A) Administration policy
B) Policy of assimilation
C) Direct rule
D) Rule of law
  • 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) Indigenat policy
D) Dethronement of the traditional rulers
  • 20. 20. The NCBWA was founded in ____
A) 1817
B) 1770
C) 1970
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) David John
B) Shehu Shagari
C) John Richard
D) Richard Bourdillon
  • 23. 23. The Governor was in office between year _____&____
A) 1925 and 1930
B) 1939 and 1944
C) 1939 and 1954
D) 1935 and 1940
  • 24. 24. The following except one is not the features of Richard Constitution
A) Independence of the Judiciary
B) Bi-cameral legislature
C) Legislative powers
D) Regionalism
  • 25. 25. Aims and objectives of Richard Constitution include _____
A) A broad based Constitution
B) Court of Appeals
C) Inspiration
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) Veto power
D) Dominated by illiterates
  • 28. 28. _____ Constitution was revised through conferences and the product of the revision exercise was Lyttleton Constitution
A) Clifford Constitution
B) Independent Constitution
C) Richard Constitution
D) MacPherson 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 5 officials members
C) 1 speaker (as president) and 3 ex-officials members
D) 1 president and 2 officials members
  • 30. 30. Main characteristics of the Independence Constitution of 1960 include ___
A) Parliamentary system.
B) Executive power
C) Census figures
D) Appointment of ministers
  • 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) 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) Over the disputes on the conduct of the election
  • 32. 32. All the following were frontline fighters for Nigeria's Independence except ____
A) Aminu Kano
B) Obafemi Awolowo
C) Lateef Jakande
D) Herbert Macaulay
  • 33. 33. The first political party in Nigeria was _____
A) Northern People's Congress
B) Nigeria National Democratic Party
C) Action Group
D) National Council of Nigeria Citizens
  • 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) Abolished the practice of nominating some members of parliament
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) Ernest Okoli
B) Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
C) Herbert Macaulay
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 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) Samuel Akinsanya
B) Ernest Ikoli
C) Dr. C. Vaughan
D) Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • 38. 38. The Jumiyya Mutanem Arewa cultural group later developed into the ______
A) Nigeria National Democratic Party
B) Jamiyya People's Party
C) Northern People's Congress
D) United Middle Belt Congress
  • 39. 39. 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) The first political party in Western state
D) A political party that fought the British
  • 40. 40. The NCNC was formed in ____
A) 1944
B) 1923
C) 1936
D) 1951
  • 41. 41. One of the importance of federalism is that
A) Each state can develop at its own pace
B) Any components part can secede at any time
C) Citizens cannot be taxed by both State and federal government
D) Citizens can only be loyal to the state government
  • 42. 42. The immediate cause of the rain 1953 Kano riot was the ____
A) Existence of regionally based political parties
B) Humiliation of Northern legislators in Lagos
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) Educate the electorate
B) Form a government
C) Canvass for votes
D) Organize elections
  • 44. 44. The supreme power of a state to make and enforce laws within its jurisdiction is called _____
A) Decolonization
B) Sovereignty
C) Enfranchisement
D) Independence
  • 45. 45. Equality before the law implies that
A) No one citizens can sue the other
B) The law does not respect the people
C) Everybody can do what he likes
D) There is inequality between the executive and the citizens
  • 46. 46. Which of the following is not true of Herbert Macaulay?
A) Founder of the Nigerian National Democratic Party
B) First Nigerian to found a political party
C) Founder of the National Congress of British West Africa
D) Co-founder of the National Council of Nigeria and Camerouns
  • 47. 47. Under the Independence Constitution of Nigeria, the Head of State was ____
A) The Queen of England
B) Sir James Robertson
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) Nnamdi Azikiwe
B) Chief Anthony Enahoro
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) 10
C) 7
D) 5
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