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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) To ensure peaceful changing of government
B) Uniting the people
C) Strengthening the powers of the political parties
D) Creating more political parties
  • 2. 2. The appointment, promotion and discipline of the civil servants are the responsibilities of _____
A) Government
B) Electoral commission
C) Civil service commission
D) Civil service union
  • 3. 3. Public opinion enables the government to ____
A) Organize political conferences
B) To know the people's opinions about its activities
C) Punish political opponents
D) Allow the public to have freedon
  • 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) Bye- election
C) Primary election
D) Referendum
  • 6. 6. Local government laws are known as_____
A) Bye laws
B) Decrees
C) Orders
D) Acts
  • 7. 7. Free and fair election can exist where there is a _____
A) Secret balloting
B) Referendum
C) Plebiscite
D) Double voting
  • 8. 8. One of the reasons for the establishment of local government is to ____
A) Give more powers to the traditional rulers
B) Promotes local chiefs
C) Bring government nearer to the people
D) Divide the people in order to rule them
  • 9. 9. Public corporations are set up by ____
A) Board of directors
B) Governors
C) Ministers
D) Act of parliaments
  • 10. 10. The head of the caliphate in the Hausa/Fulani precolonial political system was called _____
A) Mai
B) Waziri
C) Emir
D) Oba
  • 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) Africa independence
C) Investing surplus capital
D) Geographical importance
  • 13. 13. The two effects of colonialism include the following
A) Formal and informal
B) Positive and negative
C) Legal and illicit
D) Upper and lower
  • 14. 14. One of the following people views neocolonialism as a new form of subjugation
A) Kwame Nkrumah
B) Richard Nkrumah
C) Chinua Achebe
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) Colonialism
B) Neo-colonialism
C) Political control
D) Feudalism
  • 16. 16. Positive effects of colonialism includes the following except ____
A) Introduction of money curency
B) Economic dependence and exploitation
C) Development of political parties
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) Indirect rule
B) Rule of law
C) Policy of assimilation
D) Authority
  • 18. 18. The official colonial policy of the French administration in West Africa is _____
A) Policy of assimilation
B) Rule of law
C) Administration policy
D) Direct rule
  • 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) 1817
B) 1970
C) 1917
D) 1770
  • 21. 21. One of the following is not a provision for Clifford Constitution of 1922
A) Proclamation
B) The Executive Council
C) The Legislative Council
D) The Cabinet Member
  • 22. 22. The Governor of Nigeria at the outbreak of the second world war was ____
A) David John
B) Richard Bourdillon
C) John Richard
D) Shehu Shagari
  • 23. 23. The Governor was in office between year _____&____
A) 1925 and 1930
B) 1939 and 1944
C) 1935 and 1940
D) 1939 and 1954
  • 24. 24. The following except one is not the features of Richard Constitution
A) Independence of the Judiciary
B) Legislative powers
C) Regionalism
D) Bi-cameral legislature
  • 25. 25. Aims and objectives of Richard Constitution include _____
A) A broad based Constitution
B) Court of Appeals
C) Political and National conscious
D) Inspiration
  • 26. 26. The provisions for MacPherson Constitution include all but one
A) Council of ministers
B) Board of Directors
C) The Three provinces
D) The Chief Commissioners
  • 27. 27. MacPherson Constitution's weaknesses include the following except one
A) Kano riot of 1953
B) Veto power
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) Richard Constitution
B) MacPherson Constitution
C) Independent Constitution
D) Clifford 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 president and 2 officials members
D) 1 speaker (as president) and 3 ex-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 educated Nigerians did not approve who received the number of votes
B) Due to the interpretation of 1/4 of the vote cast in 2/3 of all the states in the Federation
C) Because one of the candidates was declared elected when the result for one of the states had not been received
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) Lateef Jakande
C) Herbert Macaulay
D) Obafemi Awolowo
  • 33. 33. The first political party in Nigeria was _____
A) Action Group
B) Nigeria National Democratic Party
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 equal representation between the North and South
C) Created the post of a Prime Minister
D) Provided for a division of functions between the centre and the component units
  • 35. 35. The first president of the National Council for Nigeria and Camerouns (NCNC) was _____
A) Dr. Micheal Okpara
B) Herbert Macaulay
C) Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
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) The police couldn't arrest the rioters, thus nobody was charged to court
C) Many innocent lives were lost
D) It involves rioting between Igbos and Hausas
  • 37. 37. Who among the following was not a founding father of the Nigeria Youth Movement
A) Dr. C. Vaughan
B) Ernest Ikoli
C) Samuel Akinsanya
D) Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • 38. 38. The Jumiyya Mutanem Arewa cultural group later developed into the ______
A) Nigeria National Democratic Party
B) Northern People's Congress
C) United Middle Belt Congress
D) Jamiyya People's Party
  • 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) A political party that fought the British
D) The first political party in Western state
  • 40. 40. The NCNC was formed in ____
A) 1944
B) 1936
C) 1923
D) 1951
  • 41. 41. One of the importance of federalism is that
A) Citizens can only be loyal to the state government
B) Citizens cannot be taxed by both State and federal government
C) Each state can develop at its own pace
D) Any components part can secede at any time
  • 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) Weakness of 1946 Richard Constitution
C) Humiliation of Northern legislators in Lagos
D) Existence of regionally based political parties
  • 43. 43. Political parties are formed for all the following reasons except ____
A) Organize elections
B) Educate the electorate
C) Form a government
D) Canvass for votes
  • 44. 44. The supreme power of a state to make and enforce laws within its jurisdiction is called _____
A) Sovereignty
B) Enfranchisement
C) Decolonization
D) Independence
  • 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) No one citizens can sue the other
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) First Nigerian to found a political party
C) Founder of the Nigerian National Democratic Party
D) Founder of the National Congress of British West Africa
  • 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 cabinet was no longer responsible to the Legislature
B) The Governor-general's office as the representative of the Queen was abolished
C) The prime minister was nominated by the Executive Council
D) The prime minister ceased to be Head of State
  • 49. 49. The 1953 motion that Nigeria should attain self government in 1956 was moved by _____
A) Chief Obafemi Awolowo
B) Sir Ahmadu Bello
C) Nnamdi Azikiwe
D) Chief Anthony Enahoro
  • 50. 50. The total number of parties registered for the 1979 elections in Nigeria was ____
A) 5
B) 6
C) 7
D) 10
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