AIC SS 2 Government Revision Test for 3rd Term 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) Creating more political parties
D) Uniting the people
  • 2. 2. The appointment, promotion and discipline of the civil servants are the responsibilities of _____
A) Civil service commission
B) Electoral commission
C) Government
D) Civil service union
  • 3. 3. Public opinion enables the government to ____
A) Organize political conferences
B) Allow the public to have freedon
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) Support parties
B) Arrange for the conduction of election
C) Nominates candidates
D) Appoint chief of staff
  • 5. 5. An election conducted to resolve important political issues facing a country is called ____
A) Primary election
B) Referendum
C) General election
D) Bye- election
  • 6. 6. Local government laws are known as_____
A) Acts
B) Bye laws
C) Decrees
D) Orders
  • 7. 7. Free and fair election can exist where there is a _____
A) Secret balloting
B) Plebiscite
C) Referendum
D) Double voting
  • 8. 8. One of the reasons for the establishment of local government is to ____
A) Bring government nearer to the people
B) Divide the people in order to rule them
C) Give more powers to the traditional rulers
D) Promotes local chiefs
  • 9. 9. Public corporations are set up by ____
A) Act of parliaments
B) Governors
C) Ministers
D) Board of directors
  • 10. 10. The head of the caliphate in the Hausa/Fulani precolonial political system was called _____
A) Waziri
B) Oba
C) Mai
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) Nationalism
B) Colonialism
C) Federalism
D) Imperialism
  • 12. 12. One of the following is not the reason for colonialism
A) Investing surplus capital
B) Geographical importance
C) Africa independence
D) Religious reasons
  • 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) Chinua Achebe
B) David Kwame
C) Kwame Nkrumah
D) Richard Nkrumah
  • 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) Feudalism
D) Political control
  • 16. 16. Positive effects of colonialism includes the following except ____
A) Introduction of money curency
B) Creation of large political unit
C) Economic dependence and exploitation
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) Rule of law
B) Indirect rule
C) Authority
D) Policy of assimilation
  • 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) 1817
B) 1917
C) 1770
D) 1970
  • 21. 21. One of the following is not a provision for Clifford Constitution of 1922
A) The Executive Council
B) The Legislative Council
C) Proclamation
D) The Cabinet Member
  • 22. 22. The Governor of Nigeria at the outbreak of the second world war was ____
A) Richard Bourdillon
B) David John
C) Shehu Shagari
D) John Richard
  • 23. 23. The Governor was in office between year _____&____
A) 1939 and 1954
B) 1935 and 1940
C) 1925 and 1930
D) 1939 and 1944
  • 24. 24. The following except one is not the features of Richard Constitution
A) Bi-cameral legislature
B) Independence of the Judiciary
C) Regionalism
D) Legislative powers
  • 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) Board of Directors
B) Council of ministers
C) The Three provinces
D) The Chief Commissioners
  • 27. 27. MacPherson Constitution's weaknesses include the following except one
A) Veto power
B) Kano riot of 1953
C) Dominated by illiterates
D) The motion for self government
  • 28. 28. _____ Constitution was revised through conferences and the product of the revision exercise was Lyttleton Constitution
A) Independent Constitution
B) MacPherson Constitution
C) Clifford Constitution
D) Richard 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) Executive power
B) Census figures
C) Appointment of ministers
D) Parliamentary system.
  • 31. 31. The controversy over the 1979 Presidential election result was ____
A) Due to the interpretation of 1/4 of the vote cast in 2/3 of all the states in the Federation
B) Over the disputes on the conduct of the election
C) Because one of the candidates was declared elected when the result for one of the states had not been received
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) Herbert Macaulay
C) Lateef Jakande
D) Aminu Kano
  • 33. 33. The first political party in Nigeria was _____
A) Northern People's Congress
B) National Council of Nigeria Citizens
C) Action Group
D) Nigeria National Democratic Party
  • 34. 34. Nigeria became a federation under the 1954 Constitution because the Constitution _____
A) Created the post of a Prime Minister
B) Abolished the practice of nominating some members of parliament
C) Provided for a division of functions between the centre and the component units
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) Herbert Macaulay
C) Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
D) Dr. Micheal Okpara
  • 36. 36. The Kano riots of 1953 is significant because
A) It involves rioting between Igbos and Hausas
B) It was the first outbreak of violence between the major political parties
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) 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) United Middle Belt Congress
C) Nigeria National Democratic Party
D) Northern People's Congress
  • 39. 39. Action Group was _____
A) An association that teamed up with the NYM to fight the NCNC
B) A political party that fought the British
C) The first political party in Western state
D) A cultural association that sought the unity of the Yorubas
  • 40. 40. The NCNC was formed in ____
A) 1923
B) 1936
C) 1944
D) 1951
  • 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) Each state can develop at its own pace
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) Weakness of 1946 Richard Constitution
C) Ambition of some politicians to secure Independence from British by force
D) Humiliation of Northern legislators in Lagos
  • 43. 43. Political parties are formed for all the following reasons except ____
A) Organize elections
B) Educate the electorate
C) Canvass for votes
D) Form a government
  • 44. 44. The supreme power of a state to make and enforce laws within its jurisdiction is called _____
A) Enfranchisement
B) Independence
C) Decolonization
D) Sovereignty
  • 45. 45. Equality before the law implies that
A) Everybody can do what he likes
B) No one citizens can sue the other
C) The law does not respect the people
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) Co-founder of the National Council of Nigeria and Camerouns
C) First Nigerian to found a political 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 British Prime Minister
B) Sir James Robertson
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 was nominated by the Executive Council
B) The Governor-general's office as the representative of the Queen was abolished
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) Sir Ahmadu Bello
C) Nnamdi Azikiwe
D) Chief Obafemi Awolowo
  • 50. 50. The total number of parties registered for the 1979 elections in Nigeria was ____
A) 6
B) 10
C) 5
D) 7
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