History Questions and Answers
Learn about past events in Nigeria and the world with these interesting and informative History questions and answers.
Learn about past events in Nigeria and the world with these interesting and informative History questions and answers.
In what century did the Trans-Saharan trade start?
8th century
5th century
17th century
4th century
Correct answer is A
Around the fifth century, thanks to the availability of the camel, Berber-speaking people began crossing the Sahara Desert. From the eighth century onward, annual trade caravans followed routes later described by Arabic authors with minute attention to detail.
The Great Trek happened in what country?
South Africa
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Egypt
Correct answer is A
Great Trek, Afrikaans Groot Trek, the emigration of some 12,000 to 14,000 Boers from Cape Colony in South Africa between 1835 and the early 1840s, in rebellion against the policies of the British government and in search of fresh pasturelands.
Nigeria was birthed in the year
1900
1906
1914
1960
Correct answer is C
On January 1, 1914, Lord Frederick Lugard, the governor of both the Northern Nigeria Protectorate and the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, signed a document consolidating the two, thereby creating the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. Forty-six years later in 1960, Nigeria became an independent state.
How many states were created by Gen. Sani Abacha?
5
6
7
9
Correct answer is B
Gen. Sani Abacha created the following 6 states of Nigeria: Ebonyi; Bayelsa; Nasarawa; Zamfara; Gombe; Ekiti.
Iginua
Oba Olua
Iyoba
None of the above
Correct answer is B
It is a well established fact that Oba Olua founded the Itsekiri kingdom for his unpopular son Iginua(1473- 1480A.D.)