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.
The most remarkable acheivement of the Buhari's Military regime is the
War Against Intolerance
Green Revolution Programme
War Against Indiscipline
Structural Adjustment Programme
Correct answer is C
War Against Indiscipline (WAI) is the correct answer. A programme instituted in 1984 to tackle social maladjustment and widespread corruption in Nigeria.
The central agenda of the Muhammad Ali's hegemonic rule was the
Enslavement of the Sudanese
The exploitation of natural resources for development finance in Egypt
Annexation of Sudan as an Ottoman-Egyptian Colony
Political conquest of Sudan
Correct answer is B
Muhammad Ali and his successors sought after Sudan's natural and human resources to finance Egyptian modernizing projects, build a new army and develop agricultural and industrial enterprises.
All the following except one were the motivating reasons behind the Great Trek
The fear that the emigration might lead to a decline of civilisation
Insecurity about the conflict on the Eastern frontier of South Africa
Restoration of economic, cultural and political unity independent of the British power
Threat of liberalism by the new colonial regime
Correct answer is A
The fear that the emigration might lead to a decline of civilization is the correct answer, as this was expressed by the Dutch Reformed Church in opposition to the Great Trek, seeing also as being an act of godlessness.
Mediation of others for understanding the Koran and traditions of the prophet
Use of African languages as a medium of communication
Decline in the use of educational resource institutes
Rigidity of the use of Arabic language
Correct answer is B
The use of African languages as a medium of communication is the correct answer. Islamic reformers, both past and present, actively support the translation of the holy texts into Swahili, Hausa, Fulfude, Wolof, Bambara and Yoruba.
All but one of the following triggered the Mahdiyya Movement in Sudan
The foreign government's growing reliance on European Christians
The Sudanese of governmental efforts to suppress the lucrative slave trade
Unpleasant immigration policy of the foreign government
Heavy taxation
Correct answer is C
Unpleasant immigration policy of the foreign government is the correct answer. For reasons of heavy taxation which led to famine, depopulation etc, the foreign government's increased reliance on European Christians including its fight against slave trade, among related other reasons, led tp the Madhiyya revolution.