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 major reason for Nigeria’s interest in the Liberian Civil War was to save herself from
Bearing the burden of the war’s refugees
Losing her investments in Liberia
Losing her citizens in Liberia
Losing her position as a regional power
Correct answer is A
Nigeria was of the opinion that many of those displayed by the civil strife would stream to Nigeria as refuges and eventually overstretch her economy.
The immediate cause of the Nigerian Civil War was the
Coup detat of January 1966
Crisis in the Western region
Poor social policy of the First Republic
Crisis of the 1962 Census
Correct answer is A
No explanation has been provided for this answer.
In 1963, the Eastern region of Nigeria went to the supreme court over the
Decision of the federal government to conduct a fresh census
Exclusion of Easterners resident in the North from the census
The population figures of the national census
Exclusion of women in the national census
Correct answer is C
The result of the census had shown that the population of the North was larger than the addition of the figures of both the East and the West.
Politics in Nigeria’s First republic was characterized by
Religion and ethnicity
Religion and regionalism
Ethnicity and regionalism
Regionalism and despotism
Correct answer is C
No explanation has been provided for this answer.
Anti-colonial movements Nigeria before the World War II involved
Attempts to violently chase the British out of the country
Collaboration with the British authority
Peaceful protests through petitions and conferences
The establishment of pressure groups by traditional rulers
Correct answer is C
Those protests were mainly against the marginalization of the educated elite from participating in the colonial government.