JAMB Government Past Questions & Answers - Page 100

The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. It is now known as the UN

High commissioner (Commonwealth) In the Commonwealth of Nations, a high commissioner is the senior diplomat (generally ranking as an ambassador) in charge of the diplomatic mission of one Commonwealth government to another. Instead of an embassy, the diplomatic mission is generally called a high commission.

Nigeria was suspended from the commonwealth because political activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed with ten others in 1995. This suspension acted as a public declaration from the Commonwealth to the Nigerian government and the international community, condemning the undemocratic and human rights abuses which reverberated across the world.

The Frontline States (FLS) were a loose coalition of African countries from the 1960s to the early 1990s committed to ending apartheid and white minority rule in South Africa and Rhodesia. And Nigeria contributed greatly to this cause.

Charles Taylor was granted asylum to promote peace in Liberia