JAMB History Past Questions & Answers - Page 64

316.

The maasai tribe of East African speaks ...... language among the Nilotic family of African tribes.

A.

Maa

B.

Swahili

C.

Bini

D.

Berber

Correct answer is A

Maa is one of the languages of the Nilotic tribe, other languages include Kanuri, Fur, Songhay, Nobiin and so on.

317.

The Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was the resultant merger of the

A.

Colony of Lagos and the Southern Protectorate

B.

Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria and the Northern Protectorate

C.

Northern Protectorate and the Colony of Western Nigeria

D.

Colony of Western Nigeria and the Protectorate of Southern and Northern Nigeria

Correct answer is B

Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria and the Northern Protectorate were the constituents of the area that later became Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria upon the amalgamation of Lord Lugard on January 1st 1914.

 

318.

One of the following is not credited with the General Obasanjo's military regime

A.

The Universal Primary Education Program

B.

The Operation Feed the Nation

C.

The Festival of Arts and Culture

D.

The Structural Adjustment Programme

Correct answer is D

The Structural Adjustment programme is the correct answer. It was a Programme inaugurated during the Ibrahim Babangida's regime.

319.

The Swazi composite is the modern ...

A.

Swaziland

B.

Southern Zimbabwe

C.

Zulu Kingdom

D.

Southeastern Botswana

Correct answer is A

Swaziland is the correct answer. The Swazi composite is also now what modern Swaziland is, which means that some modern day countries in Southern and Central Africa can trace their roots to the Mfecane.

 

320.

Baptists, Methodists and the ... were among the first to engage in the Liberiian Christian Mission

A.

Presbyterian Church

B.

United Church of Christ

C.

Catholic Christian Mission

D.

Episcopal Church

Correct answer is D

Episcopal Church is the correct answer. The Baptists, Methodists and Episcopalians were among the first to engage in Liberian Mission as a result of the missionary fervour that gripped Western Europe and America in the 19th Century.