Question 1· Nigeria since independence· JAMB
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JAMB History questions: Nigeria since independence
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All topicsBritish conquest of Nigeria · 20Colonial administration in Nigeria · 18Decolonisation and African unity · 21Early centres of civilisation · 19Eastern and southern Africa · 18External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans · 20Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states · 21Nationalism and independence · 20Nigeria since independence · 26Oyo, Benin and the southern states · 23Partition, colonial rule and resistance in Africa · 17Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century · 18The colonial economy · 19The Nigeria area: land and early peoples · 19The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate · 20West Africa in the nineteenth century · 19
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Question 2· Nigeria since independence· JAMB
Murtala Mohammed was assassinated in
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Universal Primary Education was launched nationwide in
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The Nigerian Civil War ended in
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The Aburi Accord of 1967 was an attempt to
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The Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) was introduced in 1986 by
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Operation Feed the Nation was launched in 1976 by the government of
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The head of state who created twelve states out of Nigeria's four regions in 1967 was
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The military ruler who handed power to an elected civilian government in 1979 was
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The Interim National Government of 1993 was headed by
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The Nigerian Enterprises Promotion Decree (indigenisation) was first issued in
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The state creation exercise of 1976 increased the number of states in Nigeria to
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The Structural Adjustment Programme was introduced in
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General Sani Abacha's regime ended with his death in
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Nigeria's first military coup took place on
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The President of Nigeria's Second Republic was
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The Aburi meeting of January 1967 in Ghana tried to
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The secession of Biafra was declared in 1967 by
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The Nigerian civil war began in
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Shehu Shagari's government was overthrown in
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