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JAMB and WAEC History questions: Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century

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All topicsBritish conquest of Nigeria · 38Colonial administration in Nigeria · 36Decolonisation and African unity · 40Early centres of civilisation · 37Eastern and southern Africa · 35External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans · 38Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states · 41Nationalism and independence · 40Nigeria since independence · 44Oyo, Benin and the southern states · 44Partition, colonial rule and resistance in Africa · 34Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century · 36The colonial economy · 37The Nigeria area: land and early peoples · 36The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate · 38West Africa in the nineteenth century · 36

  1. Question 21· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· WAEC

    Opobo was founded in 1869 by Jaja after he broke away from

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  2. Question 22· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    Samuel Ajayi Crowther is remembered as the

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  3. Question 23· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· WAEC

    The 'legitimate trade' that replaced the slave trade in the Niger Delta was mainly in

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  4. Question 24· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· WAEC

    Ibadan's victory at Osogbo in about 1840 halted

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  5. Question 25· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The trading state of Opobo was founded in 1869 by

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  6. Question 26· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· WAEC

    The Kiriji (Ekitiparapo) war was fought mainly between

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  7. Question 27· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· WAEC

    Nana Olomu of Itsekiri was a leading

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  8. Question 28· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther led mission work mainly along the

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  9. Question 29· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· WAEC

    The main export of the Niger Delta states in the nineteenth century after the end of the slave trade was

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  10. Question 30· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· WAEC

    The British consul for the Bights of Benin and Biafra from 1849 was

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  11. Question 31· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· WAEC

    The Kiriji (Ekitiparapo) war was fought between Ibadan and

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  12. Question 32· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The treaty of 1886 that ended the Kiriji war was arranged by

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  13. Question 33· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The collapse of the Old Oyo Empire was hastened by the revolt of

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  14. Question 34· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· WAEC

    Which new Yoruba power rose after the fall of Old Oyo and became a leading military state?

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  15. Question 35· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The Ijaye war (1860-62) was fought between

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  16. Question 36· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· WAEC

    Nana Olomu was the governor of the river in

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