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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 41· Colonial administration in Nigeria· WAEC

    The Legislative Council of 1922 included, for the first time,

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  2. Question 42· Colonial administration in Nigeria· WAEC

    A cause of the Aba Women's Riot was

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  3. Question 43· Colonial administration in Nigeria· JAMB

    The Nigerian Council created by Lugard in 1914 was

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  4. Question 44· Colonial administration in Nigeria· WAEC

    Indirect rule failed in the East mainly because

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  5. Question 45· Colonial administration in Nigeria· JAMB

    The Macpherson Constitution of 1951 introduced

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  6. Question 46· Colonial administration in Nigeria· WAEC

    The Legislative Council created in 1922 had elected members from

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  7. Question 47· Colonial administration in Nigeria· JAMB

    The Egba uprising of 1918 was a protest mainly against

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  8. Question 48· Colonial administration in Nigeria· JAMB

    Lugard's political memoranda set out

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  9. Question 49· Colonial administration in Nigeria· JAMB

    Lugard's system of ruling Nigeria through traditional rulers is known as

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  10. Question 50· Colonial administration in Nigeria· WAEC

    Indirect rule in Northern Nigeria worked well partly because of

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  11. Question 51· Colonial administration in Nigeria· JAMB

    The post of Governor-General of Nigeria was first held by

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  12. Question 52· Colonial administration in Nigeria· JAMB

    Nationalists criticised the Richards Constitution mainly because

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  13. Question 53· Colonial administration in Nigeria· WAEC

    The amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria took place in

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  14. Question 54· Colonial administration in Nigeria· JAMB

    The first Governor-General of Nigeria after the 1914 amalgamation was

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  15. Question 55· Colonial administration in Nigeria· WAEC

    The Native Authority system was associated with

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  16. Question 56· Colonial administration in Nigeria· JAMB

    Chiefs appointed by the British to rule in parts of Eastern Nigeria where no such rulers had existed were called

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  17. Question 57· Colonial administration in Nigeria· WAEC

    The Richards Constitution of 1946 created

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  18. Question 58· Colonial administration in Nigeria· JAMB

    Regionalism was introduced into Nigeria's government by the

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  19. Question 59· Colonial administration in Nigeria· WAEC

    Under colonial rule, Native Authorities were

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  20. Question 60· Colonial administration in Nigeria· WAEC

    The 1914 amalgamation united

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