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JAMB and WAEC History questions: Nationalism and independence

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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 1· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    The Willink Commission of 1957–58 was set up to examine

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  2. Question 2· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    The London Constitutional Conference of 1957 agreed that

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  3. Question 3· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    Nigeria's Prime Minister at independence in 1960 was

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  4. Question 4· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    The Western and Eastern regions became self-governing in

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  5. Question 5· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    The first political party in Nigeria, founded by Herbert Macaulay in 1923, was the

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  6. Question 6· Nationalism and independence· WAEC

    Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto, became the first Premier of

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  7. Question 7· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    The Northern People's Congress was led by

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  8. Question 8· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    Herbert Macaulay is regarded as

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  9. Question 9· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    The West African Pilot newspaper was founded in 1937 by

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  10. Question 10· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    The 1953 motion calling for Nigerian self-government in 1956 was moved by

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  11. Question 11· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    After the Southern Cameroons left Nigeria, the NCNC was renamed the

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  12. Question 12· Nationalism and independence· WAEC

    Herbert Macaulay founded the

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  13. Question 13· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    The 1945 general strike was led by

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  14. Question 14· Nationalism and independence· WAEC

    Nigeria gained independence on

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  15. Question 15· Nationalism and independence· WAEC

    The first Nigerian to be Governor-General was

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  16. Question 16· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    The 1953 crisis over the self-government motion led most directly to the

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  17. Question 17· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    The Northern Region attained self-government in

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  18. Question 18· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    Nigeria's independence was granted by an Act of the

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  19. Question 19· Nationalism and independence· WAEC

    Nigeria's first Prime Minister was

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  20. Question 20· Nationalism and independence· JAMB

    The Premier of the Northern Region before independence was

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