Nigeria

Question 1

How many ethnic groups does Nigeria have?

Answer 1

More than 250 ethnic groups, whose differences have been exacerbated by colonial policy “divide and rule”

Question 2

This is an Islamist terrorist group based in northeastern Nigeria that since 2009 has launched a violent insurgency

Answer 2

Boko Haram

Question 3

A multicultural or even multination state that has relatively high levels of patriotism from its citizens

Answer 3

State-nation

Question 4

The worlds third-largest wetland and the source of Nigerian oil and economic and ethnic conflict that is home to over 30 million people

Answer 4

Niger Delta

Question 5

Two predominantly Muslim ethnic groups concentrated in northern Nigeria

Answer 5

Hausa and Fulani

Question 6

Predominantly Christian ethnic group concentrated in southeastern Nigeria

Answer 6

Igbo

Question 7

Ethnic group that inhabits the southwest and is divided among Christian, Muslim, and local animist faiths

Answer 7

Yoruba

Question 8

Islamic empire founded in 1908 and centered in northern Nigeria

Answer 8

Sokoto Caliphate

Question 9

Late nineteenth-century race by European countries to expand influence and establish imperial control over the majority of Africa

Answer 9

Scramble for Africa

Question 10

Nigerian nationalist and independent Nigeria’s first head of state

Answer 10

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

Question 11

Nigerian parliamentary democratic regime that followed independence

Answer 11

First Republic (1960-66)

Question 12

Igbo-dominated eastern region that tried and failed to secede from Nigeria in 1967

Answer 12

Republic of Biafra

Question 13

military ruler from 1976 to 1979 and two-term elected president from 1999 to 2007

Answer 13

Olusegun Obasanjo

Question 14

short-lived Nigerian democratic regime, from 1979 to 1983, in which the former parliamentary system was replaced by a presidential system

Answer 14

Second Republic

Question 15

former military ruler and current democratically elected president of Nigeria

Answer 15

Muhammadu Buhari (2015-present)

Question 16

military ruler of Nigeria from 1985 to 1993 who sought to establish the failed third republic

Answer 16

Ibrahim Babangida

Question 17

oppressive military dictator from 1993 to 1998 who came to power in a military coup

Answer 17

Sani Abacha

Question 18

democratic regime proposed by general Ibrahim Babangida in 1993; precluded by General Sani Abacha’s military coup in the same year, following annulled elections

Answer 18

Third republic

Question 19

noted Nigerian playwright and environmental activist, executed in 1995 for hi defense of the land and peoples of Niger Delta

Answer 19

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Question 20

how is the president of Nigeria elected?

Answer 20

the president is directly elected by the people and chooses a running mate, who automatically becomes vice president if the president is elected

Question 20

Nigeria’s current presidential democratic regime, established in 1999

Answer 20

Fourth republic

Question 21

Nigerian quota system designed to ease ethnic tension by requiring the president to appoint ministers and civil servants from each Nigerian state.

Answer 21

Federal Character Principle

Question 22

what are the names of the upper and lower houses of the Nigerian parliament?

Answer 22

Upper: Senate
Lower: House of Representatives

Question 23

Ethnic association founded by Ken Saro-Wiwa to promote the interests of ethnic Ogoni in the Niger delta

Answer 23

Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP)

Question 24

political party that has dominated Nigerian politics since its formation in 1998; its base was originally the Hausa Muslim ethnic group of northern Nigeria

Answer 24

People's Democratic Party (PDP)

Question 25

A PDP system of presidential rotation; the party would alternate every two terms in nominating candidates from Nigeria's north and south

Answer 25

Zoning

Question 26

opposition political party formed in 2013 by merger of largest opposition parties and defections from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party

Answer 26

All Progressive Congress (APC)

Question 27

formula for distributing oil revenues between national and local governments in Nigeria

Answer 27

Derivation Formula

Question 28

militant separatist group from the Niger Delta

Answer 28

Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)

Question 29

What is Nigeria's legislative-executive system?

Answer 29

Presidential

Question 30

what is the name of Nigeria's legislature and is it bicameral or unicameral?

Answer 30

- the National Assembly - bicameral

Question 31

What are the names of Nigeria's upper and lower houses?

Answer 31

Lower: House of representatives Upper: Senate

Question 32

Is Nigeria unitary or federal?

Answer 32

federal

Question 33

What are the main geographic subunits of Nigeria?

Answer 33

States

Question 34

What is the chief judicial body of Nigeria?

Answer 34

the Supreme Court