History Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

History involves documenting and explaining past events, particularly those related to specific places or subjects. Its aim is to enhance our understanding of the past and present social, political, religious, and economic conditions of a community.

• Question 1:

  Morocco was of strategic importance to the European countries because

  Options:
  A) it possessed good mineral resources
  B) it was highly industrialized
  C) it provided an entrance to the Mediterranean.
  D) of its good climatic conditions
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2:

  The establishment of _________ by ______ help fast track the activity of nationalist in Nigeria

  Options:
  A) Lagos daily news/ Herbert Macaulay
  B) Daily times/ Nnamdi Azikiwe
  C) Nigeria pilot / Nnamdi Azikiwe
  D) Weekly review/ Herbert Macaulay
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3:

  Which administration favoured decoloniation as self-determination of African states.

  Options:
  A) Balewa's regime
  B) Murtala/Obasanjo regime
  C) Buhari/Idiagbon regime
  D) Sheu Shagari regime.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4:

  The Economic Commision of West African States (ECOWAS) has its adminsitrative headquarter in ______

  Options:
  A) Lome
  B) Abuja
  C) Lagos
  D) Addis Ababa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5:

  The Northern region of Nigeria gained self-government in ____.

  Options:
  A) 1957
  B) 1958
  C) 1959
  D) 1960
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 6:

  Nigeria was thena conglomerations of _________

  Options:
  A) Nations
  B) Peoples
  C) Ethnic groups
  D) Wards
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 7:

  The Nigerian second republic began in the year ____

  Options:
  A) 1983
  B) 1979
  C) 1963
  D) 1966
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 8:

  Sayyid Said increased the volume of trade with the Europeans by

  Options:
  A) allowing them to take control of the trade with the hinterland
  B) replacing Indian middlemen with Europeans
  C) allowing European consuls to reside in Zanzibar
  D) making English the lingua franca of Zanzibar.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 9:

  A major cause of depopulation in Nigeria in the 18th century was

  Options:
  A) the trans-Atlantic slave trade
  B) the trans-Saharan trade
  C) human sacrifice
  D) inter-ethnic warfare.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 10:

  Which social group in Nigeria was most affected by the introduction of the indirect rule system?

  Options:
  A) Chief priest
  B) Educated elites
  C) Traditional rulers
  D) Women in rural areas
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  The correct answer is C .