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:

  All the following are reasons for military intervention in Nigeria except

  Options:
  A) tribalism and nepotism
  B) regular promotion of military officers
  C) mismanagement of public funds
  D) low level of economic development
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2:

  Politics in Nigeria’s First republic was characterized by

  Options:
  A) religion and ethnicity
  B) religion and regionalism
  C) ethnicity and regionalism
  D) regionalism and despotism.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3:

  The crown colony system is ________

  Options:
  A) a form of British direct rule of British annexed territory
  B) the home of the queen for admin purpose
  C) where all the African countries are administered
  D) the seat for traditional rulers playing indirect rule
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4:

  One of the objectives for the formation of the South African Native Congress in 1912 was to

  Options:
  A) establish a political party
  B) encourage black participation in governance
  C) retrieve all lands seized by the whites
  D) integrate the various groups and races.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 5:

  Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi introduced a unitary system of government because

  Options:
  A) of the command structure of the military
  B) it was the wish of the people
  C) he wanted more revenue for the central government
  D) other military officers were planning to overthrow him
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 6:

  The last ruler of the Ogiso dynasty in the Benin Empire was

  Options:
  A) Oba Eweka
  B) Oba Owodo
  C) Oba Oranmiyan
  D) Oba Ewuare.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 7:

  The immediate cause of the January 1966 coup d’etat was

  Options:
  A) the breakdown of law and order in the West
  B) the desire of the military to seize power
  C) the failure of the 1963 census
  D) interferance by foreign powers
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 8:

  Intensified European activity along the coast in the nineteenth century led Benin to

  Options:
  A) redirect her trade to the north
  B) lose control of some vassal states
  C) expel Christian missionaries
  D) embark on a cultural revival in the area.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 9:

  A Policy central to the Kanem-Borno Empire was that of

  Options:
  A) the British hegemony
  B) imperial expansion and firearms trading
  C) nomadic orientation of its people
  D) state-led land reforms
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 10:

  Ismail Pasha was removed as the Khedive of Egypt at the behest of Great Britain in____________

  Options:
  A) 1878
  B) 1879
  C) 1880
  D) 1881
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  The correct answer is B .