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 301:

  Increase in the number of people living below the poverty line in Africa is particularly because

  Options:
  A) The largest proportion of Africa's populations are unemployed
  B) Of the prevalence of corruption
  C) Of the problem of insecurity scaring away investors
  D) A vast majority of its populants have chosen to be unproductive
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 302:

  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 303:

  The main motive behind imperialism has been aforetime categorised as primarily

  Options:
  A) to colonise less developed states
  B) the socio-economic transformation agenda for Africa
  C) to expand socio-cultural territories of the Western powers
  D) being to obtain and control a supply of raw materials for industries
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 304:

  The Treaty of Nanjing, signed after the First Opium War, resulted in the cession of which territory to Great Britain?

  Options:
  A) Macau
  B) Hong Kong
  C) Taiwan
  D) Shanghai
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 305:

  The Biafra civil war was between

  Options:
  A) 1967- 1968
  B) 1968 - 1971
  C) 1967 - 1970
  D) 1970 - 1975
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 306:

  Sabon Gari settlement in most parts of colonial Nigeria harboured mostly

  Options:
  A) people other than the indigenes
  B) indigenes who were Muslims
  C) strangers who were Muslims only
  D) European traders and missionaries
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 307:

  In what year was the Oil River protectorate established?

  Options:
  A) 1885
  B) 1886
  C) 1887
  D) 1888
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 308:

  The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) was formed

  Options:
  A) in 1993, to press for the re-validation of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election
  B) in 1994, to solicit funds in preparation for the transition into Civilian rule
  C) in 1994, to press for the re-validation of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election
  D) in 1993, to advocate for the violation of human rights under the Abacha's regime
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 309:

  The main cause of the decline of the Benin Kingdom in the 19th century was the

  Options:
  A) absence of a strong and effective army
  B) bitter struggle for the throne by the ruling families
  C) strained relations between Benin and Agbor
  D) British abolition of the trans- Atlantic slave trade.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 310:

  A reason for the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates of Nigeria in 1914 was

  Options:
  A) economic expediency
  B) territorial integration
  C) political balancing
  D) religious harmony.
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  The correct answer is A .