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 101:

  One of these is known to be the founding father of Nationalism in Nigeria?

  Options:
  A) Obafemi Awolowo
  B) Nnamdi Azikiwe
  C) Ahmadu Bello
  D) Herbert Macaulay
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 102:

  The Bayajidda tradition suggests that

  Options:
  A) Hausa ancestors came from Arabia
  B) women exercised political power in pre-Islamic Hausaland
  C) the introduction of Islam led to the formation of the Hausa city states
  D) The Queen of Daura was the first to embrace Islam.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 103:

  The Sokoto Jihad was

  Options:
  A) the first Islamic movement in West Africa
  B) an attempt to establish Fulani dominance
  C) the last of the 19th century Jihads
  D) the origin of the other Jihads in West Africa.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 104:

  The economic reforms of Theodore II of Ethiopia involved the

  Options:
  A) encouragement of slave trade
  B) improvement of agriculture
  C) reorganization of the fiscal system
  D) revival of external trade.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 105:

  The most significant act of statesmanship associated with
  Abdulsalami regime was

  Options:
  A) promulgate the 1999 Constitution
  B) handing over power to a civilian government
  C) the release of political prisoners
  D) organizing successful general elections.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 106:

  The Murtala/Obasanjo's regime _________

  Options:
  A) had a programme called war against discipline
  B) was the pioneered of the structural adjustment programme
  C) favoured decolonization and self determination of Africa states
  D) Involved in a bloody coup
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 107:

  The method of order used by Europeans to take over the present day Nigeria is________

  Options:
  A) Explorers, imperialists, trader and missionaries
  B) Explorer, trader, missionaries and imperialists
  C) Trader, colonialist, indirect rule and freedom
  D) Freedom, trader, colonialist and imperialist
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 108:

  The amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorate of Nigeria took place on

  Options:
  A) 10 July, 1914
  B) 1 January, 1921
  C) 10 December, 1941
  D) 1 January, 1914
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 109:

  Most discovery in the Eastern and Western Era are usually within the ........ and ........

  Options:
  A) Zimbezi and and limpopo period
  B) Zambezi and Limpopo period
  C) limpopo and the period of the primitives
  D) the primitive period
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 110:

  Which of the following was referred to as 'Province of Freedom' in the 19th century?

  Options:
  A) Liberia
  B) The Gambia
  C) Ghana
  D) Sierra Leone
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  The correct answer is A .