Case Study: Nigeria

Question 1

Oppressive Nigerian military dictator from 1993 to 1998 who came to power to a military coup

Answer 1

Sani Abacha

Question 2

Nigerian nationalist and independent Nigeria’s first head of state officially (1960-66)

Answer 2

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

Question 2

Opposition political party formed in 2013 by merger of largest opposition parties and defections from ruling People’s Democratic Party

Answer 2

All Progressives Congress

Question 3

Military ruler of Nigeria from 1985 to 1993 who sought to establish the failed Third Republic

Answer 3

Ibrahim Babangida

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Boko Haram

Question 5

Former military ruler and current democratically elected president of Nigeria ( 2015

Answer 5

Muhammadu Buhari

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Derivation Formula

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Federal character principle

Question 8

Nigerian parliamentary democratic regime that followed independence (1960-66)

Answer 8

First Republic

Question 9

Nigeria’s current presidential democratic regime, established in 1999

Answer 9

Fourth Republic

Question 10

Predominantly Muslim ethnic group located in Northern Nigeria

Answer 10

Fulani

Question 11

a dominant ethnic group that is overwhelmingly Muslim and concentrated in the north

Fulani and Hausa same definition

Answer 11

Hausa

Question 12

The lower house, 360 seats and each member represents an individual district

Answer 12

House of Representatives

Question 13

A dominant ethnic group that is predominantly Christian, concentrated in the south-east

Answer 13

Igbo

Question 14

An ethnic Ijaw Christian from southern Nigeria who first assumed the presidency in 2010 after President Umaru Yar’Adua died in office

Answer 14

Goodluck Jonathan

Question 15

an umbrella organization that claims to act on behalf of the Delta’s oppressed peoples and exploited environment

Answer 15

Movement for Emancipation of the Niger River Delta (MEND)

Question 16

Founded in 1990 by Saro-Wiwa and others. Challenged the government’s revenue-sharing formulas, which kept the bulk of the oil wealth flowing to national government coffers??

coffers????

Answer 16

Movement for the survival of the Ogoni people (MOSOP)

Question 17

a program that sought to increase the transparency of government finances and address the corruption problem by creating an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to pursue theft and money laundering

Answer 17

National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy ( NEEDS )

Question 18

The Niger River enters the sea at that point, creating a vast swampy area of over 5000 square miles, 3rd largest wetland in the world

Answer 18

Niger Delta

Answer 19

Olusegun Obasanjo

Answer 20

Patrimonialism

Answer 21

People’s Democratic Party

Answer 22

Republic of Biafra

Answer 23

Resource Curse

Answer 24

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Answer 25

Scramble for Africa

Answer 26

Sharia

Answer 27

Second Republic

Answer 28

Sokoto Caliphate