Nigeria Test

Question 0

Which institution has been most important and offered the most stability to Nigerians?

Answer 0

The military

Question 1

What is Nigeria’s national question?

Answer 1

Who should rule and how

Question 2

What are the religious division in Nigeria?

Answer 2

Islamic vs. Christian

Question 3

What are the ethnic divisions?

Answer 3

Hausa-Fulani vs. Igbo vs. Yoruba

Question 4

How are ethnic divisions split geographically?

Answer 4

NW= Hausa-Fulani (Muslim) 
NE= small groups (Muslim) 
MB= small ethnic groups (both)
SW= Yoruba(mix of all) 
SE= Igbo (Christian)
S= small minority groups

Question 5

What were the geopolitical characteristics during the colonial days?

Answer 5

South= oceanic slave trading 
north= merchant trade by land

Question 6

How did colonization affect the relationship between local chiefs and their people?

Answer 6

Chiefs felt more accountable to the British than to their people

Question 7

What was the first type of government post colonization?

Answer 7

Parliamentary

Question 8

Why did the parliamentary government fail?

Answer 8

Ethnic divisions made it hard to have a majority party and for the PM to have authority

Question 9

What was the Biafran Civil War?

Answer 9

A violent ethnic based conflict in which the Igbo wanted independence of their land

Question 10

What countries are most dependent on oil?

Answer 10

Nigeria, Iran, Russia, Mexico

Question 11

What is prebendalism?

Answer 11

Patron-clientelism

Question 12

What religions have intensified ethnic conflicts?

Answer 12

Islam and Christianity

Question 13

Describe the Yoruba?

Answer 13

Live in SW, mix of Muslim, Christian, and Native religions, more educated

Question 14

How has education affected the relationship between north and south?

Answer 14

N= less educated 
S= more educated by western styles brought in by Britain

Question 15

What is significant about the period of 1966-1993?

Answer 15

The type of government changed many types with coups and Civil Wars

Question 16

Does Nigeria have a high or low gini index?

Answer 16

High; there is a large gap between wealthy and poor

Question 17

What are the largest ethnic groups?

Answer 17

Yoruba- more educated, farmers, less wealth
Igbo- most educated, best economy cuz of oil
Hausa-Fulani- less educated, conservative

Question 18

What role does gender play in society?

Answer 18

Women are less educated and are considered second class citizens

Question 19

Describe elections in Nigeria?

Answer 19

Elections often get cancelled/ postponed, many elections are fixed, people vote but it’s hard to track because of all the fraudulent voters

Question 20

How did most Nigerians feel about the Nigerian economy?

Answer 20

That it is in very bad or bad condition and they have little hope for the future

Question 21

Which country has the most transparent government?

Answer 21

The UK

Question 22

Why did citizens protest the election of 2011?

Answer 22

The informal rule of alternating presidents from the north to the south has been violated

Question 23

Which comparative countries have a federalist structure?

Answer 23

Nigeria, Britain, Russia, Mexico

Question 24

What party has been dominant in the most recent Nigerian elections?

Answer 24

People’s Democratic Party

Question 25

Why must the president revive at least 25% of the votes in 2/3 states?

Answer 25

To unite the people and to ensure that a purely regional candidate can not win

Question 26

Patrimonialism?

Answer 26

The president is head of the patron-client system and dispensed gov. Jobs and rewards to supporters

Question 27

How is state corporatism represented in Nigeria?

Answer 27

Para-Statals

Question 28

In what ways are the Iranian and Nigerian militarized similar?

Answer 28

It has 2 separate militaries

Question 29

What is the loyalty pyramid?

Answer 29

Senior gov. Officials are supporters by a base of loyal junior officials

Question 30

What countries are renter states?

Answer 30

Iran and Nigeria

Question 31

What is federal character?

Answer 31

Gives citizens more contact points with the government and makes the country a more clear democracy