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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Nigeria with the correct year: The history of Nigeria can be traced to the earliest inhabitants from at least 9000 BC through to early civilizations such as the…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Nigeria with the correct year: In the East African campaign of ______, Nigerian regiments achieved the first major success against the Axis powers with the faste…
  3. Complete the sentence about Oyo Empire with the correct year: The founding of Oyo is regarded as ______, but this is only estimated through backtracking the chronology.
  4. Complete the sentence about Oyo Empire with the correct year: Sometime around ______, the Nupe occupied Oyo and forced its ruling dynasty to take refuge in the kingdom of Borgu.
  5. Complete the sentence about Sokoto Caliphate with the correct year: The caliphate emerged after the Hausa King Yunfa attempted to assassinate Usman Dan Fodio in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Sokoto Caliphate with the correct year: To escape persecution, Usman and his followers migrated towards Gudu in February ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Sokoto Caliphate with the correct year: By ______, the Sokoto Caliphate had gained control over Hausaland and several surrounding states.
  8. Complete the sentence about Sokoto Caliphate with the correct year: In ______, the twelfth and last caliph Attahiru was assassinated by British forces, marking the end of the caliphate.
  9. Complete the sentence about Yoruba people with the correct year: In his work Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains c.______ the English ethnologist Richard F.
  10. Complete the sentence about Yoruba people with the correct year: Burton reports of an account in ______, noting that the name "Yoruba" derives from Ori Obba, i.e. -The Head King.
  11. Complete the sentence about Royal Niger Company with the correct year: One of the survivors, Macgregor Laird, subsequently remained in Britain but directed and funded expeditions to the country until…
  12. Complete the sentence about Royal Niger Company with the correct year: The company changed its name to The Niger Company Ltd and in ______ became part of the United Africa Company.
  13. Complete the sentence about Lagos Colony with the correct year: Lagos was annexed on 6 August ______ under the threat of force by Commander Beddingfield of HMS Prometheus who was accompanied by the Ac…
  14. Complete the sentence about Amalgamation of Nigeria with the correct year: Colonial Nigeria formed part of the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth century until 1 October ______, when Nigeria achie…
  15. Complete the sentence about Amalgamation of Nigeria with the correct year: British influence in the Niger area increased gradually in the course of the 19th century, but Britain did not effectively oc…
  16. Complete the sentence about Amalgamation of Nigeria with the correct year: In ______, the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate passed from company hands to the Crown.
  17. Complete the sentence about Frederick Lugard with the correct year: In ______ the African Lakes Company set up a base in Karonga to exchange ivory for trade goods from the Swahili merchants.
  18. Complete the sentence about Frederick Lugard with the correct year: The series of intermittent armed clashes that took place up to mid-______ is known as the Karonga War or sometimes the "Arab War".
  19. Complete the sentence about Frederick Lugard with the correct year: Lugard's first expedition of May to June ______ attacked the Swahili stockades with limited success, and in the course of one attack…
  20. Complete the sentence about Frederick Lugard with the correct year: Following the second failure, Lugard left the Lake Malawi region for Britain in April ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Flora Shaw with the correct year: Shaw first took advantage of a journalistic opportunity while she was staying with family friends in Gibraltar in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Herbert Macaulay with the correct year: Herbert Macaulay was born on 14 November ______ on Broad Street, Lagos, to the family of Thomas Babington Macaulay and Abigail Crowt…
  23. Complete the sentence about Herbert Macaulay with the correct year: In ______, he joined his maternal uncle's trade steamer and embarked on a trade and missionary journey across the Niger River visiti…
  24. Complete the sentence about Herbert Macaulay with the correct year: Thereafter, with the support of the colonial administration, Macaulay left Lagos on 1 July ______ to further his training in England…
  25. Complete the sentence about Herbert Macaulay with the correct year: In ______, he became a graduate of the Royal Institute of British Architects, London.
  26. Complete the sentence about Nnamdi Azikiwe with the correct year: Azikiwe was born on 16 November ______ in Zungeru, Northern Nigeria.
  27. Complete the sentence about Ahmadu Bello with the correct year: In ______, Bello was made the District Head of Rabah by Sultan Hassan dan Mu'azu, succeeding his brother.
  28. Complete the sentence about Ahmadu Bello with the correct year: In ______, he traveled to England on a government scholarship to study Local Government Administration, which broadened his understandin…
  29. Complete the sentence about Ahmadu Bello with the correct year: In ______, Bello became the first Premier of Northern Nigeria.
  30. Complete the sentence about Abubakar Tafawa Balewa with the correct year: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was born in the village of Tafawa Balewa in Lere district of Bauchi province, Northern Nigeria Protecto…
  31. Complete the sentence about Abubakar Tafawa Balewa with the correct year: In ______ he moved to Lagos as a member of the central house of representatives, and became minister of works.
  32. Complete the sentence about Abubakar Tafawa Balewa with the correct year: When the ______ federal constitution was established, Balewa was selected as one of the three northern members of the council…
  33. Complete the sentence about Abubakar Tafawa Balewa with the correct year: In ______, NPC won the plurality of votes in the Federal House of Representatives and Balewa became the Chief Minister and des…
  34. Complete the sentence about Nigerian First Republic with the correct year: A new constitution declaring the nation a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations was adopted in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Nigerian First Republic with the correct year: Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi took control as the first Head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria on January 1…
  36. Complete the sentence about 1966 Nigerian coup d'état with the correct year: In the ______ regional elections, Chief Ladoke Akintola emerged as the winner in the Western Region.
  37. Complete the sentence about 1966 Nigerian coup d'état with the correct year: The president of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe left the country in late ______, first for Europe, then on a cruise to the Caribbe…
  38. Complete the sentence about 1966 Nigerian coup d'état with the correct year: The military was at that time actively deployed in Lagos to police the insecurity in the Western region following the _____…
  39. Complete the sentence about Nigerian Civil War with the correct year: Immediate causes of the war in ______ included a military coup, a counter-coup, and anti-Igbo pogroms in the Northern Region.
  40. Complete the sentence about Nigerian Civil War with the correct year: In mid-______, images of malnourished and starving Biafran children saturated the mass media of Western countries.
  41. Complete the sentence about Nigerian Civil War with the correct year: Nigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October ______, with a population of 45.2 million made up of more than 30…
  42. Complete the sentence about Biafra with the correct year: In ______, Nigeria became independent from the United Kingdom.
  43. Complete the sentence about Biafra with the correct year: In ______, an ethnic riot flared up in Jos, in which Hausa-Fulani people targeted Igbo people and left at least two dead and wounded.
  44. Complete the sentence about Biafra with the correct year: A decade later, in ______ and during the Western political crisis, the Western Region was divided as Ladoke Akintola clashed with Obafemi Awol…
  45. Complete the sentence about Odumegwu Ojukwu with the correct year: Biafra eventually capitulated to Nigerian forces in ______ after millions of Biafran civilians died.
  46. Complete the sentence about Murtala Mohammed with the correct year: As a conservative and federalist, Murtala regretted the overthrow of the First Republic and the promulgation of Aguiyi Ironsi's unif…
  47. Complete the sentence about Murtala Mohammed with the correct year: In ______, he obtained a school leaving certificate and applied to join the Nigerian army later in the year.
  48. Complete the sentence about Olusegun Obasanjo with the correct year: In the late 1960s, he played a major role in combating Biafran separatists during the Nigerian Civil War, accepting their surrender…
  49. Complete the sentence about Olusegun Obasanjo with the correct year: In ______, a military coup established a junta with Obasanjo as part of its ruling triumvirate.
  50. Complete the sentence about Olusegun Obasanjo with the correct year: Committed to restoring democracy, Obasanjo oversaw the ______ election, after which he transferred control of Nigeria to the newly…
  51. Complete the sentence about Olusegun Obasanjo with the correct year: Obasanjo was openly critical of Abacha's administration and in ______ was arrested and convicted of being part of a planned coup, d…
  52. Complete the sentence about Shehu Shagari with the correct year: Shehu Usman Shagari was born on 25 February ______ in Shagari to a Sunni Muslim Fulani family.
  53. Complete the sentence about Muhammadu Buhari with the correct year: Buhari was a main figure behind the ______ Nigerian coup d'état which led to the overthrow of the Second Republic.
  54. Complete the sentence about Muhammadu Buhari with the correct year: On 27 August ______, he was overthrown in a palace coup led by General Ibrahim Babangida.
  55. Complete the sentence about Muhammadu Buhari with the correct year: Muhammadu Buhari was born on 17 December ______, in Daura, now in Katsina State, Nigeria.
  56. Complete the sentence about Ibrahim Babangida with the correct year: Ibrahim Babangida was born on 17 August ______ in Minna to Muhammad and Aisha Babangida.
  57. Complete the sentence about Ibrahim Babangida with the correct year: Babangida joined the Nigerian Army on 10 December ______, where he attended the Nigerian Military Training College in Kaduna.
  58. Complete the sentence about Ibrahim Babangida with the correct year: Babangida attended the Indian Military Academy from April to September ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Sani Abacha with the correct year: Abacha's death on 8 June ______ brought about the Nigerian Fourth Republic a year later and he was succeeded as Nigeria's head of state b…
  60. Complete the sentence about Sani Abacha with the correct year: Abacha was definitely involved in all the military coups in Nigeria since July ______ during his military career.
  61. Complete the sentence about Sani Abacha with the correct year: In ______, he fought during the Nigerian Civil War as a platoon and battalion commander.
  62. Complete the sentence about Sani Abacha with the correct year: In ______, Abacha was general officer commanding of the 2nd Mechanised Division, and was appointed a member of the Supreme Military Counc…
  63. Complete the sentence about Ken Saro-Wiwa with the correct year: Kenule Saro-Wiwa was born in Bori, near Port Harcourt, Nigeria, on 10 October ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Ken Saro-Wiwa with the correct year: In the early 1970s, he served as the Regional Commissioner for Education in the Rivers State Cabinet, but was dismissed in ______ becau…
  65. Complete the sentence about Moshood Abiola with the correct year: Abiola ran for the presidency in ______, for which the election results were annulled by then military president Ibrahim Babangida.
  66. Complete the sentence about Moshood Abiola with the correct year: Abiola's support in the June ______ presidential election cut across all geo-political zones and religious divisions.
  67. Complete the sentence about Abdulsalami Abubakar with the correct year: During his leadership, Nigeria adopted a modified version of the ______ constitution, which provided for multiparty elections.
  68. Complete the sentence about Abdulsalami Abubakar with the correct year: Abubakar, an ethnic Hausa, was born on 13 June ______ to Abubakar Jibrin and Fatikande Mohammed, in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria.
  69. Complete the sentence about Abdulsalami Abubakar with the correct year: From January to October ______, he studied at Kaduna Technical College.
  70. Complete the sentence about Abdulsalami Abubakar with the correct year: Abubakar is a member of the pioneering sets of officer cadets who enlisted into the Nigerian Air force on 3 October ______.
  71. Complete the sentence with the correct year: When he returned to Nigeria in ______, he was seconded to the Nigerian Army.
  72. Complete the sentence about Umaru Yar'Adua with the correct year: In ______, Yar'Adua left for Saudi Arabia to receive treatment for pericarditis.
  73. Complete the sentence about Umaru Yar'Adua with the correct year: In ______ he received a Higher School Certificate from Barewa College.
  74. Complete the sentence about Goodluck Jonathan with the correct year: In ______, Jonathan became the first Nigerian president to concede election defeat.
  75. Complete the sentence about Goodluck Jonathan with the correct year: Jonathan was born on 20 November ______ in Ogbia to a Christian Ijaw family of canoe makers, in Otuoke, Bayelsa State.
  76. Complete the sentence about Goodluck Jonathan with the correct year: Before entering into politics in ______, Jonathan worked as an education inspector, a lecturer and an environmental-protection offi…
  77. Complete the sentence about Fourth Nigerian Republic with the correct year: On 29 May ______, Obasanjo was sworn in as the country's president and commander-in-chief.
  78. Complete the sentence about Fourth Nigerian Republic with the correct year: In the controversial general election on 21 April ______, Umaru Yar'Adua of the PDP was elected president.
  79. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Nigeria with the correct year: Westminster approved a new constitution for Nigeria in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about President of Nigeria with the correct year: On 1 October ______, Nigeria gained independence from Britain.
  81. Complete the sentence about President of Nigeria with the correct year: On 16 November ______, Nnamdi Azikiwe became the first governor-general of a federation of three regions of the north, east and…
  82. Complete the sentence about President of Nigeria with the correct year: On 1 October ______, Nigeria became a federal republic thereby abolishing its monarchy, but remained a member of the Commonwealt…
  83. Complete the sentence about President of Nigeria with the correct year: An amendment to the ______ Independence Constitution replaced the office of the governor-general with that of the president.
  84. Complete the sentence about President of Nigeria with the correct year: General Obasanjo was responsible for completing the democratic transition begun by his predecessor, which culminated in an elect…
  85. Complete the sentence about President of Nigeria with the correct year: In ______, Nigeria adopted a federal presidential constitution.
  86. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Nigeria with the correct year: In ______, the Federal Republic of Nigeria was proclaimed and Nnamdi Azikiwe became its first President.
  87. Complete the sentence about Politics of Nigeria with the correct year: Nigeria became a member of the British Commonwealth upon its independence from British colonial rule on 1 October ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Federal Capital Territory with the correct year: The FCT was formed in ______ from parts of the states of old Kaduna, Kwara, Niger, and Plateau states, with the bulk of lan…
  89. Complete the sentence about Federal Capital Territory with the correct year: The Federal Capital Territory was created upon the promulgation of decree number 6 of ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Boko Haram with the correct year: On 7 March ______, Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
  91. Complete the sentence about Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping with the correct year: The girls kidnapped in Chibok in ______ are only a small percentage of the total number of people abducted by Boko Hara…
  92. Complete the sentence about Nigerian Armed Forces with the correct year: The origin of the Nigerian Armed Forces lies in the elements of the Royal West African Frontier Force, that became Nigerian whe…
  93. Complete the sentence about Nigerian Armed Forces with the correct year: Olusegun Obasanjo, who by ______, had become president, bemoaned the fact in his inaugural address that year: "...
  94. Complete the sentence about Nigerian Army with the correct year: The Nigerian Army traces its history to Lieutenant John Hawley Glover's Constabulary Force, which was largely composed of freed Hausa s…
  95. Complete the sentence about Nigerian Army with the correct year: In November ______, the U.S. intelligence community concluded the following: "The Nigerian Civil War ended with surprisingly little ran…
  96. Complete the sentence about Nigerian Navy with the correct year: According to the ______ Ranking of the Global Firepower Index, it has a naval fleet size of 153 vessels, making it the largest naval fo…
  97. Complete the sentence about Nigerian Navy with the correct year: In July ______, the Nigerian Naval Force was transformed into a full-fledged Navy when Queen Elizabeth II granted permission for it to…
  98. Complete the sentence about Nigerian Navy with the correct year: The name was changed to the "Nigerian Navy" in ______ after Nigeria became a republic.
  99. Complete the sentence about Nigerian Navy with the correct year: The new law, known as the Navy Act of ______, for the first time tasked the Navy with the "naval defence of Nigeria".
  100. Complete the sentence about Nigerian Air Force with the correct year: Although an air force was originally proposed in ______, many lawmakers preferred to rely on the United Kingdom for air defense.

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