Military
The year of Nigerian independence
What is 1960?
Major Ethnic group located in Northern Nigeria
Who are the Hausa-Fulani?
A militant group that has threatened to drive out foreign interests of oil if their request for a greater share of the oil profit is not met.
What is Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)?
Type of court in Nigeria that is usually popular in Northern part of Nigeria. The court is based on Islamic law which is taken from Quran.
What is Shari'a?
The lending of small amounts of money at low interest to new businesses in the developing world.
What is micro credit?
Military leader who initiated structural adjustment/market
Who is Babangida? (with the World Bank and IMF)
Major ethnic group of southwest Nigeria
Who are the Yoruba?
This agency registers voters and ,when necessary, audits elections?
What is the INEC? (Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission)
A term used in Nigeria to describe appointing people based on who you know, not what they know. Nigerian government rarely puts someone who does not know the president into a position. This has a similar meaning as nomenkaltura and Guanxi
What is Prebendalism?
The British used this form of colonial control in Nigeria from the 1700's to 1960.
What is indirect rule?
Ken Saro Wiwa is known for this?
being the leader of the MEND movement for the Ogoni people (who felt exploited for oil )
Major ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria
Who are the Igbo?
The current president of Nigeria is a member of this political party
What is the All Progressives Party (APC)?
A state whose revenue depends solely on the export of a natural resource. For Nigeria, this export is oil.
What is a rentier state?
The federal character principle is Nigeria's answer to this problem/ question.
What is the "national question"? (different nationalities/ ethnicities competing for power)
In 1983, led the coup overthrowing the second republic. Recently served as Nigeria's president.
Who is Muhammadu Buhari ?
Nigeria has the second largest epidemic of this infection in the world.
What is HIV/AIDS?
What was the political party of Goodluck Jonathan, who defied the tradition of alternating presidents from the north and the south AND was the first incumbent president in Nigeria to lose an election in 2015
What is the People's Democratic Party (PDP)?
The First Republic was the government of Nigeria between 1963 and 1966. It was governed by the first republican constitution, which provided for this form of government.
What is (Westminster) parliamentary ?
Literally translated to 'Western Education is a sin', this Nigerian Islamist group believes that Shari'a law should be implemented in Nigeria as a whole.
What is Boko Haram?
This militarized conflict took place from 1967-1970, though it's causes destabilize Nigeria even today?
What is the Biafra War/ Nigerian Civil War
As a reflection of Nigeria's diversity, a presidential win requires this quota of the vote be upheld
25% of the vote in 2/3 of states
This is the acronym of Nigeria's parastatal oil company.
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) ?
A company or agency owned wholly or partially by the government.
What is parastatal?
The administrative regime between Northern and southern Nigeria with no distinct ethnic or religious majority
What is the middle belt?