Branches of Govt
The current system is based upon a constitution during this year.
What is 1999?
What is federalism?
This group is dominant in the north and is overwhelmingly Muslim.
What is the Hausa and Fulani?
This is the largest social division in Nigeria
What is an ethnic cleavage?
This area is the source of Nigeria's oil.
What is the Niger Delta?
The Nigerian President is required to appoint ministers from each of the states.
What is federal character principle?
Each ethnic group is allotted a certain portion of federal positions based upon its regional population
What is the federal character principle?
The term length for the President, House of Representatives, and the Senate.
What is four years?
Formed in 2013 as an opposition party and agreed upon Buhari as its candidate in the 2015 presidential election
What is the All Progressive's Congress (APC)?
Nigeria can claims its position as this within Africa
What is Africa's largest economy?
Each state gets three seats and the federal district of Abuja gets one seat.
What is the Senate?
House of Representative and Senate members are elected using this system
What is first-past-the-post?
A political party that has dominated Nigeria since its formation in 1998
What is the People's Democratic Party (PDP)?
What does Nigerian's constitution permit individual states to do with their courts?
What is implement sharia law?
Most Nigerians are employed in this sector.
What is agriculture?
President's alternate between the north and south.
What is zoning?
This ethnic group is concentrated in southeast Nigeria and is predominately Christian
What is the Igbo?
President's alternate between the north and south.
What is zoning?
Terrorist organization in Nigeria
What is Boko Haram?
Natural resources that are abundant and state-controlled support non-democratic rule
What is a resource curse?
A ruler depends on a collection of supporters within the state who gain direct benefits in return for enforcing the ruler's will
What is patrimonialism?
What was significant about the 2015 presidential election?
What is Nigeria's first election defeat of an incumbent and the transition to another political party?
A presidential needs this to win an election
What is an overall majority and at least 25% in at least 2/3 of the states?
This group sought to ensure more financial benefits with fewer environmental costs from oil interests in the Niger Delta.
What is the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP)?
Opposition parties merged into this party
What is the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA)?