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100
The year of Nigerian independence
What is 1960?
100
Major Ethnic group located in Northern Nigeria
Who are the Hausa-Fulani?
100
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)?
100
Other 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?
100
The lending of small amounts of money at low interest to new businesses in the developing world.
What is micro credit?
200
Military leader who initiated structural adjustment/market
Who is Babangida?
200
Major ethnic group of West Africa
Who are the Yoruba?
200
Its mission is to promote economic integration in "all fields of economic activity, particularly industry, transport, telecommunications, energy, agriculture, natural resources, commerce, monetary and financial questions, social and cultural matters ....."
What is the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS)?
200
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 is a exact same term as nomenkaltura and Guanxi
What is Prebendalism?
200
The idea that governors in Nigeria had to serve both the interests imperialists and Industrialists in Britain while also promoting many Nigerians to clerical and administrative positions.
What is Dual Mandate?
300
A group of northern army officers revolted against the government in 1966 putting this into action
What is military rule?
300
Major ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria
Who are the Igbo?
300
Organized the elections of 1979, which ushered in the Second Republic under the leadership of Alhaji Shehu Shagari. It also conducted the general elections of 1983.
What is the Federal Electoral Commission (FEDECO)?
300
A state whose revenue depends solely on the export of a natural resource. For Nigeria, this export is oil. In most cases this causes the country to be independent from the rest of society.
What is a rentier state?
300
The combination of a nation's revenue and the majority of it's hard currency that is earned through the productive sectors of economic industries, such as oil.
What is rents?
400
Formally established in January 1964 with technical assistance from West Germany.
What is the Nigerian Air Force?
400
In Nigeria, an estimated 3.6 percent of the population are living with this.
What is HIV/AIDS?
400
Found on page 273
What is NEEDS?
400
Dependence on mutually beneficial hierarchal systems which prevent actual participation by people not in the system.
What are patron-client relations?
400
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?
500
This Section of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria addresses the Nigerian Armed Forces
What is section 217?
500
The expectation that a rotation of religious representation within the presidency will occur each year.
What is ethnic rotation?
500
An African Union strategic framework for pan-African socio-economic development, is both a vision and a policy framework for Africa in the twenty-first century.
What is the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)?
500
A company or agency owned wholly or partially by the government.
What is parastatal?
500
The administrative regime between Northern and southern Nigeria with no distinct ethnic or religious majority
What is the middle belt?