HISTORY
NEW NATIONS EMERGE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The government tried to create a modern economy based on oil income
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The government incited a genocide against the Igboo people
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Nigeria has had a military government for 50 years
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Nigeria has never had military rule
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Detailed explanation-1: -The economic effects of military rule were disastrous. The traditional agricultural based economy was abandoned and they became extremely dependent on exports of oil which due to frequent fluctuations in oil prices led to an unstable economy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria (initially known as the Orlu Crisis) is a military conflict that broke out in the city of Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria on 22 January 2021, when the Nigerian Army moved to crush the paramilitary wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Eastern Security Network (ESN).
Detailed explanation-3: -A coup d’état began in Nigeria on 15 January 1966, when mutinous soldiers led by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Emmanuel Ifeajuna killed 22 people including the prime minister of Nigeria, many senior politicians, many senior Army officers and their wives, and sentinels on protective duty.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nigeria is a federal republic in the sense that there is both a national government and governments of its 36 states and it utilizes the form of government in which the people hold power, but elect representatives to exercise and utilize that power with the executive power exercised by the president.
Detailed explanation-5: -Background. The War Against Indiscipline was announced in March 1984 by Tunde Idiagbon, the Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters and the launch event was held at Tafawa Balewa Square to much fanfare.