Q 01/05

Nigeria's defence ministry ordered 16 million tonnes of which material in 1974–75, jamming the Port of Lagos for a year?

A) Steel

B) Cement

C) Timber

D) Glass

Answer · why

B) Cement

Cement arrived in such volume that half the world's supply steered toward Lagos, far beyond what the port could unload. The ministry needed under thre...

Q 02/05

The Nok culture, first unearthed in a Kaduna State tin mine in 1928, is famed for figures made of which material?

A) Terracotta

B) Bronze

C) Limestone

D) Soapstone

Answer · why

A) Terracotta

Terracotta figures from Nok are the earliest known large-scale sculptures in sub-Saharan Africa. The first one surfaced 24 feet down in an alluvial ti...

Q 03/05

Which novelist twice refused Nigeria's Commander of the Federal Republic honour, in 2004 and again in 2011?

A) Cyprian Ekwensi

B) Chinua Achebe

C) Buchi Emecheta

D) Elechi Amadi

Answer · why

B) Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe said the reasons for rejecting the offer when it was first made had not been addressed, let alone solved. He had served Biafra as a rovi...

Q 04/05

Which Ogoni writer's 1995 hanging with eight others got Nigeria suspended from the Commonwealth?

A) Isaac Boro

B) Gani Fawehinmi

C) Ken Saro-Wiwa

D) Tai Solarin

Answer · why

C) Ken Saro-Wiwa

Ken Saro-Wiwa had led a peaceful campaign against oil companies' pollution of Ogoni land before a special military tribunal condemned him. The Commonw...

Q 05/05

Which military governor of the Eastern Region declared the Republic of Biafra on 30 May 1967?

A) Odumegwu Ojukwu

B) Alexander Madiebo

C) Emmanuel Ifeajuna

D) Benjamin Adekunle

Answer · why

A) Odumegwu Ojukwu

Odumegwu Ojukwu declared independence after an official vote of secession in the Eastern Region, months after peace talks collapsed. He handed over to...