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Commonly misspelled words
A–B
absence
acceptable
accidentally/accidently
accommodate* –
achieve
acknowledge
acquaintance – acquaintence, aquaintance[3]
acquire
acquit
acreage
admitted -admmitted
address]
adultery
advisable
affect
aggression*
aggressive
allegiance*
almost
a lot*
amateur* – amatuer, amature[4]
annually – anually, annualy[3]
apparent* – apparant, aparent, apparrent, aparrent[4]
arctic* – artic[3]
argument – arguement[1][4]
atheist – athiest, athist[3][4]
awful* – awfull, aweful[3]
because – becuase[3]
beautiful – beatiful[3]
becoming – becomeing[3]
beginning – begining[3]
believe – beleive[4]
bellwether** – bellweather[3][4]
buoy/buoyant** – bouy/bouyant[3]
business** – buisness[1]
C–D
calendar – calender[3][4]
camouflage** – camoflage, camoflague[3]
capitol – capital[3] (both words exist, but are distinct)
Caribbean** – Carribean[3]
category – catagory[3][4]
caught – cauhgt, caugt[3]
cemetery* – cemetary,[1] cematery[3]
changeable* – changable[3][4]
chief – cheif[3]
colleague – collaegue, collegue[3]
column – colum[4]
coming – comming[3]
committed *– commited, comitted[3][4]
comparison – comparsion
concede – conceed[3]
congratulate – congradulate[3]
conscientious – consciencious[3][4]
conscious – concious, consious[4]
consensus – concensus[1][3][4]
controversy – contraversy[1]
coolly – cooly[3]
daiquiri* – dacquiri, daquiri[4]
deceive – decieve[1][3]
definite – definate,[1] definit[4]
definitely – definitly,[4] definately, defiantly
desperate* – desparate[1][3]
difference – diffrence[3]
dilemma – dilema[3]
disappoint* – dissapoint[1]
disastrous – disasterous[3]
drunkenness** – drunkeness[4]
dumbbell* – dumbell[4]
E–H
embarrass* – embarass[1][4]
equipment – equiptment (wrong in numerous webpages)[4]
exceed – excede[4]
exhilarate* – exilerate[4]
existence – existance[4]
experience – experiance[4]
extreme – extreem[1]
fascinating – facinating[1]
fiery – firey[4]
fluorescent* – flourescent[1]
foreign – foriegn[4]
friend – freind[1]
fulfill* – fullfil (American: fulfill)[1]
gauge – guage[1][4]
grateful* – gratefull, greatful[1][4]
great – grate, grat[1][4]
guarantee – garantee, garentee, garanty[1][4][10]
guidance – guidence[10]
harass** – harrass[1][4]
height – heighth, heigth[4]
hierarchy – heirarchy[4]
hors d'oeuvres* – hors derves, ordeurves[3]
humorous* – humerous[4]
hygiene – hygene, hygine, hiygeine, higeine, hygeine[3]
hypocrisy/hypocrite – hipocrit[1][3]
I–K
ignorance – ignorence[4]
imitate – immitate[3]
immediately – imediately[1][4]
indict* – indite[4]
independent – independant[4][7]
indispensable – indispensible[4]
inoculate** – innoculate[4]
intelligence – inteligence, intelligance[4]
jewelry* (UK: jewellery*) – jewelery[4]
judgment – judgement (issue in the U.S.)[4]
kernel – kernal, distinct from homophone "colonel"[4]
L–O
leisure* – liesure[4]
*liaison – liason[1][4]
library – libary, liberry[4]
license – lisence[4] (US always license, UK noun licence)[1]
lightning – lightening[4]
lose – loose[11]
maintenance – maintainance, maintnance[1]
*marshmallow – marshmellow[1][4]
*medieval – medeval, medevil, mideval[4]
memento – momento[4]
*millennium – millenium, milennium[1][4]
miniature – miniture[1][4]
*minuscule – miniscule[1][4]
*mischievous – mischievious, mischevous, mischevious (The spelling
"mischievious" and the corresponding pronunciation are still considered non-
standard despite being current and existing since at least the 16th century.)[4][12]
misspell – mispell, misspel[1][4]
*necessary – neccessary, necessery[1]
niece – neice[1]
neighbour – nieghbor[4]
*noticeable – noticable[4]
*occasion – occassion[1]
occasionally – occasionaly, occassionally[4]
*occurrence – occurrance, occurence[4]
occurred – occured[1]
*omission – ommision, omision[1]
original – orignal[1]
outrageous – outragous[1]
P–Q
parliament – parliment[1]
pastime – passtime, pasttime[4]
perceive – percieve[1]
*perseverance – perseverence[4]
personnel – personell, personel[4]
plagiarize – plagerize[3]
playwright – playright, playwrite[4]
*possession – posession, possesion[1][4]
*potatoes – potatos[1]
precede – preceed[4]
presence – presance[1]
principle – principal[4]
*privilege – privelege, priviledge[1][4]
*professor – professer[3]
*protester – protestor[13]
promise – promiss[10]
*pronunciation – pronounciation[4]
proof – prufe[10]
prophecy (as noun) – prophesy (valid as verb)[3]
*publicly – publically[4]
quarantine – quarentine[3]
queue – que (from Bar-B-Que)[3]
questionnaire – questionaire, questionnair[1]
R–S
readable – readible[8]
really – realy[1]
receive – recieve[1][4]
receipt – reciept[4]
*recommend – recomend, reccommend[1][4]
referred – refered[4]
*reference – referance, referrence, refrence[4]
relevant – relevent, revelant[3][4]
religious – religous, religius[10]
repetition – repitition[10]
*restaurant – restarant, restaraunt[4]
rhyme – rime[4]
rhythm – rythm, rythem[1][4]
secretary – secratary, secretery[1]
*seize – sieze[1]
separate – seperate[1][4]
*sergeant – sargent[4]
similar – similer[1]
*skilful – skilfull (American: skillful)[1]
speech – speach, speeche (archaic)[10]
successful – succesful, successfull, sucessful[1]
*supersede – supercede[4]
surprise – suprise, surprize[1]
T–Z
than – then[14]
their – there, they're[4]
tomatoes – tomatos[1]
*tomorrow – tommorow, tommorrow[1]
twelfth – twelth[4]
*tyranny – tyrany[4]
underrate – underate[4]
until – untill[4]
*upholstery – upholstry[4]
usable/useable – usible[9]
vacuum – vaccuum, vaccum, vacume[4]
vehicle – vehical[1]
*vicious – visious[1]
weather – wether, whether[4]
weird – wierd[1][4]
welfare – wellfare, welfair[3]
whether – wether[3]
**wilful – wilfull (American: willful)[1]
**withhold – withold[1]
writing – writting, writeing[10]
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Answer: June 12
12. Who was the first writer of English Dictionary in the world?
Answer: Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Oct. 1st, 1960 – Jan. 15th, 1966
Answer: Platinum
Answer: 1972
28. What country does Nigeria share borders within the West?
Answer: Republic of Benin. It shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad
and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
Answer: Australia
31. What agency is the Economic Commission for Africa part of?
32. Who what set of people does political sovereignty belongs to?
34. For what reason was Nigeria suspended from the Commonwealth in 1995?
37. People who live by selling labour in the Marxist theory are called?
Answer: Proletariats
40. When did the Duke and Duchess of Sussex leave the royal family?
Answer: 1918
Answer: 774
43. Which state in Nigeria has the largest number of Local Government Areas?
45. When did the Federal Military Government abolish the four regions?
Answer: 1966
46. How many countries constitute the Economic Community of West African States?
Answer: 16
47. Which country was the last to win independence from colonial rule?
Answer: Angola
Answer: A confederation
Answer: Monarchy
51. Which is the largest city in Nigeria?
Answer: Lagos
52. How many states were created by General Yakubu Gowon in Nigeria, May 1967?
Answer: 12 states
68. Who released Nelson Mandela when he was arrested as an apartheid prisoner?
70. Which state has the highest percentage of contribution to oil revenue in Nigeria?
72. How long does it take the earth to complete one revolution?
Answer: 1965
74. When was the Federal Capital Territory created?
Ans: 1958
Ans: In 1964
Ans: 1939-1945
Ans: 52years
92. What does the red eagle on the Nigerian coat of arms depict?
Ans: Strength
96. What does the colour yellow in the Nigerian police flag signify?
98. Who was the first secretary general of United Nations Organisations?
101. How many senatorial districts are the 36 states divided into?
102. How many members does the house of representative of Nigeria have?
Ans: Portuguese
106. When did the outbreak of American civil war take place?
Ans: 1848-1861
107. Who was the first president of the United States of America?
109. What does the green in the Nigerian police flag represent?
Ans: 1914
114. How many states make up the South-South geo-political zone in Nigeria?
Ans: Neptune
Ans: 1972
Ans: 2001
135. Who was the first indigenous speaker of the House of Representative?
137. How long does it take the Mars to complete one revolution?
138. Which of Nigeria’s past president is also known as an ambassador for peace?
Ans: Petroleum
Ans: 44 countries
151. Who is the current EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) Chairman?
Answer: Muhammadu Buhari
Answer: Herbert Macaulay
Question 8: What does the eagle in the Nigerian coat of arm represent?
Answer: Strength
Question 9: What do the two horses on the Nigerian coat of arm represent?
Answer: Dignity
Question 10: What was the black shield in the Nigerian coat of arm stand for?
Question 11: What does the white colour in Nigerian flag stand for?
Answer: Peace
Answer: Calabar
Answer: Abuja
Question 16: What is the name of Nigerian senior national team in football (men team)?
Answer: Super Eagles
Question 17: When did Nigerian Golden eaglets win the world under-17 FIFA world cup
Question 18: Who was the first female vice chancellor in Nigerian university?
Answer: Flora Shaw
Answer: Bob Jensen
Answer: 1914
Answer: Wole Soyinka
Answer: University of Ibadan
Answer: Adamu Adamu
Question 33: When was the first military coup carried out in Nigeria?
Answer: 1966
Answer: 774
Answer: Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, Arctic Ocean
Answer: Great Britain
Answer: 100 years
Question 54: Mention five rivers in Nigeria that share their names with a state.
Answer: Rivers – Benue, Niger, Osun, Kaduna, Ogun, Sokoto, Cross River, Imo
Question 55: What does the eagle in the Nigerian coat of arm represent?
Answer: Strength
Answer: Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Evan Enwerem, Chuba Okadigbo, Anyim Pius Anyim,
Adolphus Wabara, Ken Nnamani, David Mark, Bukola Saraki, Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan
Question 57: What do the two horses on the Nigerian coat of arm represent?
Answer: Dignity
Question 58: What was the black shield in the Nigerian coat of arm stand for?
Question 59: What does the white colour in Nigerian flag stand for?
Answer: Peace
Answer: Calabar
Question 67: When did Nigerian Golden eaglets win the world under-17 FIFA world cup
Answer: Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, Arctic Ocean
Answer: 100 Naira:1999, 200 Naira in 2000, 500 Naira in 2001 and 1000 Naira on
October 12, 2005
Answer: 43
Answer: Nigeria is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of
Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north
Question 78: While political partial parties aim at forming a government pressure groups
aim at
Question 80: An election which is conducted to fill a vacant seat in a legislature is called
a
Answer: by election
Answer: France
Question 85: A proclamation by the head of state ending a session of parliament is called
Answer: a dissolution
Answer: delegation
Answer: farmers
Question 91: The N.C.N.C sent a delegation to London in 1947 to protest against the
Answer: Richards constitution
Question 92: A popular principle of colonial administration in British west Africa was
Answer: indirect rule
Answer: 1959
Answer: general assembly
Answer: 1976
Question 98: A parliamentary system, who ensures that members are in the house to vote
on major issues
Answer: Whip
Question 99: A system in which no single person serves as the chief executive is known
as
Answer: Parliamentary
Question 100: A social system in which power is derived from control over land is called
Answer: Feudalism
Answer: Anonymity
Question 103: Which of these constitution recognized local government as the third tier
of government
Question 104: A condition for judicial independence is the appointment of judges by the
Question 107: One of these was in existence before the outbreak of the second world war
Question 112: Africans were first elected to the legislative council in British West Africa
in
Answer: Ghana
Answer: Ahmadu Bello
Answer: The earliest democracy in the world began with the work of a man named
Cleisthenes, in Athens (Greece), in 510 BC.
Question 116: In the Marxist theory, those who live by selling their labour are called
Answer: Proletariats
Answer: The community
Question 120: A bill that applies to the whole population and is intended to promote the
general welfare is called
Answer:
S. No State Capital
Question 122: Current Governors of Nigeria’s 36 States
Answer:
Answer: Godwin Emefiele
Question 124: When was the Nigeria 2019 General Election held?
Answer: February 23 2019
Answer: Rivers- Benue, Niger, Osun, Kaduna, Ogun, Sokoto, Cross River, Imo
Question: What does the eagle in the Nigerian coat of arm represent?
Answer: Strength
Question: What do the two horses on the Nigerian coat of arm represent?
Answer: Dignity
Question: What was the black shield in the Nigerian coat of arm stand for?
Question: What does the white colour in Nigerian flag stand for?
Answer: Peace
Answer: Calabar
Question: When did Nigerian Golden eaglets win the world under-17 FIFA world cup?
Answer: Germany
Question: When was the first military coup carried out in Nigeria?
Answer: 1966
Answer: Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, Arctic
Ocean
Answer: 100 Naira:1999, 200 Naira in 2000, 500 Naira in 2001 and 1000 Naira on
October 12, 2005.
Answer: 38
Answer: NNDP
Answer: Strength
7. While political partial parties aim at forming a government pressure groups aim at
8. When the electorate vote for representatives who is turn vote on their behalf we say it
is
Answer: by election
Answer: France
Answer: a dissolution
Answer: delegation
20. The N.C.N.C sent a delegation to London in 1947 to protest against the
Answer: Richards constitution
1. Traditional rulers were restricted to ceremonial rules by the local government reforms
of
Answer: 1976
2. A parliamentary system, who ensures that members are in the house to vote on major
issues
Answer: Whip
3. A system in which no single person serves as the chief executive is known as
Answer: Parliamentary
4. A social system in which power is derived from control over land is called
Answer: Feudalism
Answer: Anonymity
11. One of these was in existence before the outbreak of the second world war
16. Africans were first elected to the legislative council in British West Africa in
Answer: Ghana
20. In the Marxist theory, those who live by selling their labour are called
Answer: Proletariats
Answer: Riots
Answer: Executives
25. A bill that applies to the whole population and is intended to promote the general
welfare is called
Answer: An Appropriation bill
(A) Nation
(B) Kinship
(C) Clan
(D) Nation
(2) Which of the following made the earliest contact with the Nigerian society?
(A) British
(B) Portuguese
(C) French
(D) German
(5) Between 1960 and 1966 Nigeria was governed under the
(A) Presidential system
(6) One major factor that differentiate the presidential from the parliament system
is
(A) where camera men are allowed to cover the proceedings of legislature
(9) A major issues that distinguishes pressure groups from political parties is
(A) membership
(A) An act
(C). A decree
(14) The fundamental assumption on which the idea of the rule of law is based is
(A) Supremacy at the constitution
(17) The set of policies on the basis of which countries interact with one another is
called
(A) diplomacy
(18) After the defeat of Germany in world war 1, her former colonies were
administered under the league of nation as
(C)crown colonies
(D) protectorates
Answers:
Question: What does the eagle in the Nigerian coat of arm represent?
Answer: Strength
Question: What do the two horses on the Nigerian coat of arm represent?
Answer: Dignity
Question: What was the black shield in the Nigerian coat of arm stand for?
Question: What does the white colour in Nigerian flag stand for?
Answer: Peace
Answer: Calabar
Answer: Abuja
Question: What is the name of Nigerian senior national team in football (men team)?
Question: When did Nigerian Golden eaglets win the world under-17 FIFA world cup
Question: Who was the first female vice chancellor in Nigerian university?
Answer: 1914
Question: When was the first military coup carried out in Nigeria?
Answer: 1966
Answer: 774
Answer: ASIA with population of 3,641,000,000 while Australia & Oceania is the smallest
continent
Answer: Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, Arctic Ocean
Answer: 1963
Answer: Nigeria officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic
comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Nigeria is located in West Africa
and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east,
and Niger in the north.
A) The government
B) An anthem
C) A national flag
D) The constitution
Question: Which of the following best describes French colonial policy in Africa?
A) policy assimilation
B) policy of casus belli
C) policy of hostility
D) policy of association
Question: A political concept that defines the beliefs, attitudes and values of a society is called
A) Referendum
B) Political socialization
C) Political culture
D) Political transformation
Question: Africans were first elected to the legislative council in British West Africa in
A) Sierra Leone
B) The Gambia
C) Ghana
D) Nigeria
A) Common ancestry
B) Common history
C) A shared set of values
D) All of the above
A) General election
B) By election
C) Primary election
D) Plebiscite
Question: Mention five rivers in Nigeria that share their names with a state.
Answer: Rivers- Benue, Niger, Osun, Kaduna, Ogun, Sokoto, Cross River, Imo
Question: What does the eagle in the Nigerian coat of arm represent?
Answer: Strength
Answer: Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Evan Enwerem, Chuba Okadigbo, Anyim Pius Anyim, Adolphus
Wabara, Ken Nnamani, David Mark
Question: What do the two horses on the Nigerian coat of arm represent?
Answer: Dignity
Question: What was the black shield in the Nigerian coat of arm stand for?
Question: What does the white colour in Nigerian flag stand for?
Answer: Peace
Answer: Calabar
Question: When did Nigerian Golden eaglets win the world under-17 FIFA world cup
Answer: Germany
Question: When was the first military coup carried out in Nigeria?
Answer: 1966
Question: How many local Government do we have in Nigeria?
Answer: 774
Answer: ASIA with population of 3,641,000,000 while Australia & Oceania is the smallest
continent
Answer: Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, Arctic Ocean
Answer: 100 naira:1999, 200 naira in 2000, 500 naira in 2001 and 1000 naira on October 12, 2005.
Answer: 38
Answer: Nigeria is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in
the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north
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Even More Current Affairs Past Questions and Answers About Nigeria
Answer: NNDP
Answer: Buhari
Answer: Osinbanja
Question: What does the eagle in the Nigerian coat of arm represent?
Answer: Strength
Question: While political partial parties aim at forming a government pressure groups aim at
Question: When the electorate vote for representatives who is turn vote on their behalf we say it is
Answer: by election
Answer: France
Answer: a dissolution
Answer: delegation
Answer: farmers
Question: The N.C.N.C sent a delegation to London in 1947 to protest against the
1. Traditional rulers were restricted to ceremonial rules by the local government reforms of
Answer: 1976
2. A parliamentary system, who ensures that members are in the house to vote on major issues
Answer: Whip
Answer: Parliamentary
4. A social system in which power is derived from control over land is called
Answer: Feudalism
Answer: Anonymity
7. Which of these constitution recognized local government as the third tier of government
11. One of these was in existence before the outbreak of the second world war
16. Africans were first elected to the legislative council in British West Africa in
Answer: Ghana
20. In the Marxist theory, those who live by selling their labour are called
Answer: Proletariats
Answer: Riots
Answer: Executives
23. In a democracy, sovereignty is vested in
25. A bill that applies to the whole population and is intended to promote the general welfare is called
Current Affairs Past Questions and Answers About Government and Society
(2) Which of the following made the earliest contact with the Nigerian society
(A) judicial power (B) executive power (C) nominal power (D) concurrent powers
(A) 1989 constitution (B)1963 constitution (C) 1999 constitution (D) 1979 constitution
(5) Between 1960 and 1966 Nigeria was governed under the
(A) presidential system (B) Westminster system (C) confederal system (D) unitary system
(6) One major factor that differentiate the presidential from the parliament system is
(A) separation of power (B) judicial independence (C) passage of bills (D) party system
(A) enthronement of market forces mechanism (B) increasing dominance of the economy by the state
(C) proliferation of public cooperation (D) phenomenal increase in direct foreign investment
(9) A major issues that distinguishes pressure groups from political parties is
(A) membership (B) the objective (C) the voting pattern (D) the ideology
(A) separation of powers (B) checks and balanced (C) the rule of law (D) constitutional law
(A) an act (b) a presidential proclamation (C) A decree (D) a legislative order
(A) invalidate the actions of other arms (B) administer the criminal justice system (C) abrogate the law
(D) apply the law
(A) back benchers in the house (B). Deputy prime minister and assistant ministers (C) rebellious
members of the ruling party (D) portfolio designates. Of the party in opposition.
(14) The fundamental assumption on which the idea of the rule of law is based is
(A). Supremacy at the constitution (B) rationality of human being (C) quality of human being (D) love
for social justice
(15) Association whose main interest is to influence public policies without attempting to capture
state power are
(A) communal group (B) trade union (C) political parties (D) pressure group
(A) africa being the centre piece of Nigeria foreign policy (B) Non-aligned posture in international
affairs (C) quest for a permanent membership (D) membership of internationl organisation.
(17) The set of policies on the basis of which countries interact with one another is called
(A) diplomacy (B) foreign policy (C) National policy (D)international relations
(18) After the defeat of Germany in world war 1, her former colonies were administered under the
league. Of nation as
(A) occupy territory (B) trust territories. (C)crown colonies (D) protectorates
(19) The Nigeria – Cameroon crisis over Bakassi peninsula occurred owning to the interpretation
of the treaty of 1913 and the
(A) resolution of OAU (B) Maroua accord (C) decision of the ecowas (D) decision of the international
court justice
(20) The first Nigeria leader to become chairman organization of african unity was:
(A) Tafawa Balewa (B) Murtala Muhammed (c) Yakuba Gowon. (D) Aguiyi Ironsi
Answers:
1. D
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. A
8. D
9. B
10. C
11. A
12. A
13. D
14. C
15. D
16. D
17. B
18. B
19. B
20. C
1. The military coup of July 25, 1975 which topped general Yakubu Gowon from power took place
when he was attending which important event?
2. Which of the following political parties did not participate in the 1979 General Elections in
Nigeria?
a. Unity Party of Nigeria
b. National Party of Nigeria
c. Social Democratic Party
3. Alhaji Shehu Shagari was sworn in as President of the Federal republic of Nigeria in 1979 by
a. Negotiation
b. Bargaining
c. War
d. The Sea
5. Which of the following courts served as the highest judicial organ for Nigeria up till 1963?
a. Supreme court
b. Federal Court of Appeal
c. Appellate court
d. The privy council
a. 654
b. 650
c. 820
d. 774
a. Edicts
b. Bye law
c. Acts
d. Decrease
8. The centenary anniversary of the amalgamation of Northern and southern Nigeria will be
celebrated in
a. 2060
b. 2063
c. 2014
d. 2007
10. A political concept that defines the beliefs, attitudes and values of a society is called
a. Political socialization
b. Political culture
c. Political transformation
d. Referendum
11. The agent of political socialization generally regarded as the most important is
a. Family
b. Peer group
c. school
d. Churches and Mosques
12. A political ideology that defines a system of societal organization in which the state control the
commanding heights of the economy is called
a. totalitarianism
b. communalism
c. socialism
d. communism
13. Which of the following best describes French colonial policy in Africa?
a. policy of association
b. policy of casus belli
c. policy of hostility
d. policy assimilation
15. In a parliamentary system of government, the function of the head of state and the head of
government are vested in
Answers
1. A
2. C
3. B
4. D
5. D
6. B
7. A
8. C
9. B
10. C
11. B
12. A
13. A
14. D
15. D
16. C