1. Who is the current INEC


Chairman?
Answer: Prof. Mahmood Yakubu

2. The first female Brigadier in Nigeria?
Answer: Ronke Kale

3. Who is the current Secretary-General of the UN?

Answer: António Guterres

4. Which state in Nigeria has the smallest number of LGAs?
Answer: Bayelsa, with only 8 LGAs.

5. When was the United Nations Organisation formed?
Answer: 25th April 1945

6. What does the acronym NUPENA mean?

Answer: National Union of Petroleum  Natural Gas.

7. What is the motto of Nigeria?
Answer: Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress

8. Which state has the highest percentage of contribution to oil revenue in Nigeria?
Answer: Delta State.

9. How long does it take the earth to complete one revolution?
Answer: 365 days

10. When was the first refinery in Nigeria built?
Answer: 1965

11. When was the Federal Capital Territory created?
Ans: February 3rd, 1976

12. Who was known as the King of afrobeat in Africa?

Ans: Mr Fela Anikulapo Kuti

13. Who was Nigeria’s First Military Head of State?

Ans: Major General Johnson  Aguiyi-Ironsi (3 March 1924 – 29 July 1966)

14. Where was the United Nations Organisation formed?
Ans: San Francisco in California, April 1945

15. How was Sir Dele Giwa killed?
Ans: Through letter bomb

16. When was the Central Bank of Nigeria established?
Ans: March 1958

17. Which authority heads the Nigerian Judiciary?
Ans: The Chief Justice of Nigeria

18. Who was the first Sultan of Sokoto?
Ans: Shehu Usman Danfodio

19. When was Nigerian Airforce established?
Ans: In 1964

20. Who was the last British governor before Nigeria’s independence?

Ans: Sir James Robertson

21. Who was the first Managing Director of NNPC?
Ans: Chief R.A Marinho

22. When did the first world war take place?
Ans: 1914-1919

23. Which is the second most populated country in the world?
Ans: India

24. When did the Nigerian civil war begin?
Ans: July 6,1967

25. The honour of GCFR is meant for?
Ans: Head of States only

26. When did the second world war take place?
Ans: 1939-1945

27. When was Nigeria declared and recognized as a nation?
Ans: October 1, 1960

28. How many continents are there in the world?
Ans: Seven continents

29. What does the colour yellow in the Nigerian police flag signify?
Ans: Discipline and resourcefulness

30. Who is Nigeria’s current minister of finance?
Ans: Zainab Ahmed from Kaduna State.

31. How many senators make up the national assembly of Nigeria?
Ans: 109 senators.

32. What are the personalities immortalized on #50?
Answer: 3 ethnic groups(Wazobia) designed in August 1991.

33. Who designed the first Nigerian national flag & in what year?

Answer:  The flag of Nigeria was designed by Dr Taiwo Akinkunmi, in 1959 and first officially hoisted on 1 October 1960. 

34. In what year did Nigeria practised a parliamentary system of government?

Answer : 1960

35. Who composed the national anthem and in what year?

Answer: Pa. Benedict Odiase in 1978

36. When did ex-president ALH  Musa Yar'adua died?
Answer: 5th May 2010.

37. The first woman to drive a car in Nigeria is?
Answer: Mrs Funmilayo Ransome Kuti

38. The first female pilot is?
Answer: Mrs Chiyere Kalu Onyenucheya

39. Who was the first prime minister in Nigeria?
Answer: Alh. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

40. When was LAGOS annexed as a colony and declared a colony by the British master?
Answer: 6th August 1861 and declared a colony on 5th March 1862.


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