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Government Paper 2, Nov/Dec. 2012  
Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Main
General Comments
Weakness/Remedies
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Question 9

State six benefits of the 1946 Richard’s Constitution of Nigeria.

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Observation

This was a very popular and regular question. The candidates performed averagely well in it. However, some candidates failed to satisfy the demands of the question; They mixed it up with other constitutions and thus failed to get good mark. The candidates were expected to provide the following answers to the question:

  1. The Legislative Council consisted of representatives of all the regions for the first time;
  2. The Legislative Council was for the first time to legislate for the whole country;
  3. The legislative Council had an unofficial majority for the first time;
  4. It introduced the concept of Regionalism to give Nigerians a sense of belonging;
            It increased the African membership in the Executive Council to two

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