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CURRENT AFFAIRS
Answer the past questions and answers below:
Q1: Which of the following is the core duty of the Nigeria Navy?
Answer: C
Q2: The NN was brought out of the Nigerian police force (NPF) in (a) 1946
(b) 1956
(c) 1958
(d) 1964
Answer: C
Q3: The NN was formally established by the act of parliament (a) 1963
(b) 1957
(c) 1964
(d) 1976
Answer: A
Q4: The first African country to introduce e-passport was
Answer:D
Q5: How many comptrollers general has the NN gotten since the inception till date?
Answer: B
Q6: The present chief of staff of NN is
Answer: D
Q7: The first secretary General of common wealth was
Answer: C
Q8: Lagos became a crown colony in (a) 1862
(b) 1861
(c) 1841
(d) 1886
Answer: A
Q9: The first war 1 was between (a) 1911-1914
(b) 1914-1916
(c) 1916-1918
(d) 1914-1918
Answer: D
Q10: The western and eastern Nigeria became self governed in (a) 1959
(b) 1960
(c) 1957
(d) 1956
Answer: C
Q11: The first head of government of Nigeria was
Answer: C
Q12: The first militant president of Nigeria was
Answer: B
Q13: Nigeria became a republic in (a) 1963
(b) 1960
(c) 1976
(d) 1961
Answer: A
Q14: The Northern and Southern protectorate was amalgamated in (a) 1914
(b) 1919
(c) 1921
(d) 1900
Answer: A
Q15: The first Executive president was
Answer: C
Q16: The first colonial Governor General of Nigeria was
Answer: D
Q17: The highest court in Nigeria is
Answer: B
Q18: ECOWAS was established inheadquarter in and has it administrative headquarter in
Answer: C
Q19: The first general election in Nigeria was held in (a) 1959
(b) 1960
(c) 1963
(d) 1999
Answer: A
Q20: Nigeria practice one of the following system of government
Answer: D
Q21: The last colonial governor general of Nigeria was in
Answer: A
Q22: The first Military coup de’tat in Nigeria was in (a) 1964
(b) 1966
(c) 1960
(d) 1999
Answer: B
Q23: The establishment of states started in Nigeria on
(a) May 27 1967 (b) Feb. 13 1966
(c) April 8 1960
(d) Oct. 1 1960
Answer: A
Q24: The Biafra Civil war between
(a) 1967-1968
(b) 1968-1971
(c) 1967-1970
(d) 1970-1975
Answer: C
Q25: The national youth service corp was established in
(a) 1960
(b) 1973
(c) 1980
(d) 1997
Answer: B
Q26: The Nigeria Police force belongs to which organ of government
Answer: B
Q27: African consist of how many countries
Answer:A
Q28: The Secretary General of OPEC is
Answer: B
Q29: The current secretary general of united nation is
Answer: A
Q30: Which of the following pair of countries consist of the permanent security council of UN
Answer: B
Q31: In order to qualify for the post of president in Nigeria the person must be… and above
Answer:A
Q32: The name Nigeria coined out of……………
Answer: B
Q33: The first inspector general or commission chairman of African union is……….
Answer B
Q34: The current secretary general or commission chairman of Africa union is…………
Answer: A
Q35. The first military head of state was
Answer: B
Q36. Oil can be found in one of the following state in Nigeria
Answer:C
Q37. Tin is majorly found in
Answer:A
Q38: Oil was first discovered by shell-BP in Nigeria …………
AnswerA
Q39: Which of the following may be regarded as a regional organization
AnswerB
Q40. The last Military head of State of Nigeria was
Answer: A
Q41. The name Nigeria was coined by
Answer: A
Q42. The legislature in Nigeria is called
Answer: C
Q43. The legislative in Britain is referred to as
Answer: D
Q44. Nigeria change from pound to Naira in (a) 1960
(b) 1973
(c) 1959
(d) 1963
Answer: B
Q45. The first Nigeria president to die in office was and he died on
Answer C
MATHEMATICS
Q1. What is the probability of having an odd number in a single toss of a fair
(a) 1/6
(b) 1/3
(c) 1/2
(d) 2/3
Answer C
Use the following information for Question 2 and 3
The surname of 40 Children in a class were arranged in alphabetical order, 16 of the surnames beginwithO and9ofthe surname begins withA. 14lettersof the alphabet do not appear as the first letter of a surname.
Q2. What is the probability that the surname of a child picked at random from the class begins with either O and A?
(a) 5/8
(b) 7/8
(c) 9/16
(d) 14/25
Answer: A
Q3. If more than one surname begins with a letter besides A and O, how many surnames begin with the letter?
Answer: B
ThetablegivesthescoreofagroupofstudentsinanEnglishLanguagetest.
| Scores | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| No of Student | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Q4. If a student is chosen at random from the group, what is the probability that he scored at least 6 marks
(a) 3/20
(b) 1/5
(c) ¼
(d) 3/10
Answer: C
Q5. What is the probability that three customer waiting in bank will be served in the sequence of their arrival at the bank?
(a) 1/6
(b) 1/3
(c) ½
(d) 2/3
Answer C
Q6. The probability that Kodjo and Adoga pass an examination are ¼ and 1/5 respectively. Find the probability of both boys failing the examination. (a) 1/10
(b) 3/10
(c) ½
(d) 2/3
AnswerA
Q7. The mean of 20 observations in an experiment is 4. If the observed largest value is 23, find the mean of the remaining observations.
(c) 2.85
(d) 2.60
Answer A.
Q8. A group of eleven people can speak either English or French or both. Seven can speak English and six can speak French. What is the probability that a person chosen at random can speak both English and French?
(a) 2/11
(b) 4/11
(c) 5/11
(d) 11/13
Answer B.
If events X and Y are mutually exclusive, P(X) = 1/3 and P(Y) = 2/5, use the question 9 and 10
| Q9. | P (X n | Y) is |
| (a) | 0 | |
| (b) | 2/15 | |
| (c) | 4/15 | |
| (d) | 11/15 |
Answer: A
Q10. P (X u Y) is
(b) 2/15
(c) 4/15
(d) 11/15
Answer: A
Q11: A box contains 2 white and 1 blue identical marbles. If 2 marbles are picked at random, one after the other without replacement, what is the probability of picking 2 marbles of different colours?
(a) 2/3
(b) 3/5
(c) 2/5
(d) 7/20
Answer: D
Q12: Mrs Jones is expecting a baby. The probability that it will b a baby is ½ and the probability that she will have a blue eyes 1/4 . what is the probability that she will have a blue eyed boy ?
(a) 1/8
(c) 3/8
(d) ½
Answer: B
Q13. Convert the speed 90km per/hour of a car to metres per second
(d) 1.5 x 103ms-I
Answer: C
Q14. Uche and chidi shared a sum of money on the ratio m:n . if chidi’s share was N4,200. 00, was Uche’s share?
(a) N4,200n/m
(b) N4,200/mm
(c) N4,200m/n
(d) N4,200/n
Q15. A husband contributes 7% of his income into a fund and his wife contributes 4% of her income. If the husband earn N5, 500 per annum (p.a) and his wife earn N4, 000 p.a, find the sum of their contribution to fund. (a) N1,045
Q16. A car is travelling at an average speed of 80kmh-1. Its speed in metres per second (m/s) is
(a) 13.3m/s
(b) 22.2m/s
(c) 133.3m/s
(d) 222.2m/s
Answer: B
Q17. If the children shared N10.50K among themselves in the ratio 6:7:8, how much is the largest share
(a) N3.00
(b) N3.50
(c) N4.00
(d) N4.50
Answer:C
Q18. A trader makes a loss of 15% when selling an article, find the ratio selling price cost price
(a) 3:20
(b) 3:17
(c) 17:20
(d) 20:23
Answer: C
Q19. Car travels at xkm per hour at 1 hours at ykm per hour for 2hrs find the average speed
(a) 2x12ykm-1/3
Answer: C
Q20: The ages of three man in the ratio 3:4:5. If the difference between the oldest and the youngest is 18, find the sum of the ages of the three men
Answer: C
Q21: A bicycle wheel of radius 42cm is rolled over a distance of 66m. How many revolutions does it make? [Take pie 22/7]
(a) 2.5
Answer: C
Q22: In a bag of oranges, the ratio of the good ones to the bad one is 5:4. If the number of the bad ones is 36. How many oranges are their all together
Answer: A
Q23: A man is four times as old as his son. The difference between their ages 36.
Find the sum of their ages.
Answer: C
Q24: IF 4m+3n=5, find the ratio m:n 4m-3n3
(a) 7:4
(b) 4:3
(c) 3:4
(d) 4:7
Answer:A
Q25: if 2x :(x+1) =3:2, what is the value of x?
Answer: B
Q26. The ratio of the number of men to the number of women in a 20 member committee is 3:1. How many women must be added to the 20 member committee so as to make the ratio of women 3:2?
Q27. Three men, Bedu, Bakare and Kofi shared N500 in the ratio 3:2:X respectively. If bedu’s share is N150. Find the value of x
Answer: C
Q28. The sides of two cubes are in the ratio 2:5, what is the ratio of their volumes?
(a) 4:5
(b) 8:15
(c) 6:125
(d) 8:125
Answer: D
Q29. Lena bought 400 Alpha company shares at N1.50 each and sold them at N2.05 each. What is her are gain
(a) N0.05
(b) N20.00
(c) N220.00
(d) N330.00
Q30. Anma buys 100 oranges at 20 for C30.00 and another 200 oranges at 4 C10.00. if she sells all are oranges at C3.00 each, what is her profit? (a) C150.00
(b) C250.00
(c) C500.00
(d) C650.00
Answer: B
Q31. The price of a liter of petrol is increased from C30.00 to C39.00 what is the percentage increase in the cost of a liter of petrol?
(a) 90%
(b) 30%
(c) 34%
(d) 39%
Answer: B
Q32: A trader sold a pair of shoes for C2800.00 making a loss of 20% on his cost price. Find his loss as a percentage of his selling price.
(a) 162/3%
(b) 2%
(c) 25%
(d) 75%
Answer: C
Q33: An article bought for D500.00 depreciation by 15% of its value during the first. Find its value after a year
(a) D425.00
(b) D750.00
(c) D4,250.00
(d) D4,250.00
Q34: A house bought for N100.000 was later auctioned for N80.000. Find the percentage loss
(a) 20%
(b) 30%
(c) 40%
(d) 50%
Answer: A
Q35: The side of a square is increased from 20cm to 21cm. Calculate the percentage increase in its area
(a) 2.5%
(b) 9.3%
(c) 10.0%
(d) 10.25%
Answer: D
Q36. A man bought 2220 mangoes at N5x. he sold each for 3x kobo and made gain of N8. Find the value of x
ENGLISG LANGUAGE
Choose the word nearest to the word in BOLD
Q1: After many years of struggle as a trader, he struck gold
Answer: A
Q2. One significant character of the jet age is that it encourages people to cut
corners
Answer: B
Q3. The lady who won the beauty contest had a good gait
Answer. B
Q4. It would need a high flyer to make a first class degree in the university
Answer. D
Q5: What you will find in the book is a bird’s eye view of the subject
Answer. D
Q7: If experience is anything to go by, this action will prove a political mine field
Answer. D
Q8. In my view the play the didn’t come out
Answer. D
Q9: Whenthechipsaredown, wewill know those who have the courage to stand
Answer. D
Q10. She said boxing is, in fact her pet aversion
Answer A
Q11: The gateman does his work perfunctorily
Answer. B
Q13: The young man who distributed political pamphlets on campus was promptly repudiated
Answer.B
Q14. Adayi is a die-hard criminal
Answer. A
Fill each gap with most appropriate option from the list following the gap
Q15: In moments of serious economic hardship, many people are to turn to God
Answer C
Q16. We cannot all wear expensive shoes in situation of
Answer C
Q17: The centre forward was consequently the goal was not allowed
Answer. A
Q18: AIDS is disease that kills slowly but surely
Answer. D
Q19: We had a bull evening because
Answer. A
Q20: Soyinka’s masterful of the atmosphere of his childhood helped to make his book. Ake, an out right success
Answer. A
Q21: Students will always blame their teachers when examination results are unfavorable
Answer. D
Q22: Okonkwo is a stubborn man, he will never his words
Answer C
Q23; Kindly me your book because my friend has mine
Answer D
Q24: Three quarters of the church painted by members the previous day
Answer: B
Q25: The young boys have been caught with parts of the stolen machine but
admitted stealing it
Answer B
Q26: Watch carefully, I could see the fish along the bottom
Answer.C
Q27: Emeka is now a student but it took him years to
Answer. B
Q28: The rebels will soon fight back. We have been informed their ___
Answer. C
Q29: Ali was honest and quite as a school boy but too much drinking has now changed his and his tongue
Answer C
Q30: The hospital was closed because there were no beds to put patients
Answer C
Q31. The judge with his son travelling to lagos now
Answer C
Q32; A university teacher is an
Answer A
Q33; The adventurers ran into many in the forest
AnswerD
Q34: The argument between the two neighbors degenerated into
Answer A
Q35: The class more girls than boys this session
Answer D
Q36: The tourist bought
Answer D
Q38: Most of us will attend the conference at ibandan later this year
Answer A
Q39. I shall work hard so that I can a distinction in English
Answer. B
Q40. The baby was rather than I could bear
Answer. A
Q41. A student were forbidden
Answer A
Q42. Of course, we all saw the culprit
Answer C
secret society and hit the man on the head
Q43. A child that shows mature characteristics at any early age may be describe as
Q44. The company Director showed the contractor a of the proposed office complex
Answer. A
Q45. you come early to the new house, clean up my flat
Answer. C
Q46. This imposing edifice a fortune to build
Answer D.
Q47. They let him go in to his age
Answer D
Q48. Some scientist are trying to human beings in their laboratories
Answer. B
Q49. He does not seem to know how to solve the problem
Answer: C
Q50. These villagers to grow rice
Answer. A
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