AP Comparative Government Test Prep 2014.
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| 5937306887 | Sani Abacha | Oppressive Nigerian military dictator from 1993-1998 who came to power through a military coup. | 0 | |
| 5937306888 | Ibrahim Babangida | Military ruler of Nigeria from 1985-1993 who sought to establish the failed Third Republic. | 1 | |
| 5937306889 | Derivation Formula | Formula for distributing percentage of oil revenues between national and local government in Nigeria. | 2 | |
| 5937306890 | Federal Character Principle | Nigerian quota system designed to ease ethnic tension by requiring the president to appoint ministers and civil servants from each Nigerian state. | 3 | |
| 5937306891 | First Republic | Nigerian parliamentary regime that followed independence (1960-66) | 4 | |
| 5937306892 | Fourth Republic | Nigerian Parliamentary democratic regime (1999 to now) | 5 | |
| 5937306893 | Fulani | North, Muslim ethnic group | 6 | |
| 5937306894 | Hausa | North, Muslim ethnic group | 7 | |
| 5937306895 | House of Representatives | Lower house of National Assembly | 8 | |
| 5937306896 | Igbo (IBO) | South East, Christian, failed to secede | 9 | |
| 5937306897 | Goodluck Jonathan | Current president | 10 | |
| 5937306898 | MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) | Militant seperatist group from the Niger Delta. | 11 | |
| 5937306899 | MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) | Ethnic association founded by Ken Saro-Wiwa to promote the interests of ethnic Ogoni in the Niger Delta. | 12 | |
| 5937306900 | NEEDS (National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy) | Reform program to improve economy (stems government corruption and enhance economic infrastructure). | 13 | |
| 5937306901 | Niger Delta | World's third largest wetland and source of Nigerian oil and economic and ethnic conflict. | 14 | |
| 5937306902 | Olusegun Obasanjo | Military ruler from 1976-1979 and two term elected president, from 1999-2007 | 15 | |
| 5937306903 | Patrimonialism | Arrangement whereby a ruler depends on a collection of supporters within the state who will gain direct benefits in return for enforcing the ruler's will. | 16 | |
| 5937306904 | People's Democratic Party | Political party that dominated Nigerian since it's 1998 formation; its base was originally the Hausa Muslims. | 17 | |
| 5937306905 | Republic of Biafra | Igbo-dominated Eastern Region that tried, and failed, to secede from Nigeria in 1967. | 18 | |
| 5937306906 | Resource Curse | only one available resource to make money off from (oil) (natural resources take over the economy). | 19 | |
| 5937306907 | Ken Saro-Wiwa | Noted Nigerian playwright and environmental activist, executed in 1995 for his defense of the land and peoples of the Niger Delta. | 20 | |
| 5937306908 | Scramble for Africa | When all the Europeans wanted to have territory in Africa and drew lines on a map | 21 | |
| 5937306909 | Second Republic | Short lived Nigerian democratic regime from 1979-1983, in which the former parliamentary system was replaced with a presidential regime. | 22 | |
| 5937306910 | Sharia | Islamic Law in North | 23 | |
| 5937306911 | Third Republic | Democratic regime proposed by General Ibrahim Babangida in 1993, but precluded by Abacha's military coup in the same year, following anulled elections | 24 | |
| 5937306912 | Umaru Yar'Adua | President before Jonathan | 25 | |
| 5937306913 | Yoruba | South West, Christian, Muslim, Animist | 26 | |
| 5937306914 | Zoning | PDP idea to try to keep things fair between the north and south (every two terms the president has to come from a different location to keep the populated North from being really powerful, so a president who is a Northern Muslim can serve two terms, then the next president has to be a Southern Christian) | 27 |
