The 1954 Constitution of Nigeria made the country a true Federation because it provided for?

A. The abolition of representation of the white officials
B. the election of all the members of parliament
C. a division of functions between the centre and the regions
D. the post of a Prime Minister at the center
E. the separation of Lagos from the Western Region

Correct Answer:

Option C – a division of functions between the centre and the regions

Explanation:

THE LAGOS CONFERENCE OF 1954

• In order to settle some unresolved political problems by the 1953 London Conference, the Lagos Conference, met in January 1954, under the chairmanship of the Secretary of the state for the colonies. The conference published in December 1953 and arriver at the following decision.
• That the public service should be regionalized
  That the judiciary should be regionalized
• Accept in principle the proposals put forward by the fiscal commission on the allocation of financial resources to the federal and regional government
• That though southern cameroons should remain part of Nigeria Federalism as a quasi-federal territory it should have a legislature of its own.
  That autonomy should be granted to the southern cameroons