The Chick's commission was set up to look into the issue of revenue allocation in___________

Analyze the question: It asks for the year the Chick Commission was set up to look into revenue allocation in Nigeria.

Concept: Nigeria's early revenue allocation commissions, in order:

• Phillipson Commission (1946): the first, under the Richards Constitution
• Hicks-Phillipson Commission (1951): under the Macpherson Constitution
• Chick Commission (1953): under the Lyttleton Constitution (a federal arrangement)
• Raisman Commission (1957/58): the Raisman Fiscal Commission
• Binns Commission (1964): dealt with the minimum wage and revenue sharing

Solution:

1. Sir Louis Chick led the commission, set up by the British colonial government in 1953.
2. It followed the move to federalism under the Lyttleton Constitution (1954), so it was tasked with devising a revenue allocation system suited to a federal Nigeria.
3. Its key recommendation was the principle of derivation, meaning revenue should go largely to the region that generated it.
4. Matching the dates: 1946 is Phillipson, 1951 is Hicks-Phillipson, 1957 is Raisman, and 1953 is Chick.

Answer: D (1953)

Exam tip: Remember the sequence P-H-C-R-B: Phillipson (1946), Hicks-Phillipson (1951), Chick (1953), Raisman (1957), Binns (1964). The years go up in alphabetical-style order, so "Chick = 1953" is easy to place between 1951 and 1957.