Contrast the Sokoto Plains with the Eastern highlands under the following headings

(a) relief and drainage

(b) resources and human activities

(c) problems of development 
 

(a) Draw a sketch map of Nigeria and on it, locate and name

(i) three major zones of modern manufacturing industries

(ii) two important towns within each zone

(b) Outline any three problems which result from the concentration of manufacturing industries in these zones

(c) Suggest three steps which can be taken to encourage the growth of industries outside these zones. 
 

Write explanatory notes on any four of the following

(a) Cocoa growing in western Nigeria

(b) Oil palm production in the eastern states

(c) Rice cultivation ire the middle belt

(d) Intensive farming in the Kano close-settled zone 
 

(a) On an outline map of West Africa, show
(i) one area having less than four months of rainfall annually
(ii) one area having rainfall all the year round
(iii) the position of the high pressure belt in January

(b) Give three reasons for the length of the rainy season in (a)(i) above

(c) Explain three problems that rainfall may pose to agriculture in (a) (ii) above 
 

(a) On an outline map of West Africa, locate and name
(i) two ECOWAS member countries along the coast
(ii) two ECOWAS member countries in the interior
(iii) the capital of each of the countries

(b) Describe six benefits which any one of the countries shown on your map derives from its membership of the ECOWAS