Government Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Government is the study of political institutions, processes, and theories. It examines agencies, political bodies, and the workings of the state.

• Question 1001: Nigeria's major export commodities in the early years of her independence were Options:
  A) cocoa, groundnut and ginger
  B) cocoa , rubber and benniseed
  C) cocoa, palm oil and groundnut
  D) rubber, kolanut and cotton
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1002: One of the strong points of the multiparty system in Nigeria's Fourth Republic is Options:
  A) the provision for a bicameral legislature
  B) government interference
  C) wider political participation
  D) wider anti-democracy campaign
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1003: Proportional representation is often criticized because it Options:
  A) tends to preserve the multi-party system
  B) is too simple to operate
  C) encures that each party has minister
  D) provides that each state represented according to its population
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1004: One major flaw of the British Indirect Rule in Nigeria was that the system Options:
  A) made use of traditional institution
  B) championed ethnocentrism
  C) encouraged the use of European administrators
  D) was not centralized
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1005: A typical form of delegated legislation is Options:
  A) acts of parliaments
  B) decree
  C) bye-law
  D) gazette
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1006: In the Presidential system of government the president is elected to office by Options:
  A) the cabinet
  B) the parliament or legislature
  C) the military
  D) the people through direct elections
  E) the political party
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1007: The Nigerian-Cameroon crisis over the Bakassi Peninsula occurred owing to the interpretation of the treaty of 1913 and the Options:
  A) resolution of the OAU
  B) Maroua Accord
  C) decision of the ECOWAS Tribunal
  D) decision of the International Court of Justice
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1008:

  Twelve States creation is a reknown achievement of the ... regime

  Options:
  A) Abdulsalam Abubakar's
  B) Ibrahim Babaginda's
  C) Yakubu Gowon's
  D) Murtala Mohammed's
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1009: The Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) came into being Options:
  A) through the combined efforts of Gambia Ivory Cost and Liberia
  B) to promote economic growth and development through freer and expanded trade between its members
  C) to enable the sixteen member states surrender their sovereignties to a supranational regional community
  D) to help the poorest countries in the region catch up with the richer one
  E) to establish mutual defence and security arrangements between members
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1010: Centralization of power is the basic feature of Options:
  A) federalism
  B) a confederation
  C) a presidential system
  D) a unitary government
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  The correct answer is D .