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 1371: Under the pre-colonial Sokoto Caliphate system, the next in command to the sultan was the Options:
  A) Alkali
  B) Galadima
  C) Madaki
  D) Waziri
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1372:

  Who amongst the following did not serve as secretary general of the League of nations?

  Options:
  A) Josip Broz Tito
  B) Sean Lester
  C) Joseph Avenoi
  D) Eric Drummond
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1373: In the Oyo empire, the Alaafin was Options:
  A) an absolute monarch
  B) popularly elected
  C) a constitutional monarch
  D) worshipped as a deity
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1374: The appointment and dissolution of the board of directors of the public corporation fall under _______? Options:
  A) ministerial control
  B) legislative control
  C) political control
  D) judicial control
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1375: The Aro system in Igboland was a Options:
  A) political organization
  B) commercial organization
  C) religious organization
  D) imperial organization
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1376: The adoption of non-alignment as a principle of Nigerian foreign policy is aimed at Options:
  A) promoting Nigeria's leadership aspiration in Africa
  B) placing Nigeria on a comfortable position to contribute to international peace and morality
  C) enabling Nigeria assume equal status with the world powers
  D) fulfilling a basic requirement for her acceptance into the security council of the UN
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1377: The participation of Nigerians in the Second World War created in the nationalists the awareness that the Options:
  A) Africans were superior
  B) Africans were more qualified to rule
  C) Europeans were not superior
  D) Europeans were less tactful in warefare
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1378: The Nigerian nationalist movement was greatly assisted by the ` Options:
  A) Manufacturers' Association of Nigeria
  B) Chamber of Commerce , Agriculture and Industry
  C) Trade unions
  D) Trdaeitional rulers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1379: According to Aristotle, a form of government in which the few rule for the benefit of all is Options:
  A) Diarchy
  B) Aristocracy
  C) Autocracy
  D) polyarchy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1380: Under the presidential system Options:
  A) the party with the majority of seats forms the Executive
  B) there is the principle of collective responsibility
  C) the president may come from any of the parties
  D) the constitution must be unwritten
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  The correct answer is C .