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 1641: 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 1642: Indirect Rule as practised by the British in their West African colonies Options:
  A) did not attempt to reform existing traditional institutions
  B) was over glorified and expedient nonsense
  C) satisfied neither the rulers nor the ruled
  D) had nothing in common with the reality of french rule in their colonies
  E) meant ruling through existing rulers and attempting to check excesses
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1643: The ancient Greeks practised Options:
  A) direct democracy
  B) representative democracy
  C) liberal democracy
  D) benevolent dictatorship
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1644: One of the distinctive features of democracy is that it Options:
  A) connotes civil rule
  B) facilitates popular participation
  C) provides for a unicameral legislature
  D) is not associated with one - part system
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1645: A constitutionally defined set of individual rights which governments are obliged to protect constitute Options:
  A) statutory rights
  B) equity rights
  C) customary rights
  D) civil rights
  E) natural rights
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1646: The commission charged with the conduct of federal elections in Nigeria is Options:
  A) NEC
  B) FEDECO
  C) INEC
  D) NECON
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1647: Workers in the public corporations are known as Options:
  A) civil servants
  B) private employees
  C) public servants
  D) professional employees
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1648: Delegated legislation Options:
  A) means sharing responibility between central and local goverment on a fifty fifty basis
  B) decentralizes responsibility for law making subject to agreed controls from the centre
  C) has advantages and disadvantages
  D) once permitted is almost impossible to control
  E) decentralizes problems without providing suitable solutions
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1649: The essence of checks and balances is to Options:
  A) enhance the functioning of government and prevent arbitary use of power
  B) ensure that people have their own rights
  C) make sure that power is not delegated to other bodies or individuals
  D) prevent political parties from putting pressure on government
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1650: Legislative control of public corporation in Nigeria is effected through Options:
  A) the dissolution of their management
  B) the reorganization of their boards
  C) acts of the National Assembly
  D) bye-laws
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  The correct answer is C .