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 1731: Delegated legislation is legislation Options:
  A) which is not submitted to parliament
  B) made by judicial tribunals
  C) made by a minister acting an Act of Parliament
  D) made by local government
  E) made by parastatals
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1732: Ethnic politics in Nigeria can be traced to the Options:
  A) Macpherson Constitution
  B) Lyttelton Constitution
  C) Clifford Constitution
  D) Richard's Constitution
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1733: The component units of the Nigerian Federation comprises Options:
  A) national assemblt,military,police and civil service
  B) onstituency,ward,emirate and chiefdom
  C) federal,state,local government and federal capital territory
  D) federal capital territory,national assembly,supreme court and civil service
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1734:

  The founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association was ________

  Options:
  A) Casey Hayford
  B) Herbert Macaulay
  C) Marcus Garvey
  D) W. E. B, DuBois
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1735: The absence of the rule of law in government will bring about Options:
  A) human rights abuse
  B) treasonable offences
  C) corrupt practices
  D) political apathy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1736: Which of the following ethnic groups was the pre-colonial political structure Not influenced by the Islamic culture? Options:
  A) Kanuri
  B) Nupe
  C) Tiv
  D) Fulani
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1737: The British government revoked the charter of the Royal Niger Company and took over the administration of Nigeria in which year? Options:
  A) 1861
  B) 1900
  C) 1886
  D) 1914
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1738: The treaty establishing the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was Options:
  A) concluded in Lome (Togo) in December, 1976 after hard and extensive negotiations
  B) designed as the main pillar on which an eventual African common market would be built
  C) the brain-child of Togo and Ghana
  D) signed in Lagos in May 1975 to promote trade and other economic co-operation in the region as a whole
  E) to immediately eliminate tariffs and other barriers to trade among members
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1739: The OAU is founded on the principle of Options:
  A) settlement of international disputes by armed struggles
  B) justifiable interference in the domestic affairs of member states
  C) soverign equality of member states
  D) equal cvontribution by member states
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1740: The final stage in the process of enacting legislation is Options:
  A) final reading
  B) assent
  C) notification
  D) guillotine
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  The correct answer is B .