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 1831: The fundamental rights of citizens include rights to Options:
  A) free education, employment and freedom of thought
  B) life, speech and association
  C) life, liberty and property
  D) association,property and social security.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1832: The 1946 constitutions in Nigeria and the Gold Coast (Ghana were the results of Options:
  A) pressures from nationalists within the colonies
  B) pressures by united states of America
  C) pressures from the British government
  D) pressures from within and from outside these colonies
  E) none of the above
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1833: Independence of the judiciary is pertinent because it accords the judiciary the power to Options:
  A) dismiss any judge who has breached the judicial code of conduct
  B) determine a fixed salary for judges
  C) determine a fixed term of office for the judges
  D) enable the judges to try and decide cases without bias
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1834: The rule of law implies that Options:
  A) judges interpret the law
  B) lawyers interpret the law
  C) everyone is subject to the law
  D) the legislature makes the law
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1835: The central objective of privatization in Nigeria is to Options:
  A) Reduce the retrenchment of workers
  B) Encourage prompt payment of salaries
  C) Improve standard of living
  D) Improve the efficiency of enterprises
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1836: Fascism as an ideology facilitates Options:
  A) totalitarianism
  B) socialism
  C) communalism
  D) liberalism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1837: Delegated legislation is justified by the Options:
  A) Superior knowledge of issues by the executive
  B) fear that public debates in parliaments would endanger national security
  C) slow and unwieldy process of decision making in legislative houses
  D) constitutional superiority of the executive over the legislative branch of government
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1838: The major problem of the Nigerian federal structure in the first republic was Options:
  A) ethnicity
  B) politicization of the mlitary
  C) lopsided size of the component units
  D) rigging of elections
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1839:

  The delineation of constituencies is a major duty of the __________

  Options:
  A) electoral commission
  B) boundary commission
  C) national assemblies
  D) political parties
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1840: In the cabinet system of government individual responsibility of ministers means that Options:
  A) only ministers can be held responsible for errors
  B) a minister must hold his subordinates responsible for his failures
  C) the prime minister can remove an erring minister
  D) no individual can be held responsible for government decisions
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  The correct answer is A .