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 191: Which of the following countries belonged to the Casablanca Group? Options:
  A) Liberia
  B) Tunisia
  C) Mali
  D) Cote d' lvoire
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 192: Federalism was adopted in Nigeria as a constitutional response to the problem of Options:
  A) educational imbalance
  B) national identity
  C) ethnic pluralism
  D) manpower and resources
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 193: The most important function of the executive organ of government is to Options:
  A) formulate policies
  B) give assent to bills
  C) control foreign policy
  D) enforce laws
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 194: The UNO was founded in 1945 to replace the Options:
  A) OAU
  B) NATO
  C) Commonwealth of Nations
  D) League of Nations
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 195: The chairman of the UN Security Council emerges through Options:
  A) consensus
  B) rotation
  C) election
  D) selection
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 196: Nigeria's withdrawal from the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games in July 1986 was in protest against British Options:
  A) support for UNITA rebels in Angola
  B) supply of arms to Rhodesia
  C) failure to impose sanctions on South Africa
  D) negative utterances on Nigeria
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 197: What distinguishes a political party from other social institutions is the desire to Options:
  A) influence the international community on local issues
  B) promote the interest of party members
  C) win elections and form a government
  D) influence government policies in certain directions
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 198: One significant aspect of the legislative council of 19922 was that Options:
  A) Africans were in the majority
  B) it made laws only for the southern provinces
  C) the colony of lagos and the protectorate of southern nigeria were merged
  D) laws governing land ownership in the north were extended to the south
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 199: Lord Lugard is widely regarded as Options:
  A) The most imaginative governor in the British colonies
  B) The originator of the durbar ceremony in Northern Nigeria
  C) The best friend which Southern Nigerian nationalist leaders ever had
  D) the father of indirect rule
  E) an anti-imperialist
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 200: The power to exercise overall control of the executive functions of ECOWAS is vested in the Options:
  A) Authority of Heads of State and Government
  B) Secretary-General
  C) Council of Ministers
  D) Technical and Special Commissions
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  The correct answer is A .