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 2051: The ultimate authority in a state is Options:
  A) sovereignty
  B) power
  C) influence
  D) legitimacy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2052: The leader of the Northern people's Congress was Options:
  A) Yusuf Maitama Sule
  B) Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
  C) Aminu Kano
  D) Ahmadu Bello
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2053: Laws made by the attorney - general and minister of justice are called Options:
  A) temporary laws
  B) bills of attainder
  C) case laws
  D) ex post facto laws
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2054: In a democracy, ultimate authority resides in the Options:
  A) Electorate
  B) People
  C) Head of state
  D) armed forces
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2055: A by -law is made by Options:
  A) parliament
  B) congress
  C) an electoral college
  D) the local government
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2056: Under the 1963 Constitution, a bill could only become law if it was accented to by the Options:
  A) prime minister
  B) president
  C) queen
  D) governor - general
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2057: The fundamental rights of citizens include Options:
  A) social security and free speech
  B) religious freedom and collective aggression
  C) immunity from libel and right to employment
  D) right to life and liberty
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2058: A thorny issue during the 1957/58 Nigerian constitutional conferences was the Options:
  A) leadership of the first post-independence government
  B) problem of ethnic minorities
  C) control of the mid - west by the western region
  D) status of Lagos
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2059: At its inception in 1919,the National Congress of British West Africa was led Options:
  A) Nnamdi Azikiwe
  B) William Du Bois
  C) Casely Hayford
  D) Marcus Garvey
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2060:

  The Barclay's Bank and the British Petroleum Company in Nigeria were nationalized in the late1970s for transacting business with ...

  Options:
  A) Libya
  B) South Africa
  C) France
  D) Portugal
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  The correct answer is B .