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 2131: The primary function of a legislature is Options:
  A) appointing a president
  B) law making
  C) vetong bills
  D) monitoring the judiciary
  E) re-assigning civil servants
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2132: During the period 1960, Nigeria was governed under the Options:
  A) presidential system of government
  B) Westminster system of government
  C) Confederal system of government
  D) unitary system of government
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2133: Marxism is directed against Options:
  A) state ownership of the means of production
  B) materialism
  C) the proletariat
  D) socialism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2134: An unwritten Constitution is Options:
  A) entirely based on case laws
  B) completely sourced from parliamentary law
  C) partially written and based on convention
  D) completely unwritten and based on convention
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2135: The first Governor-General of Nigeria was Options:
  A) Lord Lugard
  B) Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe
  C) Sir James Robertson
  D) (the late) Major-General Aguiyi-Ironsi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2136: In which of the following systems is the power of the component units more than that of the central government? Options:
  A) Monarchical
  B) Federal Governments
  C) Unitary
  D) Confederal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2137: The major organization through which Nigeria, pursues her economic, political and social interests' in West Africa is Options:
  A) ECOWAS
  B) ADB
  C) EGA
  D) OAU
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2138: One major flaw of the British Indirect Rule in Nigeria was that the system Options:
  A) made use of traditional institution
  B) championed ethnocentrism
  C) encouraged the use of European administrators
  D) was not centralized
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2139: During the pre-colonial period in Eastern Nigeria autocratic rule was made difficult by the Options:
  A) activities of secret societies
  B) ruler's fear of detronement
  C) absence of a system of centralized authority
  D) demands of pressure groups
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2140: The legislative arm of a government is always Options:
  A) the Parliament
  B) the Cabinet
  C) the highest organ of government
  D) the body that makes laws
  E) the body that interprets laws
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  The correct answer is D .