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 751: Which of the following would act for the Head of state when he is out of the country? Options:
  A) the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
  B) the Chief of Staff, Army
  C) the Chief of staff, supreme Military Head Quarters
  D) the Chief of Staff, Air Force
  E) the General Officer Commanding, First Division
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 752: A collegial executive is a government in which power is vested in a Options:
  A) president
  B) monarch
  C) commitee
  D) parliament
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 753: The general election in Nigeria was held in Options:
  A) 1933
  B) 1955
  C) 1952
  D) 1959
  E) 1964
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 754: Which of the following would you consider the most famous among the leaders of nationalist movement in Nigeria? Options:
  A) Kwame Nkurumah
  B) General Olusegun Obasanjo
  C) Herbert Macaulay
  D) Anthony Enahoro
  E) Dauda Adegbenro
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 755: Which of the following traditional political system was republican? Options:
  A) lgbo
  B) Yoruba
  C) Fulani
  D) Bini
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 756: Prior to 1991, veto power was exercised in the United Nations Security Council by Options:
  A) France, Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy and Japan
  B) Japan, the United State, Italy, Germany and France
  C) the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China , Great Britian, France and the United States
  D) Italy the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany and France
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 757: A sovereign state is one Options:
  A) whose constitution can only be changed by a military government
  B) where its citizens can speak without fear or favour
  C) in which sovereignty is invested in the military
  D) whose citizens are free to evade responsibility
  E) whose government decisions are made independent of foreign interference
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 758: In a parliamentary system of government, a vote of no confidence leads to the resignation of Options:
  A) an individual minister
  B) the entire parliament
  C) the prime minister
  D) the entire cabinet
  E) C and D
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 759: The term federal character was popularised by the Options:
  A) 1975 Contitution Drafting Committee
  B) 1979 Constitution
  C) Murtala / Obasanjo regime
  D) Buhari regime
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 760: Under the military administration, supreme court decisions are subject to review by Options:
  A) Sharia Court of Appeal
  B) no other court of law
  C) Federal Court of Appeal
  D) Judicial tribunals
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  The correct answer is D .