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 1: Which of the parties listed below was founded by Herbert Macaulay in 1923? Options:
  A) The Nigerian Youth Movement
  B) The Action Group
  C) The Northern People's Congress
  D) The Nigerian National Democratic Party
  E) The National Council of Nigerian Citizens
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2: The land use decree of 1978 vested the ownership of land in Nigeria in the Options:
  A) local chiefs
  B) local govrnments
  C) state governments
  D) federal governments
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3: Liberalism is a philosophy underlying Options:
  A) socialism
  B) capitalism
  C) Feudalism
  D) nazism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4: Citizenship of a state by descent requires that ___________ Options:
  A) one is born and bred in the state
  B) one's mother was born in the state
  C) one's grand parents were citizens of that state
  D) one is domiciled in that state
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 5:

  In the Second Republic, the ruling National Party of Nigeria formed an alliance with the

  Options:
  A) Great Nigeria People's Party
  B) Nigeria Advance Party
  C) Unity Party of Nigeria
  D) Nigeria People's Party
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 6:

  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 .
• Question 7: The six registered political parties in Nigeria in 1982 were Options:
  A) UPN,UPN,PPA,PPP,NPP and NAP
  B) NPN,UPN ,NPP,PRP,PPP and NNDP
  C) PPA,NCNC.GNPP,NPN,UPN, andPPP
  D) UPN,GNPP,NAP,PRP,NPP and NPN
  E) NPC,GNPP,PRP,UPN,NPP and PPA
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8: One of the features of a sovereign state is that it Options:
  A) has the capacity to defend itself from external aggression
  B) has a large number of soldiers
  C) practises the presidential system of government
  D) is not indebted to other countries
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 9: Which constitution was created to legislate for the Lagos Colony and the Southern Provinces? Options:
  A) The Richard Constitution
  B) The Clifford Constitution
  C) The Lyttleton Constitution
  D) The Macpherson Constitution
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 10: The treaty establishing the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was Options:
  A) concluded in Lome (Togo) in December, 1976 after hard and extensive negotiations
  B) designed as the main pillar on which an eventual African common market would be built
  C) the brain-child of Togo and Ghana
  D) signed in Lagos in May 1975 to promote trade and other economic co-operation in the region as a whole
  E) to immediately eliminate tariffs and other barriers to trade among members
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  The correct answer is D .