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 1441: Delegated legislation Options:
  A) means sharing responibility between central and local goverment on a fifty fifty basis
  B) decentralizes responsibility for law making subject to agreed controls from the centre
  C) has advantages and disadvantages
  D) once permitted is almost impossible to control
  E) decentralizes problems without providing suitable solutions
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1442: The transfer of certain powers and functions by means of constitutional or legislation process to the lowest levels of government is known as ___ ? Options:
  A) Delegation
  B) Devolution
  C) Deconcentration
  D) Decentralisation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1443: Delegated legislation is the power to make laws by Options:
  A) local councils when parliament is in recess
  B) bodies other than parliament
  C) the international Law Commission
  D) military rulers
  E) Parliament
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1444: Where is the Headquarters of the fund of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)? Options:
  A) Lagos
  B) Accra
  C) Cotonou
  D) Abidjan
  E) Lome
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1445:

  During the Civil War, the major power that expressed moral support for Biafra's self- determination was ......

  Options:
  A) Great Britain
  B) China
  C) France
  D) The United States
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1446: The General Purpose Committee of the local government is Options:
  A) cabinet of the local government
  B) body responsible for supervising self-help projects
  C) local government public relations unit
  D) body for awarding contracts
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1447: The citizen's obligations are Options:
  A) what the government orders
  B) duties the individual imposes on himself
  C) what the law requires of the individual
  D) what the military decrees
  E) what political parties demand of their members
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1448: The British constitution, by being unwritten Options:
  A) Encourages the dominance of the Prime Minister
  B) gives room for the development of conventions
  C) makes the parliamentary system unworkable
  D) allows unquestionable parliamentary soveignty
  E) enables the queen to do no wrong
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1449: In the year 1911, who argued most representative system deteriorates towards an Oligarchy or Patriarchy? Options:
  A) Robert Michels
  B) Adolf Gasser
  C) Adolf Hitler
  D) Edmunde Burke
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1450: In the segmented Tiv society,governance was usually confined to Options:
  A) age grade
  B) chiefdom
  C) family
  D) clan
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  The correct answer is B .