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 271: The Barclay's Bank and the British Petroleum Company in Nigeria were nationalized in the late 1970's for transacting business with Options:
  A) France
  B) South Africa
  C) Portugal
  D) Libya
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 272: An example of a country with a flexible constitution is Options:
  A) South Africa
  B) Britain
  C) Benin Republic
  D) the United States of America
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 273: The central objective of privatization in Nigeria is to Options:
  A) Reduce the retrenchment of workers
  B) Encourage prompt payment of salaries
  C) Improve standard of living
  D) Improve the efficiency of enterprises
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 274:

  The cultural organisation which metamorphosed into the Northern People's Congress (NPC) was__________

  Options:
  A) Arewa Consultative Forum
  B) Jamiyyar Mutanem Arewa
  C) Borno Youth Movement
  D) Northern Elders Forum
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 275: Prorogation is the bringing of a session of a parliament to an end through Options:
  A) royal proclamation
  B) final reading
  C) guillotine
  D) impeachment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 276: Nigeria's role in the African Union was most prominent during the regime of Options:
  A) President Olusegun Obasanjo
  B) President Shehu Shagari
  C) President Umaru Yar'adua
  D) President Ibrahim Babangida
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 277: The signing of protectorate treaty was used by the Europeans to penetrate Options:
  A) Eastern Nigeria
  B) Northern Nigeria
  C) the Nier Delta
  D) Western Nigeria
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 278:

  The policy of 'indigenization' was introduced under the regime of?

  Options:
  A) General Yakubu Gowon
  B) General Olusegun Obasanjo
  C) General Ibrahim Babangida
  D) General Sani Abacha
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 279: The primary function of a pressure group is to Options:
  A) win and control governmental power
  B) elect their officials
  C) influence government policy
  D) organize worker to confront government
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 280: COWAS represents Options:
  A) the English- speaking equivalent of the Franco phone economic community in West Africa
  B) an attempt to progressively eliminate obstacles to free movement of goods, services and people throughout West Africa
  C) the West African regional arm of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
  D) a continent- wide economic dimension of pan-Africanism
  E) a concrate achievement by the Economic Commission for Africa (EGA)
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  The correct answer is B .