JAMB - Government (1997)

• 1

  Authority refers to the

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  (C)

  mandate to exercise power over others
• 2

  Government is different from other political organizations because

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  (A)

  it has legitimate power over citizens
• 3

  Judicial independence in a modern democracy can be ensured by

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  (D)

  safeguarding the security of tenure of judges
• 4

  The official report of proceeding in parliament is known as the

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  (A)

  hansard
• 5

  An important feature of the federal system of government is the existence of a

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  (D)

  multiple tiers of government
• 6

  An important aspect of an unwritten constitution is that it

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  (C)

  contains customary laws and conventions
• 7

  The ideology that advocates the complete control of the sources of power is

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  (A)

  totalitariansim
• 8

  Shadow Cabinet is associated with the

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  (C)

  parliamentary system
• 9

  One basic characteristic of parliamentary system of government is that the

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  (B)

  cabinet is part of the legislature
• 10

  In a presidential system, the theory of separation of powers is not absolute because the president

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  (C)

  assents to bills
• 11

  The principle of checks and balances is found mainly in

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  (B)

  presidential system
• 12

  During the second republic in Nigeria, the branch of the legislature responsible for ratifying presidential nominees for appointments was the

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  (A)

  Senate
• 13

  A tax law originates from

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  (D)

  a public bill
• 14

  The order used by the court against unnecessary detention is

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  (B)

  habeas corpus
• 15

  When school pupils sing the national anthem and salute the flag, they are

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  (A)

  performing their obligations as citizens
• 16

  A major duty of citizens is to

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  (C)

  pay taxes
• 17

  The simple plurality electoral system is often criticized because

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  (D)

  it is easy to rig
• 18

  The process of dividing a country into electoral districts is known as

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  (A)

  delimitation
• 19

  Political parties are formed essentially to

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  (A)

  capture state power
• 20

  A systematic effort to manipulate the beliefs, attitudes and actions of the public through the mass media and other means is called

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  (C)

  propaganda
• 21

  In the Igbo political system, authority was shared among

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  (D)

  title holders and age groups
• 22

  The crucial check on an autocratic Oba in the pre-Colonial Yoruba political system was

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  (A)

  presnting to him a suicide sysmbol
• 23

  A major feature of the system of government in the Sokoto Caliphate was that

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  (B)

  it was theocratic
• 24

  The people of Southern Nigeria first came in contact with Europeans through

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  (D)

  peaceful trade
• 25

  Nigeria's first law-making body after the amalgamation was known as the

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  (D)

  Legislative Council
• 26

  One major flaw of the British Indirect Rule in Nigeria was that the system

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  (B)

  championed ethnocentrism
• 27

  The nationalist organization formed in Nigeria in the late 1930s was the

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  (C)

  Nigerian Youth Movement
• 28

  In 1947, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe led a delegation to the British Colonial Office in London to protest against the

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  (A)

  provisions of the Richards Constitution
• 29

  Under the 1922 Clifford Constitution, franchise was granted in Calabar and Lagos to

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  (D)

  male adults with an annual income of at least £ 100.
• 30

  Under the 1979 Constitution in Nigeria, each state of the federation

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  (C)

  had an equal number of senators
• 31

  Under the 1963 Republican Constitution, the power of judicial review was vested in the

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  (A)

  supreme court
• 32

  Between 1966 and 1975, the highest legislative body in Nigeria was the

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  (B)

  Supreme Military Council
• 33

  Three important concepts associated with a well organized civil service are

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  (C)

  neutrality, anonymity and impartiality
• 34

  The public agency now mandated to register births and deaths in Nigeria is the

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  (D)

  national population commission
• 35

  Under the Babangida administration, the political bureau recommended at the federal level

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  (D)

  bicameral legislature and two -party system
• 36

  The first political party that contested election in Nigeria after the Clifford Constitution was

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  (D)

  nigerian national democratic party
• 37

  Four pre-independece political parties in nigeria included the

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  (B)

  NNDP, NCNC, NPC and AG
• 38

  In Nigeria, functions shared by the central and state governments include

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  (D)

  education, provision of water and construction of roads
• 39

  The creation of more states in Nigeria has

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  (A)

  eliminated ethnic and religious conflicts
• 40

  After the botched coup of January 1966, power was handed over to General Johnson Aguiy Nronsi by the

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  (D)

  council of ministers
• 41

  Nigeria's major export commodities in the early years of her independence were

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  (C)

  cocoa, palm oil and groundnut
• 42

  The foreign affairs minister who introduced economic diplomacy as a foreign policy initiative was

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  (B)

  Major - General Ike Nwachukwu
• 43

  Non - alignment is no longer relevant in Nigerian foreign policy because

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  (D)

  the cold war has ended
• 44

  In 1978,the Obasanjo Administration nationalized the assets of the British Petroleum and Barclays Bank in Nigeria in reaction to the British

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  (C)

  continued trade links with South Africa
• 45

  Nigeria broke diplomatic relations with France in 1961 because of

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  (A)

  France's atomic test in the Sahara Desert