2003 - JAMB Government Past Questions and Answers - page 2

The Eastern and Western regions of Nigeria achieved the status of self-government 1957.

This was on August 8, 1957 it was one of the effects and implementation of the decisions arrived at the London constitutional conference of 1957.

The British colonial administration significantly altered and in many ways undermined the pre-existing social structures and cultural practices of the various Nigerian communities. While the colonialists did not necessarily "destroy" the farmlands or entirely eliminate education, the most direct and significant impact of British colonization was the disruption and suppression of indigenous cultures.

The 1979 Constitution established the National Population Commission

The expenditure of public funds by the executive in Nigeria is controlled by the legislature.

One of the functions of the legislature is to approve how the government can raise and spend money. This is mostly done by approving the annual budget of the government.

The legislature in its job of checking the activities of other organs of government including the executive has the power to set up panels to investigate the activities of any department in government.

The most important challenge facing the Fourth Republic is the successful conduct of the 2003 elections.

If certain things are not well done, such issues as rigging and election violence may plunge the nation into state of anarchy and this may eventually attract another military regime.

The Bureau for Public Enterprises is charged with the responsibility for privatization and commercialization

Financial allocations to local government by the federal or the state governments to supplement the cost of a project is called matching grants.

Local governments in turn give matching grants to communities or institutions for completion of certain projects such as schools.

A problem of Nigeria federalism that was resolved by the supreme court between the federal government and littoral states centered on resource control

The military Head of State during the Third Republic was General Ibrahim Babangida.

The regime established two political parties, NRC and SDP. All the states had elected governors as well as state legislators. Every local government in the country was also run by elected chairmen and Councillors. That was the time Ibrahim Babangida took up the name ''Mr President.''

In the First Republic,politics in the Northern region was dominated by the NPC.
The Northern People's Congress (NPC) was founded in October 1951. It sprang up from the northern cultural organization known as Jamiyy or Mutanen Arewa which was founded in 1949. NPC was highly dominated by the Hausa Fulani. Throughout its existence, it controlled the northern regional government. In the centre, it some times formed coalition government with NCNC.

UMBC and NEPU were some of its oppsing political parties in the northern regional house of assembly.