2010 - JAMB Government Past Questions and Answers - page 3

The political head of the old Oyo Empire was Alaafin.

The old Oyo Empire was monarchical in nature. The system was based on the principl of inheritance. The government of the empire thrived along four major organs.

The first organ was the King known as the Alaafin. Although the Alaafin was a supreme King, but he was not a dictator. He ruled according to the advice of the council of Oyomesi but was not compulsory for him to accept all advice.

Correct Answer: Option E The Igbo political system was based on family ties. A.O. Ojo (1973) stated that the patrilineal family group known as Umunna was the basic political and social unit.

The Aro age-grade system in Igbo land was a political organization.

France introduced the policy of assimilation in her colonies primarily to change their way of life.

The policy of assimilation was the type of colonial administration which the French government imposed on its West African colonies. This type of administration was meant to replace the culture, language, religion, law, mode of dressing, etc of the people of West Africa with that of the French people.

The foremost British trading company company on the West African coast was United African Company.

The scramble for Africa brought about the settlement of British traders at the Delta Area of the Niger. They named the area ''Oil Rivers Protectorate'' George Jaubman Goldie amalgamated the British private trading companies in the area in the year 1879 and gave the name of the new company as United African Company (UAC). This very company was granted a charter in 1886. with this, the name was changed to Royal Niger Company.

According to an outline of Nigerian History by M.C. English (1900) ''The Oba Overami was deposed and transported to Calabar. Those of his priests who ere found guilty of the massacre were tried and executed.

Nigerian nationalism was described as two-phased by Edward Wilmot Blyden

One of the major weaknesses of the Independence constitution is that it failed to provide the country with full sovereignty.

It retained the British Queen as the constitutional Ceremonial Head of State of Nigeria.

Nigeria Council was the first law-making body in Nigeria after amalgamation .

After the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorate in 1914, Lord Lugard established the Nigerian Council. This existed side by side with legislative council of the colony of Lagos. The council consisted of 36 members which was made up of 23 European officials, and 13 non-official members of which 7 of them were Europeans and 6 Nigerians.

The council was merely an ''advisory-talking-drum. Its advice could be taken or dropped at the discretion of the governor who had a veto power.

The designation of ministers as chief executives and accounting officers was recommended by a commission headed by Dotun Phillips.

The structure of the civil service as contained in that of General Ibrahim Babangida (Rtd.) is hereby shown below as recommended by the Dotun Philips Civil Service Review Panel of 1985.

''The Minister/Commissioner was the Chief executive and accounting officer rather than the Permanent Secretary as it had hitherto existed '' The post of the Permanent Secretary was politicised and called Director-General.