SS2 Government Lessons Topics
1st term
- 1. Meaning/definition of civil service
- 2. Characteristics of civil service
- 3. Structures of civil service
- 4. Functions of civil service
- 5. Control of civil service
- 6. Problems of civil service
- 7. Executive class
- 8. Clerical class
- 9. Ethic, honesty, integrity
- 10. Meaning of civil service commission
- 11. Structure of the commission
- 12. Functions of the commission
- 13. Relationship between the civil service and political executives.
- 14. Definition of public corporations.
- 15. Reasons for establishing public corporations
- 16. Functions of public corporation
- 17. Comparison of the organisation
- 18. Reasons for the control of public corporation
- 19. Types of control
- 20. Problems facing public corporation
- 21. Definition of commercialization
- 22. Reasons for commercialization
- 23. Merits and demerits of commercialization in Nigeria
- 24. Definition of privatization
- 25. Reasons for privatization
- 26. Merits and demerits of privatization in Nigeria.
- 27. Meaning of deregulation
- 28. Reasons for deregulation
- 29. Advantages and disadvantages of deregulation in Nigeria.
- 30. Meaning of local government administration
- 31. Reasons for the creation of local government in Britain and France
- 32. The evolution of local government in Nigeria
- 33. Structure of local government in Nigeria
- 34. Local government sources of finance
- 35. Relationship among local, state and federal government in Nigeria
- 36. Roles of traditional rulers in local government administration
- 37. 1976, local government reforms
- 38. Problems facing local governments in Nigeria
2nd term
- 1. System of administration in pre-colonial Hausa-Fulani government
- 2. Structure of the system of government: Hausa-Fulani
- 3. Igbo pre-colonial political system of government.
- 4. The structure of the government in pre-colonial Igbo political system.
- 5. System of government in pre-colonial Yoruba
- 6. System of government in pre-colonial Yoruba
- 7. The structure of the Yoruba system of government
- 8. Definition of indirect rule
- 9. Reasons for introducing indirect rule in Nigeria
- 10. Principles and structures of indirect rule on British colonial administration
- 11. Reasons for the success of indirect rule in northern Nigeria.
- 12. Reasons for the failure of indirect rule in southern Nigeria.
- 13. French administration policy of assimilation and association.
- 14. Problems of policy of assimilation
- 15. Reasons for change from assimilation to association
- 16. Comparison of British and French colonial policies of administration
- 17. Definition of nationalism
- 18. Factors that led to the rise and growth of nationalism in Nigeria.
- 19. Effects of nationalism in Nigeria
- 20. The activities of Nigerian nationalists
3rd term
- 1. Hugh Clifford’s constitution of 1922
- 2. Features of Hugh Clifford's Constitution of 1922
- 3. Merits and demerits of Hugh Clifford's Constitution of 1922
- 4. Features of Arthur Richards Constitution of 1946/47
- 5. Merits and demerits of Arthur Richards Constitution of 1946/47
- 6. Macpherson Constitution of 1951
- 7. Features of the Macpherson Constitution of 1951
- 8. Merits and demerits of the Macpherson Constitution of 1951
- 9. Oliver Lyttleton’s Constitution of 1954
- 10. Features of Oliver Lyttleton’s Constitution of 1954
- 11. Merits and demerits of Oliver Lyttleton’s Constitution of 1954
- 12. Merits and demerits of the constitutional conferences
- 13. Features of the Independence Constitution of 1960
- 14. Merits and demerits of the Independence Constitution of 1960
- 15. Features of the Republican Constitution of 1963 (Parliamentary)
- 16. Merits and demerits of the Republican Constitution of 1963 (Parliamentary)
- 17. Features of the 1979 Presidential Constitution
- 18. Merits and demerits of the 1979 Presidential Constitution
- 19. Features of the 1999 Constitution
- 20. Merits and demerits of the 1999 Constitution
- 21. Problems of Nigerian federalism
- 22. Nature and structure of Nigerian federalism