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Expect about 40 questions in your JAMB Government exam from different topics under the 4 sections of the JAMB Government syllabus below:

ELEMENTS OF GOVERNMENT

1. Basic Concepts in Government.

• a. Power, Authority, Legitimacy, Sovereignty;
• b. Society, State, Nation, Nation-State;
• c. Political Processes;
  • Political Socialization,
  • Political Participation,
  • Political Culture.

2. Forms of Government:

• Monarchy, Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Autocracy, Republicanism, Democracy definitions, features, merits and demerits.

3. Arms of Government:

• a. The Legislature – types, structure, functions, powers;
• b. The Executive – types, functions, powers;
• c. The Judiciary – functions, powers, components.
• d. Their relationships.

4. Structures of Governance:

• a. Unitary – features, reasons for adoption, merits and demerits.
• b. Federal – features, reasons for adoption, merits and demerits.
• c. Confederal – features, reasons for adoption, merits and demerits.

5. Systems of Governance:

• Presidential, Parliamentary and Monarchical.

6. Political Ideologies:

• Communalism,
• Feudalism,
• Capitalism,
• Socialism,
• Communism,
• Totalitarianism,
• Fascism,
• Nazism.

7. Constitution:

• Meaning,
• Sources,
• Functions,
• Types – Written, Unwritten, Rigid and Flexible.

8. Principles of Democratic Government:

• Ethics and Accountability in Public Office,
• Separation of Power,
• Checks and Balances,
• Individual and Collective Responsibility,
• Constitutionalism,
• Rule of Law,
• Representative Government.

9. Processes of Legislation:

• Legislative Enactments –
  • acts,
  • edicts,
  • bye-laws,
  • delegated legislation,
  • decrees.

10. Citizenship:

• a. Meaning, types;
• b. Citizenship rights;
• c. Dual citizenship, renunciation, deprivation;
• d. Duties and obligations of citizens;
• e. Duties and obligations of the state.

11. The Electoral Process:

• a. Suffrage – evolution, types;
• b. Election – types, ingredients of free and fair election;
• c. Electoral System – types, advantages and disadvantages of each;
• d. Electoral Commission – functions, problems.

12. Political Parties and Party Systems:

• a. Political parties – Definition, organization, functions.
• b. Party Systems – Definition, organization, functions.

13. Pressure Groups:

• a. Definition, types, functions and modes of operation.
• b. Differences between Pressure Groups and Political Parties.

14. Public Opinion:

• a. Meaning, formation and measurement.
• b. Functions and limitations.

15. The Civil Service:

• Definition,
• characteristics,
• functions,
• structure,
• control and problems.

POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

1. Pre – colonial Polities:

• Pre-jihad Hausa, Emirate, Tiv, Igbo, Yoruba
  • a. Their structural organization;
  • b. The functions of their various political institutions.

2. Imperialist Penetration:

• a. The British process of acquisition – trade, missionary activities, company rule, crown colony, protectorate;
• b. The British colonial administrative policy – direct and indirect rule;
• c. The French colonial administrative policy – assimilation and association;
• d. Impact of British colonial rule economic, political, socio-cultural;
• e. Comparison of British and French colonial administration.

3. Process of Decolonization:

• a. Nationalism – Meaning, Types;
• b. Nationalist Movements – emergence, goals, strategies;
• c. Nationalist Leaders – Herbert Macaulay, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello, Ladipo Solanke, Aminu Kano, J. S. Tarka, Tafawa Balewa and others;
• d. Emergence of nationalist parties;
• e. Influence of external factors.

4. Constitutional Development in Nigeria:

• a. Hugh Clifford Constitution (1922).
• b. Arthur Richards Constitution (1946).
• c. John Macpherson Constitution (1951).
• d. Oliver Lyttleton Constitution (1954).
• e. Independence Constitution (1960) Their features, merits and demerits.

5. Post – Independence Constitutions:

• 1963, 1979, 1989 and 1999 – characteristics and shortcomings.

6. Institutions of Government in the Post – Independence Nigeria:

• a. The Legislative – structure, functions and working.
• b. The Executive – structure, functions and workings.
• c. The Judiciary – structure, functions and workings.

7. Public Commissions Established by the 1979 and Subsequent Constitutions:

• The Civil Service Commission, the Public Complaints Commission, Electoral Commissions, National Boundary Commission and others – objectives functions and problems.

8. Political Parties and Party Politics in Post-Independence Nigeria:

• a. First Republic.
• b. Second Republic.
• c. Third Republic.
• d. Fourth Republic.
• Evolution, membership spread, structure etc.

9. The Structure and Workings of Nigerian Federalism:

• a. Rationale for a Federal System;
• b. Tiers of government and their relationship;
• c. Creation of States – 1963, 1967, 1976, 1987, 1991, 1996;
• d. Problems of Nigerian Federalism – census, revenue allocation, conflicts etc. solutions e.g. Federal character, etc.

10. Public Corporations and Parastatals:

• a. Definition, types, purpose and functions;
• b. Finance, control and problems;
• c. Deregulation, privatization, commercialization – objectives, features, merits and demerits;
• d. Comparison between public corporations and parastatals.

11. Local Government:

• a. Local government administration prior to 1976;
• b. Features of local government reforms (1976, 1989) – structure, functions, finance and inter-governmental relations;
• c. Traditional rulers and local governments;
• d. Problems of local government administration in Nigeria.

12. The Military in Nigerian Politics.

• a. Factors that led to military intervention;
• b. Structure of military regimes;
• c. Impact of military rule – political, e.g. creation of states, introduction of unitary system (Unification Decree No. 34) etc. economic, e.g SAP, etc.
• d. Processes of military disengagement.

FOREIGN POLICY AND NIGERIA’S RELATIONS WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

1. Foreign Policy:

• Definition, purpose, determining factors; formulation and implementation.

2. Nigeria’s Foreign Policy:

• a. Relations with major powers;
• b. Relations with developing countries, e.g. the Technical Aid Corps (TAC), etc.
• c. Nigeria’s Non-Alignment Policy.

3. Relations with African Countries:

• a. Africa as the “centre piece” of Nigeria’s forieign policy – guiding principles, implementation and implications;
• b. NEPAD – origin, objectives and implications.

4. Nigeria in International Organizations.

• a. The United Nations;
• b. The Commonwealth;
• c. The Organization of African Unity;
• d. The African Union;
• e. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS);
• f. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

1. International Organizations:

• a. ECOWAS;
• b. OAU, AU;
• c. Commonwealth;
• d. OPEC;
• e. UNO;
• f. African Petroleum Producers Association;
  • Origin, objectives, structure, functions, achievements, problems and prospects of these organizations.

Source: JAMB IBASS

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