Correct Answer: A. cabinet meetings

Explanation

Major decisions are made at meetings of the Cabinet, which are held once a month and are attended by all Cabinet members. The Cabinet is also responsible for preparing the budget and policies to propose to the Full Council. Decisions are also taken by cabinet members individually.

Correct Answer: D. the President is also the Chief judge

Correct Answer: D. mass retrenchment of labour

Explanation

The sole aim of Privatization is profit-making. There is often a reduction of costs or spending and mass retrenchment of labour in response to economic difficulty.

Explanation

(a) Native Authority was an institution of local administration of Indirect Rule System in British West African Colonies.

(b) The basic defects of the Indirect Rule System include the following

(i) It increased the power of the traditional rulers to the detriment of their subjects.

(ii) The imposition of warrant chiefs and taxation where there were none before made the system unpopular e.g. Isehin and Aba riots. (Hut-tax war in Sierra Leone).

(iii) It created tensions and misunderstanding between the chiefs and educated Africans due to distrust and intrigue.

(iv) The system made the chief corrupt e.g. mis-management of funds, embezzlement of taxes, forced labour, etc.

(v) It was autocratic since colonial authorities had power to over-ride the decisions of the native administration.

(vi) The activities of the native courts were unsatisfactory. They were slow, corrupt, inefficient, etc.

(vii) It slowed down the pace of constitutional development and early independence of West African colonies. This is because it drowned the voice of the people.

(viii) The system tampered with the established traditional institutions e.g. appointment and removal of chiefs.

(ix) It reduced traditional rulers to mere stooges and puppets of the colonial authorities. The traditional rulers were hated by their people.

Explanation

(a) NEPAD is a vision and strategic framework for the socio-economic and political development of Africa

(b) (I) A commitment to good governance as a pre-condition for economic growth

(ii) strengthening democracy and the Rule of Law in Africa

(iii) achieving peace, security and stability in Africa

(iv) Acceleration of the empowerment of women in Africa

(v) to make Africa attractive to both domestic and foreign investors

Correct Answer: D. totalitarianism

Explanation

Totalitarianism is a political concept of a mode of government that prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life.

Correct Answer: C. Nigerian nationalists did not fight any war before independence was granted

Correct Answer: B. 1959

Correct Answer: D. encourages the elite to remain in power

Explanation

The purpose of studying government as found in the Preamble of the Constitution, is to establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity. this will enable citizens to understand their rights and avoid abuse of those rights by people whom they had choose to represent them.

Correct Answer: D. African Union