2024 NECO GCE GOVERNMENT: 2024 NECO GCE GOVERNMENT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (6806)

(1i)

Carpet crossing; has become the defining expression in our kind of political pragmatism. When people see the light, for which, read opportunity, in another political party, they flock to it. You should recognise this as chop-chop politics. It is the only kind of politics we know; it is the only kind of politics we practice.

(1ii)

Voting By Proxy; form of voting whereby a member of a decision-making body may delegate his or her voting power to a representative, to enable a vote in absence. The representative may be another member of the same body, or external. A person so designated is called a "proxy" and the person designating him or her is called a "principal"

(1iii)

Disfranchisement; restriction of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or a practice that has the effect of preventing a person exercising the right to vote. Disfranchisement can also refer to the revocation of power or control of a particular individual, community or being to the natural amenity they have

(1iv)

Electoral Constituency; subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislative body. That body, or the state's constitution or a body established for that purpose, determines each district's boundaries and whether each will be represented by a single member or multiple members.

(4a)
A political party is defined as an organized group of people with at least roughly similar political aims and opinions, that seeks to influence public policy by getting its candidates elected to public office.

(4b)
(i) To attain power: It is the main objective of all political parties.Tgey compete with each other for the same, there is nothing wrong with the objective of gaining power as long as the competition is fair.

(ii) To pursue an ideology: A party’s stand on certain social issues defines it’s ideology. In modern times, mist political parties have similar ideologies which make it difficult for the common voter to decide whom to support.

(iii) To have common agenda: On the basis of their ideologies, parties prepare their agendas. They aim to gather public support for their agenda in order to win elections and implement them.

(iv) To establish a government: The political party which gets the majority of votes in the elections forms the government, the parties with lesser votes from the opposition.

(v) To act as a link between people and the government: Political parties are the connecting link between people and the government. They communicate the demands and the complaints of the people to the elected leaders and on the other hand, the government tries to get the support of the people for it’s policies and programs through the channel of political parties.

(Choose Any Six)
(i) Local governments help in educating people at the grassroots about the policies and actions of the federal and state governments.

(ii) They help in preserving the traditional institutions of the people in the local areas.

(iii) They bring government nearer to the people at the grassroots.

(iv) They allay feelings of insecurity and fears of ethnic domination especially if created along ethnic lines

(v) They mobilize both human and material resources for community development.

(vi) They serve as a link between the people at the grassroots and the central/state governments.

(vii) They help to provide social services to the people at the grassroots.

(viii) They encourage leadership training of the people at the grassroots.

(ix) They 'copied from e x p o c o d e . n e t free' bring rapid development to the local areas.

(x) Local governments allow indigenes of different local areas to govern themselves according to their traditions and cultures.

(xi) They help in the maintenance of law and order.

(xii) They facilitate quick decision making in matters within their jurisdiction.

(xiii) Local governments make Bye-Laws for order and good governance of their areas.

(xiv) They create job opportunities.

(9a)

Civil service, the body of government officials who are employed in civil occupations that are neither political nor judicial. OR The civil service is typically described as the core, permanent administrative arm of government, including permanent and pensionable officials working in government ministries, departments and agencies.

(9b)  

(i) Legislative Control: The legislature controls the civil service in several ways. It lays down the objectives of government, decides the institution that will implement them and stipulates the method and policy to be followed.

(ii) Executive Control: The executive exercises direct political and administrative control over the civil service. It coordinates the activities of government ministries and administrative agencies and appoints ministers, permanent secretaries and other top civil servants.

(iii) Judicial Control: The judiciary enforces the principle that the government and its employees are accountable to the law. In other words, it ensures that administrative acts are consistent with the law. 

(iv) Public Control: Public criticism of civil servants and their performance, though an indirect control of the civil service, may lead to increased efficiency and instigate reforms of the service, because an indictment of the civil service is an indictment of the government.

(v) Control by the press: The press is the instrument 'copied from e x p o c o d e . n e t free' through which people are informed of the happenings in the civil service and through which the people can criticize the operations of the civil service. As a result of the above, civil servants are always conscious of what they do in order to avoid the criticism of the general public and that of the press.The press therefore acts as control over the activities of the civil service.