Year : 
2016
Title : 
Government
Exam : 
JAMB Exam

Paper 1 | Objectives

41 - 45 of 45 Questions

# Question Ans
41.

Which of the following approves the annual budget of the UN?

A. The General Assembly

B. The Secretariat

C. The Security Council

D. Trusteeship Council

Detailed Solution

The UN general assembly budget committee
There is an explanation video available below.
42.

Lagos was annexed in

A. 1861

B. 1871

C. 1814

D. 1853

Detailed Solution

The British annexed Lagos as a colony in 1861. The remainder of the Benin Empire - i.e., modern-day Nigeria - were seized by the British in 1887, and when the British established the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914, Lagos was declared its capital.
There is an explanation video available below.
43.

A disadvantage of the one-party system is that it

A. is costly to operate

B. does not tolerate opposition

C. does not care about the feelings of the masses

D. discourages periodic elections

Detailed Solution

One of the disadvantages of a one-party system is that it is undemocratic. The operation of a one-party system in a state does not give room for such choices to be made and gives no room for opposition. It can degenerate into a dictatorship.
There is an explanation video available below.
44.

At the formation of the OAU, Nigeria belonged to the

A. Monrovia Group

B. Casablanca Group

C. Lagos Group

D. Brazzaville Group

Detailed Solution

The Monrovia Group, sometimes known as the Monrovia bloc, officially the Conference of Independent African States, was a short-lived, informal association of African states with a shared vision of the future of Africa and of Pan-Africanism in the early 1960s.
There is an explanation video available below.
45.

The ECOWAS Monitoring Group began its operation in

A. Sierra-Leone

B. Guinea

C. GAMBIA

D. Liberia

Detailed Solution

Anglophone ECOWAS members established ECOMOG in 1990 to intervene in the civil war in Liberia (1989–96)
There is an explanation video available below.
41.

Which of the following approves the annual budget of the UN?

A. The General Assembly

B. The Secretariat

C. The Security Council

D. Trusteeship Council

Detailed Solution

The UN general assembly budget committee
There is an explanation video available below.
42.

Lagos was annexed in

A. 1861

B. 1871

C. 1814

D. 1853

Detailed Solution

The British annexed Lagos as a colony in 1861. The remainder of the Benin Empire - i.e., modern-day Nigeria - were seized by the British in 1887, and when the British established the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914, Lagos was declared its capital.
There is an explanation video available below.
43.

A disadvantage of the one-party system is that it

A. is costly to operate

B. does not tolerate opposition

C. does not care about the feelings of the masses

D. discourages periodic elections

Detailed Solution

One of the disadvantages of a one-party system is that it is undemocratic. The operation of a one-party system in a state does not give room for such choices to be made and gives no room for opposition. It can degenerate into a dictatorship.
There is an explanation video available below.
44.

At the formation of the OAU, Nigeria belonged to the

A. Monrovia Group

B. Casablanca Group

C. Lagos Group

D. Brazzaville Group

Detailed Solution

The Monrovia Group, sometimes known as the Monrovia bloc, officially the Conference of Independent African States, was a short-lived, informal association of African states with a shared vision of the future of Africa and of Pan-Africanism in the early 1960s.
There is an explanation video available below.
45.

The ECOWAS Monitoring Group began its operation in

A. Sierra-Leone

B. Guinea

C. GAMBIA

D. Liberia

Detailed Solution

Anglophone ECOWAS members established ECOMOG in 1990 to intervene in the civil war in Liberia (1989–96)
There is an explanation video available below.