Waec Government 1997 Past Questions and Answers

Question 36:

• WAEC 1997

Government control of public corporations in Nigeria is mainly to

A. Ensure public accountability
B. Allow freedom of each on the part of the corporations
C. Guarantee profit maximization of the corporations
D. Protect the appointment of foreigners in the corporations
E. Encourage ethnic domination in the corporations

Question 37:

• WAEC 1997

Who among the following could pass death sentence on an accused person in the pre-colonial Yoruba Kingdom? The

A. Paramount Ruler
B. Provincial Heads
C. Queen Mother
D. Cults
E. Family Heads

Question 38:

• WAEC 1997

The French policy of Assimilation attempted to

A. Use chiefs as intermediaries between the government and the citizens
B. Africanize the civil service
C. Make the Africans think and behave like French citizens
D. Allow Africans develop on their own
E. Establish legislative councils for the Africans

Question 39:

• WAEC 1997

Where was Indirect Rule successfully practised before it was introduced to Africa?

A. Latin America
B. India
C. Britain
D. Japan
E. USA

Question 40:

• WAEC 1997

One of effects of the agitations by the National Congress of British West Africa in the 1920s was the

A. Establishment to Town Councils in th Protectorate
B. Abolition of racial discrimination in the Civil Service
C. Deposition of traditional rulers by Africans
D. Election of Africans into the Legislative Councils
E. Permission of African lawyers to parctise in court