JAMB Government Past Questions & Answers - Page 209

The Bureau for Public Enterprises is charged with the responsibility for privatization and commercialization

The most important challenge facing the Fourth Republic is the successful conduct of the 2003 elections.

If certain things are not well done, such issues as rigging and election violence may plunge the nation into state of anarchy and this may eventually attract another military regime.

The expenditure of public funds by the executive in Nigeria is controlled by the legislature.

One of the functions of the legislature is to approve how the government can raise and spend money. This is mostly done by approving the annual budget of the government.

The legislature in its job of checking the activities of other organs of government including the executive has the power to set up panels to investigate the activities of any department in government.

The 1979 Constitution established the National Population Commission

One of the legacies of pre-colonial Nigeria destroyed by the British was the indigenous cultures of the people.

When British people first came to Nigeria, they saw and regarded many aspects of the peoples' way of life as crude and ungodly. They then destroyed and replaced them with their own. Such were religion, mode of dressing, etc.