The head of government under the 1979 Constitution is the _____
president
prime minister
speaker of the house of representative
senate president
Correct answer is A
Nigeria became a federal republic under the Constitution of 1963 and the monarch and Governor-General were replaced by a ceremonial President. In 1979, under the 1979 Constitution, the President gained executive powers, becoming head of both state and government.
The essence of ECOWAS is to________
bring political parties together
foster interstate economic and political co-operation
emerging political event
expansion of scopes and powers
Correct answer is B
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional organisation of 15 West African countries established on 28 May 1975. Its main goal is the promotion of the economic integration among its members. Indeed, ECOWASis one the five regional pillars of the African Economic Community (AEC).
The Constitutional forms with two levels of Government is _________
Unitary
Evolution
Confederal
Confederation
Correct answer is D
Confederation is the Constitutional form with the levels of Government, the Central and the Regional
The ECOWAS Monitoring Group began its operation in
Sierra-Leone
Guinea
GAMBIA
Liberia
Correct answer is D
Anglophone ECOWAS members established ECOMOG in 1990 to intervene in the civil war in Liberia (1989–96)
At the formation of the OAU, Nigeria belonged to the
Monrovia Group
Casablanca Group
Lagos Group
Brazzaville Group
Correct answer is A
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.