{"id":4070,"date":"2023-10-06T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T09:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ecole9ja\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2023-10-06T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T09:24:20","slug":"week-9-ss3-second-term-government-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/posts\/week-9-ss3-second-term-government-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 9 &#8211; SS3 Second Term Government Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<strong>WEEK NINE<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>TOPIC: ECONOMIC COMMUINTY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>CONTENT<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Achievements of ECOWAS\n<\/li>\n<li>Problems of ECOWAS\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>ACHIEVEMENTS OF ECOWAS<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. The body has removed all customs duties in the areas of importation and exportation of goods within the sub-region.<br \/>\n2. Member states cooperate in the areas of sports and culture.<br \/>\n3. ECOWAS has helped to unite the people of member nations irrespective of the differences in ideology, beliefs and so on.<br \/>\n4. Formation of ECOMOG: ECOMOG was formed through ECOWAS to help maintain peace in the sub-region and it helped to restore democracy in Liberia and Sierra Leone.<br \/>\n5. Member states of ECOWAS spoke against Apartheid in South Africa and neo-colonialism.<br \/>\n6. The organization helped in removing all administrative restrictions on trade within the sub-region.<br \/>\n7. Member states mediate in disputes among states, e.g. Nigeria and Chad, Liberia, Sierra Leone and so on.<br \/>\n8. The body has eliminated obstacles to movements of persons, services and capital within the sub-region.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>PROBLEMS OR WEAKNESSES OF ECOWAS<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. Language barrier: Member states of ECOWAS do not speak the same language.<br \/>\n2. Free movement: The free movement as provided by the Charter of ECOWAS is no longer automatic.<br \/>\n3. Different Ideology: Difference in ideology hinders the progress of the organization.<br \/>\n4. Common currency: The organization does not have a common currency.<br \/>\n5. Political instability: Frequent change in government of some countries hinders the successful operation of the organization.<br \/>\n6. Poor transportation and communication: These are some of the problems facing the organization<br \/>\n7. Similarity of products: Member states of ECOWAS manufacture similar products which makes trade among ECOWAS states difficult.<br \/>\n8. Fear of domination: Smaller states within the ECOWAS sub-region are afraid of being dominated by the larger states.<br \/>\n9. Shortage of fund: Most member states of ECOWAS do not pay their dues which hinders the organization form executing its projects.<br \/>\n10. Colonial masters: The political and economic activities of member states are tied to that of their former colonial master. So, their first loyalty goes to their former colonial masters not to ECOWAS. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>EVALUATION<\/strong><br \/>\n\t1. Discuss 5 achievements of ECOWAS.<br \/>\n2. Highlight 5 shortcomings of ECOWAS<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>GENERAL EVALUATION\/REVISION QUESTIONS<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Highlight the features of the independence constitution\n<\/li>\n<li>What were the achievements of the constitution?\n<\/li>\n<li>Briefly describe what led to the Western election crisis of 1965\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Explain the causes of the general election crisis of 1983.\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>READING ASSIGNMENT<br \/>\n<\/strong>Essential government by C.C. Dibie pages 262-263<br \/>\nComprehensive government by J.U. Anyaele 242-243<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>ECOWAS is made up of ____ countries (a) 15 (b) 16 (c) 20\n<\/li>\n<li> ECOWAS was established to promote ____ (a) political instability (b) economic trade (c) colonial rule\n<\/li>\n<li>The Secretary General of ECOWAS is elected for a fixed term of (a) three years (b) four years (c) five years\n<\/li>\n<li>ECOMOG means (a) Economic Monitoring Group (b) ECOWAS Monitoring Group (c) ECOWAS Military Group.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>All the following are problems of ECOWAS except (a) removal of customs duties (b) language barrier (c) ideological differences.\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>THEORY<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>Discuss 4 areas where ECOWAS have recorded success.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Explain 5 limitations of ECOWAS.\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0WEEK NINE TOPIC: ECONOMIC COMMUINTY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS) CONTENT Achievements of ECOWAS Problems&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","category-second-term-ss3-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}