{"id":796,"date":"2023-09-27T07:21:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T07:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ecole9ja\/?p=796"},"modified":"2023-09-27T07:21:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T07:21:53","slug":"week-10-jss-2-first-term-civic-education-lesson-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/posts\/week-10-jss-2-first-term-civic-education-lesson-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10 &#8211; Jss 2 First Term Civic Education Lesson Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WEEK 10<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>CHARACTERISTICS OF FEDERATIONS<br \/>\n<\/strong>The following are some of the characteristics of a federation,<br \/>\n<strong>a. Separation of powers<\/strong>: governmental powers are shared between federal and state government according to the constitution.<br \/>\n<strong>b. Written and rigid constitution:<\/strong> a federation usually has a written and rigid constitution<br \/>\n<strong>c. Existence of bicamerical legislature<\/strong>: there are two houses at the central, the house of representations and the state.<br \/>\n<strong>d. Supremacy of constitution:<\/strong> the constitution is final activity in any other<br \/>\ne. The federal and state government derive their powers from the constitution<br \/>\nf. Every group in the country is recognised and represented<br \/>\ng. The supreme court: this settles disputes between various level of government (federal and state) and it gives the final interpretation of the constitution.<br \/>\nh. The autonomy of every post of the country is guaranteed by the constitution<br \/>\ni. The states of a federation has unequal human and material resources<br \/>\n<strong>PROBLEMS OF NIGERIA FEDERATION<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>The reliance sharing formula has been an object of controller since independence.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The military has ruled for about for decades, destabilizing various pillar of democracy and democratic values in the country.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Falsified census figures in part of the federation for political reasons.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Contiguous  boundaries among regional areas\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Ethnic loyalty by leaders which is a treat national unity\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Ethnical base political parties which does not help in uniting the nation.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The domination of the majority or larger ethnic group.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Lack of federal characters in sharing resources and major political seat line chief judges and ministers\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NATURE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. The local government get allocation from the federal account<br \/>\n2. The state government approve the annual budget of the local government as well as looking into (audit) the accounts of the local government<br \/>\n3. The state has the power to dissolve local government executive council<br \/>\n4. The federal government creates the state and local government areas. She can adjust boundaries or remove existing boundaries.<br \/>\n5. The state government and local government can help in implementing some of federal government policies like the industrial and educational polices   <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>AREAS OF DIFFERENT BETWEEN THE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT<br \/>\n<\/strong>a. The federal government legislate on both exclusive concurrent list while the state legislate on concurrent and residual list.<br \/>\nb. The federal government has two legislative houses (senate and house of representative) while the state has one (the legislative council).<br \/>\nc. The federal government is headed by the president while the state is headed by the governor and the local government but the state cannot control the federal government.<br \/>\nd. The federal government has constitutional power to control the state but the state cannot control the federal government<br \/>\ne. The federal government can formulate policies for the whole country while the state and local government can formulate polices for themselves alone.<br \/>\n<strong>Assignment<br \/>\n<\/strong>Mention 3 areas of differences among federal ,state and local governments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEEK 10 CHARACTERISTICS OF FEDERATIONS The following are some of the characteristics of a federation,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","category-first-term-jss-2-civic-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}