PUTME Government past questions.

1,076 real Post-UTME Screening questions from 2006 to 2025, every one with a worked solution. Practise them timed, on the web, on Android, or offline on desktop.

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Questions held
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Years covered
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Questions per paper
40
Time allowed
40 min
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Sample Government questions, answered.

Taken straight from the papers below — one from each of the most recent years, with the answer marked and the reasoning written out.

PUTME Government 2025 · Question 1
The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is described as a ________ constitution
  1. Unitary
  2. Presidential
  3. Federal — correct answer
  4. Confederal
Worked solution
The 1999 Constitution establishes Nigeria as a federal republic, sharing powers between the federal government and the 36 states.
PUTME Government 2024 · Question 1
Justiciable rights are
  1. the privileges of aliens
  2. enforceable by courts — correct answer
  3. the privileges of a few citizens
  4. unenforceable by courts
Worked solution
Justiciable rights (e.g. the fundamental rights in Chapter IV of the 1999 Constitution) can be enforced in a court of law; non-justiciable ones (e.g. Chapter II directive principles) cannot.
PUTME Government 2023 · Question 1
The acceptance and recognition of the right of a ruler to govern is
  1. power
  2. authority
  3. influence
  4. legitimacy — correct answer
Worked solution
Legitimacy is the acceptance and recognition by the governed of the right of a ruler or government to rule.
PUTME Government 2022 · Question 1
Which of the following is not true of a political process?
  1. establishment of an electoral commission
  2. selection of party flag-bearers by electoral commission — correct answer
  3. announcement of election results by an electoral commission
  4. conduct of election by an electoral commission
Worked solution
Selecting flag-bearers (candidates) is done by political parties through primaries, not by the electoral commission.
PUTME Government 2021 · Question 1
The first French West African colony to gain independence from France was
  1. Guinea — correct answer
  2. Guinea-Bissau
  3. Senegal
  4. Mali
Worked solution
Guinea voted 'no' to the French Community in 1958 and became independent under Sekou Toure; the others gained independence in 1960 (Guinea-Bissau was Portuguese).
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PUTME Government, year by year.

2025
72 questions
2024
156 questions
2023
56 questions
2022
54 questions
2021
59 questions
2020
36 questions
2019
71 questions
2018
53 questions
2017
57 questions
2016
22 questions
2015
47 questions
2014
125 questions
2013
25 questions
2012
25 questions
2011
25 questions
2010
25 questions
2009
25 questions
2008
27 questions
2007
24 questions
2006
23 questions
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