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Explanation: The Head of the Commonwealth is the Queen of England, and is recognized by the members of the Commonwealth of Nations as the "symbol of their free association" and serves as a leader, alongside the Commonwealth Secretary-General and Commonwealth Chair-in-Office.

Explanation: Rwanda and Mozambique became commonwealth members in 2009 and 1995 respectively, and neither has a British colonial past or constitutional link.

Explanation: Meetings of this Organization are held once every two years, attended by Heads of state and governments of member-states.

Explanation: The Headquarters of The Fund for Co-operation, Compensation and Development is located in Lome, Togo.

Explanation: The United Nations (UN) Security Council is responsible for settling issues related to international peace and security.

Explanation: Foreign policy is a government's strategy in dealing with other nations.

A condition that is important in the choice of a unitary system of government is the size of the country. For a country with a small geographical size, the choice of a unitary system over a federal system is more appropriate.

Explanation: The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (also known as the Permanent Five, Big Five, or P5) are the five states to which the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council: China (formerly the Republic of China), France, Russia (formerly the Soviet Union), the United Kingdom, united states of America.

Explanation: The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories.

Explanation: Commonwealth; is an international association consisting of the UK together with states that were previously part of the British Empire, and dependencies.

Explanation: Block grant; is a grant from the central government that a local authority can allocate to a wide range of services.

Explanation: The key characteristic of pre-colonial African law is its, unwritten nature, with a focus on serving the community rather than individual pursuits. Incarceration and punishment were unknown and instead, efforts were made to compensate the victim, whose role was central to the process.

Explanation: Financial control refers to the systems implemented in place to trace the directed resources of an organization with timely monitoring and measurement.

Explanation: The political administration of assimilation was controlled by a centralised federation known as the Federation of French West Africa. The underlying policy was to enable France to implant French culture, limit education and civilization on the people with the intention of suffocating the culture and fundamentality of Afrikans

Explanation: Any time a military coup comes up in West Africa, the resultant effect always affects the political arena negatively, putting a hold on political activities.

Explanation: Occupational group: Set of people characterized by common occupation, such as carpenters, doctors, engineers, managers, and welders.

Explanation: Neutrality in the civil service means Civil servants shall at all times ensure that their behaviour does not impede their performance of official duties in a fair and professional manner. They shall not allow their own personal political affiliation or beliefs to determine or influence the discharge of their official duties and responsibilities.

Explanation: Red-tapism is the practice of requiring excessive paperwork and tedious procedures before official action can be considered or completed. It is a feature of bureaucracy.

Explanation:
A minister can cut annual subvention to a public corporation because they have ministerial control over the corporation

Explanation: Local revenue comes from property, sales, rates and other taxes; charges and fees; and transfers from federal and state governments.

Explanation: One of the guidelines for promoting a democratic electoral system is that the candidates for election must be properly screened and their eligibility must be ascertained before any election.

Explanation: For an election to be free and fair, eligible voters must be registered and certain civil liberties, such as the freedoms of speech, association and assembly, are required.

Explanation: An election commission is a body charged with overseeing the implementation of the electioneering process of any country.

Public Corporations are mainly set up to provide essential services for the people.

Explanation: The concept of universal franchise, also known as general suffrage or common suffrage of the common man, consists of the right to vote of all adult citizens, these exclude underage people and convicts. A convict or someone currently serving a prison sentence is restricted from exercising their franchise. For example, in Nigeria, an ex-convict cannot compete for political elective positions.

Explanation: During a general election all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation's primary legislative body, which includes the presidential election, governorship election, national assembly elections etc.

Explanation: An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.

Explanation: The concept of universal franchise, also known as general suffrage or common suffrage of the common man, consists of the right to vote of all adult citizens, regardless of wealth, income, gender, social status, race, or ethnicity, subject only to minor exceptions. It allows greater participation in the polity.

Explanation: Registration of voters is one of the essential features and ingredients of any Electoral commission

Explanation: Money and gifts-in-kind to a party, payment of dues, fundraisings or its leading members may be offered as incentives. Such donations are the traditional source of funding for all political parties.

Explanation: A party's manifesto does not limit choice, rather it helps the electorate to assess the party on the basis of the contents of the manifesto.

Explanation: A coalition government is a form of government in which multiple political parties cooperate, reducing the dominance of any one party within that "coalition". The usual reason for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament.

Explanation: Nkrumah first declared Ghana as a one-party state during his rule.

Explanation: Limited franchise refers to the right of only a section of the community to vote and be voted for. This right is only enjoyed by some citizens, depending on what the relevant law demands especially in terms of age, sex, property ownership and educational qualification.

Explanation: Concurrent powers are powers of a federal system of government shared by both the federal government and each constituent political unit (such as a state or province). Both the education and health sectors are jointly catered for by the federal, state and local governments.

Explanation: One of the major functions of the judiciary is to interpret and apply laws to specific cases. In the course of deciding the disputes that come before it, the judges interpret and apply laws. Every law needs a proper interpretation to be applied to every specific case.
Maintenance of law and order is a function of the police which is a part of the executive arm of government.

Explanation: A statute is a written law passed by a legislature on the state or federal level.

Explanation: Slander is the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation. This is part of limitations to freedom of expression including, libel, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, fighting words, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, food labelling etc.

Explanation: The legislature is made up of those who write the laws. It is, therefore, a group of people who vote for new laws or make changes to the old laws.

Explanation: With checks and balances, each of the three branches of government can limit the powers of the others. This way, no one branch becomes too powerful. Each branch “checks” the power of the other branches to make sure that the power is balanced between them. Checks and balances play against one arm of government being too powerful hence discouraging veto power.

Explanation: Representative government otherwise known as indirect democracy is an electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns.

Explanation: Constitution; a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.

Explanation: The rigid constitution is one under which certain laws, called constitutional laws or fundamental laws "cannot be changed in the same manner as ordinary laws."

Explanation: The federal system has basic characteristics: Federalism provides a division of legal authority between state and national/central governments. Both states and the national government are supreme within their own spheres.

Explanation: The police is the civil force of a state, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order.
The court is a body of people presided over by a judge, judges, or magistrate, and acting as a tribunal in civil and criminal cases.

Explanation: Political power is obtained from elections. Politicians get power from the mandate given to them by you when you accept and participate in the electoral process.

Explanation: Nigeria, Togo, and Kenya all practised the presidential system of Government, while Tanzania practised Socialism.

Explanation: Nazism was introduced by Adolf Hitler in Germany in 1933 because he saw himself as the chosen leader with a mission to realize the destiny of the people and his actions could not be questioned.

Explanation:
The merits of the theory of separation of powers are stated below:

• Protection of Liberty and Rights
• Increase in Government's Efficiency
• Limited Government
• Prevents Abuse of Power