JAMB Government Past Questions & Answers - Page 160

The main goal of the NNDP was to agitate for Nigeria's independence.

It should be recalled that another aim of NNDP was to cooperate with and work hand in hand with the National Congress for British West Africa (NCBWA). One of the major aims of this National Congress of British West Africa was to achieve political Independence for British West Africa.

The privatization of public corporations in Nigeria is undertaken by the Bureau of Public Enterprise

Emancipation of the Masses was the major objective of the manifesto of the People's Redemption Party in the second Republic.

P.R.P. was founded by Late Mallam Aminu Kano on the 21st of October 1978.
The Aims and objectives were as follows:

1. To liberate the people from the subjugation of the super powers.

2. To identify the basic factors of Modern Nigerian Life.

Infact the P.R.P. was Mass Party which was out to improve the lots of the poor, the isolated as well as village dwellers.

Mallam Aminu Kano was the Chairman of the National Executive Committee. He was also the party's. P.R.P. Presidential Aspirant during the 1979 Presidential Elections.

The Native Authority system of local administration was introduced by the British in Nigeria to Empower Traditional Rulers.

This power given to the traditional rulers helped to achieve such objectives as:

This power given to the traditional rulers helped to achieve such objectives as:

1. Facilitating administration

2. Facilitating tax collection

3. Maintenance of law and order.

4. Introduction of Western Education

5. Maintenance of political stability, etc.

The Privy Council was the final Court of Appeal in during the colonial era.

It should be recalled that one of the major weaknesses of Independence Constitution of 1960 was that the Supreme Court was not the court of last resort as it it today. Instead the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain continued to act as the highest Court of Appeal for Nigeria