GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF WORK FIRST TERM – SS1 -SS3

SS 1 FIRST TERM’S GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF WORK FOR SSS 1

Week 1:  Definition of the Subject Matter (Government).

Week 2:BASIC CONCEPT OF GOVERNMENT

• Power
• Authority
• Legitimacy
• Sovereignty

Week 3

• Democracy: Meaning and features.
• Political culture.
• Political socialization.

Week 4

• Political participation.
• Communalism.
• Feudalism.

Week 5: BASIC CONCEPTS OF GOVERNMENT (CONTINUED):

• Capitalism.
• Socialism.

Week 6: BASIC CONCEPT OF GOVERNMENT (CONTINUED):

• Communism.
• Fascism.
• Totalitarianism.

Week 7: TYPES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF GOVERNMENT

• Unitary system of Government (meaning, characteristics, merits and demerits).

Week 8: TYPES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF GOVERNMENT

• Parliamentary system of Government.
• Presidential system of Government.
• Comparison of Parliamentary system and presidential system of Government.

Week 9: TYPES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF GOVERNMENT (CONTINUED):

• The confederal system of Government.
• The monarchical system of Government.
• Comparison of federalism and confederalism.

Week 10: Organs of Government.

Week 11 – 12 Revision/Examination.

SS 2 FIRST TERM’S GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF WORK

Week 1: CIVIL SERVICE

• Meaning/definition
• Characteristics
• Structure.
• Functions.
• Control
• Problems.

Week 2: PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION IN THE CIVIL SERVICE

• Meaning of Civil Service Commission
• Functions of the Civil Service Commission.
• The Relationship between the civil service and the political executive.

Week 3: PUBLIC CORPORATION

• Definition.
• Reasons for the establishment of public corporation.
• Functions of public corporation.

Week 4: STRUCTURE AND ORGANISATION OF PUBLIC CORPORATION

• Minister as a political head.
• Board of Director.
• Management.
• Comparison of the organisation.

Week 5: CONTROL AND PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC CORPORATIONS

• Reasons for the control of public corporations.
• Types of control: ministerial, parliamentary and judicial control.
• Problems facing public corporation.

Week 6: COMMERCIALIZATION: Definition, reasons for commercialization, merits and demerits.

Week 7: PRIVATIZATION: Definition, reasons, merits, and demerits.

Week 8: DEREGULATION: Meaning, reasons, merits, and demerits.

Week 9: LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA

• Meaning of Local Government.
• Reasons for Local Government Administration.
• Functions of Local Government.
• System of Local Government in Britain and France.

Week 10: THE STRUCTURE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• The evolution of Local Government.
• Sources of finance of Local Government.
• The relationship among Local, State and Federal Government in Nigeria.
• Rules of traditional rulers in Local Government administration.
• Local Government reforms.
• Problems facing Local Government and measures to Local Government administration in Nigeria.

Week 11 – 12: Revision/Examination.

SS3 FIRST TERM’S SCHEME OF WORK

Week 1

• Federalism:Definition/meaning.
• The emergence of federalism in Nigeria.
• Factors that necessitated the formation of federalism.
• Conferences organised by colonial powers.

Week 2: NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF NIGERIAN FEDERALISM

• Federalism before Independence from 1914 – 1959.
• Federalism before Independence from 1960 – 1966.
• Federalism before Independence from 1967 – 1975.
• Federalism before Independence from 1976 – Date.

Week 3: PROBLEMS OF NIGERIAN FEDERALISM.

• Revenue allocation formula in Nigeria.
• Need for revenue allocation in a federal state.
• Conflict over each adopted revenue allocation formula.

Week 4: MINORITY ISSUE AND THE CREATION OF STATES

• The major and minor ethnic groups in Nigeria.
• Reasons for the demand of more states.
• Complexity and endless nature of the state creation.
• Recommendation of Willink’s Commission.
• Solution to minority problems in Nigeria.

Week 5: INTER-ETHNIC RIVALRY AND ISSUE OF STATE CREATION

• The nature of ethnic conflict and rivalry in Nigeria.
• Problems of secession in Nigeria.
• Measures to avoid secession in Nigeria.

Week 6: DEVELOPMENTAL OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN NIGERIA

• National Democratic Party (NDP).
• Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM).
• National Council of Nigeria and Cameroon Citizens (NCNC).

Week 7:DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN NIGERIA (CONTINUED)

• Action Group (AG).
• Northern People’s Congress (NPC).
• Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU).
• Northern Party of Nigeria (NPN).
• Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN).
• Nigerian People’s Party (NPP).

Week 8: DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN NIGERIA (CONTINUED)

• Great Nigerian People’s Party (GNPP).
• People’s Redemption Party (PRP).
• Nigerian Advance Party (NAP).
• Social Democratic Party (SDP).
• National Republican Convention (NRC).

Week 9: DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN NIGERIA (CONTINUED)

• People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
• All Nigerian People’s Party (ANPP).
• Alliance for Democracy (AD).
• Action Congress (AC) and small political parties.

Week 10: MAJOR POLITICAL CRISES IN NIGERIA

• Kano riot 1953.
• Eastern region constitution 1953.
• Census crisis 1962/63.
• Action group crisis.
• Nigerian civil war 1967 – 1970.

Week 11: Revision.

Week 12 Examination.