2024 NABTEB CIVIC: 2024 NABTEB CIVIC EDUCATION ANSWERS (4304)

(1a) National unity is the desire of the citizens of a country to promote peace and stability (common interest) in them country.

(1b)

(i)N.Y.S.C. (National Youth Service Corp) Program Me: This program me is established by the federal government in 1973 to bring about unity among graduates from different institutions, educated fellows to come together from different state to serve their nation for a period of one year.

(ii)Transport and communication: Road network, railway lines, telecommunication, bridges and airways are built and constructed by government at various levels to link up rural with urban areas and to ease movement of the people from one place to another, thereby promoting national integration.

(iii)National languages: Despite about the 350 different ethnic groups in Nigeria with different dialects, efforts are being made to promote a national or an official language. For instance English language has been recognized as the official or national language.

(iv)Employment and Labor mobility: The federal government employs and transfer workers from different cultural groups to work elsewhere in the country.

(2a) Drug trafficking can be defined as the illicit global trade that deals with the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws. Illicit drugs are usually smuggled across the nation's land, air and sea ports

(2b)

(i)Physical/health consequence: It damages the important body organs such as brain, liver, pancreas. It cause nose bleeding, hypertension, chronic cough, avoidance accident, premature death and heart attack.

(ii)psychological consequence: Drug abuse leads to sleeplessness, anxiety ,craving for drug of choice, loss of memory, hearing or seeing image when this is not real ,depression ,personality disintegration ,emotional instability.

(iii)social consequence: Increase in criminal acts such as stealing, armed robbery, murder, rape, suicide ,cultism, prostitution , juveniles delinquency destitution. It can render the user poor and bring shame on the family of the drug abuser.

(iv)Economic consequence: The confiscation is of economic disadvantage to the dealer. Drug abuse cab lead to reduction in the number of workforce/labour force. It can also lead to death of a supposedly bread winner of a family.

(3a)

(i)Search for responsibility: Some students join cult groups in order to perform certain services for the members. For example ,some of them want to fight perceived injustice on their campuses against their members.

(ii)Search for satisfaction of one's aspirations and need: For example ,a student may belong yo a cult group whose part of their objective is to ensure high success of its members in academic examinations

(iii)Search for social identity: There are some students who join cult groups in attempt to be popular. They want to be regarded as powerful people. for them ,it is a way of achieving prestige and greatness.

(3b)

(i)A definite legislation that will pass a death sentence to anybody found guilty of cult activities on the campuses.

(ii)Moral education should be made compulsory in the primary and secondary schools in the country

(iii)Cultism and its consequences should be treated in the General studies courses in all tertiary institutions in the country.

(5a)
Citizenship can be defined as the legal right that a person has to belong to a particular country. It is the act of becoming a legitimate member of a country and accepting the responsibility and benefits that are attached to it.

(5b)
(i) Citizenship by birth
(ii) Citizenship by naturalization
(iii) Citizenship by marriage or registration
(iv) Dual citizenship

EXPLANATION:
(i) Citizenship by birth: This is a way of becoming a citizen of a country because our parent are from that country. A person is a citizen by birth if either of his parents, mother or father is a citizen of a country

(ii) Citizenship by naturalization: Somebody can become a citizen of a country where he lives through naturalization. This is possible if he can satisfy the constitutional requirements for naturalization.

(iii) Citizenship by Marriage or registration: If a woman is married to a person of another nationality ,she can acquire the Citizenship of the husband's country through registration. For example, a Nigeria woman married to a British ,or a British woman married to a Nigeria.

(iv) Dual citizenship:  This is a legitimately possible for a person to hold citizenship of two countries . For example a child born to Nigeria parents living in America becomes a US citizen. The baby is also a Nigerian because the parents are Nigerians.

(6a)
Civil society is a non-governmental organization formed for the purposes of promoting and protecting the interest of generality of the people as well as mobilizing them for participation in the governance and development of the society.

(6b)
(i)Monitor government activities, political processes and force the authorities to act reasonably and accordingly to the constitution.

(ii)Pursue positive changes in social, economic, political and cultural aspects of people’s lives.

(iii)Be an intermediary between the public and the state, bring the interests of people to the authorities and protect democratic values.

(iv)Communicate with the people and disseminate information about transformations in the state.