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Citizenship: WAEC Government Past Questions and Answers

What the WAEC syllabus covers in Citizenship

Our summary: How a person becomes a citizen, the rights and duties that come with it, and how those rights are protected.

  • Meaning, mode of acquisition, rights, duties and obligations of individuals in the state
  • Means of safeguarding rights of citizens

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WAEC (WASSCE) Government questions on Citizenship

  1. WAEC 2024The responsibility of citizens towards nation-building is to
  2. WAEC 2024One of the paramount roles to play as a citizen in sustaining the democratic system of governance is to
  3. WAEC 2023What type of right enables citizens to participate in state affairs?
  4. WAEC 2023The Fundamental Human Rights and Liberties must be entrenched in a constitution to
  5. WAEC 2022The basic human right of citizens in a state are
  6. WAEC 2021The right to an adequate standard of living falls under
  7. WAEC 2021Citizenship does not only go with rights but also the performance of
  8. WAEC 2021Citizenship of a state is based on the following requirements except
  9. WAEC 2020The right to respect the personality of the individual is a …
  10. WAEC 2020Political participation can take the form of …
  11. WAEC 2020The following are redresses available at the courts for aggrieved people except …
  12. WAEC 2020Which of the following usually leads to the curtailment of the rights of citizens?
  13. WAEC 2019The ultimate duty of a citizen is to demonstrate his/her …
  14. WAEC 2019Which of the following is not an obligation of a citizen?
  15. WAEC 2018Citizens can seek redress against injustice from the state through the?
  16. WAEC 2017One duty of a good citizen is …
  17. WAEC 2017Which of the following is a fundamental right? Right to
  18. WAEC 2017The rights of citizens to benefit from public utility is classified as
  19. WAEC 2016Which of the following categories of people can vote in periodic elections?
  20. WAEC 2016The privileged citizens enjoyed in a country irrespective of sex, tribe or creed is
  21. WAEC 2016The judicial order requiring a detained person to be brought before a judge is the writ of
  22. WAEC 2015The conferment of citizenship on a distinguished personality of another country is called
  23. WAEC 2015Which of the following is a condition for granting citizenship to a foreigner?
  24. WAEC 2015Fundamental Human Rights are entrenched in constitutions purposely to
  25. WAEC 2015Citizenship can be acquired through all of the following methods except
  26. WAEC 2015A citizen is an individual who

Years with Citizenship questions in DeeepSolve's question bank

From the past questions DeeepSolve holds, not a count of everything the exam body has set.

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015