Problems Facing the Government Primary 4 (Basic 4) – Term 1 Week 10 Civic Education
CIVIC EDUCATION
RELIGION AND NATIONAL VALUE
FIRST TERM
WEEK 10
PRIMARY 4
THEME: GOVERNMENT
PREVIOUS LESSON – Difference Between Various Types of Government Primary 4 (Basic 4) – Term 1 Week 9 Civic Education
TOPIC – GOVERNMENT
LEARNING AREA
1. Introduction
2. Problems Facing the Government
3. Lesson Evaluation and Weekly Assessment (Test)
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, the pupils should have attained the following objectives – identify the problems facing the government.
ENTRY BEHAVIOURS
The pupils can identify some of the problems facing the government such as poor infrastructure, etc.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of chart showing some of the common problems facing the government.
METHOD OF TEACHING
Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.
Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons.
REFERENCE MATERIALS
Scheme of Work
9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum
Course Book
All Relevant Material
Online Information
CONTENT OF THE LESSON
LESSON 1 – INTRODUCTION
A government is the system where group of people governing an organized community, often a state.
The process of governing a state is more difficult at all levels of government.
LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA
Government in the Nigeria consists of three separate levels,
1. The federal government
2. The state governments
3. The local governments.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA
The Federal Government of Nigeria is the top level government with three arms – legislative, executive, and judicial.
The constitution provides a separation and balance of powers among the three arms.
Federal government is the government that controls and manages the public affairs of the state at the federal level.
PROBLEMS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
1. Economy problems
2. Healthcare problems
3. Education problems
4. National safety and Insecurity problems
5. Religious and ethics crisis
6. Bribery and Corruption
7. Inactive participation
8. Tax problems
LESSON 2 – THE STATE GOVERNMENT
State government the second level of government.
State Government is the government that controls and manages public affairs at the state level.
The affairs of many local governments is under the state government.
A state government is much bigger than the local government.
The state government is headed by a governor and assisted by a commissioner, special advisers, etc.
PROBLEMS OF STATE GOVERNMENT
1. Financial problems
2. Bribery and Corruption
3. Disagreement between federal, state and local government.
4. Sharing formula between federal, state and local government.
5. Resources management between federal, state and local government.
6. Religion intolerance
7. Ethic crisis
8. Poor maintenance culture
9. Inadequate infrastructure
10. Overpopulation
11. Tax problems
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Local government is the level of government that is very close the people.
It is known as grassroot government.
Local Government is the government that controls and manages the public affairs at the grassroot level.
PROBLEMS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
1. Inadequate funds
2. Limited authority and power
3. Bribery and Corruption
4. Lack of dedication to work
5. Inability to maintain law and order
PRESENTATION
To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps:
1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson. Based on this, he/she asks the pupils some questions;
2. Asks pupils to state the name of the Nigerian president, the state governor and the local government of their locality.
Pupil’s Activities – Mention the name of current and previous president of Nigerian, state government and local government chairman.
3. Displays chart showing some of the problems and crisis at the different levels of government.
Pupil’s Activities – Identify the some of the problems of government in Nigeria.
4. Uses the chart and their responses to introduce and discuss different levels of government and their problems.
5. Summarize each lesson on the board.
Teacher’s activities – Participate actively in the summary and copy as instructed.
CONCLUSION
To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.
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LESSON EVALUATION
Ask pupils to:
1. explain the meaning government.
2. state and different between the levels of government.
3. state at least 5 problems of federal government.
4. list at least 5 problems of state government.
5. mention at least 5 problems of local government.
6. analyze how each of the problem affects them and their locality.