Government Lesson Note for Second Term SS3
SCHEME OF WORK
WEEK 1&2 ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS)
WEEK 3&4 ORGANIZATION OF PETROLEUM EXPORTING COUNTRIES (OPEC)
WEEK 5&6 MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS)
Lesson Note on Government SS3 Second Term
Below are the 2022 complete Government lesson notes for SS3 Second Term
Week 1&2
Topic: Economic Community Of West African States(ECOWAS)
Formation
ECOWAS was formed on the 28th of May, 1975 in Lagos, Nigeria. It has 16 Independent nations of West Africa. Nigeria, under the leadership of General Yakubu Gowon and Togo under President Eyadema, initiated the formation of the sub-regional economic group. The community is made up of 5 Anglophone countries and 11 Francophone countries.
Anglophone – Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra-leone, Gambia and Liberia
Francophone – Guinea, Togo, Mali, Senegal, Niger Republic, Cape Verde, Burkina faso, Benin Republic, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau and Mauritania.
Week 3&4
Topic: Organization Of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Origin
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a permanent, intergovernmental Organization, created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
The five Founding Members were later joined by nine other Members: Qatar (1961); Indonesia (1962) – suspended its membership in January 2009, reactivated it in January 2016, but decided to suspend it again in November 2016; Libya (1962); United Arab Emirates (1967); Algeria (1969); Nigeria (1971); Ecuador (1973) – suspended its membership in December 1992, but reactivated it in October 2007; Angola (2007); and Gabon (1975) – terminated its membership in January 1995 but rejoined in July 2016. OPEC had its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in the first five years of its existence. This was moved to Vienna, Austria, on September 1, 1965.
Week 5&6
Topic: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Meaning
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are 8 international goals that were officially established following the millennium summit of the United Nations in 2000, as well as the adoption of the United Nation Millennium Declaration.
The MDGs caught the world’s imagination from the very day they were agreed by a record of 189 countries and 23 international organization at the UN General Assembly in September 2000, agreed to achieving those target.
Nigeria was an enthusiastic signatory to the MDGs and has claimed to pursue them vigorously since then, though with varying degrees of success.
While MDGs are for all mankind, they are primarily about children, in part because children are the most vulnerable when essentials like food, water, and healthcare are scarce. Children are always the first victims, six of the eight goals relates directly to children.
The aim of MDGs is to encourage development by improving social and economic conditions in the world’s poorest countries.
