History and goverment is one of the elective subject in secondry school especially the art classes. Goverment as the names implies study the affairs and political system of goverment: expecially the modern or present govermental system.history subject study the past,present and feature aspects of governent and its people. History enables critical thinking and reasoning and prepared one for courses such as law,sociology, psycholoy and other causes that have to do with critical reasoning. By this explaination i can boldly state that history is better than goverment because even as you fourther your education to the universities you must do general courses which comprises of history.those courses are Nigeria people and culture, phosophy and logic, Nigeria heritage e.t.c why am writing this is because most of the students prefered goverment to history and i take this as lack of orientation.i also did goverment at my secondry school but when our lecturer wanted to take us on Ninteen century jihad most history students confirm that they did it in ss2. Please take this correction before it is too late