Imperatives of Information Guidance Services and Counselling Implications for the Security and Safety Well-being of Secondary School Students in North West Nigeria
Ma’arufNuhuBatagarawa *
Department of Education, Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, PMB 2218, Katsina, Nigeria.
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Abstract
This paper examines and recognizes the imperatives of the provision and importance of guidance and counselling services to secondary school students has long been recognized by educational policies of the federal government of Nigeria. The National policy of Education and the National Counselling Policy both stressed the need for all the stakeholders to ensure that, students’ needs are adequately cared for, at all levels of education in Nigeria. The security challenges that bedeviled the North West region and has since becomes serious threats to safety school environment which has implications not only to the teaching and learning processes in schools within the region, but has also call for more concerted efforts and collaboration among stakeholders. Suggestions include; a robust approach to security challenges which can be facilitated through counselling services.
Keywords: Counselling, information services, safety, security