Need for Establishment of Guidance and Counselling Services in Nigeria

Reflecting on what birth of the writing of this book, I’m glad to be an instrument God used to bring a challenging piece of this sort to projection. As a freelance journalist, I recently work on a writing project that required me to conduct the survey in some Nigerian High Schools. Schools were randomly selected in some states across the nation. To my surprise, the result of the survey revealed that majority of Nigerian Schools doesn’t have, at least, a trained counselor as part of their staff. Students, staff, and even parents are left alone to battle with their academic, social, psychological and emotional challenges, problems and difficulties. This is quite shocking! I personally imagined lots of benefits that our school communities had missed because of failure to employ school counselor. Consequent on the above facts, I pick up the challenge to write on this subject. The book is therefore written to enlighten the general public, school proprietors and administrators, and the government about this omission in our schools. However, it’s ultimately written to advocate for the establishment of guidance and counseling services in our elementary, secondary and tertiary institutions.