Abstract:
This paper discussed the challenges of Guidance and Counselling for
education reforms in Nigeria with specific reference to the Basic education
sub-sector. Changes in education often come when the current practices are
challenged and same questions being asked about the way things are done,
which brought about the reforms in primary and junior secondary levels of
education in Nigeria. Guidance and Counselling is discussed in this context
so as to have a significant role of assisting individuals through the various
systems for proper adjustment and understanding of individual strength and
weaknesses. This paper conclude by establishing that Guidance and
Counselling is very relevant in meeting the needs of education reforms at
the Basic Education level and therefore recommend among other things
that, there is the need for capacity building and professional
development for members of the Counselling Association of Nigeria to
abreast with modern trend comparable with any standard in the world
