Role of Counselling in Reviving Education in Security-Threatened Areas of Northern Nigeria

Abstract

The paper is on the role of counselling in reviving education in areas where it has been devastated by the activities of insecurity. It gives information about northern Nigeria and the nature of its education and also how the region struggles to overcome its problem to achieve what it does in that respect. The paper further discusses on how insecurity activities have robbed the region of the gains so far made in educational development. Concepts that are of interest to the paper are also explained. Furthermore, the paper examined incidences of GGSS Chibok schoolgirls’ abduction, GSSS Kankara kidnappings, Bethel Baptist High school abduction, FGC Birnin Yauri kidnappings, Federal University Gusau kidnappings etc. to show how these result into notable educational devastations in the region. Barriers to access, protracted nature of displacement, urban displacement, physical integration without social integration and finally the search for quality as outstanding and daunting challenges to education in security-threatened areas are also looked into. One of the suggestions made as to the roles that counselling could play is that because people involved in insecurity are usually physically, emotionally, mentally traumatized and are socially made frail, expert counselling services could be utilized to help in such situation.