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Counseling of students yielding desired results - Expert
By Stanley Onyekwere
Head of Department, Guidance and Counseling division of Education Secretariat, FCT Administration, Yahaya Abdulwahab, disclosed that counselling of students is yielding desired results in schools across the nation’s capital city.
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Abdulwahab made this assertion to journalists in Abuja over the weekend, during a delegate meeting of Counselling
Association of Nigeria (CASSON).
According to him, they do not call their students cultists, because some students are influenced by a group of wrong friends.
He said, “We don’t call them cultists, some of them are just a group of wrong friends, in each of our schools we have up four counsellors, and a lot is going on to know these people and to separate bad eggs from good ones, we are succeeding, we have seen the results in the FCT.
“From our senior secondary schools, especially from SS 1, we make use of psychological tests for placement, because you can not go into a career without the right subjects.
“You can not take a subject without you being tested with our psychological materials, that brings out the passion and the capability to offer the career you want to do.”
“We have what we call Career
Day in all our schools, where professionals are brought to come and talk to the children.”
On his part, the National President of CASSON, Prof. Malami Umar Tambawa, noted that the whole idea of the conference was about counselling in institutions, Workplace and the society.
“The whole idea is counselling in our institutions, counselling in our work places, and the society, the whole idea is to mobilize our members to do the needful in the society.
“We are trying to look at the country, what can guidance and counseling do in terms of security”, he stated.
Also speaking, Chairman, local organizing committee of CASSON international conference, Kano 2023, Dr. Kabir Bello Dungurawa said the upcoming conference will ensure that unity of purpose, unity of Nigeria, and oneness of the country remains unshakable.
