EXAMINATION OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING STRATEGIES AS TOOLS FOR ENHANCING NATIONAL SECURITY IN NIGERIAN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

This paper looked at how Nigerian tertiary institutions use guidance and counselling to achieve national security. The principles of guidance and counselling, national security, education, and ways that guidance and counselling can employ to promote peace and harmony in tertiary institutions were all explored. The discussion of this paper demonstrated that sufficient orientation, motivation, and counselling services will aid in the establishment of peace among the country's students. Conclusions and recommendations were given, including that orientation services are crucial and should be required of all new intakes before the start of school in any tertiary institution in Nigeria. Hostels, classrooms, instructional materials, libraries, laboratories, and qualified guidance counsellors and professors should all be included in the government's requirements for higher institutions. Counselling as a means of resolving disciplinary issues and disagreements among tertiary students, as well as providing motivational services, is a more widely accepted campus environment