COUNSELLING STRATEGIES FOR ADDRESSING MILITANCY AND SOCIAL RESTIVENESS IN NIGERIA

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

It is generally observed that youth’s restiveness in Nigeria has been a prominent issue in recent times. There has been an increase in the occurrence of acts of violence and lawlessness including things like hostage-taking of prominent citizens and expatriate. Oil workers as well as oil bunkering, arms insurgence, cultism etc. especially in Niger Delta Region; Various forms of youth’s restiveness that are economically, political, psychologically or religiously motivated have existed for a long period of time (Elegbeleye, 2005). Technology improved that, there is only one way of carryout management in the youth’s restiveness in Nigeria including counselling strategies. Kimball (1996) described describe counselling strategies as the process of proper planning which involves skilled personnel who will give proper enlightenment and awareness to individuals in a community in order to have positive attitudes, behaviours, with harmonious relationship with one another. Counselling is warranted when someone notices an inability to cope with in self or the environment; Research also told us that, it generally observed out of every ten people or youths in a community suffering from a mental or emotional disorder. Anagbogn (1988) identified some of the problems among our youths as truancy fighting throwing stones, bullying and lack of participation in close activities, unhappiness and destruction of school property, extreme slyness and withdrawn behaviours. Onanuga (1983) expressed that attempt continue to be made in making counselling an essential feature of our educational, health and cultural programme in order to foster health daily interactions and instructions. He noted that providing guidance and counselling services in school and colleges will eater both for individual development walks of life.