UniBEN - Guidance and Counselling

STUDENT’S GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING CENTRE

PURPOSE

The Students’ Guidance and Counselling Centre is a division in the Vice Chancellor’s Office established on August 11th, 2011. Prior to this date, it was a unit in the Student Affairs Division. The Centre is currently located at old bookshop building between Halls I & III, near the students Mosque, Ugbowo Campus.

The Centre is headed by a Director who is assisted by other Professional counsellors and administrative staff.

VISION STATEMENT

To make University of Benin Students’ Guidance and Counselling Centre a leading Centre for the resolution of students’ problems in Nigeria through fostering and promoting competencies of the students in their areas of interests.

MISSION STATEMENT

To make the Centre a leading repository store house, where information, knowledge, preventive guidance, practical work, training and support are provided to the students to prepare them for productive lives after graduation.

CORE VALUES OF THE STUDENTS’ GUIDANCE & COUNSELLING CENTRE

-Confidentiality
-Friendliness
-Accountability
-Honesty
-Transparency
-Effectiveness

The Centre is mandated to:

-Serve as a functional centre that provides services necessary for total development of students , assisting them to maximize their overall growth, solve their academic and personal-social problems and other challenges militating against all round development.
-Aid students in self-evaluation, self-understanding and to provide direction needed for students to take decisions consistent with immediate and long-term goals.
-Assist students identifying their interests, values, abilities and positive personality traits and to match these with their chosen careers.
-Develop and promote training programmes aimed at enhancing students’ employability and ultimate preparation for the world of work.

Services rendered at the Centre are:

-Educational Counselling: Creating career awareness in students through career education and information, individual and group career discussions and personality profile testing of students to discover their interests, abilities and study habits.
The Centre monitors students’ academic performance through records obtained from various faculties’ and colleges for students counselling intervention. The Centre provides individuals or group counselling to such students depending on the nature of identified challenges.
-Personal-Social Counselling: The Centre counsels students on moral and anti-social behaviour for the elimination of social vices (cultism, drug abuse etc) and the ultimate cultivation of positive behaviour. The Centre helps students acquire resiliency, decision making and interpersonal relationship skills needed to co-exist in the University community.
-Vocational Counselling: Providing opportunity for entrepreneurial training, cultivation of skills and acquisition of knowledge needed to create opportunities for work. The Centre organizes seminars/workshops to expose students to top ranking employers of labour and equip them with effective job application, interview skills and curriculum vitae (CV) writing skills to better their chances in the job recruitment process.
-Pre-Marital! Marital Counselling: The Centre counsels students on pre-marital (selecting a marriage partner) and marital (adjusting to married life) challenges.
-Leisure Counselling: The Centre counsels students on constructive use of their leisure time. This is done through physical (face-to-face) counselling and periodic posting of educational, health and fitness tips for students on the Centre’s departmental Whatsapp group platform.
-Referral Service: The Centre refers students to other professionals and specialists where challenges presented by such students are outside the Centre’s expertise or scope.
-Follow-up: This is the means through which the Centre monitors and evaluates the progress of students (clients) with identified challenges.
-Online Counselling and Helpline Services: The Centre provides online counselling to students who cannot physically visit the Centre owing to proximity or fear of stigmatization by other students. The Centre currently has over 4,500 students on the departmental Whatsapp group. The Centre equally counsels students through helplines. Thousands of students have been counselled through this medium. The helplines are 08106422713, 08028934198, 07064632624, 07060568292, 08063798316

LIST OF NON-TEACHING STAFF FOR JOB RE-DESIGNATION

S/N	Name of staff	Qualification	Designation	Job description
1	Dr. (Mrs.) Osenweugwor Ngozi Aihie	Ph.D Guidance and Counselling 2005 M.Ed. Guidance and Counselling 1991 PGD Education 1988 B.Sc (Hons) Botany 1983	Director	General supervision of all staff and activities in the Centre
2	Dr. (Mrs.) Okiei Benedette Ndudi	Ph.D Guidance and Counselling 2015 M.Ed. Guidance and Counselling 1989 M.P.A. public Administration 1998 B.Ed. Special Education 1987	Deputy Director	Counselling students in the following areas; Educational, Vocational, Personal-Social, Sex-education and substance abuse. Presentation of papers to fresh students during fresh students’ orientation programs in various faculties. Presentation of papers during the workshop organized by Edo-jobs on employability soft skills for students on (CV writing interview skills, effective communication skills). Organizing TOT workshop on drug abuse for staff. Monitoring of students' welfare. Visitation to hall of residence and faculties for counseling intervention. Participating in fresh students' clearance programs for awareness creation of the Centre and rendering preventive counseling to new students. Supervising and scrutinizing reports of counselors in the Centers. Resource persons, community service programs organized for secondary school students. Resource persons, Life after school, the way forward for final year students. Liaising with corporate bodies for events and programs for students. Writing counseling tips and information for students and the general public through the University of Benin website. Resource persons, for workshop/seminars organized for counselors' capacity building. General supervision of counselors and staff of the Centre.
3	Miss Ukpedor Efemena Ogagaoghene	M.Sc (Ed) Guidance and Counselling 2016 (Delsu) BSc (ED). Counselling Psychology 2007 (Delsu)	Senior Counsellor I	Counseling of students/staff using counseling techniques to find solutions to their psychological, mental, social, and academic challenges. Counselor in charge of Dentistry and Pharmacy Assisting the Director, Chief counselors, and other counselors on official assignments whenever the need arises. Assisting in orientation and matriculation of new students in conjunction with student affairs and admission office. Organization of workshops/seminars targeted toward helping students improve their study habits, time management for effective academic performance in the University. Organization of workshops/seminars targeting helping secondary school students adjust to life after school and the University world. Counselor assigned to Hall I in assisting the students with their various challenges using counseling techniques as they stay in the Hostel.
4	Mrs. Inerhumwunwa Iyobosa	M.Ed. Guidance and Counselling 2001 B.A. (Ed) English Language 1994	Senior Counsellor I	Counselor in charge of Hall 6 and NDDC, Dentistry, and Medicine
5	Mrs. Ekhenlen Irobere Sharon	M.Ed. Guidance and Counselling B.Ed. Guidance and Counselling 2004	Senior Counsellor I	Handling students' issues; helping those with challenges effectively deal with them, while making high performers deepen their proficiency. Improving students' well-being and Mental Health Handling practicum students; ensuring they gain practical skills for handling real cases Counselor in charge of Social Sciences, Art, Management Sciences, Environmental Sciences, and Physical Sciences Counselor in charge of Ekehuan Campus Counselor in charge of Hall 3, 2, and clinical hostels Planning of the center's programs and events Visit to various faculties for preventive counseling and awareness creation for the Centre Online Counseling Resource person on programs and events done at the Centre Meeting with Deans, HODs, Course advisers, PEOs over students' issues.
6	Mrs. Egbeji-Aganbi Beauty Oghenetega	M.Ed. Guidance and Counselling (in view) B.Ed. Guidance and Counseling 2011 Diploma Secretarial Studies 2007	Snr. Counsellor II	Counseling of Students/Staff helping them to find solutions to their academic, vocational, social, psychological, and emotional challenges. Counselor in charge of Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering Counselor in charge of NDDC hostel Sensitizing the student on the need to make use of the counseling center and attending to any challenges they might be having here in school or outside school. Assisting during clearance by collecting student data so things can be reached at any time. Assisting in organizing workshop/seminars for 100 level students, final year students, and secondary school students. Teaching the final year student wig making during their program on life after school. Teaching and supervising practicum students that are sent to the center for practical exercise. Writing minutes during meetings held at the center.
7	Mrs. Julius Osafonwan Ekogiawe-Eseogie	[email protected]	M.Ed Guidance and Counselling B.Ed. Guidance and Counselling 2012 N.C.E French 2006	Snr. Counsellor II	Counsellor in charge of Faculty of Education, Law, Agric Science, and Ekhehuan Campus. Counselling of Students/Staff using counselling techniques to find solutions to their psychological, mental, social, and academic challenges. Organisation of Workshop/Seminars for all Students in Ugbowo and Ekehuan targeted towards helping students to improve on their study habits, time-management for effective academic performance. Organisation of workshop/Seminars targeted towards helping Secondary School students adjust to life after school and the University world. Assisting during clearance of new students. Teaching of practicum students that are sent to the center by the Faculty. Counsellor in charge of students in Hall 5 female and male Hostel. Writing of minutes during meetings held in the center.

ADMINISTRATION

S/N	Name of staff	Email	Qualification	Designation	Job description
1	Mr. Asunogie Nurueen Danesi	[email protected]	B. A. (Hons.) MPA, LLB, BL, LLM	Snr. Assistant Registrar	Writing of letters, responding to mails and review of the activities of the difficult faculty’s representatives from the centre. Compilation of the annual reports of the activities of the centre involved in strategic planning of programmes of the centre, handling of leave matters of staff going on leave, management of the time and movement books delivering of periodic lectures to staff on a number of administrative issues acting for the Director when she is on leave as well as other sundry matters that the Director may assign to me from time to time.
2	Mr. Otoibhi Unu Christopher	[email protected]	B.A History (UNIBEN) 1997/1998 M.P.A 2012/2013	P.A.R	Assisting the Director in carrying out day to day administrative activities. Carrying out any other assignment that may be assigned by the Director of the Centre. Carrying out assignments that may be directed by the Registrar of the University. Covering meetings in the Centre. Liaising with personnel and other divisions of the University on staff matters and welfare. Supervising and coordinating activities in the Centre.
3	Mrs. Iyawe Patricia Ilerhunwa Enogiomwan	[email protected]	Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics International Diploma, Montessori Pedagogy	Assistant Chief Executive Officer Support Staff (Admin) Counsellor representative to assigned Faculties/Hostels Writing Minutes/Reports Any other work as directed by the Director.
4	Mrs. Imagbe Nkechi Ogochukwu	[email protected]	BL 2012, LL.B (UNIBEN) 2011	Assistant Registrar	Handling of official documents. Writing of minutes. Faculty representative for counselling matters. Liaise with Deans, head of Department and course advisers in organizing programs for students, sensitizing the students.
5	Mrs. Sanni Oyindamola Joy	[email protected]	B.Sc Social Works 2010	P. E. O II	Faculty Representative in Physical, Environmental, Physical, Management, Arts, Social Sciences and Veterinary Medicine. Liaise with Deans, head of Department and course advisers in organizing programs for students. Sensitizing the students, gather students with poor academic records, such low G.P. carry over and bring them to the counsellors for counselling. Writing of minutes during meetings held at the Centre and writing of minutes during faculty seminars.
6	Mrs. Osa-Osifo Ruth Eniye	[email protected]	M.Sc. Criminology B.Sc Sociology & Anthropology Diploma in Socio works	Chief Executive Officer	Co-ordination of Hostels and Faculties representatives from the Centre. Writing of reports to the Director. Delivering lectures periodically to both staff and students on matters bothering on counselling and security of students. Liaising with the student body on their welfare on campus planning programs of activities in the Centre from time to time. Any other assigned duties to me by the Centres Director.
7	Mr. Richie Okeaya Inneh	[email protected]	B.sc Biochemistry	P. E. O I	Liaise with Deans, head of Department and course advisers in organizing programs for students, sensitizing the students. Gather students with poor academic records, such low G.P. carry over and bring them to the counsellors for counselling. Liaise with corporate bodies to organize educative programs, career talk.
8	Mr. Edebiri Igbinoghodua	[email protected]	MPA (Masters in Public Administration) B.sc in Sociology and Anthropology	P. E. O. I	Liaise with Deans, head of Department and course advisers in organizing programs for students, sensitizing the students. Gather students with poor academic records, such low G.P. carry over and bring them to the counsellors for counselling. Liaise with corporate bodies to organize educative programs, career talk.
9	Mr. Egbon Vincent	[email protected]	OND (statistics)	S.E.O	Liaise with Deans, head of Department and course advisers in organizing programs for students, sensitizing the students.
9	Mr. Egbon Vincent	[email protected]	OND (statistics)	S.E.O	Liaise with Deans, head of Department, and course advisers in organizing programs for students. Sensitizing the students, gather students with poor academic records, such low G.P. carry over and bring them to the counselors for counseling.
10	Mr. Odiase Emmanuel Osadebamwen	[email protected]	B.Sc Political Science and Public Administration (UNIBEN) M.P.A (UNIBEN) M.Sc Security and Strategic Studies (UNIBEN)	Snr. Assistant Registrar	Liaise with the security department to coordinate activities of students that need counseling. Liaise with UNIBEN health center to ensure students who need counseling are taken care of. Liaising with Estate/Electric department to ensure the Centre is kept tidy and working.
11	Mr. Izevbuwa Evbuomwan	[email protected]	B.Sc Communication Technology (2017)	Higher Computer Operator II	Liaise with Deans, head of Department, and course advisers in organizing programs for students. Liaising with Corporate Bodies online. Typing of memos, Office documentation, System Analysis. Any other work as directed by the Director.
12	Mrs. B. O. Akerele	[email protected]	NECO 2019	Snr. Clerical Officer	Collection and returning of key. Collection of monthly return. Receiving/sending of incoming and outgoing mail. Receiving of visitors. In charge of registering students during Seminar/workshop the center holds every year.