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    Girl Children’s Nigeria: Vulnerability And Economic Recession In A Case Study of Calabar Metropolis, Cross River State, Nigeria.
    (Department of guidance and counselline, Nasarawa State university keffi, 2018-09-10) Jacks, Chinyere Stella; Ayuba, Iya Haruna; Pur, Hamsatu; Abua, Cyril
    Girls are discriminated against in Nigeria in access to educational opportunity, food and nutrition. Girls carry the burden of housework, Anyanwu. (1995) The girl child is vulnerable in that she is susceptible to attack from many angles, in the home, school, church, among groups, anywhere at all. With negative Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth recorded for the fifth consecutive quarters. Nigeria's economy is mired in recession, according to newly published data by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). May 23, 2017. Due to the economic recession, inflation and unemployment have been on the increase, and as a result, some parents send their girl children as domestic servants either to relatives or non-relatives. Calabar, due to its metropolitan stand, attracts a lot of people from rural areas to come and seek “better lives", and parents give out their girls as domestic servants due to hardship. The population of the study was adolescents between the ages of I (hears to 20years.
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    PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND SUPPORT OF ORPHANED CHILDREN IN INTERNALL DISPLACED PEOPLES (IDPS) CAMPS IN MAIDUGURI METROPOLIS
    (Department of guidance and counselline, Nasarawa State university keffi, 2018-08-03) Jacks, Chinyere Stella; Pur, Hamsatu; Ayuba, Iya Haruna
    M^millinf Ti? reCOrd that there are approximately one hundred and forty - live (145) million children worldwide who have lost at least one parent as a result of (world health organization/United States agency for international development, 2008). Since 1990 the number in Sub- Saharan Africa has risen by 50 /o,( United Nations children’s funds, 2006). Puwanagba, 2017 noted that millions of children have been oiphaned or separated from their families as a result of war. The North Eastern part of Nigeria has been battling with the activities of terrorists who have millions of citizens killed as a result of their activities. Satomi, 2016 reported that there are about 23,000 orphans in the internally displaced camps in Bomo state in the North Eastern part of Nigeria which has Maiduguri as the state’s capital. They are vulnerable children with no one to sponsor their education. Most of them according to Satomi are unaccompanied children; they are all Boko haram victims. Some of their parents were killed while some have fled without any trace.
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    ROLE OF COUNSELLORS IN ADJUSTMENT OF SURVIVORS OF UNREPORTED RAPE
    (Department of guidance and counselline, Nasarawa State university keffi, 2018-09-12) Ayuba, Iya Haruna; Jacks, Chinyere Stella; Mayange, Levi Terzungwe
    In any way acceptable. Rape is a type of recent times, been confronted with * sexual assault against mostly women. U is increasing vices such as insurgency, forced sex or engaging one in sex activity abduction, violence, armed robbery, and without the person's consent. Rape is not kidnap, among others, leaving women at just unwanted sex but also a highly the receiving end; rape. Women have been traumatic experience like other serious positioned as vulnerable to men’s violence traumas (Ayinde. 2010). It is according to and powerless to stop it (llcberle, 1996). Centre for Law Enforcement Education Rape is a horrific experience that most (CLEEN Foundation 2011), a form of women would not want to talk about hence, sexual violence with devastating resulting in several unreported rape psychological, social and economic impact instances in the country. Rape, according on the survivors who are predominantly to Akinade, Adewuyi and Sulainvan women. Peters and Olowa (2010) consider (2010), is a pandemic crime that is rape as an immoral act which is not characteristically underreported peculiar to any nation, race, creed or worldwide. It is however, known to have gender. The trend of recurrence of rape in high prevalence in Nigeria. This has been the Nigerian society today constitutes a variously attributed to the enduring culture serious phenomenal threat to human of male dominance, female social and existence and dignity (Babalola, 2013). economic disempowerment and poor or • Unfortunately, available statistics and records of rape across the country are not true representation of the actual rape incidences. Partly, because most rape survivors never report their experiences for