Counselling Nigerian Women for Education and Development Through Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Abstract

This paper on counselling Nigerian women for education and development through information and communication technology highlights the ways and means women could get education even when they cannot afford to enroll into schools. Although the responsibilities left for the Nigerian women are enormous, leaving them little or no time for education yet women have been called the weaker sex a result of their low capacity. Professionals in the field have conceptualized education from various perspectives, but the common agreement by authors is that women education has been to a large extent sacrificed on the alter of discrimination. Since any development cannot be complete without the involvement of women, they need education to be appropriately empowered for development, which is a process of change to a better, more advanced and highly organized situation, This can be enhanced by the use of the information and communication technology (ICT). With the introduction of information and communication technology women now have better chance of accessing information from any part of the world to develop them. Counselling is a helping relationship equipped with information on any field of human endevours. With the right counsel, therefore, any woman can now have free access to as much knowledge, education and enlightenment as she wants for maximum development.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n8p113