Al-Hikmah University Journal

The study investigated guidance and counselling as a maintenance measure of discipline in public primary schools in Minna Metropolis of Niger State. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The target population was 139 primary schools with a population of 3,284 teachers. Twenty head-teachers and eighty teachers were sampled; making a total of one hundred respondents randomly selected for the study. The study employed purposive and simple random sampling techniques. The instrument was a researchers-designed questionnaire tagged ‘‘Guidance and Counselling as a Measure to Maintain Discipline in Primary Schools Questionnaire’’ (GCMMDPSQ) with four point modified Likert scale and thirty-seven (37) items that were used to collect data for the study. The data collected were analysed using t-test statistical tool to test the four null hypotheses. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the perception of head-teachers and teachers regarding the training of teachers in guidance and counselling and provision of physical facilities, there is no significant difference between male and female teachers regarding the role of guidance and counselling in maintaining discipline in public primary schools, regarding the importance of guidance and counselling services in maintaining discipline in public primary schools in Minna metropolis. It was recommended that guidance and counselling training should be made for head-teachers and teachers in public primary schools, there is need for administrative support, financially and materially for guidance and counselling unit of public primary schools in Minna Metropolis.