Social studies education and guidance counselling as panacea to multifarious problems of the Nigerian youths

This paper focuses on Social Studies Education (SSE) and Guidance counseling (G&C) as mitigating the multifarious problems of Nigerian youths. It sees guidance having a meeting point in areas behavior modification for productivity citizenship development. In view this expositions, discusses headings such concept Counselling viz: their points, Nigeria’s problems, psycho-social needs youths, Towards Meeting Psycho-social support G & C SSE: Mitigating youths factors militating against effective SSE G&C schools. Among suggestions are made that government at all levels governance should provide adequate funding to deal with inadequate infrastructure education sector so can be used instrument positive change among Population explosion rocks institutions adequately addressed by both federal state through provision infrastructural development cater ever increasing enrolment behaviour mission achieved.