kwara state in Nigeria

a State was created on 27 May 1967, when the Federal Military Government of General Yakubu Gowonbroke the four regions that then constituted the Federation of Nigeria into 12 states. At its creation, the state was made up of the former Ilorin and Kabba provinces of the then Northern Region and was initially named the West Central State but later changed to "Kwara", a local name for the River Niger.

Kwara State has since 1976 reduced considerably in size as a result of further state creation exercises in Nigeria. On 13 February 1976, theIdah/Dekina part of the state was carved out and merged with a part of the then Benue/Plateau State to formBenue State.

On 27 August 1991, five local government areas, namely Oyi, Yagba,Okene, Okehi and Kogi were also excised to form part of the new Kogi State, while a sixth, Borgu Local Government Area, was merged withNiger State.

Population

As of 2006, the population of Kwarans was 2.37 million based on the Nigeria2006 Census. This population size constitutes about 1.69% of the Nation's total population having relied upon immigration for population growth andsocioeconomic development.[2]

Residents of the state are sometimes referred to as Kwarans.[3]

Local Government Areas

Kwara State consists of sixteen Local Government Areas. They are:

AsaBarutenEduEkitiIfelodunIlorin EastIlorin SouthIlorin WestIrepodunIsinKaiamaMoroOffaOke EroOyunPategi.

Saraki family,olusola in particular

In office1979–1983Personal detailsBorn17 May 1933Ilorin, Kwara State, NigeriaDied14 November 2012 (aged 79)Ikoyi, LagosPolitical partyAllied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN)ChildrenSenator Bukola Saraki, SenatorGbemisola SarakiProfessionDoctor, Politician
Abubakar Olusola Saraki (17 May 1933 – 14 November 2012) was a Nigerianpolitician, who was a Senator of theNigerian Second Republic (1979-1983).[1] He was a ranking nobleman of theIlorin Emirate.

Background

Olusola Saraki was born on the 17th of May, 1933 at Ilorin, Kwara State and died in Lagos November 14, 2012.[1] His mother was from Iseyin in Oyo Stateand his father was from Ilorin. His paternal ancestors were Fulanis who came from Mali about 150 to 200 years earlier.[2] Olusola Saraki was educated at Eko Boys High School. He attended the University of London, and St George’s Hospital Medical School,London. He worked as a medical officer at the General Hospital, Lagos and theCreek Hospital, Lagos.[1]

Olusola Saraki first entered politics when he ran in the 1964 parliamentary election for Ilorin as an independent, but failed to win.[3] After the election, he returned to his medical practice in Lagos, only returning to party-politics in 1978/79.[2]

Olusola Sakari died on Wednesday 14 November 2012 in Lagos at the age of 79 after a losing a battle with cancer. He was laid to rest in Ilorin.[4]

Senatorial career

In 1977, Olusola Saraki was elected as a member of the Constituent Assembly that produced the 1979 constitution. In 1979 he was elected a Senator of the Second Republic, and became Senate Leader. In 1983 Saraki was re-elected into the Senate on the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) platform.[1]

Subsequent career



Kwara State in Nigeria

In 1998, Olusola Saraki became a National Leader and member of the Board of Trustees of the All People's Party (APP), contributing to the APP success in Kwara and Kogi States. He assisted Mohammed Alabi Lawal in becoming Governor of Kwara State.[1] In 2001 he was head of a team from theArewa Consultative Forum, a Northern cultural and political group, sent to meet and discuss common goals with Northern state governors and other leaders.[5] Later Saraki switched allegiance to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and in the 2003 elections supported his son Bukola Saraki as candidate for governor of Kwara state in April 2003, and his daughter Gbemisola R. Saraki as senator for Kwara State Central in April 2003.[6]

In March 2003, the Societe Generale Bank (SGBN) of which Saraki was chairman was investigated by theNational Drug Law Enforcement Agencyfor alleged money laundering.[7] Later, SGBN was investigated by theEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under Nuhu Ribadu, and its license was temporarily suspended.[8]

His son Bukola Saraki is the senate president since June 9, 2015 in the Eighth Senate of Nigeria.

how would you explain relationship counselling?

Relationship counseling is the process of counseling the parties of a human relationship in an effort to recognize, and to better manage or reconcile, troublesome differences and repeating patterns of stress upon the relationship. The relationship involved may be between members of a family or a couple (see also family therapy), employees or employers in a workplace, or between a professional and a client.

Couple's therapy (or relationship therapy) is a subset of relationship counseling. It may differ from other forms of relationship counseling in various regards including its duration. Short term counseling may be between 1 and 3 sessions whereas long term couples therapy may be between 12 and 24 sessions. An exception is brief orsolution focused couples therapy. In addition, counseling tends to be more 'here and now' and new coping strategies the outcome. Couples therapy is more about seemingly intractable problems with a relationship history, where emotions are the target and the agent of change.

Marriage counseling or marital therapycan refer to either or some combination of the above.

The methods may differ in other ways as well, but the differences may indicate more about the counselor/therapist's way of working than the title given to their process.

History

Marriage counseling originated in Germany in the 1920s as part of theeugenics movement.[1] The first institutes for marriage counseling in the USA began in the 1930s, partly in response to Germany's medically directed, racial purification marriage counseling centres. It was promoted in the USA by both eugenicists such asPaul Popenoe and Robert Latou Dickinson and by birth control advocates such as Abraham and Hannah Stone who wrote 'A Marriage Manual' in 1935 and were involved withPlanned Parenthood.[2] Other founders in USA include Lena Levine andMargaret Sanger.[3][4][5]

It wasn't until the 1950s that therapists began treating psychological problems in the context of the family.[6]Relationship counseling as a discrete, professional service is thus a recent phenomenon. Until the late 20th century, the work of relationship counseling was informally fulfilled by close friends, family members, or localreligious leaders. Psychiatrists,psychologists, counselors and social workers have historically dealt primarily with individual psychological problems in a medical and psychoanalytic framework.[6] In many less technologically advanced cultures around the world today, the institution of family, the village or group eldersfulfil the work of relationship counseling. Today marriage mentoring mirrors those cultures.

With increasing modernization orwesternization in many parts of the world and the continuous shift towards isolated nuclear families the trend is towards trained and accredited relationship counselors or couple therapists. Sometimes volunteers are trained by either the Government or social service institutions to help those who are in need of family or marital counseling. Many communities and government departments have their own team of trained voluntary and professional relationship counselors. Similar services are operated by manyuniversities and colleges, sometimes staffed by volunteers from among the student peer group. Some large companies maintain a full-time professional counseling staff to facilitate smoother interactions between corporate employees, to minimize the negative effects that personal difficulties might have on work performance.

Increasingly there is a trend toward professional certification and government registration of these services.