The study examined the extent of community participation in the provision of school plant in the administration of public secondary schools in Enugu State. One research question and one null hypothesis guided the study. Descriptive survey research design employing simple random sampling was used to sample 7211 of all the principals and classroom teachers from both rural and urban schools in Enugu State: Out of which 702 respondents responded to the study. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire. The questionnaire was face validated by experts in the field of education, a reliability co-efficient of 0.73 was obtained using croanbach alpha method of determining internal consistency of the instrument. The research question was answered using mean and grand mean while the hypothesis was tested using t-test statistics. The result revealed that the extent of community participation in the provision of school plant in public secondary schools in Enugu State was low. Significant differences did not exist in the mean perception scores of principals and teachers regarding the extent of community participation in provision of school plant in the public secondary schools in Enugu State. It was recommended among other things that regular interactive programmes for instance radio-link and meet the people-tour should be conducted for both the principals and community representatives, the need for provision of school plant in schools.

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This study was designed to determine the possibility of using school counseling services for the production of trustworthy and acceptable leaders using innovative methods. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study Descriptive survey design was used for the study. A population of 330 guidance counselors in Abia State secondary schools were used for the study. A 20-item structured questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.74 using Cronbach Alpha was usedfor data collection. Data were analysed using mean and ztest conducted at 0.05 level of significance. Findings showed high perception of counselors that school counseling services can still produce trustworthy and generally accepted leaders for Nigeria using innovative methods. It was recommended that school counseling services should be strongly emphasized in secondary schools and also the list of social ills in Nigeria, their consequences and their boomeranging effects on the perpetrator should be used for general discussions during counseling sessions in order to rub them off the minds ofstudents as a way of life.