Abstract

The study is a descriptive study designed to examine corruption in higher institutions, its causes, effects and counselling interventions. Samples of 125 participants were drawn from five different higher institutions including universities, polytechnics and colleges of education using a purposive sampling technique. Four research questions and two corresponding hypotheses were designed to guide the study. The instrument for data collection was opinions of students and counsellors on causes of corruptions in higher institutions. A structured questionnaire was used to elicit information from respondents. The reliability indices for the internal consistency of the instrument obtained through Cronbach alpha was 0.76 and 0.69 for sections B and C respectively. The findings of the study showed that student’s lecturers and counsellors are of the opinion that wrong value system, greed and selfishness, materialism, nepotism, favoritism, parochialism, unemployment and weak institutions are major causes of corruption in higher institutions. Recommendations and conclusion were made for Government institution administrators and counsellors who include the use of counselling as instrument for self-fulfillment and social order.