Mercy Aku Anagbogu (Rtd.) is a professor of developmental counselling psychology. She is an activist who is fighting for the rights of women and a mentor to several women's groups as well as the mother of all in the Department of Guidance and Counselling at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, including Anambra State CASSON.

She attended Basden Memorial Grammar School in Isulo, Anambra State, from where she proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and obtained a B.Sc. Ed. in biology. In her quest for more knowledge, she proceeded to the University of Ibadan, where she bagged her Masters and Ph.D. in guidance and counselling (developmental psychology).

She works tirelessly for the upliftment of students, the university, and society. Through her grassroots activities and unrelenting efforts, the Department of Guidance and Counselling at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, was approved to stand as a department of its own, and they are doing very well to date. She has served as a university counsellor, lecturer, department head twice, and chairman of various committees, director, and innovator of numerous projects, among other things.

Prof. M.A. Agbogu is a Fellow of the Counselling Association of Nigeria (CASSON). She has more than 150 published articles in national, regional, and international journals and was the first to produce a state counselling journal to promote academic interest and growth for members. She has six textbooks to her credit and more than 15 chapters in her books, among others. She is well integrated in community life as a mentor and gender activist, as well as being instrumental to the institutionalisation of many programmes in Anambra State Schools, such as the effective Career Convention and Orientation programmes that are now organised annually in the State.

She served as a consultant for UNICEF, UNESCO, and FME on situation and policy and for OTI-USAID on democracy and governance, among others. She also founded many NGOS, whose activities helped elevate guidance and counselling in the state. She is an award winner both in Nigeria and the Diaspora.

(2) Dr. Nkeiruka Bernadette Nwoye

(Hons.IBADAN) M.A.California, Ph.D (ESUT)

Nkeiruka Bernadette Nwoye (nee Obinabo), affectionately known as lfediche by her many admirers, was born in Kaduna and received her secondary education at Mater Amabilis Umuoji and Queens College Enugu. She received her bachelor's degree at the University of Ibadan and obtained her master's degree in guidance and counselling from the prestigious Graduate School of Education at UCLA and her Ph.D. from ESUT.

Dr. Nwoye is an outstanding guidance counsellor, and she made frantic efforts to uphold guidance and counselling in Anambra State secondary schools in particular. She was a senior teacher at Uwani Secondary School, Enugu, when she was appointed the pioneer state coordinator of guidance and counselling services after the creation of Anambra State in 1991. Her appointment came as a result of her passion, doggedness, commitment, and dedication in guidance and counselling affairs. She laid a solid foundation for guidance and counselling in today's Anambra State. Through her position, she strengthened and established guidance and counselling services, especially in secondary schools in the state, which later became a strong pillar in the state chapter. In fact, she is one of the foundation members whose activities became the bedrock and cornerstone upon which Anambra State College was built.