Abstract
The paper focused on religion and ethnicity as correlates of insecurity in Sokoto central senatorial zone: implication for Counselling. The study focused on insecurity as its relate to religion and ethnicity in the eight local government areas across Sokoto central senatorial zone of Sokoto state, Descriptive correlational design was employed in the study with security committee members of the six local governments as sample with 228 respondents using research advisor (2006) and simple random sampling method, researcher’s designed titled family religion, ethnicity and insecurity questionnaire (FREIQ), content validity of the questionnaire was obtained after corrections of the questionnaire items by some expert in measurement and evaluation and educational psychology of the faculty of education, Shehu Shagari university of education, Sokoto while the reliability index 0.81 was obtained after pilot testing the questionnaire using 60 security committee members in Isa and Wurno local government areas of Sokoto state and splitting the test items as well as analysing the score using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient. Frequency, percentages and Pearson product moment correlations coefficient were used in analysing the data generated in the study. After the analysis the indicated that religion and ethnicity possess significant relationship with insecurity in Sokoto central senatorial zone, Conclusion and recommendation were made to include; Religious and community leaders should partner with security agencies in Sokoto state in providing the required guidance and counselling services such as, orientation, sensitization to the youths and other community members Sokoto central senatorial zone about kidnapping and security related matters

Keywords
insecurity, kidnapping, ethnicity and banditry