Abstract
The paper focused on value education and challenges of insecurity in Nigeria: implications for Counselling. The insecurity challenge in Nigeria has assumed formidable dimensions forcing the country’s political and economic managers and, indeed the entire nation, to rue the loss of their loved ones, investments and absence of safety in most parts of the country. The number of violent crimes such as kidnappings, ritual killings, carjacking, suicide bombings, religious killings, politically-motivated killing and violence, ethnic clashes, armed banditry and others were increasingly become the regular signature that characterizes life in Nigeria. While Value education is the process of teaching values. It is seen as the active and purposeful internalization of values through a socializing agent like family, schools, religious and social organizations. The paper discussed the concept of value education and insecurity, Challenges of insecurity in Nigeria, Value education and insecurity in Nigeria as well as conclusion and suggestions to include; Value education should be made compulsory at all levels of education in the country, with competitions organized regularly to orchestrate how students can bring different moral dimensions to bear on their studies thereby facilitating a wholesome value orientation in the society such as cultural, ethnic, religious and language reorientations

Keywords
value, insecurity, education and culture