The study investigated mentoring as a correlate of academic growth in colleges of education in south-south, Nigeria, two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study which adopted correlation design. The population, 10038 staffers. The sample comprised 120 staffers. Multistage sampling procedure was adopted. Data were gathered using Staffers Mentoring Questioning (SMQ)’ and Academic Growth Scale (AGS) their reliability indices were 0.71, and 0.79 obtained using Cronbach Alpha method. Pearson moment correlation was used to answer the research questions while Regression ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses at .05 level of significant The study’s results, among other things, demonstrated that staffers academic growth in colleges of education is determined by role playing mentoring  (31.4%), found significant (p) determinant of staffers academic growth, it also showed that staffers academic growth is correlated between error prevention during mentoring and academic growth (21.0%), found to be significantly correlated between error prevention in mentoring and staffers mentoring and academic growth. It was recommended that colleges of Education in South-South, Nigeria should institutionalized mentoring, so that inexperienced academics could avoid Pitfall in the discharge of their academic responsibilities. This study advises that further research on this topic should be carried out in other geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Mentoring should be practiced by Colleges of Education in South-South, Nigeria in particular and all other colleges of Education in Nigeria.