ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AS A CATALYST YOUTH’S EMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Youth unemployment is an ill wind in any society where it exists. In spite the efforts of successive government in Nigeria to solve youth unemployment problem, there is still high level of unemployment witnessed among many educated and qualified graduates unable to secure job from both public and private works of life. This paper examined the imperatives of entrepreneurship Education on youth’s employment in Nigeria. Secondary sources of data collection were adopted as methodology. Through this method explanatory and deductive analysis was made. The study founds in the light of literature reviewed that entrepreneurship education can provide an alternative source of employment especially to the teeming graduates competing for fewer job positions without any discrimination or favoritism. It is therefore recommended that the few vocational and technical teachers produced should be employed. The scholarship scheme for business education in the universities should be establish and sustained to encourage the business education students. The three tiers of government should make fund (in form of loan) available to encourage entrepreneurs in their business. As such, further studies may examine the level of entrepreneurial readiness of final year students in Nigerian universities so as to ascertain the empirical justification of this national issue of concern.