Nigeria, as a developing country, has encountered several challenges, including inadequate healthcare, poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, bad infrastructure and over-reliance on oil, crime, corruption, poor macroeconomic management, political instability, and so on.

This is a critical juncture that will influence one's personal decision-making processes and career choices. As a result, parents are always expected to have a big part in moulding and influencing how their school-age children make good career selections, which ultimately influence their future job choice.

The concept of entrepreneurship, which encompasses the creation of ideas, companies, and patents as well as the thought process behind these creations, even in cases where they are not put into practice, has been identified by various authors as one of the key components of economic growth and development.

Entrepreneurial education programs aimed at empowering youths in Nigeria have grown in recent years. Gone are the days of the oil boom in the 1970s, when a graduate could readily find work in any available position.

Nigeria's unemployment problem, which affects both educated and unskilled workers, has emerged as one of the most pressing and contentious challenges facing the country today. The unemployment scenario has shifted from one characterized by protracted periods of unemployment and under employment to one in which graduates from higher institutions must typically wait for a considerable period of time before landing their first job.

Unemployment in Nigeria has been on the rise for a long time, badly impacting Nigerians both personally and economically. The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic has exacerbated the situation, as many companies/employers continue to lay off their employees.

Higher education institutions in Nigeria have been charged with the primary role of teaching both young and professional individuals such as managers, scientists, engineers, and technicians who contribute to the country's innovation development, adaption, and dissemination.

Entrepreneurship has the capacity to recognize and pursue business possibilities while maximizing the exploitation of scarce resources. Entrepreneurship, in its simplest form, is the willingness and aptitude to search out investment possibilities and operate a profitable business. Entrepreneurship takes precedence over capital in this latter meaning.

Skill acquisition is a priority in Nigeria's educational system. No other academic field includes as many relevant life skills in its curriculum that will help students thrive regardless of their chosen professional pathways. The importance of skill acquisition is that students will not only learn about topics that are relevant to their current life, but will also be valuable in their future aspirations.

Education is regarded as the most important factor to have for successful women empowerment. It improves her capacity to access information, learn new skills, and tolerate change. It also opens up more job options for her. There is empirical evidence that educated women are better at providing for their children's health, nutritional, and care requirements, have fewer children, and marry later. Women and girls, on the other hand, are expected to fulfill a variety of responsibilities, many of whi... read more

The growing interest in student performance necessitates determining the role of business education and evaluating business subjects in the educational system. Insufficient instructional quality, students' negative attitude toward school, overcrowded classrooms, and poor facilities are among the variables impacting students' academic performance.

Students have diverse personal values, receive and process knowledge differently, have varied personality qualities, and hence have different comprehension. It is sometimes believed that for people to be successful in their careers, they must have a mix of personality traits. Education, Researchers and psychologists have been working on this for a long time.

Vocational training is crucial to human development because the quality and relevance of the vocational training provided determines the kind of development a country will experience.

Human resources are the most important assets for every organization's efficient and successful administration. Due to its contributions to the expansion of the national economy, entrepreneurship education has undoubtedly taken on a new dimension. As a result, educational regulatory bodies across the country, including the National Universities Commission (NUC), the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE).

Small company expansion has long been considered as a driver of economic development and modernization. As a result, evidence from both developed and developing nations abounds that entrepreneurship aids the growth of small and medium-sized businesses. Furthermore, in African emerging nations where population expansion outpaces employment growth, entrepreneurship development is both a desired instrument for job creation and a strategy for poverty reduction.

Human motivation/incentive is a vast area having origins in a variety of educational disciplines, including psychology, sociology, education, political science, and economics (Carter, 2006). Those purposeful initiatives to guide or promote entrepreneurship activity are referred to as entrepreneurial stimulation (Schumpeter, 1942). Motivation is an internal condition that motivates individuals to do certain actions in order to attain specified goals and commitments (Carter, 2006). Okpara (2007), ... read more

One of education's aims is to guarantee that all young people and adults have fair access to suitable learning and life skills. The supply of practical skills is, in reality, an essential component of the Nigerian educational system. Human resources are the most important assets for every organization's efficient and successful administration.

Entrepreneurial education was introduced in secondary and tertiary institutions to serve as a device to combat this issue of "unemployment". This is because entrepreneurship education is a lifetime process, beginning as early as elementary school and going through all stages of education, including adult education. Hence, students are introduced to trade studies in the basic level, which helps them broaden their knowledge of entrepreneurship until they reach higher institutions.

Small company expansion has long been considered as a driver of economic development and modernization. As a result, evidence from both developed and developing nations abounds that entrepreneurship aids the growth of small and medium-sized businesses. Furthermore, in African emerging nations where population expansion outpaces employment growth, entrepreneurship development is both a desired instrument for job creation and a strategy for poverty reduction. As a result of the growing recognition... read more