ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIAN: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

This paper discuss some issues and challenges of entrepreneurship education in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. This is based on the provisions of the National Policy on Education (2004) which lays emphasis on the need for beneficiaries of vocational and technical education to be entrepreneurs so as to achieve selfemployment after graduation and also to eliminate poverty, hunger and disease and the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDG) which are to be realized before 2015. It highlight areas, in entrepreneurship concept. This paper recommends that there should be a responsible way of inculcating in our youths and adults the dream for self-employment as a very good alternative to wage employments before they graduate from tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Entrepreneurship skills development in programmes are multidisplines in order to arrest the soaring unemployment rate in the country.