Entrepreneurship Education A Boost To National Security
Abstract: This paper examines the need for promoting entrepreneurship education in Nigeria and as a boost to national security. It is therefore discovered that the majority of youth’s vices such as kidnapping, boko -haram, militancy, banditry, cattle rustling and other problems like unemployment and poverty can greatly be reduced by engaging youth in entrepreneurship ventures. It is also discussed that government should mobilize competent entrepreneurship personnel to move round schools and communities using both formal and informal approaches to train and retrain youths and adults, literates and illiterates. Government and its agencies should deliberately encourage entrepreneurial culture and skills in Nigeria in order to attack and eventually reduce the high level of insecurity situation in the country so that the nation will boost it economic development. Thereby making Nigeria a safe to live. Some recommendations are given such as government creating enabling environment and to also make power available. Entrepreneurship education is basically acquisition of skills and training for the sake of creating employment which leads to reduction in crime rate in Nigeria. It leads to the development of small, medium and sometimes large scale business based on creativity and innovation.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship: Education: Creativity and Innovation: National Security: Nigeria
