1.
Michael Olarewaju Ogundele
– 1-national Teachers’ Inst. Federal Polytechnic, Offa
2.
Abayomi Olu Sofoluwe
– 2&3- Dept. Of Educational Mgt., Univ. Of Ilron
3.
David Jimoh Kayode
– 1-national Teachers’ Inst. Federal Polytechnic, Offa; 2&3- Dept. Of Educational Mgt., Univ. Of Ilron
Abstract
This article examined the need to integrate
entrepreneurship skills acquisition into the National
Youth Service Corps Programme in Nigeria. The
paper traced the issues behind the establishment of
the National Youth Services Corps to be purposely
for national cultural integration, national unity and
repairing of the damages that had been caused by
the civil war. The paper however vision the need to
integrate entrepreneurship skills acquisition into the
programme of National Youth Service Corps in Nigeria
and if well integrated, it will aid job creation, poverty
alleviation, reduction in unemployment rate, developing
youth enterprises and technological development and
National and international recognition of Nigerian
educational certificates. It was however recommended
that for effective integration of entrepreneurship
skills acquisition into National Youth Service Corps
programme, every corps member should be registered
in to different entrepreneurship skills of their interest;
there should be improvement on the corps monthly
allowance and the private sectors should be licensed to
established entrepreneurship skills acquisition centers
to train the youths in order to complement government
efforts in the technological development of Nigerian
youths and high rate of social crimes in the society will
be reduced.
