Business Education and the Entreprenuership Education Agenda: A Synergy for Unemployment Reduction in Nigeria

Abstract

Unemployment or the search for paid employment in Nigeria has become endemic. This is support by the
claims that Nigerian education system is bookish and academic oriented and lacked vocational and
entrepreneurial values. Hence, the need to refocus education towards programmes that will inculcate
knowledge and skills that prepare citizens for employment and self-reliance, economic diversification and
sustainable development. The paper examines the business education programme and the
entrepreneurship Education Agenda as a Synergy for the reduction of unemployment in Nigeria. The paper
concludes that unemployment in Nigeria requires a combination therapy as the synergy will bring about a
new pedagogy in which students are prepared with knowledge and practical skills but more especially
creativity, spirit of initiative, responsibility, capacity for confronting risk and the boldness to start small
scale business on graduation. This will reduce unemployment or the thinking for paid employment.