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Integrating Entrepreneurship Skills Acquisition in to National Youths Service Corps (nysc) Programme in Nigeria.


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1 Institute Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Nigeria
2 Department of Educational Management, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
     

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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.

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NYSC, Skills Acquisition And Vocational Development.
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Authors

Michael Olarewaju Ogundele
Institute Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Nigeria
Abayomi Olu Sofoluwe
Department of Educational Management, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
David Jimoh Kayode
Department of Educational Management, University of Ilorin, Nigeria

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.

Keywords


NYSC, Skills Acquisition And Vocational Development.

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