Volume 12, Issue 2, 2024

Empowering the Future: Entrepreneurial Education as a Tool for Poverty Eradication Among Youth in Ibadan North Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria.

Christianah Oluwakemi ALABI

Abstract

The paper investigated the empowering the future: Entrepreneurial education as a tool for poverty eradication among youth in Ibadan North Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of study comprises of all the youth in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State. Twelve areas were randomly selected in study area. In each area, ten youth were randomly selected through simple random sampling techniques. A total of 120 youth were used for the study. One self-constructed questionnaires titled: Poverty Eradication Strategies among Youth and Entrepreneurial Education Questionnaire, PESYEEQ”. The questionnaires were validated using content and face validity type and subjected to reliability test using Cronbach‘s alpha and values and 0.87 was obtained. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics to present the demographic data in tables of frequency counts and percentages. The finding revealed that mass unemployment, high Inflationary rate, poor educational system/ policy lead to poverty,bad leadership and world/ International economic crises among others causes poverty among youth. It was also found also that this problem has led to various societal ills and affect the standard of education among the less privileged youths. The conclusion was that poverty has been one the limitations to youth self-development and urgent consideration is expected. Thus, it was recommended that there is need for government at all levels to create employment opportunity for the jobless Nigerian youths, need for good economic policies and programmes that would sustain high standard of living and that need for diversion of the economic from mono-economy.

Keywords

Eradication Strategies, Youth, Poverty, Entrepreneurial Education, Employment.

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