CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF YOUTHS ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

Abstrak

This study aims at unravelling the imbalance between education, unemployment and Entrepreneurship Education (EEd) and relating Sustainable Development Goals with youth entrepreneurship in Nigeria. It provides the imperativeness and analysed the challenges militating against entrepreneurial education among Nigerian youths, dissected SDGs, the potency of entrepreneurship education content in the Nigerian curriculum and the prospect of entrepreneurial education. The study elucidated on some of the programs Nigerian government has made for youth entrepreneur education and pin-pointed their weaknesses and strengths. Systematic literature review analysis and cluster review were the main style of presentation of the study. The study recommended re-visitation and revitalization of the SDGs operations in Nigeria especially Goal number 2 of the SDGs on education, provision of skill acquisition programs as attachment to all tertiary institutions in the country to propel the spirit of entrepreneurship among youths to serve as a catalyst in fostering the drive towards this goal.