ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FUNCTIONAL NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY AS A MEANS OF ATTAINING VISION 2020 OBJECTIVES IN NIGERIA

¹Yakubu Shehu Abdullahi and ²Hussaini Tukur Hassan

¹Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University, Keffi

²Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University, Keffi

Email: yakubushehu66@yahoo.com, hthassan2004@yahoo.com

 ABSTRACT

Entrepreneurship is today the most vital instrument of national development in any economy. In this regard, Nigeria is not an exception. For any nation to achieve its national objectives, entrepreneurship must have an important role in its education policy. The link between entrepreneurship and functional education is a necessity, if Nigeria is to realize it objective of becoming one of the 20^th most developed nations by the year 2020. The paper examines the entrepreneurship content of the nation’s education policy, entrepreneurship education in Nigeria and what is required to attain the vision’s objectives. The study used content analysis method. It concludes that there is the urgent need to revise the education policy in order to more entrepreneurship content to the policy’s implementation.