ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA IMPLICATION FOR MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS)

Olaleye, F.O.

Department of Educational Foundations and Management

University of Ado-Ekiti, Ado- Ekiti, Nigeria

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ABSTRACT

This paper stresses the importance of redesigning tertiary institutions programmes in Nigeria to accommodate entrepreneurship education. The need to reduce poverty and unemployment among youth after graduation is imperative for sustainable growth of the nation’s economy. The paper examines the declaration in Millennium Development Goals (MDGS), one of which was poverty reduction. The implication of it on the teaching of entrepreneurship education in higher education as a way of reducing poverty. The paper concludes by suggesting various practical ways of teaching entrepreneurship education to all students in order for them to be self reliant.

Keywords: Poverty reduction, Entrepreneurship, Tertiary Institutions, Unemployment, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).