ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS ACQUISITION FOR YOUTH EMPLOYABILITY IN NIGERIA: SOCIAL STUDIES TO THE RESCUE

Abstract

One of the humanity concerns is the reduction of poverty and acceleration in social, physical growth, fiscal development and youth employability. This paper studies the need for integrating entrepreneurship skills into social studies education programme with the aims of creating job opportunities, which would enhance youth employability in Nigeria. It is anticipated that Nigeria has the highest rate of poverty, unemployment, corruption, amongst other social drawbacks that need to be tackled. These socio-economic problems need to be solved using different approaches for solving these social problems. It is in the light of these, that social studies and entrepreneurship education are employed to fight these anti-social problems which would go a long way in augmenting youth employability, which would serve a harmonizing role in creating job opportunities in support of the Federal Government. If all hands are on deck, issue of poverty, unemployment, corruption and social ills etc would be a thing of the past. The conclusion was done with some recommendations among which are that all students in secondary schools should be made to offer entrepreneurship and social studies education in Nigeria. Guidance and counsellor awareness will help them develop assertive spirit, initiative spirit, creative spirit, team spirit, facilitating spirit, collaborative spirit, project spirit, empathetic spirit, positive mind-set, etc. which will help them to be self-employed.