Entrepreneurship Education: A Catalyst to Sustainable Economic Development in Nigeria

This paper focused on entrepreneurship education as a catalyst to sustainable economic development in Nigeria. In achieving this, concept of entrepreneurship, concept of entrepreneurship education, concept of entrepreneur, objectives, characteristics, challenges as well as impact of entrepreneurship education on economic development were thoroughly discussed. This study, therefore posited that entrepreneurship education will equip individuals with skills to be dependent and self-reliant. It was concluded that, entrepreneurship still remains the bedrock for job creation and general economic development as it provides opportunity to improve quality of life and make contributions to the society. This study further recommended that there should be focused curriculum; government and its education agencies such as National Universities Commission (NUC), National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) and others should incorporate a welltailored entrepreneurship curriculum that will train and expose students, potential and existing entrepreneurs on risk taking and handling, job creation and economic development, regulatory agencies should lay more emphasis on the creation of entrepreneurship development centre where at least two compulsory courses on entrepreneurship will be offered by all students and entrepreneurship courses should be departmentalized and tailored on how each department can go into small scale business through the provision of conducive economic environment to encourage individuals to participate in business.