Empowering Individuals for Self-Reliance through Entrepreneurship Education and Training for National Development

Abstract

The paper focus on empowering individuals for self-reliance entrepreneurship education and training for national development. The need for entrepreneurship education and training is as a result of prevailing problem of poverty and insecurity by unemployment among other factors in Nigeria. The paper highlights key issues such as objectives, functions, challenges of entrepreneurship education and how to use entrepreneurship education and training to empower individuals for self-reliance. The recommendations that were made include; the need for the government to encourage entrepreneurship education and training for individual and communal empowerment. This will go a long way in promoting self-reliant for national development.