Rising above the Gathering Storm of Unemployment through Entrepreneurship Education: Implication for National Development

Abstract

There is a need to create employment opportunities to minimize the rate of unemployment globally and especially in developing countries such as Nigeria. Entrepreneurship is seen as a vital instrument that engenders employment, innovativeness, and sustainable development. Therefore, this paper focused on rising above the gathering storm of unemployment through entrepreneurship education: Implication for national development. This paper also provides techniques on how a young graduate of science education can start a small-scale business. It further provides some smallscale business opportunity that is available for young graduate of science education; such as improvisation of instructional material such as the development of computer aided instructional packages, projected and non-projected material for supplies to primary, secondary and tertiary institutions and a list of some farming opportunities. Finally, it was recommendations among others that Government should make adequate provision for bail-out funds for both private and public industries that have collapse to create employment opportunities and as a matter of urgency evolve ways to deal with impediments‘ and threats confronting the manufacturing sectors and other investors in the country to deal with the gathering storm