Background to the study: Small firms play vital roles in the process of industrialization, sustainable economic growth (Ariyo, 2005); encouragement of entrepreneurship, employment generation (Ogujiuba et al, 2004); reduction of poverty and contribution to the Gross Domestic...

Background of the study​​​​​​​: The Entrepreneurship practices exist in most countries of the world, including Nigeria. In Nigeria the development of entrepreneurship has gone a long way to achieve industrialization and economic development. Management scholars agree that althoug...

ABSTRACT: The main focus of this study was to a critically investigate women entrepreneurs and the factors affecting their performance in Nigeria using women entrepreneurs in Edo State as a case study. The objective of the study seeks to find out the fa...

Statement of the problem: Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have long been recognized by the World Bank and other multilateral agencies as crucial to these institutions' economic growth in their more focused operations in developing nations. Small firms com...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Small businesses are essential for economic development (Van Praag & Versloot, 2007; Acs et al., 2008; Fumo & Jabbour, 2011), and in Nigeria they make up 91% of the formal businesses, contribute 34% towards the Gross Domestic...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Generally speaking, small and medium-sized businesses (also known as SMEs) are considered to be the main power of every nation's economic progress, and they are also recognized as justified methods that promote development internation...

Background of the study: Transforming enormous ideas into economic opportunities is the decisive issue of entrepreneurship. History shows that economic progress has been significantly advanced by pragmatic people who are entrepreneurial and innovative, able to exploit opportuniti...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: New technologies are increasingly being looked to by businesses as a means to satisfy the specific needs of their operations and better position themselves to take advantage of global shifts in commercial activity. When it comes to successfully opera...

ABSTRACT: The youths are universally recognized as an important part of any society by both global and local programmes as well as institutions. For example the United Nations put aside every twelfth day of August of every year as an International Youth Day. In U...

Background to the study: The pursuit of economic development has been a major goal of many developing nations of the world. Developing countries are confronted with several problems such as high rate of poverty and unemployment which have continued to hinder...

ABSTRACT: This study was carried out on counselling for sustainable livelihoods with target clients using the Nigerian adolescents and youths in Ganjuwa local government area as case study. To achieve this 3 research questions were formulated.  The survey de...

ABSTRACT: This study was carried out to examine micro finance bank and economic growth in Nigeria with special reference to LAPO Ondo state. Specifically, the study investigate the impact of micro finance bank and economic growth in Nigeria. The study also w...

ABSTRACT: There is a mentality among the fresh graduates in Nigeria where they always fantasize about getting white collar jobs and having an office work. Over the years, the Nigeria graduates are faced with unemployment, a lot of frustrations from not getting the proposed white...

Background to the Study: The legislative device known as cabotage is used to restrict access to or reserve marine or aviation trade within the territorial jurisdiction of a country for the capacity of the local companies. Following calls by prominent maritime specialists and oper...

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BACKGROUND OF STUDY: Recently computer education centres have been established for browning and teaching the student at home and abroad, some of this computer education centres are use in the loca...

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Background of the study: The study of home economics has increased overtime in Nigeria; home economics as a subject play a significant role in the lif...

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BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY: Good and sufficient infrastructure is a key stimulus to the development of small scale enterprises are catalysts in the socio...

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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the contemporary economic development due to the significant role the...

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Background of the study: According to Bruton et al (2013), there has been a growing interest in finding a long-term solution to poverty alleviation in...

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BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY: Since the inception of human being, no human being come into existence fully developed with all the necessary faculties and s...

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BACKGROUND OF STUDY: Small and medium enterprises in Nigeria can be defined according to asset base and number of staff employed. The criteria ar...

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BACKGROUND INFORMATTON: Nigeria has in recent years, been involved in executing painfid economic recovery programmes arising from recession in i...

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Background of the study: Risk management is an important discipline in business especially the insurance business. Recently, businesses put great emphasis on risk management as this determines their su...

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Background Of Study: Nigeria is bedeviled by a myriad of problems which, despite her oil wealth, inhibit her development and even threaten her continu...

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Background of the study: The concept of human capital is a relatively recent idea in the realm of economic theory. While economists have long paid close attention to the concept of investments in physi...

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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: In any given civilization, the purpose of education and training is to offer the individual receiving it with a sequence of w...

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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: In any given civilization, the purpose of education and training is to offer the individual receiving it with a sequence of w...

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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The intrapreneur is that individual under the employment of an entrepreneur who takes an initiative into a new project of dev...

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Background to the Study: Poverty is the major problem in most developing economies. In these economies, it is argued that among others absence of acce...

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Background To The Study: Microfinance constitute the facilitation  of financial services to meet  the needs of low income individuals ...

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Background to the Study: The Nigerian government has over the years embarked on series of policy and institutional reforms aimed at enhancing the low...

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Background of the Study: Micro and small businesses are believed to be the engine room for the development of any economy because they form the bulk of business activi...

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Background to the Study: Since the dawn of time, man as an individual and in groups have gone in search of power. Power to change things and power to...

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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Hotel services have played a functional role in the life of our people.  Hotel industry is the engine room for effective communication and al l business transactions withi...

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Background of the study: The term science has to do with nature. It is derived from the Latin word “Scientia’ meaning to know, what is a f...

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Background of the study: The term science has to do with nature. It is derived from the Latin word “Scientia’ meaning to know, what is a f...

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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Over decades, small scale business has been making gain strides in Nigeria. It has been battling to make life more tolerable and comfortable by trying to make the gradual dwind...

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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The increasing rate of unemployment in Nigeria is fast becoming a popular subject matter. It is the ideal cynical mechanism,...

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This study was carried out on entry qualification and academics performance among business education student using federal college of education (Tech) Gombe, as a case study.. The survey design was adopted and the simple random sampli...

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Entrepreneurship deals with the process of recognizing a business opportunity, operating and maintaining that business. However, people engage in it without acquiring much skills and competences that will enable them to effectively operate businesses and also enh...

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The purpose of the study was to assess the influence of entrepreneurship education on self-employability among business education graduates of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. Three specific objectives were to determine the influence of an entrepreneurship education on the abilit...

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This study investigated the impact entrepreneurial skills acquisition on Home Economics students’ performance in junior secondary schools in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The study set out to: find out the impact of entrepreneurial skills acquisition on the performance of home e...

Background to the Study

The state of the economy and socio-economic well-being of any society is linked to the effectiveness of its education and the competencies of the work force. The effectiveness of any nation's labour force and skill development programme can be achieved when i...

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Science serves as a veritable tool for the sustainable growth and development of a nation. Indeed the strength of a nation and the respect she commands from other nations are functions of her level of scientific and technological development. Science and Mat...

SOCIAL MEDIA COMEDY SKITS AS A SELF-EMPLOYMENT TOOL IN NIGERIA
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Background of the Study

In Nigeria, social media has become a powerful platform for communication, entertainment, and business. One of the emerging trends is the use of social media...

ABSTRACT

The guidance for entrepreneurship education has provided a framework for assessing and developing business and entrepreneurial attributes and skills which work hand in hand to contribute to the development of entrepreneurial behavior within individuals. Entrepreneurship educati...

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One of the most significant occurrences of the 20th century is the invention of the Internet and World Wide Web in the 1980s. This has remained so through the 1990s when Information and Communication Technology (ICT) took centre stage. These inventions have chang...

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Business organizations are set up with the principal objectives of creating wealth for the owners and ensure the continuous growth of the entity. Business organizations are increasingly becoming more complex in their operations, thereby requiring accounting knowl...

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This study investigated the Effect of Project-based Approach on Acquisition of Entrepreneurial Skills, Retention and Performance in Biology, among Secondary School Students, in Niger State, Nigeria. The study adopted pre-test, post-test, quasi- experimental design. The populati...

Background to the Study

One of the major challenges facing Nigerian societies in this contemporary era is unemployment. It has grown at alarming rate with attendant negative impact on the economy. The rate of unemployment as estimated by Nkechi, Emeh and Okechukwu (2012) stood at 50 per...