SKILLS ACQUISITION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN BIDA LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGER STATE

Isah Adamu Ph.D

ABSTRACT

The alarming rate of unemployment in any society, nation and the world at large is something to be worried about and this has been, because people never put into consideration the need to acquire skills to be self- employed in order to stop been dependent. This study is carried out to assess skill acquisition as a tool for entrepreneurship development focusing on Bida local Government Area. The problem investigated resolves and the variables of self-reliance, empowerment and entrepreneurship development. These variables form the basis of designing research questions, objectives and hypotheses. The survey research design was employed in the study and data was generated from both primary and secondary sources, the major instruments of data collection used are the researcher concludes that skill acquisition toward entrepreneurship will go a long way in solving most of the global economic problems. In respect of this, the researcher recommends the following: more research work should be carried out on this in order to obtain more useful information on the problem in question, research should not only be restricted to a particular school alone rather be extended to other higher institutions like Polytechnics and universities. Seminars should be had in respect of the need to educate people, family on why skills should be acquired. Finally government should encourage both educated and uneducated to acquire skills by making available necessary tools that will facilitate skill acquisition.

Keywords: Skills Acquisitions Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Development