Skill Development and Job Creation in Entrepreneurship Education for Sustainable Development in Nigeria: Problems and Prospect.

Entrepreneurship Education is one of the aspects of education that has put smiles on the faces of several people in Nigeria. If the country must therefore have a sustained viable economy and political stability, there is the need to properly equip entrepreneurship education to be able to train its recipients in skills that will enable them not only to gain employment but also become job creators in their generation. However, in the course of fulfilling this mandate of skills development and job creation, entrepreneurship education is faced with several challenges which affect its success. This paper therefore focuses on the areas where entrepreneurship education trainees can find job opportunities in the world of work and the challenges of entrepreneurship education can be resolved for a better prospect in the 21st century. Recommendations were also made as a way forward.